BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE MEETING. The 2023 BHC Conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan, from March 9–11, 2023. Please visit the BHC website for more information, https://thebhc.org/.
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HAGLEY LIBRARY FALL CONFERENCE. Hagley Library is now accepting proposals for its fall conference, “Building Ecosystems/Selling Natures: At the Edge of Environments and Economies.” The conference will be held at the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at Hagley Library, in Wilmington, Delaware. Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words and a one-page C.V. to Carol Lockman at [email protected] by June 15, 2022. For more information, see the Call for Proposals: https://networks.h-net.org/node/19397/discussions/9703654/hagley-fall-conference-cfp-building-ecosystemsselling-natures.
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Creation of Anne Fleming Article Prize. The sudden and unexpected death of Anne Fleming in August 2020 was a tragic loss to academia. Anne's work was at the interface of legal and business history. The central concerns in Anne's work related to poverty, economic justice, finance and banking, debt, consumer protection, bankruptcy, and other questions of financial equity. The prize is awarded every other year to the author or authors of the best article published in the previous two years in either Law and History Review or Enterprise and Society on the relation of law and business/economy in any region or historical period. It is awarded on the recommendation of the editors of the Law and History Review (the official journal of ASLH) and Enterprise and Society (the official journal of Business History Conference). No submission is necessary. The prize will be awarded in 2022, for work published in 2020 and 2021. The prize is for the amount of $250.
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EUROPEAN BUSINESS HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETING. EBHA 25th Annual Congress, will be held in Madrid June 22–24, 2022. Please visit the EBHA website for more information, https://ebha.org.
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WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS. The next gathering of the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) will convene July 25–July 29, 2022 in Paris to address “Resources.” For more information, please visit the conference website at https://www.wehc2022.org/.
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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSINESS HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS.
The Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History. This postdoctoral fellowship, open to early career scholars, is to be awarded for twelve months’ residence, study, and research at Harvard Business School. The fellowship has two purposes. The first is to enable scholars who have already demonstrated an engagement with business history broadly defined to deepen their knowledge of teaching pedagogy and research methods in the discipline. The fellow will have the opportunity to contribute to course development in MBA and doctoral courses in business history. They will also take part in a weekly research seminar in the fall of each year in which leading scholars from around the world present their work. The second purpose is to enable an early career scholar to develop their work in the discipline. The fellow is encouraged to submit an article to Business History Review during his or her fellowship year. She or he might also organize a research conference on a subject related to their research. A research budget will be provided for the fellow. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2022. For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: https://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships/Pages/default.aspx
The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History. The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History seeks applicants who are established scholars from around the world interested in the business and economic history of the United States. Recipient receives a $7,000 stipend for travel and living expenses and is expected to be in residence at Harvard Business School a minimum of two months. Main activities include researching in Baker Library archives or other Boston-area libraries, presenting research at a seminar, and interacting with HBS faculty. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2022.
The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program seeks applicants who are established scholars in business history based out of the United States. Recipient receives a $7,000 stipend and is required to stay a minimum of two months (and not more than six months) at Harvard Business School. Main activities include interacting with faculty and researchers, presenting work at research seminars, and researching in Baker Library archives. Application and related materials are due by November 1, 2022.
The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowships. The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowships facilitate library and archival research in business or economic history. Grants range from $1,000 to $3,000. Applicants must be 1) Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, or business administration, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories; 2) graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other Universities—U.S. and abroad—whose research requires travel to Baker Library and other local archives; or 3) Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields, whose research requires travel away from Cambridge. Application and related materials are due by November 15, 2022.
For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Business History Fellowships page: http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/fellowships/Pages/default.aspx
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HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY GRANTS. Hagley Exploratory Research Grants. These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than fifty miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31. For more information, please visit Hagley Library's Exploratory Research Grants page: https://www.hagley.org/exploratory-research-grants
Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants. These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are prorated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than fifty miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within fifty miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.
Applications for all grants should be submitted online. For the submission link and requirements, please visit http://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships.
