EH.N: Reminder: Call for Dissertations Deadline: XVth World Economic History Congress

[Jessica Dijkman]

XVth World Economic History Congress
Utrecht, the Netherlands, 3-7 August 2009

Reminder: call for dissertations
(September 2008)

The International Economic History Association (IEHA) will hold its 
fifteenth World Economic History Congress in Utrecht, the 
Netherlands, from the 3rd to the 7th of August 2009. The congress 
includes a competition for recently completed doctoral theses in 
economic history (or related fields): young scholars are invited to 
present their doctoral research.

The XVth Congress will offer three dissertation prizes, one for 
dissertations covering the period before 1800, one for the period 
1800-1914, and one for the period 1914-the present. Per period three 
to four candidates will be selected by a jury consisting of members 
of the Executive Committee to present their doctoral research in 
Utrecht in 2009. To be eligible for participation in the dissertation 
competition candidates must have been awarded their doctorate or 
equivalent after 1 January 2005 and not later than 1 October 2008.

Those interested in participating in the dissertation competition 
should submit a 10 to 20 page summary of their dissertation via the 
dissertation registration form on the congress website 
www.wehc2009.org . The summary should outline the contents, 
methodology, and historiographical background of the thesis and 
should be in English. You will also be requested to enter your name 
and contact information, the title of your thesis, the language in 
which it is written, the name(s) of your supervisor(s), and the 
institution that awarded the degree. Please do not send the thesis 
itself. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2008.

Reception of the submission will be acknowledged by e-mail. In 
November 2008 candidates will be informed if they will be invited to 
present their research in Utrecht.