Announcements

ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE. The annual meeting of the Economic History Association, to be held in Evanston, Illinois, on September 24-26, 2010, will focus on the theme "Thinking Comparatively: Economic and Historical Perspectives on Places, Periods, and Institutions."

Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special dinner for graduate students. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. Applications for the poster session are due no later than May 21, 2010, and should be sent to timothy. guinnane@yale.edu. The dissertation session convened by Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) and Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University) will honor six dissertations completed during the 2009-10 academic year. The submission deadline is June 11, 2010. The Alexander Gerschenkron and Allan Nevins prizes will be awarded for the best dissertations on nonNorth American and North American topics, respectively.

For further information, check http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2010meeting, which includes information on travel options to Evanston; or contact Meetings Coordinator Jari Eloranta at elorantaj@appstate.edu.

CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF RETAILING AND DISTRIBUTION (CHORD) CONFERENCE. The Pasold Research Fund and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a conference, "Distribution Networks for Textiles and Dress, c.17001945," exploring the retailing and marketing of textiles and dress between c. 1700 and 1945, to be held at the University of Wolverhampton, U.K., on September 8 and 9, 2010.

For further information, e-mail Laura Ugolini: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk. Conference Web pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2010conf.html.

CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING. "From Automation to Computerized Design: Industrial Engineering, Machine Tools, and Digital Frontiers, 1930S-1980S," Paris, September 15-17, 2010.

To honor the centenary of Pierre B�zier, the eminent French engineering designer (forty years at Renault after starting at a small design company), the University of Evry and its partners are convening a conference on post-1930 developments in areas to which B�zier made major contributions: machinery and industrial automation, controls and computation (B�zier curves), the creation of computer visualization for design, and the diffusion of mechanical and technical knowledge. (B�zier worked extensively with machine tools before moving on to computer innovations, virtual imagery, and technical education.)

If you are interested in attending, please contact Dr. Alain Michel, Alain.MICHEL@cite-sciences.fr.

EUROPEAN HISTORICAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY MEETING. The European Review of Economic History (EREH) announces the second Fast Track workshop, to be held in Lisbon on December 10 and 11, 2010. It will be held with the support of the European Historical Economics Society, the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais of Lisbon University, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the EREH.

The idea of the workshop is to provide feedback and coaching to junior scholars working in economic history and to give them a chance to see their articles appear in print quickly. Our goal is to offer authors a fast and firm response to their submissions within four months.

Junior scholars (those no more than five years from completion of their PhD) will receive priority, but submissions from more experienced scholars will also be accepted. Those interested should submit their papers to EREH, via the Editorial Express e-submission system, or to Joachim Voth (jvoth@crei.cat), no later than July 31. If submitting through Editorial Express, please mention in the cover letter that you would like the paper to be considered for Fast Track. EREH commits to returning referee reports to the authors within six weeks.

The Fast Track workshop itself will take place on December 10 and 11, 2010. The best submissions will be chosen for inclusion. Authors will be requested to revise their papers based on the comments they receive and to present their revised article at the workshop. Revised papers should be re-submitted by no later than November 10, 2010. Senior scholars (EREH editors and other members of the European Historical Economics Society) will act as discussants. The editors plan to make a final decision shortly after the workshop ends, based on the feedback from the referees, the general discussion, and their own views of the papers. The process will require a high level of commitment from authors, referees, and discussants.

Funding for travel and accommodation will be available.

CHEMICAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION TRAVEL GRANTS. Travel grants to CHF in Philadelphia are available for shorter research projects on the history of chemistry, broadly construed. There is no deadline for travel grant applications. Travel grant applications can be submitted at any time and are assessed by an internal CHF review committee.

A travel grant application must contain:

* A research proposal that also details how the applicant will make use of CHF's collections (1 page)

* A curriculum vitae (up to 3 pages)

* One reference letter (applicants are responsible for references submitting letters directly to CHF via the e-mail address below)

Travel grant applications must be submitted electronically, as Word or PDF files, to: travelgrants@chemheritage.org.

HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY FELLOWSHIPS. The Henry Belin du Pont Memorial Fund supports access to and use of Hagley's research collections. These fellowships are intended to support serious scholarly work. They enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the library, archival, and artifact collections of the Hagley Museum and Library. Applicants must be from out of state and preference will be given to those whose travel costs to Hagley will be higher.

Short-term grants-in-aid support visits to Hagley for scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. They are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the research collections. Scholars receive a stipend, make use of the research holdings, and participate in the programs of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. These grants are to support serious scholarly work. They are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than humanities.

Scholars and fellows are expected to participate in seminars that meet periodically, as well as attend noontime colloquia, lectures, and other public programs offered during their tenure.

Please see the Hagley Web site for further information on applying: http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/library/center/grants.html.

JOURNAL OF CENTRUM CATHEDRA CALL FOR PAPERS. The Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra� (JCC) is calling for papers in the areas of management, business, finance, economics, and related fields. CENTRUM is the Business School of the Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Per�. JCC is a blind-peer-reviewed journal, emphasizing theoretical and empirical articles. It is indexed by Gale, EconLit, and the SSRN networks. The Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra is published twice a year, in March and September.

Articles must be submitted in English. Requirements for preparation and submission of articles can be found at the Web site of CENTRUM: http://www.centrum.pucp.edu.pe. Articles accepted for publication will be eligible for an honorary award of up to US$2,500 per paper.

For further information contact JCC@pucp.edu.pe.