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EXPLORATORY RESEARCH GRANTS These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Proposals must demonstrate which Hagley collections might be pertinent to the project. Applicants should reside more than 50 miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Low-cost accommodations on Hagley's grounds are available on first-come, first serve basis. Researchers who use this housing are strongly encouraged to have a car available for transportation during their residency. Deadline March 31, 2021 All application materials must be submitted in the order below in one PDF file through the online link as indicated. Please include the following materials: Project abstract (maximum length: 1...

This year, the Business History Conference will be held virtually for the first time. This new format presents us with both challenges and opportunities. The Emerging Scholars Committee usually runs networking events, such as a drinks reception and a breakfast. While we will miss seeing all of you in person this year, we hope to maintain some of these traditions in the new virtual format and to continue to provide a supportive space to network and meet other scholars. We are launching a new mentoring scheme, which will provide participants at the virtual BHC with a valuable opportunity to gain advice and insight from more advanced scholars in the field on everything from completing a dissertation to finding research funding, navigating the academic job market to exploring possibilities for business historians beyond the academy. If you would like to participate, please contact Victoria Barnes < barnes@rg.mpg.de > We aim to begin the process of introducing mentors with mentees ...

  From the Wobblies to the Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Posthumous Journey of Casey Jones, A Research in Progress seminar with Dr. Scott Huffard, Lees-McRae College  An event hosted by the Inquire Capitalism program at the University of Florida ( more information ) February 19, 2021, at noon EST Casey Jones is one of America’s more beloved folk heroes, but he was a real engineer who died when his train crashed while trying to make up lost time in 1900. The circumstances of his fateful final run may be straightforward, but Casey’s legacy is far from a simple story. He is at the same time a working-class hero, a union scab, and has served as inspiration for both labor organizers and conservative politicians. This paper will trace how the memory of Casey Jones has shown up in unexpected places like a communist funeral, an IWW songbook, a Grateful Dead album, and a campaign rally for George H.W. Bush. Though these meanings may seem contradictory, I suggest that the twists and ...

  Join us March 11-13, 2021 at the #BHC2021online conference The program includes live sessions, an online showcase, roundtables, networking opportunities, a mentoring program, and award ceremonies.  Check out the full program here: https://thebhc.org/meeting-program/19730 Register here:  https://hopin.com/events/bhc-2021-annual-meeting

OVER THE COUNTER NO.57 The Business History Conference February newsletter includes: New issues in academic journals Interviews, Podcasts, Virtual Events, and Research from across the Web A new  MEET THE OFFICERS  interview with Professor Peter Coclanis. Reach out to the editor  Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández Help us amplify our audience by connecting with us and sharing this newsletter BHC LinkedIn Page H-Business BHC Twitter BHC blog  The Exchange

From the Wobblies to the Grateful Dead: The Long, Strange Posthumous Journey of Casey Jones, A Research in Progress seminar with Dr. Scott Huffard, Lees-McRae College  An event hosted by the History of Capitalism program at the University of Florida ( more information ) February 19, 2021, at noon EST Casey Jones is one of America’s more beloved folk heroes, but he was a real engineer who died when his train crashed while trying to make up lost time in 1900. The circumstances of his fateful final run may be straightforward, but Casey’s legacy is far from a simple story. He is at the same time a working-class hero, a union scab, and has served as inspiration for both labor organizers and conservative politicians. This paper will trace how the memory of Casey Jones has shown up in unexpected places like a communist funeral, an IWW songbook, a Grateful Dead album, and a campaign rally for George H.W. Bush. Though these meanings may seem contradictory, I suggest that the twists and turn...

Corporate Responses to Racial Unrest -- A special issue of the journal Enterprise & Society   Guest Editors: Dr. Tyesha Maddox and Dr. Michael J. Thate  The aim of this special issue is to convene an international team of scholars, ranging from diverse disciplinary perspectives and broad historical periods, on the question of historical corporate responses to racial unrest. Organized by an historian of the African Diaspora and a philosopher of religion and ethicist, this special issue places our current moment of corporate responses to racial unrest within a broad comparative perspective.     Historically, corporations and the pressure placed on them by fears of the loss of reputation and public good will have propelled many social justice movements. Some, however, have worked openly as well as through clandestine backchannels to suppress such movements. In this special issue, we interrogate the ways in which corporations have responded to social pressu...

XXVII Jornadas de la Asociación Argentina de Historia Económica.  Asociación Argentina de Historia Económica Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA), CONICET Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Mendoza, 20, 21 y 22 de octubre de 2021.  Los resúmenes para las mesas generales deberán ser remitidos en los plazos abajo estipulados, para ser evaluados por la Comisión Directiva de la Asociación Argentina de Historia Económica a la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: joraahe@gmail.com .  Fecha límite para la recepción de los resúmenes de ponencias para las Mesas Generales: 30 de abril de 2021 Más información en: http://incihusa.mendoza-conicet.gob.ar/jornadas/

CBHA Talks: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Cultural Practices of M•A•C Cosmetics with Andrea Benoit February 19 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Join us as Dr. Andrea Benoit presents and discusses issues around corporate social responsibility that stem from research based upon her award-winning book, VIVA MAC: AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC Cosmetics (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Recipient of the $30,000 2020 National Business Book Award, VIVA MAC, is the first cultural history of the iconic brand M·A·C Cosmetics, one that tells the fascinating story of how M·A·C's unique style of corporate social responsibility emerged from specific cultural practices, rather than being part of a strategic marketing plan.  Utilizing exclusive interviews with M·A·C co-founder Frank Toskan, key journalists, and fashion insiders, VIVA MAC delves into the history of the M·A·C AIDS Fund and its signature VIVA GLAM fundraising lipstick, which featured drag performer RuPaul and ...