Past Conferences

Listing of Hagley Conferences -- 1997 to the present

Making Modern Disabilities: Histories of Disability, Design, and Technology, October 2016

Doing Business Across Borders, November 2015

Green Capitalism? At the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History. October 2014

Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, November 8, 2013

Historicizing Intellectual Property: A symposium, May 16, 2013. 
AUDIO RECORDINGS

Talking Business: Oral History and the History of Enterprises, November 2, 2012. 
POSTER & SCHEDULE

The Life of New Materials. November 17-18, 2011

Crisis and Consequence. Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library November 5, 2010

Understanding Markets: Information, Institutions and History. Sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library and German Historical Institute. October 30 and 31, 2009

Fashions: Business Perspectives in Historical Perspective. Business History Conference. June 11-13 2009

Unintended Consequences. A conference sponsored by the Hagley Fellows of the University of Delaware. April 4, 2009

Automobility: A Conference on the 100th anniversary of the Model T. November 6-7, 2008

Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects. Friday, May 16, 2008

Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction. November 29-30, 2007

Technological Innovation and the Cold War. March 9, 2007

Food Chains: Provisioning, Technology, and Science. November 2 to 4, 2006

How Business Users Shaped Modern Technologies...and Vice Versa. March 10, 2006

Producing Fashion. October 28-29, 2005

Utopian Visions and World's Fairs. April 15, 2005

Tourism Conference: Consuming Experiences. November 12-13, 2004

The Pennsylvania Railroad and its Archives: Their History and Legacy. December 5, 2003

The Ambiguities of Work: Knowledge, Power, and Culture. November 7, 2003

Reinventing the Factory. Hagley Fellows Conference, March 28, 2003

The Technological Fix. October 4-5, 2002

Commodifying Everything: Consumption and the Capitalist Enterprise. October 12-13, 2001

Consumption and the Environment. Hagley Fellows Conference. March 9, 2001

Kitchens: Design, Technologies, and Work. November 10, 2000

Food and Drink in Consumer Societies. November 12-13, 1999

Beauty & Business. March 26-27, 1999

Private Time, Private Space, Private Parts: Negotiating the Boundaries of Private and Public in History. Hagley Fellows Conference, February 26, 1999

Technology and Artistic Practice. October 30, 1998

Women and Historic Preservation. May 28 & 29, 1998

Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Work. October 3, 1997

The Future of Business History. April 4 & 5, 1997

Modernism and Technology, 1900-1945. Hagley Fellows Conference, March 7, 1997

Click to view and search a selection of programs and posters from past conferences in the Hagley Digital Archives