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Method and Madness (final program)

  • 1.  Method and Madness (final program)

    Posted 09-27-2022 17:50
    Hi MH Colleagues,

    Please find below the final program for this Friday's virtual conference, "Method and Madness: Historical Interpretation in the new Age of Extremes". Join us if you can.

    Dan

    METHOD AND MADNESS:
    Historical Interpretation in a New Age of Extremes

    A BHC Virtual Conference
    September 30, 2022

    All Times as Eastern Time

    The ideological, social, and natural crises the world now faces have shattered the historical assumptions that prevailed during the era that followed the Cold War, suggesting we have entered a new "age of extremes." The questions we ask about the world we now inhabit demand new ways of seeing and interpreting its past and future. The theme of the BHC's Midyear Online Conference is designed to address the interpretive challenges and opportunities of "madness" in two senses. First, how do we grapple with the origins of a world that, looking forward just 10 or 20 years ago, might have seemed implausible, tragic, crazy? Second, and more hopefully, how do we unlock the creativity that historical interpretation allows to see the world anew? In short, how do we reinvent our use of sources, our interpretive methods, and our forms of historical representation to understand entrepreneurship, firms, and capitalism in the 21st century? For more information and to get the zoom link, please register here.

     

    9:00

    Welcome (Dan Wadhwani)

    9:15

    Session 1

    Reinventing Interpretation

    Workshop 1.1

    Interpreting Visual Sources

    Rick Halpern (University of Toronto) and Carol Quirke (State University of New York)

    Chair: Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal (Universidad del Pacífico) 

    Workshop 1.2

    Interpreting the Senses

    Ai Hisano (University of Tokyo) and Sven Kube (Florida International University)

    Chair: Sven Kube (Florida International University) 

    Workshop 1.3

    Material Culture

    Jen Black (Misericordia University) and Marina Moskowitz (University of Wisconsin)

    Chair: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández 

    Workshop 1.4 

    Topic Modeling

    Marta Villamor (University of Maryland) and Fabian Prieto-Nañez (Virginia Tech)

    Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong)

    Workshop 1.5

    Databases, Network Analysis and QCA

    Erica Salvaj (Universidad del Desarrollo), Alberto Rinaldi (Unimore) and Susie Pak (St. John's University)

    Chair: Valeria Giacomin (Bocconi University)

    Workshop 1.6

    Built and Natural Environment

    Jeremy Zallen (Lafayette College) and Burt Elmore (Ohio State University)

    Chair: Christoph Viebig (Copenhagen Business School)

    10:15

    Break

    Attendees are welcomed to stay connected during the 15 minutes break

    10:30

    Session 2

    Reinventing Sources

    Workshop 2.1

    Account Books

    Rachel Van (Cal Poly, Pomona), Caitlin Rosenthal (University of California, Berkeley), William Deringer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

    Chair: Ellen Nye (Harvard University)

    Workshop 2.2

    Email Archives

    Stephanie Decker (Birmingham Business School), David Kirsch (University of Maryland), and Adam Nix (University of Birmingham)

    Chair: Christoph Viebig (Copenhagen Business School)

    Workshop 2.3

    Online Archives

    Philip Scranton (Rutgers University), Edward Balleisen (Duke University), Andrea Lluch (CONICET) and Geoffrey Jones (Harvard Business School)

    Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong)

    Workshop 2.4

    Advertisements 

    Susmita Das (University of Illinois) and Cynthia Meyers (College of Mount Saint Vincent)

    Chair: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández 

    Workshop 2.5

    Forms and Reports 

    Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow) and Gabriela Recio

    Chair: Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal (Universidad del Pacífico) 

    Workshop 2.6

    Legal sources

    Ashton Merck (North Carolina State University), Anna Hrom (William & Connolly), Justene Hill Edwards (University of Virginia), and Nate Holdren (Drake University)

    Chair: Ashton Merck (North Carolina State University)

    11:30

    Break

    Attendees are welcomed to stay connected during the 15 minutes break

    11:45

    Session 3

    Reinventing Form

    Workshop 3.1

    Visualizing the Past

    David Staley (Ohio State University)

    Chair: Ellen Nye (Harvard University)

    Workshop 3.2

    History-as-Dialogue

    Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Northumbria University) and Gregory Hargreaves (Hagley Museum & Library)

    Chair: Beatriz Rodriguez-Satizabal (Universidad del Pacífico)

    Workshop 3.3 

    Business History and Business/Policy in Practice 

    John Wilson (Newcastle University Business School) and Anna Tilba (Durham University)

    Chair: TBA

    Workshop 3.4 

    Microhistory 

    Andrew Popp (Copenhagen Business School) and Susan Lewis (State University of New York at New Paltz)

    Chair: Sven Kube (Florida International University)

    Workshop 3.5

    Curation

    Marina Moskowitz (University of Wisconsin)

    Chair: Paula de la Cruz-Fernández

    Workshop 3.6

    Tiktok History 

    Zhaojin Zeng (Duke Kunshan University)

    Chair: Valeria Giacomin (Bocconi University)

    12:45

    Break

    Attendees are welcomed to stay connected during the 15 minutes break

    13:00

    Wrap Up: Where Might We Go From Here?

     

     



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    Daniel Wadhwani
    Professor
    University of Southern California
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