Date(s)July 12, 2025 - July 13, 2025
Longfor Learing Center (Yantai, Shangdong)
Language(s)English
Mandarin
We are delighted to announce that the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Quantitative History will be held at the Longfor Learning Center in Yantai, Shandong Province, China, from July 12 to 13, 2025. The symposium is jointly organised by the Centre of Quantitative History at the HKU Business School, the School of History at Shandong University, the School of Archaeology at Shandong University, the School of Economics at Shandong University, and the Institute of Qing History at the Renmin University of China, in collaboration with the International Society for Quantitative History and the HK Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
We invite submissions of research papers on all relevant historical topics utilizing quantitative approaches, including but not limited to economic and social history, political history, cultural history, business and financial history, and archival history. Submitted papers may be in either English or Chinese. All submissions must be unpublished and original. Discussants will be assigned for each accepted submission.
The two-day symposium will feature plenary sessions with invited speakers, as well as parallel sessions for accepted papers in both English and Chinese. Financial support is available for presenting authors who require assistance with travel and accommodation expenses.
All submissions should be sent via email to history_thu@163.com no later than April 18, 2025. Paper selection results will be announced in mid-June 2025.
The first and second annual International Symposium on Quantitative History were held at Tsinghua University in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The third and fourth took place at Peking University in 2015 and 2016, followed by the fifth at Henan University in 2017. The sixth and seventh were held at the Longfor Learning Center in Yantai in 2018 and 2019, while the eighth, tenth, and eleventh symposia were hosted at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2021 to 2024.
- Jörg Baten (University of Tübingen)
- Weimin Bao (Renmin University of China)
- Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick and Monash University)
- Peter K. Bol (Harvard University)
- Stephen Broadberry, FBA (University of Oxford)
- Cameron Campbell (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Shuji Cao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Eric Chaney (Harvard University)
- Feng Chen (Wuhan University)
- Yanliang Chen (National Dong Hwa University)
- Zhiqiang Chen (Nankai University)
- Zhiwu Chen (The University of Hong Kong)
- Gregory Clark (University of California, Davis)
- Neil Cummins (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)
- Xiaonan Deng (Peking University)
- Xiuqi Fang (Beijing Normal University)
- William N. Goetzmann (Yale University)
- Takeshi Hamashita (Sun Yat-sen University)
- Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)
- Ping He (Renmin University of China)
- Philip Hoffman (California Institute of Technology)
- Kris Inwood (University of Guelph)
- James K. S. Kung (University of Melbourne)
- Timur Kuran (Duke University)
- Jiancheng Lai (National Tsing Hua University)
- Angela Ki Che Leung (The University of Hong Kong）
- Bozhong Li (Peking University)
- Zhen Li (National University of Singapore)
- Xinwei Li (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
- William Guanglin Liu (Lingnan University)
- Denggao Long (Tsinghua University)
- Chicheng Ma (The University of Hong Kong)
- Debin Ma (Fudan University)
- Haijian Mao (University of Macau)
- Christopher M. Meissner (The University of California, Davis)
- Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
- Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)
- Şevket Pamuk (Bogaziçi University)
- Kaixiang Peng (Wuhan University)
- Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)
- Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
- Carol Shiue (University of Colorado)
- Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore)
- Joachim Voth (University of Zurich)
- Patrick Wallis (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Di Wang (University of Macau)
- Yuhua Wang (Harvard University)
- Yue Wu (Osaka University of Economics and Law)
- Mingfang Xia (Renmin University of China)
- Weipeng Yuan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- Noam Yuchtman (University of California, Berkeley)
- Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University)
- Guogang Zhang (Tsinghua University)
- Dingxin Zhao (The University of Chicago and Zhejiang University)
- Zhenman Zheng (Xiamen University)
(In the alphabetical order by last name)