Fully-funded doctoral positions in economic history

March 20, 2023March 17, 2023 Steph

The Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now an open call for applications to our Ph.D. program in economic history. I would be most grateful if you would be willing to help distribute this call to any student of yours who might be interested in applying.

Starting date is in September 2023. The positions are fully funded, salaried positions for four years. Two of the positions are open to applicants intending to do research on any topic in the field of economic history. The third position is open for applicants intending to do research in the field of business history.

Last day of application is: 2023-05-22

Job advert – Social History (Glasgow)

March 17, 2023March 10, 2023 Steph

Lecturer in Social History

University of Glasgow – School of Social & Political Sciences

Location:	Glasgow
Salary:	£37,474 to £53,353
Hours:	Full Time
Contract Type:	Permanent

Placed On:	6th March 2023
Closes:	11th April 2023
Job Ref:	111209

The School of Social and Political Sciences is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Social History. The post holder will conduct research in modern social history as well as deliver teaching in the Economic and Social History subject area at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This post fits within the School’s thematic priority of addressing historical legacies and inequalities, and we welcome applicants with expertise in any area of Black history from the eighteenth century onwards. This could include but need not be limited to a focus on Black British, (post-) colonial or Commonwealth history.

The post holder be based in the Economic and Social History subject area, where they will develop, lead and sustain research and scholarship of international standard and strengthen links and demonstrate impact with colleagues across and beyond the University and with non-academic bodies as appropriate to their specialism. They will contribute to the delivery of an excellent student experience by delivering, organising and reviewing teaching and assessment processes to enhance learning and teaching.

The post-holder will also undertake administration and service activities in line with the School/College’s strategic objectives.

This post is full time (35 hrs per week) and open ended.

Informal Enquiries should be directed to Dr Rosemary Elliot rosemary.elliot@glasgow.ac.uk

For further information on the School of Social and Political Sciences, please visit www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical

Apply online at my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=111209

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

We endorse the principles of Athena Swan www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.

For further information see: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CXZ032/lecturer-in-social-history

Reminder – Deadline for Tony Slaven Doctoral Workshop approaching

March 15, 2023March 10, 2023 Steph

Call for Papers: Tony Slaven Doctoral Workshop in Business History, 29 June 2022

Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University Newcastle.

The ABH will hold its tenth annual Tony Slaven Doctoral Workshop on 29 June 2023. This event immediately precedes the 2023 ABH Annual Conference at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. The full call for papers can be found here: https://www.theabh.org/conferences. Participants in the Workshop are encouraged to attend the main ABH Annual Conference following the Workshop. They will also have an opportunity to participate in the Poster Competition (explained in the main call for papers). The Workshop is an excellent opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their work with other research students and established academics in business history in an informal and supportive environment. It is important to note that this will not be a hybrid event and all participants need to attend the workshop in person. Students at any stage of their doctoral studies, whether in their first year or very close to submitting, are urged to apply. In addition to providing new researchers with an opportunity to discuss their work with experienced researchers in the discipline, the Workshop will also include at least one skill-related session. The Workshop interprets the term ‘business history’ broadly, and it is intended that students in areas such as (but not confined to) the history of management and organizations, international trade and investment, financial or economic history, agricultural history, the history of not-for- profit organisations, government-industry relations, accounting history, social studies of technology, and historians or management or labour will find it useful. Students undertaking topics with a significant business history element but in disciplines other than economic or business history are also welcome. We embrace students researching any era or region of history. Skills sessions are typically led by regular ABH members; in the past these have included ‘getting published’, ‘using historical sources’, and ‘preparing for your viva examination’ sessions. There will be ample time for discussion of each student’s work and the opportunity to gain feedback from active researchers in the field.

How to Apply for the Tony Slaven Workshop

Your application should be no more than 4 pages sent together in a single computer file: 1) a one-page CV; 2) one page stating the name(s) of the student’s supervisor(s), the title of the theses (a proposed title is fine), the university and department where the student is registered and the date of commencement of thesis registration; 3) an abstract of the work to be presented.

If selected for the workshop, you will be asked to prepare a 15-minute presentation that is either a summary of your PhD project (giving an overview of the overarching themes, research questions, and methodologies) or a chapter/paper.

You may apply via email to Dr Michael Aldous at m.aldous@qub.ac.uk. Please use the subject line “Tony Slaven Workshop” and submit by 24 March 2023.

