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  La Asociación Peruana de Historia Económica (APHE) convoca al V Congreso Peruano de Historia Económica 2021 . Debido a la emergencia sanitaria internacional generada por el COVID-19, el congreso se desarrollará en su totalidad de forma virtual.  Esta edición del Congreso está dedicada a los aspectos económicos de la Independencia del Perú. Sin embargo, se contempla también la organización de mesas y ponencias de otras temáticas en historia económica en regiones de América Latina y el Caribe.  Invitamos a los investigadores a presentar propuestas de ponencias. La fecha límite para la recepción será el 9 de julio del 2021. La propuesta de ponencia debe estar compuesta por:  1.Nombre y filiación académica  2.Título y Sumilla de la ponencia  3.Título del Simposio al que envía su ponencia (ver Anexo 1 de la convocatoria) Adjuntamos convocatoria. https://drive.google.com/file/ d/1uv_ uTNYTytbwbEQhHJL1NXXTxgaooX5i/ view?usp=drivesdk Las pr...

eabh virtual seminar Easy Monetary Policy. Cure or Curse? Can looking back at historical precedents help to better understand where we are headed?  22 June 2021 12.00 - 13.00 CET eabh in cooperation with Allianz Global Investors   Harold James (Princeton) and Eric Barthalon (Allianz SE) will take a long-term perspective on easy monetary policies and their implications. Post Great Financial Crisis, major central banks have cut rates to, or below zero and have provided unprecedented amounts of liquidity to the system ever since. After first steps to normalise monetary policy, we have seen a renewed round of monetary easing in 2019. Further, Covid restrictions and lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 brought back discussions about helicopter money and direct credit to the banking sector. Can looking back at historical precedents help to better understand where we are headed? For more information, click here ; to register, click here .

  Próximo miércoles 9 de junio les esperamos en el panel 'Empresas en el siglo XIX: dos casos de iberoamérica'. Pastor Deuer (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés) presentará ' Resabios coloniales en la minería argentífera latinoamericana. Caso: Bolivia entre 1825 y 1870 ' y Francisco Parejo (Universidad de Extremadura) hablará sobre ' Crecimiento, liderazgo y desaparición: La empresa familiar Reynolds en el negocio mundial corchero, 1820-1891 '. Modera: Adoración Álvaro @CUNEF. Más información e inscripciones: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-empresas-en-el-siglo-xix-dos-casos-de-iberoamerica-tickets-138694092765 Coordinadores: Julio Cesar Zuluaga, Norma Silvana Lanciotti y Gabriela Recio

  The next seminar of the Institute of Historical Research's Partnership seminar series "Risk and Uncertainty in the Premodern World" will run online on Thursday 17 June, 17:00-19:00 London time . We are delighted to be hosting Daniel Bogart, Marco Del Angel and Lewis Wade for a seminar on “Risk and Uncertainty in Capital Markets”. Daniel Bogart is Professor of Economics at UC Irvine and Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic History. Marco Del Angel is Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University at Los Angeles. Lewis Wade is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. Daniel Bogart (UC Irvine) and Marco Del Angel (California State University Los Angeles): Policy Uncertainty and Capital Markets: Evidence from the English East India Company Lewis Wade (Exeter): Lloyd’s of Paris? Colbertianism, the Royal Insurance Chamber and the Parisian Capital Market, 1668-86 All are welcome, but registration will be necessary in advance through the Institute of Historic...

  Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America A Transnational History of Profits and Repression by Basualdo, Victoria, Berghoff, Hartmut, Bucheli, Marcelo (Eds.) Book presentation event on Thursday May 27 at the 3º Encontro Internacional – REDE DE PROCESSOS REPRESSIVOS, EMPRESAS, TRABALHADORAS/ES E SINDICATOS NA AMÉRICA LATINA

History of Capitalism Seminar  2021-2022 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Submission Deadline: Friday, June 4, 2021 This seminar is a forum for works-in-progress in the history of capitalism, broadly defined. We seek proposals from junior, mid-career, and senior scholars as well as graduate students from a wide variety of sub-fields, including the history of race & racism, gender and feminist studies, intellectual history, political history, legal history, business history, the history of finance, labor history, cultural history, urban history, and agricultural history to name just a few. This seminar has and continues to welcome scholars working on a range of time periods and geographic areas, including global histories of commodities, like oil.   This seminar will be virtual and open to graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty. To maximize time for discussion papers are circulated electronically in advance. Priority is given to individuals at a stage in their research...

The Yale Law School and CGCG are presenting a virtual workshop on ‘The History of the Corporation’ on 10 June 2021, beginning at 9:00 EDT.   The program follows.  All are welcome to register for the event by visiting the following website:  https://bit.ly/2PeXhGL    Introduction Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University) Henry Hansmann (Yale Law School and ECGI) Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy:  Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia   Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College), Steven Nafziger (Williams College) Legal Origins of Corporate Governance:  Choice of Company Law in Egypt, 1887-1913 Cihan Artunç (Middlebury College) Legal Transplants and Local Custom in China: The Struggle over Apportioned Liability for External Debt of Partnerships Madeleine Zelin (Columbia University) Corporate Ownership and Control in the Gilded Age Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain Revisited Michael...

Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in Tucson, Arizona, October 29-31, 2021 Approaching Deadline: May 15th! The dissertation session, convened by Martha Olney (University of California, Berkeley) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College) will honor six dissertations completed during the 2020-2021 academic year. The submission deadline is May 15, 2021. The Allan Nevins and Alexander Gerschenkron prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on North American and non-North American topics respectively. Dissertations must be submitted as a single PDF file. Files of less than 5 MB in size may be sent directly to the conveners as an email attachment. To submit a file over 5 MB, please supply a download link in an email message. The Nevins prize submissions should be sent to: olney@econ.berkeley.edu and the Gerschenkron prize submissions to: snafzige@williams.edu . All submissions will be acknowledged by return email. The association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, regist...

    Tuesday 11 th   May -   Twentieth-century Chinese business history (double feature)   -   Register   here Presenters:   Mengxing Yu   (Kyoto University)   and   Ghassan Moazzin   (University of Hong Kong) Chair:   Adam Nix   (De Montfort University) Tuesday 18 th   May -   Department stores and modernization of retail in socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1960s   -   Register   here Presenter:   Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek   (Central European University) Chair:   Nicholas Wong   (Northumbria University) Tuesday 25 th   May -   Appreciating the history of business education   -   Register   here Presenter:   JC Spender ( Kozminski University) Chair:   Nicholas Wong   (Northumbria University)

  AVON: AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ITS ARCHIVE In the 20 years since Avon Products, Inc., deposited its records at Hagley Library they have become one of our most popular research collections. A virtual event on May 7 will bring attention to their contribution to history. Avon Products, Inc., is one of the oldest direct selling companies in America. It traces its origins to 1886, when David H. McConnell bought the Union Publishing Company and started manufacturing perfumes to give away with his books. McConnell discovered that his customers were more interested in the fragrances than the books, so he decided to concentrate on selling perfumes. The business was renamed the California Perfume Company (CPC) in an effort to associate its products with the perceived beauty of the Golden State. From the beginning, CPC sold directly to the consumer through a national network of sales representatives, primarily women, who were looking for economic opportunity and flexible part-time employme...

Virtual AHA Seminar: Business History Today April 13th, 2021 2 pm  Colloquium--An assessment of the doing of business history at the beginning of the 21st century, sketching new trends and themes. Chair:  Philip B. Scranton , Rutgers University-Camden Presenters: Business History, Theory, and Globalization by Kenneth J. Lipartito , Florida International University Rethinking Chinese Economic Life and Business History by Philip Thai , Northeastern University Economic Life and the Margins of Business History by Alexia Yates , University of Manchester Histories of Business in Africa: Lessons from Ghana by Bianca Murillo , California State University, Dominguez Hills

AVON: AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ITS ARCHIVE In the 20 years since Avon Products, Inc., deposited its records at Hagley Library they have become one of our most popular research collections. A virtual event on May 7 will bring attention to their contribution to history. Avon Products, Inc., is one of the oldest direct selling companies in America. It traces its origins to 1886, when David H. McConnell bought the Union Publishing Company and started manufacturing perfumes to give away with his books. McConnell discovered that his customers were more interested in the fragrances than the books, so he decided to concentrate on selling perfumes. The business was renamed the California Perfume Company (CPC) in an effort to associate its products with the perceived beauty of the Golden State. From the beginning, CPC sold directly to the consumer through a national network of sales representatives, primarily women, who were looking for economic opportunity and flexible part-time employment. In...

Your Archive is an Asset!  Using your heritage as a corporate strategic asset  24 March 2021 12.00 - 13.00 CET eabh zoom meeting eabh in conversation (on zoom) with Anders Sjöman (Centre for Business History in Stockholm) Discover how to convince your institution that it should keep its historic materials in a professional archive – and also set aside budgets for it. Register now to ensure your slot: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/138420097237/    More details available at: http://bankinghistory.org/events/your-archive-is-an-asset/   

  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 ...

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...

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 ...

Coping with Disasters. 200 years of international official lending 4 February 2021 12.00 - 12.45 CET On zoom eabh in conversation with Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) 200 years of international official lending: characteristics, occurrence and determinants. Is there insight to be found for current day policy makers? Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coping-with-disasters-registration-136941352271 More information http://bankinghistory.org/events/

Financial History Network: Spring/Summer 2021 Webinar Series Program The Financial History Network is pleased to announce the Spring/Summer 2021 webinar series program. We have an outstanding line up of presenters and papers and look forward to our future discussions. The Financial History Network’s webinar sessions take place via Zoom on Mondays at 11 am EST. Sessions are recorded for publication on the network’s YouTube channel. If you want to receive the papers being discussed, reminders of our sessions, and follow-up discussions of the issues raised during the webinar sessions, please fill in the form here. If you want to attend the webinar series, please register using our Eventbrite page or the links to each session in the webinars program. Once you have registered, you will receive a Zoom link in an Eventbrite e-mail. For abstracts and registrations visit:  https://financialhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/   February 1, 2021 Keynote Talk: “Was Modern Economic Growth Financ...

History PhDs in the World of Entrepreneurship Jan 21, 2021 11:00 AM EST Chair: Edward J. Balleisen, Duke University Panel: Elizabeth Brake, Venture for America; Heather Lee Miller, Historical Research Associates, Inc.; Jacqueline Olich, RTI International; Michael Thomas Tworek, Harvard University This roundtable features several history PhDs who have gone on to entrepreneurial careers. As the participants will describe, historical expertise can facilitate the sort of analysis that is indispensable for entrepreneurial action, allowing them to identify unmet needs and fashion a strategy to meet them. Register here