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Contacting the editor of The Exchange The contact information to reach out to the editor of the BHC's blog has been updated. Click on the tab on the right column of the homepage of the blog, and you will be directed to the editor's profile where my email address has been correctly updated.   Contributors can also email me directly to padelacruzf@gmail.com . I welcome submissions about announcements, conferences, career achievements, new resources, archival collections, new books, reviews, and publications and appearances in the media. Another easy way to submit information to the blog is by tweeting to @TheBHCNews. Your editor, Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Ph.D.

Manager of Special Projects/Corporate Archivist/Historian The Projects/Archivist/Historian serves as a Publix Ambassador by preserving, perpetuating, and promoting the Publix history and culture. The incumbent researches and pursues third-party awards for Publix acquires and manages the collection of Publix facts and historical assets, and communicates the company’s culture and story to a variety of audiences. Primary responsibilities: manages applications for local, state, national and global awards and recognition for Publix’s customer service, community involvement, sustainability, social responsibility, and workplace environment, etc. creates written communications around Publix history and culture for a variety of audiences serves as the primary point of contact to preserve, perpetuate and promote Publix history serves as a steward of Publix history, Mr. George and Mr. George’s philosophies, and serves as a liaison to the Jenkins family for historical projects conducts

The  Call for Proposals for the Hagley Fall conference Commercial Pictures and the Arts and Technics of Visual Persuasion  next  November 8th  is open. Deadline to send proposals is  June 1st. This conference will convene an international group of scholars concerned with the power of pictures in the world of commerce. As pictures became a central feature of the advertising message in the second half of the nineteenth century, they migrated from the pages of newspapers and magazines, and the posters on the sides of buildings, to such technologies as electrical spectaculars, film, and later, television. At the heart of this diffusion was an effort to make the pictorial sales message migrate not only across media but also into the minds of consumers. We invite papers exploring the relationship between the material frameworks of picture-based selling and the immaterial, subjective fictions they were designed to activate. Papers should be historically grounded and offer fresh, previo

The Baker Library's “Lehman Brothers: A History, 1850–2008” exhibition focuses on the firm's 158-year history. It examines Lehman Brothers’ influence on the American economy and impact of its collapse. Visit the exhibit at the North Lobby of Baker Library/Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business School, through July 12, 2019. The exhibition was organized by Baker Library Special Collections, Knowledge and Library Services and supported by the De Gaspe Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School. The archives and the collection can also be explored online at: https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/ . For more information about Baker Library Special Collections visit https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Collections-Archives/Special-Collections

Special Issue Call for Papers The Atomic Business: Structures and Strategies Deadline to submit proposals is October 1st, 2019.  From 1955 to 1980 thirty countries began building and operating commercial nuclear reactors. One hundred were built within the United States by five North American Multinationals. Yet the global sales of nuclear reactors constituted a tight market and a great business opportunity for industrial economies such as the UK, West Germany and France. But the construction and operation of nuclear power plants was a complex and hazardous technological challenge, within the reach of only a few countries. Prior to the sale of a nuclear power plant, one had to evaluate the importing country’s capacity for receiving this almost unknown technology (technological absorption capacity) in terms of the country’s macroeconomic expectations (economic and financial capacity), the electricity production and consumption system (electrical grid), and the level of industrial d

The call for applications to attend the fully funded Ph.D. summer school Business beyond the Business Cycle: Crises, Resilience and Risk Management, c.1850-2000  at the University of Glasgow, 26-28 August 2019, closes next June 10th . Following on from 2017’s successful summer school at the University of Tuebingen, The Centre for Business History in Scotland (CBHS), at the University of Glasgow is delighted to announce funding for an intensive three-day event aimed at PhD students and early career Post-Docs (within 2 years of PhD submission) in history and affiliated fields working on any topic which overlaps with the theme of the workshop (see ‘further notes for applicants’ below). Participants will be hosted in Glasgow’s West End, and will present, debate and discuss their work-in-progress with leading international scholars within a world-class university. The school aims to provide participants with an overview of relevant research and of innovative tools and methodologies in t

[Re-posting from EH.net ] I am looking for a research assistant to assist with a project examining the English poor law in the nineteenth century. Major tasks will involve searching secondary literature, and research in online and physical archives. The length of the position will depend on progress and funding availability, but I anticipate the initial stage lasting at least a month. Pay is 14 pounds per hour. Interested applicants should email me at jchapman@nyu.edu, attaching a CV and specifying a potential start date and the amount of time you can dedicate each week to this project. Applications from Ph.D. students are particularly welcome. Jonathan Chapman Assistant Professor of Economic History New York University Abu Dhabi jchapman@nyu.edu

