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#BHC2021online Program -- Mark your calendars!


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Thursday, March 11th

Roundtables, 10:00am - 11:00am

  • An International Collaboration of Business Historians: Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth-Century, A Global Approach
  • British Entrepreneurship
  • From Glass-Steagall to the Volcker Rule: Examining the Regulatory Regimes in the Changing US Banking Industry
  • Making Sense of Digital Sources

Online Showcases, 11:00am - 7:00pm

Opening Social Networking Event, 11:15am - 1:00pm

Concurrent Sessions 1, 1:30pm - 2:45pm

  • Session a: Labor Control as Management Strategy
  • Session b: Black Consumers, Black Entrepreneurs, and Economic Justice in the Twentieth-Century United States
  • Session c: Branding and Image-Building in the United States, c.1830-1910

Concurrent Sessions 2, 3:00pm - 4:15pm

  • Session a: Las Empresas de la Europa Mediterránea y de Iberoamérica en el Siglo XX. Lecciones de la Historia Empresarial ante los Retos del Futuro
  • Session b: Local, Regional, and Global Approaches to the Political Economy of Commodity Money, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Session c: Methodological Workshop: Business History and Environmental Standards after 1960
Friday, March 12th

Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00am - 10:15am

  • Session a: Money and Politics in Early America
  • Session b: Notes on Monetary Governance in Nineteenth Century America
  • Session c: The Politics of Individualized Risk Management
  • Session d: U.S.-China Collaboration, 1800-2000

Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:30am - 11:45am

  • Session a: Organization in Agriculture
  • Session b: Monetary Systems
  • Session c: Competition, Cartels, and Monopolies
  • Session d: Ethics and Morality and the Making of Business

Krooss Dissertation Plenary, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Early Career Networking Session, 3:45pm - 6:00pm

Saturday, March 13th

Concurrent Sessions 5, 9:00am - 10:15am

  • Session a: Institutions of Family Capitalism
  • Session b: Identity and Subjectivity in Business
  • Session c: Publishing and Literature
  • Session d: Methodologies in Business History

Concurrent Sessions 6, 10:30am - 11:45am

  • Session a: Professions and Elites
  • Session b: Rules and Relationships
  • Session c: El futuro de las empresas en tiempos de crisis: ¿qué nos enseñan los empresarios del siglo XX? El caso de España
  • Session d: State Enterprise and Technology

Concurrent Sessions 7, 2:00pm - 3:15pm

  • Session a: Enterprise, Politics, and the State
  • Session b: Technology and Innovation
  • Session c: Transport and Travel
  • Session d: Uses of the Past
  • Session e: Entrepreneurial Drivers in Time

Presidential Address, 4:00pm - 5:15pm

Presidential Reception and Awards Ceremony, 5:30pm - 8:00pm

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