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OAH 2022 hybrid conference: Call for presenters for a business history panel  As an affiliate group, the Business History Conference has the opportunity to create a panel for the OAH conference in 2022 outside of the normal proposal system. Held in Boston, March 31-April 3, the conference will be a hybrid event with the option to present in person or in a digital session. Participants will need to choose one or the other format. We invite BHC members who did not submit a proposal through the regular process to submit a paper proposal (250-word abstract + 2-page CV) on a business history topic related to one or more of this year’s conference themes, which include Indigenous peoples, economic dislocation, and racial inequality. Please see the attached file for the OAH 2022 CFP. The deadline for our consideration is June 11. Please email your submissions to Lisa Jacobson jacobson@ucsb.edu . We will review submissions quickly to determine if they are a fit for this BHC panel.  Be...

Register to attend the event  https://thebhc.org/current-program   See the #BHC2021online program  https://hopin.com/events/bhc-2021-annual-meeting 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 ...

  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

 2020 HAGLEY FALL CONFERENCE CAPITALISM AND THE SENSES NOVEMBER 5-6, 2020

EBHA E-Congress, September 11th, 2020 Hosted by CUNEF - Madrid (Zoom platform) Globalization Challenged [program below] We are pleased to announce the EBHA E-conference Globalization Challenged, to be held virtually on September 11th, 2020. We count with the participation, as the keynote speaker, of Martin Wolf (Financial Times). The conference also includes the panel “Globalization Challenged: the perspective of Business History” and a roundtable on teaching Business History in distance learning. To attend and receive the corresponding zoom invitation, please register for free at the following link:  https://ebha.org/public/C3 We truly believe this e-conference would be a fantastic opportunity to keep in touch, at least virtually. We are pretty much looking forward to meeting you. Best wishes, Andrea Colli, President Adoración Álvaro-Moya, Secretary Keynote Speech 9.15 - 10.15 am (CEST) Introduction and Chair: Andrea Colli, EBHA President Keynote speech: Martin Wolf, Financial Tim...

Uses of the Past – Perspectives, Forms and Concepts in Business History CBS Paper Development Workshop In the past years, uses of the past has become a prominent research theme for business historians and organization scholars alike. Studies on the usefulness and appropriation of the past have appeared across diverse fields such as business history, organization studies, marketing, learning & education, and CSR. Uses of history is fashionable. But where will the field go in the future? In the CBSPDW we seek to focus on questions that have yet to asked, and we would like to explore the theories and methods that might take the field forward. The workshop offers an opportunity to get feedback and generate ideas of how to develop concrete paper drafts that deal, one way or the other, with uses of the past. In addition, the PDW will serve as a forum where we can discuss future directions and opportunities (and potential dead-ends) going forward with a ‘uses-of-the-past’ agen...

The preliminary program for EBHA The Business History of Creativity is available at https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/ebha2019/congress-programme During this congress we will explore the impact and the implementation of this policy instrument on a local, national and supranational level. We also aim to historicize the concept and explore the historical roots of the creative industries, analysing different sectors, including art markets, film, fashion, radio, television, music, design, theatre, tourism and video games. Other topics we aim to address include how creativity can be defined and how this links to the concept of creative industries. Not only does creativity matter to its namesake industries, but also to most sectors of national and international economies. It forms the basis of innovation and firm competitiveness. Innovation, creativity, and the creative industries are closely linked concepts. The creative industries are based on creativity, skills, and talent, and the p...

The Call for Papers to attend the 7th international meeting of the Asociación Uruguaya de Historia Económica is open until May 31st . Conference dates, 4-5 of December , in Montevideo, Uruguay. We hope that this new edition of the Uruguayan Economic History Conference will constitute, just as in earlier editions, a space for meeting, discussion, reflection and collaboration that reinforces the links that unite the community of Uruguayan Economic Historians with colleagues in other countries, as well as in other Social Science disciplines. We thus extend this call with the conviction that Economic History, in dialogue and reciprocal fertilization with other disciplinary traditions, increases its potential as a suitable tool for reconstructing the past and searching for explanations of the problems of economic and social development. The Conference will include ten symposiums: The symposiums will focus on the following topics:  ·         SYMPOSIUM ...

The recent two-day conference  “Money as a Democratic Medium” challenged its participants to re-examine the history of money in America, and to redefine its future. The event was jointly sponsored by the Harvard Program on the Study of Capitalism, the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, the Harvard Law Forum, and Harvard Law School; it was organized by Christine Desan, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at HLS. Harvard Law Today has published an extensive discussion and overview of the conference; in addition, the complete playlist of speakers , including Desan, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Mehrsa Baradaran, is now available on YouTube

The American Historical Association annual meeting , taking place in Chicago, Illinois, with a theme of "Loyalties," begins this week. As usual, the BHC is sponsoring events as an AHA affiliated society.  The organization will host a lunch on Saturday, January 5, 12:00–1:30 p.m. with a discussion of  "Loyalty/Disloyalty in Business," chaired by Pamela Walker Laird, University of Colorado Denver. The panel consists of Sven Kube, Florida International University; Debra Michals, Merrimack College; Travis Ross, Yale University; Kelly Sharp, Luther College; and Gregory J. Wood, Frostburg State University.      The BHC-sponsored session this year is 206: "Communist Corporate Cultures: Enterprise between Political Principle and Profit Pursuit," chaired by Philip Scranton.      There will of course be many other sessions of interest at the meeting, including: Session 5 : "Infrastructure and Power in the Pacific, 1840–1940" Session 8 : "Di...

