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The organisers of the Conference ‘Gender discrimination in Modern Greece’ welcome proposals for this single-day conference, to be held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Recent research not only argues that female infanticide and the mortal neglect of female infants was more common in Modern Greece than previously acknowledged, but also that Greek parents continued to treat boys and girls differently throughout childhood (in terms of food and care). These discriminatory practices, arising from a strong son preference and girls’ inferior status, therefore unduly increased female mortality rates early in life and resulted in a significant number of ‘missing girls’ during the 19th century and the fist decades of the 20th century.

The novelty of this argument, together with the problems that Greek historical sources pose, requires further research on these issues, so this conference invites proposals studying discriminatory practices against girls and women in general in Modern Greece. The organisers encourage interdisciplinary discussion, so contributions from a wide range of disciplines (historians, ethnographers, demographers, economists, sociologists, etc.) using both qualitative and quantitative materials are welcome.

Please contact Eftychia Kalaitzdou MA if you are interested in submitting a proposal. All proposals should be submitted by 15 April 2023 (extended deadline).

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In the Fall of 2023 the Department of History at the University of Antwerp will host the workshop ‘Towards a Comparative History of Household Finance Before and After the Industrial Revolution’. The central questions in this workshop are very simple and empirical questions: how did households in the past organize their finances? How did people pay for food, clothing and housing? What did more affluent households do with the money they earned beyond what was needed for primary consumption? And for households living on the edge of subsistence: could they complement financial support from within their social networks with public welfare, private insurance, or more or less costly forms of credit?

The organisers welcome any and all papers that analyse the financial behavior of households in the past and have a special interest in papers that explore continuity and change in financial arrangements across preindustrial and industrial societies. In Europe that would be the period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; in the world outside Europe it would probably be later. Both descriptive papers that show what households and the suppliers of financial services did, and more analytic ones that try to determine the effect of socio-economic, political, cultural, or technological developments on the financial behavior of households are welcome.

If you are interested in participating, send a 300 to 500-word abstract with your affiliation and contact details by e-mail to the organisers. The deadline for submission is 10 May 2023.

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In the week of 26 June – 2 July 2023, NWO will organise the third Dutch Caribbean Research Week (DCRW 2023).

The Dutch Caribbean Research Week 2023 is a free annual multiday conference aimed at providing a platform to bring researchers from the Caribbean science community together and will be held online mostly, in order to provide access for as many interested people as possible within and outside The Netherlands. Due to the time difference, the event will take place in the morning for the Caribbean region and in the afternoon for the Netherlands. This year complementary physical events will be organised in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom and in the Netherlands.

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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that registration for the 2023 Annual Conference of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is open now.

The 2023 conference will be held at and hosted by the University of Antwerp on 24 and 25 May 2023. Keynote lectures on the central theme ‘Food Inequalities’ will be delivered by Dr Susan Flavin, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin and Dr Peter Scholliers, Emeritus Professor with the Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

The conference programme includes presentations by the Posthumus PhD candidates as well as round table sessions organised by the various research networks within the network of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. The conference is freely accessible to all interested, but prior registration is required via the Conference website.

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Na bijna 34 jaar als Universitair Docent Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis verbonden te zijn geweest aan de VU, gaat Wybren Verstegen in mei met pensioen. Graag nodigen Wybren Verstegen en Pepijn Brandon u hierbij uit voor zijn afscheidscollege “Onze boeren zijn slaven”. “Onze slaven zijn boeren”: De afschaffing van de horigheid en de slavernij in Rusland en de Verenigde Staten in de negentiende eeuw

Het college wordt gevolgd door een receptie. U wordt viendelijk verzocht vooraf uw aanwezigheid per mail te bevestigen aan Wybren.

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De voorjaarsbijeenkomst van de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGVDO)staat in het teken van de verzorgingsstaat en of deze nog een toekomst heeft.

