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We are saddened to report the death of Michael Nash, director of the Tamiment Library at New York University and long-time chief curator of collections at the Hagley Museum and Library (1982-2002). Michael died unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 24, 2012. As his colleague at Hagley and BHC Secretary-Treasurer Roger Horowitz remembers, He touched many people in the business history world through his interest in history, and even more benefited (and continue to benefit) from his talents because of his extraordinary acquisitions of material for the Hagley archives. The major collections we obtained on Mike's watch included Avon, Seagram, Sperry-Univac, PSFS (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society), Remington Rand, RCA-Camden, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and MCI. He also recruited many smaller collections, and expanded our relationships with companies whose records continued to come here while Mike was in charge, such as DuPont a...

The Economic and Business History Society (EBHS) has issued a call for papers for its 38th annual meeting, which will take place in Baltimore, Md., on May 23-25, 2013. Proposals for presentations or complete panels on any aspect of economic or business history are welcome.     Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 500 words, a brief curriculum vita, postal and email addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. Submissions from graduate students and non-academic affiliates are welcome.    Proposals may be submitted through the EBHS website , by email to ebhs2013@ebhsoc.org , or to the program chair by postal mail: Dr. Duncan Philip Connors, Lecturer in Oil and Gas Management, Geography, Environment and Disaster Management, George Eliot Building, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, England CV1 5FB The deadline for submission of proposals is February 15, 2013 . Please see the EBHS website for more details.

The program for the upcoming meeting of the European Business History Association , which will be held in conjunction with the Business History Society of Japan at the EHESS in Paris from August 30 to September 1, 2012, has now been posted. The theme of the conference is "Business Enterprises and the Tensions between Global and Local." With over 300 papers, the program is displayed by sessions, which can be expanded to see the individual paper titles and presenters. There is also an alphabetical list of participants , with their sessions noted.   The conference website also has a great deal of additional information: about registration, accommodations, travel, and so forth.

The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) and the School of Economics and Business at the University of Sarajevo announce a workshop on "Business in between Cultures: The Development of Islamic Finance." The meeting will take place on November 15-16, 2012, in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina.    According to the call for papers, The rise of Islamic finance in modern financial markets offers an alternative vision for economic affairs, premised on the ethics and value system of classical Islamic law. Despite the seeming incongruity between modern financial markets and classical religious law, Islamic finance is largely seen as a viable and successful financial industry. Evidence of this success can be seen in the industry’s representation in over 105 jurisdictions across the globe, ranging from the Arab Gulf states to Malaysia and even into countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, and Bosnia, among many others. . . . This conference aim...

The Economic & Business History Society has recently retooled its website and journal, and has launched a presence on Facebook, Economic and Business History News . The "News" site is "an open access Facebook forum to publish news and calls for papers related to economic and business history." Readers must be Facebook members to access "News" content.    The EBHS journal, Essays in Economic & Business History , has a new editor, an expanded editorial board, and an open access policy for readers. Journal content is searchable or can be browsed by issue, author, or article title.    Those interested can learn more about EBHS activities on the Society's website. Hat tip to The Past Speaks (Andrew Smith)

The Business History Conference announces its search for editor of Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History . Published by Oxford University Press, Enterprise & Society is one of the world's leading journals in business history. Interdisciplinary in approach and international in scope, it offers a forum for research on the historical relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural, institutional, social, and economic contexts.    The new editor will succeed the current editor, Philip Scranton of Rutgers University, whose final issue will be December 2014. The new editor's term starts in January 2015, runs for four years, and is renewable. Given the prevalence of electronic publication and electronic data-transmission tools (including the ScholarOne™ journal publication management system), applications from individuals outside of the United States are encouraged.    Prospective applicants are encouraged ...

The Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science has digitized a number of its holdings to create on-line exhibitions . Highlights include materials on Beatrice and Sidney Webb ( "Webbs on the Web" ), which feature Beatrice Webb's diary, papers of the Fabian Society, and a number of photographs; text and photographs from Street Life in London (John Thomson and Adolphe Smith, 1877), detailing the lives of the London poor; and Political and Tariff Reform Posters , a collection of 88 posters from 1892 to 1910.    The LSE site is also the home of the Charles Booth Online Archive , containing the original records from Booth's survey into life and labor in London, 1886-1903.    The LSE Archives publishes a blog, "Out of the Box," devoted to news of its holdings and updates on digitization projects