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Below you will find the current draft of the EBHS-ABH York 2024 conference program (as of May 28th). The final program will be posted on this page prior to the event.
Updated: May 28, 2024 17:52 BST
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We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Joint EBHS-ABH Conference in York from 27 to 29 June 2024. Included in the registration fee is our conference dinner on the evening of Saturday, 29 June, and membership of the Economic and Business History Society and the Association of Business Historians for the 12 months following the conference. Our conference fees are as follows:
Please note that we require at least one presenter of each paper to have registered by 7 June 2024. Any papers without presenters registered by this date will be removed from the programme for the conference.
If you are planning on attending the conference dinner at the Principal Hotel in York (Adjacent to the railway station), you will need to register your menu choices as part of registration. Details are available here.
In addition to the opening of registration we are pleased to announce a new panel for the conference, the Journal Editors Panel on ‘Connections in publishing Economic and Business History’, featuring editors and associate editors from Business History, Essays in Economic and Business History, Enterprise and Society and the Journal of Management History.
We are also pleased to announce the title of Dr Susie Pak’s keynote speech set to close the conference on Saturday afternoon, ‘How to Be a Success in Business: Storytelling & Belonging from the World of Finance’.
The outline programme is now available here (subject to change and additions).
Our main conference venue is the De Grey Court building at York St John University, less than a 15-minute walk from the railway station in York and in walking distance of most hotels in York.
If you are looking for a hotel for the conference, we have prepared this list of suggestions which might help you.
The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI), in collaboration with the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS) and the University of York School for Business and Society, will hold a doctoral workshop for about 8 doctoral students on Wednesday, 26 June at the University of York. The aim of this one-day workshop is to support the career and research development as well as networking of new scholars in the fields of economic and business history, broadly conceived. The workshop will include paper development presentations by doctoral students, followed by feedback and discussion with the leadership of the EBHS, as well as mentorship panels on academic publishing, the academic job-market, and career development in economic and business history.
If selected for participation, doctoral students will receive:
The workshop is open to applications from doctoral students across the world undertaking a PhD in the fields of economic and business history, broadly conceived. This includes research in management, financial, labor, legal, and social history, including the history of capitalism and economic thought. The EBHS is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we especially encourage applications from doctoral students from underrepresented groups.
Applications should be received no later than 15 March, 2024. Applications will be considered by the YSI organizers and leadership of the EBHS. If you have already submitted an abstract for the EBHS Conference in York you may still apply for this doctoral workshop and are encouraged to do so. Please note that if you attended the YSI-EBHS doctoral workshops in Porto in May 2023 or Salt Lake City in May 2022, you are eligible to apply for the 2024 workshop.
Timeline:
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March, 2024
Notification of outcome of applications: Friday, 12 April, 2024
Deadline for submission of draft working paper: Friday, 10 June, 2024
Date of Workshop: Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
Application:
To apply, please fill out our application form here and submit the following as a single PDF:
Please send any queries to Conrad Jacober, Heidi Hirvonen, and Claire Steele at ebhsdoctoralworkshop2023@gmail.com.