CfP: Industriousness in the History of Capitalism

March 13, 2023March 10, 2023 Steph

Call for Papers Hybrid/IRL Symposium:

Working five to nine: Industriousness in the History of Capitalism

7 July 2023, Australian Catholic University

Victoria Parade, Fitzroy (Melbourne). Room TBA. Hybrid Format.

Convenors: Hannah Forsyth and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Twentieth century capitalism has relied to a considerable degree on industriousness at work and school. Such industriousness became key to accessing the elite. Yale law scholar Daniel Markovits describes a college application essay in which a student boasted that their dedication to study led them to pee their pants rather than interrupt an intellectual discussion. Such commitment became quite widespread. Musical icon Dolly Parton recently rewrote her iconic song, “9 to 5,” into “5 to 9” for an app commercial, which praised the many striving to get ahead, or just break even, in the Gig Economy. Productivity increases in service sector occupations have arguably driven a great deal of profitability since the late twentieth century. Longer working hours, fewer and shorter vacations, helicopter parenting and other forms of investment in our own human capital have acted as a bulwark against falling into workforce precarity or losing class status, though it may be destabilized by the ‘Great Resignation’ succeeding COVID lockdowns. This symposium seeks to understand the origins and unfolding of this twentieth century work ethic, considering New Deal and welfare state preoccupations with full employment, the massive increase in years of schooling globally and the expansion of working hours, particularly among university students and in white-collar occupations.

We welcome proposals from history, sociology, education, political economy or other fields that consider industriousness in the twentieth century, whether in the USA, UK, Australia or elsewhere. Priority will be given to papers that may cohere into a published collection.

Please send short abstract proposals to Hannah by 1 May 2023: hannah.forsyth@acu.edu.au

For enquiries, feel free to contact either Hannah hannah.forsyth@acu.edu.au or Ellie eshermer@luc.edu

Call for Papers: Slavery, Institutions, and Empire – Moving Beyond Microhistory

March 10, 2023February 22, 2023 Steph

Slavery, Institutions, and Empire: Moving Beyond Microhistory

The past few years have witnessed a wave of new studies that explore the relationships between specific institutions and the colonial past. The institutions encompassed within this burgeoning field include higher education establishments, hospitals, museums, corporations, and country houses.

This new generation of studies has produced a great deal of knowledge regarding the specific institutions in question. Yet, because of the way in which these projects have been conceived and funded, they rarely offer the opportunity to reflect on what these institutional histories might mean in the wider context of British domestic and imperial history.

This conference seeks to move beyond those individual microhistories, using them to shed light on bigger questions. What is the significance of individual research projects beyond that for the institution in question? How can these histories be integrated into the wider field? What can they tell us about the development of empire, Britain, colonialism, etc.?

We invite proposals for individual papers or panels that address larger issues raised by recent and current projects on British institutions and slavery, as well as other colonial connections. Papers may be centred on research projects about a particular institution, but may also range more widely. The issues we seek to explore include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Methodological and theoretical approaches: what can we take from institutional microhistories and apply elsewhere?
Comparative histories: does putting individual histories alongside each other tell us something new about institutional development, patterns in imperial expansion, etc.?
Histories and Historiographies of Empire: can these new histories shed light, question, or refine ideas about established historiographical concepts like the imperialism of free trade, gentlemanly capitalism, or the new imperial history?
Core-and-periphery dynamics and the relationship between colonies and colonizers: did institutions and individuals located at certain places in the core-periphery axis experience empire differently? Were there particular dynamics or relationships that apply to places like Scotland, Wales, or Ireland that do not apply to England?
Business and economic history; histories of capitalism; histories of labour
Imperial networking and networks
Institutions and the construction of knowledge
Social and geographic mobility
Regional patterns of imperial participation
Histories of philanthropy

This day and a half-day conference will allow participants to engage with these issues, new research in the field, and with other researchers. It will conclude with a roundtable discussion.

We will meet on 7 and 8 September 2023 at Brasenose College, Oxford for an in-person conference. Participants should be committed to attend all panels.

We particularly welcome proposals from post-graduate research students and ECRs.

Funding will be available for travel and accommodation costs for speakers. Meals will be provided.

