The Fourth Iberian Cliometrics Workshop is to be held in Lisbon on 20-21March, 2009. It will be organized by the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon, with the assistance of colleagues from Barcelona, Carlos III, Pompeu Fabra, Valencia, and Zaragoza Universities.

Papers are invited from economic historians wishing to attend. They should be on any subject or period of Spanish, Portuguese or Iberian economic history. Papers dealing with relations with the colonies will also be considered but not if they are exclusively on the economic history of a particular colony or group of colonies. Papers by young scholars will be specially considered. Priority will also be given to those who have never attended before.

Anyone wishing to present a paper should send a 500 word abstract by no later than October 15th, 2008 to: iberometricsIV@ics.ul.pt. Decisions regarding acceptance will be sent out no later than November 15th, 2008. Final versions of the accepted papers are expected by no later than February 15th, 2009. They will be circulated to all participants prior to the meeting and will be available on the workshop page.

The organizers will cover travel and local costs for all those who are invited to present a paper. In the case of papers with more than one author, it may be necessary to restrict this coverage to one person only, depending on budgetary constraints.

The organizing committee: Jaime Reis (ICS, University of Lisbon) and Leonor Freire Costa (ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon).

All correspondence should be addressed to iberometricsIV@ics.ul.pt.