Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Conferences
The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society holds conferences twice a year, in the spring and fall. The conferences (usually one or two days) assemble a group of scholars, students, and members of the public who deliver papers, meet in discussion sessions, and address issues of current scholarly concern. Every other year the Center supports a conference organized by the Hagley Fellows at the University of Delaware.
Upcoming:
"Automobility: A Conference on the 100th anniversary of the Model T", November 6-7, 2008
"Fashions: Business Perspectives in Historical Perspective," Business History Conference, June 11-13 2009
Research Seminars
The Center's Research Seminar on the second Thursday night of the month during the academic year. The audience is drawn widely from Hagley's membership, scholars and researchers, students in the Mid-Atlantic area, and the general public. Papers are circulated in advance. An informal reception at 6 p.m. precedes the commentary and discussion at 6:30 p.m. The seminar is held in the Copeland Room, Hagley Library. To be placed on the mailing list to receive the papers (or paper), contact Carol Ressler Lockman, clockman@hagley.org.
Upcoming, 2008-09
September 18
Janice Traflet (Bucknell University), “Courting Women Stockholders: Brokers' Marketing Practices in the 1950s and 1960s and the Democratization of the Stock Market." Commentator: Melissa Fisher, Georgetown University.
October 23
Mansel Blackford (Ohio State University), "Fishing and Over Fishing, 1976-2006: American Experiences in Global Perspective"
February 12
Shane Hamilton (University of Georgia), "Supermarkets, Monopsony Power, and the American Century"
March 12
Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf (West Virginia University), "Shirtsleeve Religion: Business and the Post-War Industrial Chaplain Movement"
April 16
Ross Thompson (University of Vermont), "The Continuity of Wartime Innovation: The Civil War Experience"