To propose a paper, please send an abstract of up to 250 words and a one-page CV by April 15, 2023, to hunter.harris@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

To propose a panel, please send to the same address a single document, labelled with the first initial and surname of the contact person (e.g., “SmithJ2023”), by April 15, 2023. The document should contain:

Panel title and one-paragraph description of panel topic, including a brief rationale that connects the papers
Title and 200-word abstracts for 3-4 papers
Email addresses and institutional affiliations (if applicable) for all participants
One-page CVfor each participant
Panel submissions may include a chair/commenter but do not need to do so

Questions about the conference may be directed to Hunter Harris (hunter.harris@nuffield.ox.ac.uk)

PhD Scholarships in Humanistic Approaches to Entrepreneurship

March 8, 2023February 17, 2023 Steph

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a number of vacant PhD scholarships (2-4) in Humanistic Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research and Teaching at the Department of Business Humanities and Law. Expected starting date is September 1, 2023.

The PhD positions are 3-year full-time contracts connected to the Carlsberg Semper Ardens: Advance research environment “The Entrepreneurial Age: Rethinking Entrepreneurship in Society” with principal investigator Professor Christina Lubinski. Successful candidates will be affiliated with the Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Leadership Unit of the department.

The Rethinking Entrepreneurship project examines how entrepreneurship discourse shapes society. As managers urge their employees to become more entrepreneurial and newspapers debate the controversial role of the entrepreneurial “gig economy”, we look at entrepreneurship not just as a business activity but also as a narrative and a set of ideals that shape what we perceive as valuable and meaningful. The project group explores in which historical contexts our current understanding of entrepreneurship first emerged, how entrepreneurial discourse assigns value and legitimacy to some forms of behaviour over others, and by which mechanisms it affects social change. How we think and talk about entrepreneurship shapes a critical view of entrepreneurship and creates possibilities for reframing, which provide novel impulses for the future. We explore these questions in areas as diverse as founder-investor relations, labour policy, entrepreneurship education, diversity initiatives and tax law in an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative perspective.

We invite candidates from different disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences, including entrepreneurship, history, law, sociology, political science, philosophy, innovation management and organisation studies. Candidates should apply with a first outline of an empirically specific and theoretically grounded research proposal. Applications will be judged by the qualifications and motivation of the candidate, the originality and rigor of the outlined project, the feasibility of the empirical work, and the relevance and suitability of the proposal for the Rethinking Entrepreneurship research environment.

Possible topics for PhD projects include (but are not limited to):

The role of language and discourse in founder-investor relations
The impact of entrepreneurship ideals on labour relations and policy
Entrepreneurship in the context of Danish and international tax law and policy
Entrepreneurial ideals at stock markets and exchanges, e.g. Nasdaq First North in Denmark
Conceptual history of entrepreneurship and related concepts
Evolutionary and historical perspectives of entrepreneurial actors in the maritime sector
Understandings of diversity, equity and inclusion in entrepreneurial narratives
Uses and abuses of entrepreneurship ideals in education

We invite PhD projects pertaining broadly to these topics. We are also open to alternative suggestions by candidates within the scope of the Rethinking Entrepreneurship research environment. Please articulate clearly how your project contributes to this research environment and the Department of Business Humanities and Law.

The Department of Business Humanities and Law is dedicated to an integrated approach to the contemporary challenges facing business and society drawing on the humanities, interdisciplinary social sciences and law. It emphasizes both problem-oriented research to understand those challenges and learning to build the life-long capabilities necessary to address them. Faculty within the Department of Business Humanities and Law have research backgrounds in all areas of law, politics, sociology, philosophy, history, anthropology, literature, theology, aesthetics, design and innovation, tourism and leisure management, cultural economics, leadership and strategy, pedagogic study, and other areas. What unites faculty is an overriding concern for the organization of the human within its multiple environments and, by implication, a research interest in the interdisciplinary “conversation” between humanities and social sciences. BHL also participates in numerous interdisciplinary cross-CBS activities. In line with this concern, the PhD should demonstrate a capacity to bridge across several of these environments.

The three-year PhD programme at CBS gives you the opportunity to conduct research under the supervision of CBS’s associate professors and professors, supported by research related PhD courses. The programme is highly international, and every PhD student is expected to participate in international research conferences and to spend time at another research institution as a visiting scholar. See the CBS homepage for more information about the PhD programme: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/phd-programme.

CBS PhD graduates are held in high esteem not only in academia and research institutions but also in government and business where their research qualifications are in high demand.