The Library Company of Philadelphia's  First Biennial Innovation Award  Call for Proposals is open until August 1, 2019 . The Library Company of Philadelphia Innovation Award will be awarded to a project that critically and creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship. The recipient will be selected by a committee of leaders in higher education, grant-awarding organizations, and research libraries and cultural heritage institutions, and the award will include a $2,000 prize, a spotlight interview in our “Talking in the Library” podcast, and recognition at the 288th Annual Dinner of the Library Company of Philadelphia (October 29, 2019). Guidelines The committee will evaluate how a proposed project makes scholarly work new again. The scholarly work might take the form of an article, chapter, academic monograph, scholarly edition, or other project, in either print or digital form. “Innovation” will be defined broadly, and may include refashioning scholarly w

The Call for Proposals for the Hagley Fall conference Commercial Pictures and the Arts and Technics of Visual Persuasion next November 8th  is open. Deadline to send proposals is June 1st. This conference will convene an international group of scholars concerned with the power of pictures in the world of commerce. As pictures became a central feature of the advertising message in the second half of the nineteenth century, they migrated from the pages of newspapers and magazines, and the posters on the sides of buildings, to such technologies as electrical spectaculars, film, and later, television. At the heart of this diffusion was an effort to make the pictorial sales message migrate not only across media but also into the minds of consumers. We invite papers exploring the relationship between the material frameworks of picture-based selling and the immaterial, subjective fictions they were designed to activate. Papers should be historically grounded and offer fresh, pr

Check out the new look of the BHC website! Thank you to Shane Hamilton for upgrading the experience of looking for news in #bizhis, research projects, and expert profiles. Also, if you haven't done so, click here to check out all the dancing and conversations (photographs) that went on in Cartagena, Colombia (#BHCCartagena)

Dear subscribers and readers of The Exchange,  This issue of "Over the Counter No. 47" contains news and information of interest to business historians from across the web: new journal issues, podcasts, and blog posts. Journal issues published since February of 2019: The Australian Economic History Review  59(1). Enterprise &Society 20(2) Business History 61(2) The Economic History Review 72(2) Noam Maggor's  "Bringing (The History of) Capitalism Back In"  in the journal Reviews in American History , should also be of interest. In newspapers and other serials: Contextualizing current debates in American politics, Louis Hyman wrote "The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think," for The Atlantic's series Ideas , on March 6th, 2019; and Chris Deutsch wrote "The only real solution to the border crisis" for The Washington Post's section Made by History last March 11th. Rebecca Spang, for History News Network , wrote &quo

A new update has been posted on the BHC website: The 2020 BHC Doctoral Colloquium in Business History will be held in conjunction with the BHC annual meeting. This prestigious workshop, funded by Cambridge University Press, will take place in Charlotte Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12. Typically limited to ten students, the colloquium is open to early-stage doctoral candidates pursuing dissertation research within the broad field of business history, from any relevant discipline. Applications are due by 15 November 2019 via email to BHC@Hagley.org . Your application should include: a statement of interest; CV; preliminary or final dissertation prospectus (10-15 pages); and a letter of support from your dissertation supervisor (or prospective supervisor). Questions about the colloquium should be sent to its director, Edward Balleisen, eballeis@duke.edu . All participants receive a stipend that partially defrays travel costs to the annual meeting.  Applicants will re

[re-posting on current's editor's account in case subscribers did not receive a notification via email last Friday] In the past few months, several business historians have appeared in the media: In January, Sean Adams (University of Florida) convened Richard John (Columbia University), Victoria Woeste (American Bar Association), and Matt Stoler (Open Markets Institute) to discuss the history and present of monopolies. The video of the roundtable that took place at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service of the University of Florida (Gainesville) was broadcasted as part of  C-SPAN's series on American History . Caitlin Rosenthal (UC Berkeley) wrote "The perils of Big Data: How crunching numbers can lead to moral blunders" for the series  Made by History of the Washington Post . In  this article , she discusses business ethics in relation to recent news about McKinsey & Co. being "guilty by proximity" in the case of Purdue Pharma benefiting f