The Sound Economic History Workshop

15th Sound Economic History Workshop - postponed to 2021

This year - for reasons well-known to everyone - the Sound Economic History Workshop will take a much deserved break. We hope to host the next workshop in 2021. If you would like to host a future Sound Workshop, then please read the instruction further below.

What is the Sound Workshop?

The main aim of the workshop is to gather primarily Scandinavian (and Scandinavian-based) researchers, who are interested in economic and social history, in a friendly and non-imposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive criticism from their peers and leading economic historians.

Another aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the breadth of economic history as an academic discipline, especially among Scandinavian researchers, so there is usually no theme to the workshop, and submissions are encouraged from any sub-field of economic and social history.

The workshop is open for presentations by PhD students and post-docs, but more experienced researchers are also encouraged, both to present their research and to participate as commentators. Non-presenting PhD students are more than welcome to participate, too.

Researchers (including PhD students) based at a Scandinavian university interested in hosting a Sound Workshop at their institution should contact workshop organisers Alexandra Lopez Cermeno (email: alexandra.lopez_cermeno@ekh.lu.se), Svante Prado (svante.prado@econhist.gu.se), and Jacob Weisdorf (e-mail: jacob.weisdorf@uniroma1.it).

Host a Sound Workshop

If you would like to host a future Sound Workshop, then please contact the workshop organisers Alexandra Lopez Cermeno (email: alexandra.lopez_cermeno@ekh.lu.se), Svante Prado (svante.prado@econhist.gu.se), and Jacob Weisdorf (e-mail: jacob.weisdorf@uniroma1.it).

Previous hosts

14th Sound Workshop, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2019

13th Sound Workshop, University of Gothenburg, 2018

12th Sound Workshop, University of Jyväskylä, 2017

11th Sound Workshop, University of Helsinki, 2016

10th Sound Workshop, University of Lund, 2015

9th Sound Workshop, Copenhagen Business School, 2014

8th Sound Workshop, University of Uppsala, 2013

7th Sound Workshop, University of Tampere, 2012

6th Sound Workshop, Norwegian Business School, Bergen, 2011

5th Sound Workshop, University of Lund, 2010

4th Sound Workshop, University of Copenhagen, 2009

3rd Sound Workshop, University of Gothenburg, 2008

2nd Sound Workshop, University of Lund, 2007

1st Sound Workshop, University of Copenhagen, 2006

Previous keynotes

2019: Jane Humphries (Oxford), Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge)

2018: Martin Shanahan (University of Southern Australia)

2017: Jane Humphries (Oxford), Jari Ojala (Jyväskylä), Toshiaki Tamaki (Kyoto)

2016: Jaime Reis (ICS) and Susanna Fellman (Gothenburg).

2015: Joan Roses (LSE) and Karine van der Beek (Ben Gurion)

2014: Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford) and Marc Flandreau (Geneva)

2013: Mary Hilson (UCL) and Patrick Wallis (LSE)

2012: Bernard Harris (Southampton)

2011: Leandro Prados (Carlos III, Madrid)

2010: Steve Broadberry (Oxford) and Greg Clark (UC Davis)

2009: Tim Leunig (LSE)

2008: Gareth Austin (Geneva)

2007: Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford)

2006: Giovanni Federico (Pisa)

Sound for Seniors

The Sound for Seniors Workshop is also postponed. We hope to relaunch it in 2021. If you would like to host a future Sound for Seniors Workshop, then please contact Jacob Weisdorf (email: jacob.weisdorf@uniroma1.it).