ACA 2023: Belonging - Considering archival bonds and disconnects A sense of belonging is a fundamental human need – as the story of Anne of Green Gables, PEI’s most famous (fictional) daughter, so vividly demonstrates. As peoples of many regions, ages, faiths, genders, abilities, sexualities, racialized

Pushing the Boundaries: Business History beyond the Discipline. In the 2020s, business history remains ‘in an inventive mood, bursting with multiple futures and paths forward’ (Kipping et al., 2016; 19). Having moved on from the 20th century preoccupation with large

Financing Reconstruction - Can Historical Insight Help? This meeting will look at historical precedents of financing reconstruction after war and catastrophe. Can historical insight help? The past offers many examples of cases: Europe after 1945, Afghanistan and Irak in the

The Centre for Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester invites proposals for contributions to an international conference on 6-7 July 2023 exploring the history of investment in controversial enterprises, particularly environmentally destructive ventures, unfree labour, and corruption. We approach

The 9th World Cliometric Conference will be held Thursday, July 20 to Sunday, July 23 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new economic history research about any geographic region and time period. Proposals to present

Work in Common/Work Toward Commons Our worlds, and our profession, have been reshaped not just by ongoing public health crises, but by racial and gender violence, climate disasters, political stratification, and economic upheavals. In many ways we cannot return to

Putting the Worker Front and Center. The post-pandemic world is witnessing a dramatic shift in workplace power dynamics. Declining globalization (e.g., US-China trade restrictions, Brexit) and a shift towards “re-shoring”, together with the retirement of the baby boom generation, ever-widening

Interdependencies: From Local Microstories to Global Perspectives on the History of Technology The concept of top-down transfer of technology has been challenged by Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray (1990). Instead, they proposed the concept of ‘technological dialogue’ to bring attention

The Relevance of Business History Business history is a thriving field of research. Business historians hold important seats at prestigious universities and business school across the globe. Business history research is probably broader in scope than ever before and has

The theme for EHA 2023 is ‘Love and Toil, Care and Work’. While Adam Smith defined economics in terms of wealth creation and Lionel Robbins in terms of limited means and unlimited ends, Alfred Marshall thought of it as ‘…a