CBS is committed to ensuring excellence, transformative and relevant teaching and research. Candidates who wish to join us must be interested in working in an organisation of this type and it is expected that the applicant shows an interest in joining the department’s research environment. You can read more about the department’s research here: www.cbs.dk/bhl.

Application and admission requirements

Applicants must

have a basic education at master’s level (corresponding to the 3 + 2 Bologna process and a total of 180+120 ECTS). However, applicants who hold a one-year Master’s degree may also be considered for evaluation. Candidates who enter the PhD program with a one year Master’s degree (60 ECTS) will be offered a 4 years program and will be considered a Master’s student for the first 2 years of the program.
have received the grade of 10 (or above) for the master’s thesis according to the Danish 7-point grading scale (https://eng.uvm.dk/general-overview/7-point-grading-scale)
have a weighted grade point average of at least 8.2 on the Danish 7-point grading scale for the bachelor’s and master’s degree combined, or alternatively a weighted grade point average of at least 9.5 for the master’s degree alone. If the grade point average is not met, documentation for being in the top 40% of the class is also accepted.
have an educational background in the humanities or social sciences.
have completed the master’s programme before starting the PhD programme at CBS.
master academic English at a high level in writing and speaking.

The application (see link below) must include a research proposal of three to five-pages. The project description must include:

a presentation of an original research question.
a description of the initial theoretical framework and method.
a presentation of the proposed empirical material.
a work plan for the three years.

More information can be found here: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/phd-programmes/admission

In addition to the project description, copies of the following must be included:

diploma for bachelor’s and master’s degree or other certificates at an equivalent level as well as the grade transcripts.
documentation for being in the top 40% of the class (if grade requirements are not met).
a concise curriculum vitae (CV).
a list of articles and publications (if applicable).
one example of a selected written work (e.g. master’s thesis)

The PhD student is enrolled in the CBS PhD School. Further information about PhD scholarships and the PhD programme can be found at https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/phd-programme.

Employment and salary
A PhD scholarship runs for a period of three years. The scholarships are fully salaried positions, according to the national Danish collective agreement. The monthly salary is currently approximately DKK 28,365 up to DKK 34,256 depending on seniority and a pension contribution totalling 17.1%. The scholarship includes tuition fees, office space, course and travel costs (according to the current CBS agreement).

Salary level and employment take place in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Academics’ Central Organization.

Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee shortlists applicants to be assessed by the Assessment Committee. Applicants are informed whether their application has proceeded for assessment.

Applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and will receive their personal assessment later. Selected applicants will be invited for an interview. Please note that a positive assessment does not automatically result in an interview. Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.

The application must be sent via the online link below.

Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see above), by the application deadline.

Information meeting

Should you have any further questions about the call and how it is to be a PhD student at BHL, you are welcome to join our online information meeting regarding this call on February 28, 2023, 16:30-18:00. There will be a presentation of the Rethinking Entrepreneurship research environment, the Department of Business Humanities and Law, and an opportunity to ask questions. Please sign up to receive access information using this link.

For further information please contact: Professor Christina Lubinski, email: cl.bhl@cbs.dk; or Head of Department Professor Mitchell Dean, e-mail: mde.bhl@cbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at www.cbs.dk/bhl.

Details about Copenhagen Business School are available at http://www.cbs.dk.

Closing date: 16 April 2023.

LUSTRE event: AI & born digital archives

March 6, 2023February 15, 2023 Steph

Adam Nix and Stephanie Decker recently took part in a fascinating workshop on digital archives at the Cabinet Office in London, organized by the fantastic LUSTRE network. The overall aim of the LUSTRE project is to connect policymakers with Computer Scientists, Digital Humanists and professionals in the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). The project is co-delivered with professionals from the Cabinet Office’s Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO). The recordings from the day are available here.

We talked about our recent paper in AI & Society: Finding light in dark archives: Using AI to connect context and content in email. The practice of digital archival discovery is still emerging, and the approaches future research will take when using digital sources remain unclear. Archival practice has been shaped by paper-based, pre-digital sources and guides assumptions around how researchers will access and make use of such collections. Paradoxically, dealing with the increasing relevance of born-digital records is not helped by the fact that many born-digital collections remain dark, in part while questions of how they should be effectively made available are answered. Our research takes a user perspective on discovery within born-digital archives and seeks to promote more meaningful access to born-digital archives for researchers. In doing so, our work deals with the implications that unfamiliar archival technologies (including artificial intelligence) have on disciplinary traditions in the humanities and social science, with a specific focus on historical and qualitative approaches.

