Please join us on 4 June at 5pm for the Joint Center for History and Economics seminar (with the Modern European History at Cambridge seminar) when Andreas Mørkved Hellenes (Chalmers University of Technology & Clare Hall) will discuss High-Speed Rail, Europeanisation, and the Failure of the Nordic Triangle, 1985-2005. histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hellen…

Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP), Sciences Po, starting on 1 September 2025, in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. histecon.fr/en/fellowships…

Le CHEP lance un appel à candidatures pour une Postdoctoral Research Fellowship de trois ans, à partir du 1er septembre 2025. Ce poste est lié au programme de recherche sur l'histoire économique et environnementale. histecon.fr/fr/fellowships…

We are pleased to publish a new essay on our Visualizing Climate and Loss website by Franziska Exeler (Freie Universität) on the history of sites of nuclear contamination near the Belarusian-Ukranian border. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/climate-loss/b…

Please join us this Wed 30 Oct 12:00 EDT (at Harvard or via Zoom) for the Joint Center for History and Economics Seminar when @ParrinelloG will speak about 'Water for Growth: An Environmental History of the Po Valley, 1770-2003'. Click for info and Zoom link. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/seminars/parri…

*Appel à candidatures - Bourses CHEP* Le CHEP accorde plusieurs bourses aux doctorant-e-s de Sciences Po pour l'année 2025. Les candidatures doivent être déposées d'ici le mercredi 13 novembre 2024. Plus d'informations » histecon.fr/fr/bourses.html

*Call for applications - CHEP studentships* The Paris Centre is awarding a number of research grants to PhD students at Sciences Po in the year 2025. Applications must be submitted by 13 Nov 2024. Click below for further particulars and how to apply. histecon.fr/en/research_gr…

Please join us on Thurs Dec 5 at 5pm, Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard, when Shane Bobrycki (Iowa) will discuss his new book 'The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages'. Click below for further information. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/bobrycki/

Join us for the last CSAE Lunchtime Seminar of 2024! We're joined by Dev Patel (Joint Center for History and Economics) to discuss 'Environmental Beliefs & Adaptation to Climate Change'. Joint with Department of Economics, Oxford 🗓️ Wed 27 Nov, 12:30 - 2 pm 🏢Manor Road Building, Oxford ℹ️ csae.ox.ac.uk/events

We are pleased to publish a new essay on our Visualizing Climate and Loss website by Urvi Khaitan on the legacies of airfield runways in Bengal, built by over 30,000 Indian women during WW2 for US & British militaries. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/climate-loss/r…

Please join us on 4 Dec for the next meeting of the Paris Centre's Climate & Capitalism Reading Workshop when we will be discussing 'The Limits to Growth: A Report for THE CLUB OF ROME'. Click for details. histecon.fr/climate_capita…

We are pleased to announce that the full library of Barriers and Borders thought pieces is now on our website. histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/barriers/thoug…

Do have a look at our website '1800 Histories'. The project is an effort to understand the local circumstances of more than a thousand sites - the ultra-emitters of methane gas - that are of outsized importance in the causes of climate change. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histories…

We are delighted to share a new essay on the 1800 Histories website by Emma Rothschild, a micro-history of the trona industry and methane emissions in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. histecon.fas.harvard.edu/1800_histories…

The Cambridge Centre is pleased to announce its Lent Term 2025 seminar schedule! Speakers include Paul Warde (Pembroke College Cambridge & Cambridge History), Tehila Sasson and Melissa Teixeira (Penn History). All welcome! Click for further details. histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_hec.htm

Please join us *today* Tue 4 Feb @ 5pm for the Joint Center for History and Economics seminar when Paul Warde (Pembroke College Cambridge & Cambridge History) will discuss 'Fallacies of misplaced concreteness? The use of History in post-war environmental arguments'. Click for info and abstract. histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/seminar_warde.…

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