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ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION

JOIN US FOR THE EHA ANNUAL MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 5-7

EHA ANNUAL MEETING

Join us in Philadelphia for the 2025 Annual Meeting

The next EHA conference will take place September 5-7, 2025 at the Loews Philadelphia hotel housed in the historic Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS) building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – home of the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and hundreds more early American historical sites and archives. President Paul Rhode invites you to join us as we meet for the 85th meeting of the Economic History Association.

More information is coming soon, alongside details about the hotel rate, conference registration, and other travel details. The Call for Paper Proposals is now open and will close January 31, 2025. Later we will open the call for Posters. Keep checking back for more as we update the website regularly.

Information and Communications in Economic History

“Information and Communications in Economic History” is the theme of the 2025 meeting. The theme is inspired in part by Allan Pred’s classic work on the Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information and by the location of the meetings in Philadelphia, headquarters and key hub of the first postal system in the United States.

“Spreading the news” helped encourage the creation and diffusion of new technologies, stimulated market integration and population flows, and fostered the dissemination of new social values and norms. But information flows and their control also re-enforced systems of oppression. Economic historians, moreover, are familiar with how the structure and content of information was generated in the past conditions and constrains what we can learn today. The surviving quantitative data and qualitative evidence are selected, with possible biases; and they are structured in ways reflecting past concerns and capabilities.

Research exploring how information flows and communication systems of the past impact our current understanding also fits within the conference theme, as does work engaging with and reflecting on the ongoing information explosion in economic history.

Jeremy Land, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Helsinki

THE 2023 ECONOMIC SCIENCES LAUREATE

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Congratulations to this year’s economic sciences laureate, Claudia Goldin, who provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries. Claudia is a Harvard Professor and an EHA Member.

By trawling through the archives and compiling and correcting historical data, Goldin has been able to present new and often surprising facts. The fact that women’s choices have often been, and remain, limited by marriage and responsibility for the home and family is at the heart of her analyses and explanatory models.

Her insights reach far outside the borders of the US and similar patterns have been observed in many other countries. Her research brings us a better understanding of the labour markets of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

CLAUDIA GOLDIN, 2023 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, EHA MEMBER AND PAST PRESIDENT (2000)

Founded in 1940, the EHA publishes The Journal of Economic History and holds an annual meeting in the fall.

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The Economic History Association was founded in 1940. Its purpose is to encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history, broadly defined, and to encourage and assist in the preservation and administration of the materials for research in economic history.

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EHA’s Annual Meeting is held each fall, usually in September. This year our meeting will be held September 5-7, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

85th Annual EHA Meeting

5-7

SEPT

Information and Communications in Economic History

31

January 2025 Deadline

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS

15

April 2025 Deadline

CALL FOR POSTERS

31

May 2025 Deadline

CALL FOR DISSERTATIONS