The Business History Conference , holding its annual meeting on March 14-16, 2019, in Cartagena, Colombia, has posted the preliminary program . The theme is "Globalization and De-Globalization: Shifts of Power and Wealth." The very full program includes nine sessions per time slot, plus special sessions for the Krooss Prize dissertation competition, several workshops, and the annual Doctoral Colloquium. There will also be a roundtable discussion on "History beyond the Academy," and several sessions devoted to Latin American business history in honor of the meeting location.      Questions about the program should be addressed to ProgramCommittee@bhc2019.org ; more information about the meeting in genera, including registration and accommodation details, can be found on the meeting website .

"Money as a Democratic Medium" is a two-day conference, to be held at Harvard Law School on December 14-15, 2018; it is co-sponsored by the Harvard Program on the Study of Capitalism, the Institute for Global Law and Policy, the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, the Harvard Law Forum, and Harvard Law School. The organizers explain: Money, governance, and public welfare are intimately connected in the modern world. More particularly, the way political communities make money and allocate credit is an essential element of governance. . . . At the same time, those decisions about money and credit define key political structures, locating in particular hands the authority to mobilize resources, determining access to funds, and delegating power and privileges to private actors and organizations. Recognizing money and credit as public projects exposes issues of democratic purpose and possibility. In a novel focus, this conference makes those issues central.  The program ...

The Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) will hold a conference in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 28-29, 2019, on "Making a Republic Imperial." According to the conference website: Before the American Revolution, the colonies and the continent beyond them were spaces of contest, collaboration, and competition among European empires, Native American powers, and enslaved and free African Americans. The founding generation of the early republic added its own imperial ambitions to this mix, revealing competing visions for the new nation, intense debate in the new citizenry about whether and how quickly the republic should expand, what role it should play among international states, and what its character and purpose should be. . . . Yet . . . [b]y the 1840s, the United States had refined its tools for dispossessing Native peoples and asserted a political economy grounded in black enslavement. It had conquered an immense amount of territory and claimed the Paci...

The annual conference of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland (ESHSI) will take place in Belfast on November 30-December 1, 2018, at Queen's University Belfast.  The preliminary program has now been posted. In addition to regular sessions, the Ken Connell Lecture will be presented by John Turner of Queen's University Belfast; his topic will be "Wildcat Bankers or Political Failure? The Irish Financial Pantomime, 1797-1826." For more details, please see the ESHSI website.

The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH), in cooperation with Schroders and Banque Lombard Odier, is holding a conference on "Institutional Investors: The History of Professional Fund Management" on October 26, 2018, at Schroders in London. As the organizers explain, Up to the beginning of the 20th century stocks were primarily owned by wealthy private individuals. Now, 100 years later, institutional investors hold almost twice the amount. . . . The ascent of institutional investors as one of the most powerful players on global financial markets today is a highly relevant yet under researched topic. This conference will ask the question of when, how and why this massive structural shift happened? And which are the consequences for our societies? The program has been posted, and registration is available on-line. The registration site also includes lodging information and other details.

The 2018 fall conference , sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library, will take place on November 8-9.  The topic, "Seeing Like a Capitalist: Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America," will examine the "non-state surveillance activities that might be found in a variety of business settings and industries, involve a range of formal or informal practices, and might be directed at customers, media audiences, borrowers, consumer markets, employees, or labor." The program has now been posted on the Hagley website.     Sarah E. Igo (Vanderbilt University) will open the conference with a keynote address on Thursday, evening, November 8, in which she will discuss her new book, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (Harvard University Press, May 2018). Conference panels will take place throughout the day on Friday, November 9.           There is no fee, b...

The Economic History Association (EHA) has just completed its annual meeting, this year held in Montreal, Canada. The organization has announced its award recipients: The Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history: Gillian Brunet, “Understanding The Effects of Fiscal Policy: Measurement, Mechanisms, and Lessons from History” (University of California Berkeley) Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Dissertation in non-US or Canadian economic history:  Erik Prawitz, “On the Move: Essays on the Economic and Political Development of Sweden” (Stockholm University) Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History:  Howard Bodenhorn (Clemson University) Arthur H. Cole Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Economic History Mohamed Saleh, “On the Road to Heaven: Taxation, Conversions, and the Coptic-Muslim Socioeconomic Gap in Medieval Egypt” (June 2018) Ranki Prize for the best book published in ...

Those unable  to attend the 2018 European Business History Association (EBHA) congress , currently taking place at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy, might wish to check out the final version of the meeting program . Nearly 75 of the papers have been uploaded and are freely available. Facebook users can see images on the EBHA Facebook site ; on Twitter it's #ebha2018 .

The 2018 World Economic History Congress (WEHC) in Boston is over, but materials of interest remain on the website. The media page for the Congress has links to the slides presented by each of the plenary speakers, as well as links to interviews with Thomas Piketty and Anne McCants. The site also lists the winners of both the dissertation and the poster competitions.     For those on Facebook or Twitter, posts of interest can be found at the WEHC2018 Facebook site , at the Twitter account @ WEHC2018 ., and with #wehc2018 . 

The 54th Congress of the Business History Society of Japan (BHSJ) will meet in Kyoto, Japan, on September 29-30, 2018. The preliminary program is now available on the meeting website . As in the recent past, there will be several sessions in English, as well as an English-language plenary session. The latter, titled "Situating Business History: Going Beyond National, Disciplinary and Methodological Boundaries," will be chaired by Takafumi Kurosawa and Junko Watanabe, with discussion by Takafumi Kurosawa, Pierre-Yves Donzé, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Matthias Kipping, and Andrea Lluch.     In addition, the BHSJ Congress will include the 32d meeting of the Fuji Conference , which will take place on September 30 and have as a theme "Toward Global Business History: A Focus on the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Industry." Fuji Conference sessions are conducted in English.     Note that "early bird" registration closes on August 15 ; thereafter, on-line r...