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CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Essays in Economic & Business History (EEBH) THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY OF BLACK AMERICANS Special Issue Guest Editors : Gary Hoover+ (Tulane University) and Matthew Mitchell‡ (University of the South) EEBH Editors : Mark Billings (University of Exeter) and Dan Giedeman (Grand Valley State University) EEBH, the journal of the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS), will be publishing a special issue on the economic and business history of Black Americans. This subject remains significantly understudied despite its importance in United States history. The primary goal of the special issue is therefore to encourage and bring greater awareness to research concerning Black American economic and business history. It is hoped that the special issue will stimulate continued research in these areas. We invite paper proposals on all aspects related to this subject. The following potential themes are suggested to indicate the breadth of possible ...

Call for Papers-Special Issue, Business History "Business and Finance in Latin America: From the Oil Shock to the Debt Crisis" Since the 2008-9 financial crisis, Latin America has experienced a period of sluggish economic activity and increasing levels of external debt. In a world of low interest rates, the liquidity injected into the US and European banking systems flew over into Latin American economies as global demand dropped and commodities prices crashed downwards. The boom of private and public indebtedness over the past decade has increased the economic and financial vulnerabilities of a region that has historically been dependent on international trade and exposed to external shocks such as the current pandemic. In a context where governments have stepped in to offset the impact of the coronavirus crisis, debt levels are now approaching the peak seen during the international debt crisis of the 1980s, raising fears amongst policymakers and business leaders of new defa...

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...

El Colectivo de Historia Empresarial surgió en mayo de 2020 como una iniciativa de historiadores económicos, empresariales y financieros de Europa y las Américas. El Colectivo provee un espacio para presentar trabajos en historia económica, empresarial y financiera, a través de una serie de webinars iniciada en junio 2020. Los webinars están abiertos a todos los miembros de estos campos de investigación dispuestos a proveer comentarios constructivos. El Colectivo busca apoyar a jóvenes investigadores. Creemos en la necesidad de promover diversidad e inclusión en nuestra comunidad, e invitamos a mujeres, miembros de grupos minoritarios, y gente en disciplinas fuera de la economía y la historia a participar en la serie de webinars. En agosto de 2020, el Colectivo lanzó una iniciativa para apoyar a la comunidad de historiadores económicos, empresariales y financieros en América Latina y la Península Ibérica, con webinars en español, portugués e inglés. Convocatoria de sesiones para febrer...

Call for Submissions: Business History Collective and the webinar series The network aims to promote scholarship in the fields of business history, management history, organizational history, corporate history, and other related fields. The network will launch the Spring 2021 webinar series to provide a space for the presentation and discussion of works in progress, dissertation chapters, or R&R manuscripts. The webinars are open to scholars primarily from a qualitative perspective, willing to engage in productive conversations by providing supportive and constructive comments to peers. We are currently looking for presenters and attendees to get things moving forward. We especially welcome submissions from graduate students and early-career researchers. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of minority groups, scholars based in or working on under-represented geographies (such as Latin America, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia), and schola...

Call for Submissions:  eabh working papers series eabh papers offer a chance for new scholars in banking, financial, business and economic history and related fields to develop their work on track to peer-reviewed publishing. Submission is easy and straightforward! The editors Andrea Papadia (Bonn University) and Chenzi Xu (Stanford University) welcome a wide variety of contributions and provide guidance during the application process. Proposals can be submitted to: g.massaglia@bankinghistory.org

Emotions and the History of Business Mandy Cooper (UNC-Greensboro) and Andrew Popp (Copenhagen Business School) We are developing a proposal for an edited volume on emotions and the history of business and seek further contributions . In the first instance, the proposal will be submitted to a series on the history of emotions edited by Peter Stearns and Susan Matt and published Bloomsbury. Why emotions and the history of business? A small but growing body of work has already begun to demonstrate the potential in bringing the histories of emotions and of business into greater dialogue.1 We aim to more fully and systematically explore that potential through this proposed volume. What does bringing emotions in add to the history of business? Does business not inhabit a world of rationality? We firmly believe that from individual entrepreneurs to family firms to massive corporations, businesses have in many ways relied on, leveraged, generated, and been shaped by emotions for ...

Call for Submissions for Special Issue Gender in Economic History Scandinavian Economic History Review Deadline is October 15 2020 Gender has long been an important category of historical analysis, nurtured by different and sometimes competing paradigms of research. In the 1970s, the study of gender was closely linked to the expansion of women’s history. Inspired by feminist and Marxist theories, this approach greatly contributed to the development of new insights on economic life, work, and remuneration in relation to women’s own experiences. Post-structural theories became more important after Joan W. Scott’s seminal article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Research” (1986). This approach considered gender as the way in which humans make knowledge about the world they inhabit, rather than something they are. However, the gender perspective was increasingly considered synonymous with the linguistic turn, discourse analysis, and the rise of the not-so-new-anymore ‘new...

Call for articles for Special Issue Epidemics in History Following the recent sanitary events and the particular interest aroused in academia, mass media, and the general public, Investigaciones de Historia Económica/Economic History Research  invites submissions for a special issue on the topic "Epidemics in History." The editors believe in the relevance of the study on the effects of pandemics in the past in order to show how societies dealt with similar situations and the lessons that we can obtain in the present and the future. The special issue aims to include papers with a wide chronological and geographical coverage and a multidisciplinary approach with a special emphasis on the economic effects of pandemics in the past. Potential contributors can contact in advance with the invited editors of the special issue, Joana Maria Pujadas Mora ( jpujades@ced.uab.es ) and Carlos Santiago-Caballero ( carlos.santiago@uc3m.es ). Papers in English and Spanish are accepted....