De sprekers zijn:

• dr. Dennie Oude Nijhuis , verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden
• dr. Arthur van Riel, verbonden aan de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid

De zaal is geopend vanaf 13:00 uur. Opgeven voor de bijeenkomst kan per e-mail via de SGVDO.

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De Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis organiseert in samenwerking met het Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam het symposium ‘Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren- en kanalenlandschappen’.

Tijdens dit symposium zullen een drietal experts elk ingaan op verschillende aspecten:

• Dr. Jim van der Meulen  (Huygens Instituut, Amsterdam / Universiteit Gent) – Water(heer)schap: adellijke elites, knotwilgen en nieuw land in het Gelderse rivierengebied
• Berco Hoegen (Staatsbosbeheer / Kenniscentrum Landschap, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) – Grienden op een gradiënt: van het Heuvelland via het Gelderse rivierengebied tot de Biesbosch
• Ir. Ton Burgers (onafhankelijk onderzoeker) – Van de Schelde naar de Rijn: de Waterwegruzies tussen Nederland en België

Een abstract van de lezingen is te vinden op de webpagina van het symposium.

Deelname aan het symposium is gratis, maar aanmelding vooraf is noodzakelijk via mail.

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On 30 June 2023, various organisations will jointly organise the Symposium De Hanze: handel, communicatie en conflict ~ Koersen op rijkdom, laveren langs risico (transl.: The Hanseatic League: commerce, communication and conflict ~ setting course for wealth, navigating along risks).

The Hanseatic League appeals to one’s imagination beacuse of its combination of international cooperation and decisiveness, especially in the light of current-day international developments. However, a merchant’s life was not always prosperous and towns every now and again got involved in conflicts. So how did the Hanseatic League function exactly? During this symposium, a range of young researchers and experts, both domestic and from abroad, will share their latest insights on a wide range of topics, from standardized measurements in the beer trade to the surprising importance of transport by road. The keynote lecture on the origins of the Hanseatic League will be delivered by Dr Carsten Jahnke, Associate Professor for Medieval History, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen.

In addition, on 29 June an additional excursion will be organised. This excursion consists of talks by visiting experts and site visits with the archeology team of the city of Zutphen.

Participation in both the symposium and the excursion is free of charge, but prior registration is required. For the full program and registration, use the button below. Please note the info on the organisers’ website is in Dutch only.

This workshop aims to bring together historians who apply a longue durée perspective in their research or are contemplating starting a longue durée project. It primarily focusses on the particularities of doing longue durée research and invites the participants to reflect on their methods and share their best practices. Some questions that are likely to be explored are: How to select a strong corpus of sources? How to recognise and study (dis)continuity? And how much contextualisation is enough?

The workshop is led by Annelien de Dijn, Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University and author of the longue durée history and award-winning book Freedom: An Unruly History (2020). She will give the participants a unique glimpse into the making of her book and share some concrete examples of how she has applied a longue durée perspective. The workshop is organised by Anne Por MSc BA and Edurne De Wilde MA (PhD candidates at Leiden University).

Participation is free, but prior registration and preparation is required. See the button below for full info. Please note that attendance is limited to a maximum of 15 participants.

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On 28 February Marjoleine Kars, emerita Professor at MIT, will hold a lecture at the IISH. Professor Kars is composing a biography of two African men, Accara and Gousarie, who were caught up in Dutch slavery and colonialism during the Age of Revolution. Leaders in the 1763 Berbice slave rebellion, they next served as slave hunters, army drummers in the Dutch Republic, and Maroon fighters in Suriname. Defying easy characterization, the pair were victims, perpetrators, resisters, and collaborators – sequentially and, at times, simultaneously. This talk will detail Professor Kars’ research findings to date and raise questions about how to write the biographies of people forced to shape-shift across boundaries and allegiances and whose presence in the archives is equally slippery. Participation is free of charge and open to all interested, prior registration via e-mail however is required.