Our work in this area currently focuses on the issue of context within organisational email, and the challenges of searching and interpreting large bodies of email data. We are particularly interested in how effective machine-assisted search and multiple pathways for discovery can be used to open contextually opaque collections. Such access is likely to leverage a collection’s structural and content characteristics, as well as targeted archival selection and categorisation. We ultimately suggest that by combining relatively open user-led interfaces with pre-selective material, digital archives can provide environments suited to both the translation of existing research practices and the integration of more novel opportunities for discovery. Our presentation will summarise our progress in this area and reflect on the technical and methodological questions our work here has raised.

History & Archives in Practice Event

March 3, 2023February 15, 2023 Steph

New event for historians and archivists by the Institute of Historical Research, The National Archives and the Royal Historical Society

2023 HISTORY AND ARCHIVES IN PRACTICE
Collecting Communities: Working together and with Collections

Wednesday 29 March 2023
Institute of Historical Research

For more information, see the programme here: https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30101854/HAP23-programme_web_version.pdf

CfP – Workshop on British commercial entertainment industries

March 1, 2023February 15, 2023 Steph

New approaches to British commercial entertainment industries during the 20^th century

Call for papers for this one-day workshop

Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History (CEIBH)

Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK

Submission date: 31 March 2023

This one-day workshop, scheduled for September 2023, will explore new approaches to the economic, business, and social history of the British commercial entertainment sectors over the 20^th century, focusing on new approaches (especially regarding sources). Commercial entertainment was one of the most closely-monitored industries by government – especially from 1915-1960, owing to the importance of “entertainment duty,” a tax on admissions, which led HM Customs & Excise to compile extensive quantitative and qualitative data on the health of the main commercial entertainments (including spectator sports). This included commissioning the Government Social Survey to monitor both the frequency, cost, and age composition of customers for venue-based entertainments. Other under-used data include the Family Expenditure Survey (and its predecessors) and data compiled by commercial surveying companies.

We would welcome paper proposals on all mainstream commercial entertainments, including theatres, cinema, commercial sports, dancing, venue-based gambling (such as bingo), exhibitions and festivals. We would also welcome papers examining the impacts of new entertainments on incumbent commercial entertainment formats. Ideally, proposals should be “work-in progress” papers, rather than finished work, so that the workshop can contribute to improving the papers. There is no registration fee and we hope to be able to reimburse the admission costs for the presenters. For further information, please contact Peter Scott (IBS, Henley Business School at the University of Reading): p.m.scott@reading.ac.uk For full consideration, papers should be submitted prior to 31^st March 2023.

New Hagley History Hangout about the Hilton Hotel

February 27, 2023February 15, 2023 Steph

(or how many Hs can you get into one heading?)

Hilton Hotels started in Texas and swelled into a globe-straddling hospitality behemoth. Along the way company founder Conrad Hilton kept ideas about affordable luxury at the center of his business model. Among the affordable luxuries on offer in Hilton Hotels was an “eclectic modernist” design sensibility that placed the American consumer at the apex of a global cultural hierarchy. In her book project, Megan Elias, associate professor and director of the Gastronomy program at Boston University, traces a design history of Hilton Hotels.

To uncover this story, Elias conducted research in multiple Hagley Library collections, such as the William Pahlmann Associates papers, and the Ernst Dichter papers. Among her key findings are how design decisions bore upon the business of hospitality at every turn. From architecture to furniture, food, and art, every aspect of the experience of a Hilton Hotel was crafted to appeal to consumer desires. Whereas hospitality had traditionally been an ersatz affair with uncomfortable boarding houses and public accommodations that compared unfavorably with the comforts of home. In the twentieth century, Hilton and competitor firms, transformed hospitality into an industry for the mass consumption of luxury, and made hotels better than homes.

To support her research Dr. Elias received funding from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library.

The audio only version of this program is available on our podcast. The link to this Hagley History Hangout is https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-13.

Recorded on Zoom and available anywhere once they are released, our History Hangouts include interviews with authors of books and other researchers who have use of our collections, and members of Hagley staff with their special knowledge of what we have in our stacks. We began the History Hangouts earlier this summer and now are releasing programs every two weeks on alternate Mondays. Our series is part of the Hagley from Home initiative by the Hagley Museum and Library. The schedule for upcoming episodes, as well as those already released, is available at https://www.hagley.org/hagley-history-hangout.