The Exchange

The German Historical Institute London has issued a call for papers for a conference to be held there on June 22-24, 2017: "Moralising Commerce in a Globalising World – Multidisciplinary approaches to a history of economic conscience, 1600-1900." According to the call for papers, This conference aims to provide a focus for discussion of how we might historicise economic conscience, investigating the means and processes by which individuals and collective actors have learned to see their own economic choices as contributing to a global system and to reflect on the impacts of their choices on other people and places, both near and far. Accordingly, our interest is less in critical characterisations of global systems – colonialism, imperialism, capitalism for example – or the social movements that inscribed those critiques on their banners than in the structures of sentiment and knowledge that made possible new articulations between understandings of moral obligation, loca...

The History Project will hold its next conference, on "The New Economic History of India," on May 11-12, 2017, at the University of Cambridge. The conference will be particularly concerned with the economic history of India in relation to exchanges across frontiers, the history of the law, and the history of economic thought. The organizing committee welcomes proposals for papers, on any period, from advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and recent Ph.D. recipients. The deadline for submission of proposals is November 1, 2016 . For more details and the on-line submission form, please see the call for papers . Questions may be addressed to histproj@fas.harvard.edu .

The First World Congress of Business History (which is being held in combination with the annual European Business History Association [EBHA] meeting) got under way yesterday (August 25) in Bergen, Norway. The event began with a keynote speech on Thursday evening by Mira Wilkins, on "The Historical Impact of Multinational Enterprise on the Modern World Economy." For those unable to attend, the online program contains links to PDFs of many of the papers being presented. Images are available on the EBHA Facebook pages .

The Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School is sponsoring a conference on "Varieties of Big Business: Business Groups in the West," to be held at HBS on October 28, 2016. Organized by David Collis, Asli Colpan, and Geoffrey Jones, This conference will bring together scholars interested in business strategy and organization, governance, and economic development. The discussions will explore the long-term evolution and developmental role of different varieties of large enterprises in the developed economies of North America and Western Europe, focusing on understudied business groups. This conference will also examine nation-specific large-enterprise economies and the diversified business groups within them, and the resilience, stagnation or disappearance of the business group organization in international perspectives. The program has not yet been posted, but registration is open. Questions may be addressed to Holly Salter at hsalter@hbs.edu .

The 11th Sound Economic History Workshop will be hosted by the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland, on November 3-4, 2016. The keynote speakers will be Jaime Reis (ICS) and Susanna Fellman (Gothenburg). According to the call for papers : The main aim of the Sound Workshop is to gather young researchers in a friendly and non-imposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive criticism from their peers and leading economic historians. Another aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the breadth of (especially Nordic) Economic History as an academic discipline, so there is no theme to the workshop, and submissions are encouraged from any sub-­field of economic and social history. Nordic scholars and scholars based in a Nordic country will be given preference, but others warmly welcome to apply. The workshop organizers particularly encourage presentations by PhD students and post-docs. Prospective spea...

The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society has announced a conference, "Hidden Capitalism: Beyond, Below, and Outside the Visible Market," to be held at the Hagley Library and Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 27 November 10, 2017. The conference was initiated by Lisa Jacobson (UC Santa Barbara) and Ken Lipartito (Florida International University), who are joined on the program committee by Roger Horowitz (Hagley Museum and Library) and Wendy Woloson (Rutgers University). The call for papers states: In reviving the study of capitalism, scholars have emphasized the transformative power of markets and commodification. Yet, a crucial part of what drives capitalism falls outside of waged relations and formal, visible exchange. . . . we invite proposals that explore the substantial economic activity that occurs on the margins and in the concealed corners of the formal economy. These activities may be hidden or take place in “markets” that are no...

The 18th Biennial meeting of the Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM) will be held June 1-4, 2017, at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, UK. The theme of the meeting will be "Explorations in Globalization and Glocalization: Marketing History through the Ages." In the call for papers , the organizers say: We call on scholars from around the world to cast a critical look on the history of marketing and how these outputs might be taken to reflect on past epochs to enhance our understanding. Both individual papers and entire panels on all aspects of marketing history, historic marketing, and the history of marketing thought in all geographic areas and all time frames are welcome. Submissions, due by December 18, 2016 , should be directed to the program chair, Richard A. Hawkins, at charm.liverpool.2017 @gmail.com .           The CHARM meeting also includes a Doctoral Workshop. Doctoral students with ...