The 2019 Annual Cliometric Conference will be held on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 in Columbus, Ohio. This conference is being sponsored by The Ohio State University and the National Science Foundation.
The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history. We will consider applicants from all continents and encourage papers that address important topics in economic history for any geographic region and any time period. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary research and research on diverse populations. We welcome applications to present papers or to attend the conference from doctoral students, junior faculty, and senior faculty in economics, history, and economic history as well as distinguished faculty in other fields who have research interests in economic history.
Typically, eleven papers are selected for presentation and discussion. These are sent out to all conference participants in advance. Each paper is a single session, in which the authors have five minutes to make an opening statement and then the rest of the time is devoted to discussion among all conference participants. All participants are required to read all papers in advance and to attend the entire conference, i.e., arrive on Thursday, May 30 and leave on Sunday, June 2. At least one author must be a member of the Cliometric Society. For membership information contact Professor Melissa Thomasson at mthomasson@miamioh.edu. The conference pays most hotel and flight expenses for graduate students and heavily subsidizes hotel and flight expenses for faculty and researchers.
Proposals and requests to attend the conference will be accepted beginning December 8, 2018. The deadline to submit a paper proposal or a request to attend the conference is Thursday, January 31, 2019. Those wishing to present a paper should provide an abstract and a 3-5 page summary of the proposed paper. In choosing papers and participants, the host committee will assign priority to those who have not attended recently or who have never attended. Those whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by Friday, March 1, 2019 and are expected to provide a completed draft of the paper in the proper format for the conference volume no later than Friday, April 5, 2019.
Graduate students wishing to attend or submit a paper proposal must obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor. This letter is due Thursday, January 31, 2019. Graduate students whose papers are not selected for the program will automatically be considered for the Graduate Student Research Presentation Session, an “egg timer” session in which each student is given 10 minutes to give an oral presentation of their research.
We STRONGLY PREFER that applicants submit their materials via the web at the following site: http://eh.net/2019-cliometrics-conference-proposal-submission/. Please email us at clio19@economics.rutgers.edu if you cannot submit via the web and we will make available alternative submission routes.
If you have any questions about the Cliometric Conference or how to apply, please e-mail clio19@economics.rutgers.edu.