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• Professor Colin Mayer on the ‘History and the Future of the Corporation’: Global History of Capitalism launch event, 14 March 2018
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• 11 lessons the history of business can teach us about its future
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• SEMINAR: Professor Jonathan Coopersmith (Texas A&M University), 'Creative Construction: The Importance of Froth and Fraud in Emerging Technologies'
• SEMINAR: Jeppe Nevers (Syddansk Universitet), “Transformations of Capitalism: A Useful Concept for Contemporary European History?”
• Rebecca Orr
• Launch of the British Academy’s ‘Reforming Business for the 21st Century: A Framework for the Future of the Corporation’
• SEMINAR: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), ‘Making revolutionary money; making money revolutionary: 1775-1776’
• PRESENTATION: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), 'Money to burn; money to spend: a tale of two monies at the beginning of the American Revolution'
• Workshop: Appraising the 'other' in business
• SEMINAR: Prof Louis Hyman (Cornell), 'The History of Capitalism and the Rise of Temporary Work'
• SEMINAR: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), ‘Cash rules: money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions’
• Lunch Seminar with Professor Louis Hyman (Cornell) – ‘Temp: How American Work, American Business and the American Dream Became Temporary’
• The Ethics of Enron
• Colloquium on the Latin American Debt Crisis of 1982
• PRESENTATION: James Hollis & Christopher McKenna (Oxford), 'The Emergence of the Offshore Economy, 1914–1939’
• PRESENTATION: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), 'Concepts and Currency: The Violent Birth of the Bank of North America and American Commodity Money'
• SYMPOSIUM: Radical Business? Business and the Contest over Social Norms
• SEMINAR: Julian Lamberty & Jeppe Nevers (University of Southern Denmark), ‘The Danish Robotics Cluster: The Role of the Public Sector in the Development of a Competitive Industrial Cluster’
• Professor Philip Mirowski, 2019 Astor Lecture in Science and Capitalism
• Panel discussion: ‘The Trouble with Open Science’ (Astor Visiting Lectureship 2019)
• Roundtable workshop: ‘The Market and Science in Long-term Perspective’ (Astor Visiting Lectureship 2019)
• Dr Oenone Kubie in the Washington Post: ‘The myths behind the push to resurrect child labor’
• DPhil student Lisa Briggs awarded 2019 National Geographic Exploration Grant
• 2019 Visiting Astor Lectureship on Science and Capitalism
• SEMINAR: Amar Bhidé (Tufts University), ‘Practical Knowledge: Harnessing the Power of Massively-Multiplayer Innovation’
• SEMINAR: Edward Balleisen (Duke), 'Bridging the Divide of Academia and Public Policy in the History of Capitalism' 27 May 2019 (Brasenose College, Oxford)
• PRESENTATION: Andrew Edwards (Oxford), ‘Who Won the American Revolution? Freedom and Global Capitalism in the Early Republic’
• CONFERENCE: Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism
• Christopher McKenna in BBC Radio 4 interview on the impact of management consultancy
• Nils Valdersdorf Jensen
• Elena Maria Egawhary
• Josef Nothmann
• SEMINAR: ‘Structure and Culture’, introduced by Chihab El Khachab (Oxford)
• SEMINAR: ‘Boundaries and Interfaces’, introduced by Peter Hill, Andrew Edwards and Juan Neves
• SEMINAR: ‘Africa and Global History’, speaker tbc
• POSTPONED - SEMINAR: ‘Law, Labor, and Social Relations in the British Atlantic World’, introduced by Sonia Tycko (Oxford)
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• GHoC project hosts ‘Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism’ conference
• CONFERENCE: 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Global Perspectives
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• SEMINAR: Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence College) on 'The History of Dependency Theory'
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• The Birth of the Modern Chinese Banking Industry: Ri Sheng Chang
• Organ Transplants at Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and the Third Industrial Revolution
• From India to Europe: The Production of the Kashmir Shawl and the Spread of the Paisley Motif
• Shipping Migrants in the Age of Steam: The Rise and Rise of the Messageries Maritimes c. 1870-1914
• Berry Brothers & Rudd: Family, Reputation, and the Cultivation of the European Wine Trade
• The Chicago Merchandise Mart: How the World’s Largest Commercial Building Fueled an American Political Dynasty
• The Boom and the Busts: Mendocino County's Agricultural Revolution
• Union Cold Storage and the Birth of Multinational Tax Planning, 1897-1922
• The Hudson's Bay Company: Royal Charters, Rivalries and Luxury Hats in the North American Fur Trade
• The Father of Japanese Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi’s Vision of the Ethical Corporation
• Nestlé’s Corporate Reputation and the Long History of Infant Formula
• The “A1” Reputation of the Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
• Gossip, Corporate Reputation, and the 1905 Life Insurance Scandal in New York
• Dr David A. Kirsch
• GHoC at the BHC Annual Meeting March 2020
• CANCELLED - Business History Conference 2020
• POSTPONED - SEMINAR: David A Kirsch (University of Maryland, College Park) 'Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation'
• Digitizing the Baring Archive
• Professor Mary Elisabeth Cox
• Professor Rob Iliffe
• SEMINAR: Damian Clavel, 'A Miskitu King in the London Stock Exchange: Global Finance from the Amerindian Margins, 1816-1824.'
• Volkswagen Since World War Two: Rebuilding the Corporate Reputation of the World’s Largest Car Manufacturer
• Morris Motors: How Oxford became a Motor City
• POSTPONED - Early American Money Symposium
• Robert McCauley talks to Financial Times
• Robert N McCauley
• Scholarship scheme continues for students investigating the history of business
• Mansa Musa I of Mali: Gold, Salt, and Storytelling in Medieval West Africa
• The Globalization of Mexican Tortillas: GRUMA and the Mass Production of Corn Flour
• Meet the team: an interview with Research Support Assistant Rebecca Orr
• Professor Catherine Schenk awarded ERC grant for new research project
• Meet the team: an interview with Career Development Fellow Dr Andrew Edwards
• 'The Emergence of the Offshore Economy 1914-1939', book chapter by Christopher McKenna and James Hollis
• Professor Youssef Cassis
• Penicillin and the Antibiotic Revolution
• Global History of Capitalism Doctoral Studentships 2020-21
• Money, Cattle Hides and William A Leidesdorff: California before the Gold Rush
• Business History
• Dr Andrew Edwards on disruptive forces in the history of capitalism
• Introducing GHoC doctoral research student Mimi Goodall
• New doctoral studentship: Women and Work in the City of London, 1870-1970, in partnership with the Baring Archive
• Political Economy and Culture in Global History/Capitalism in Global History blog post series and virtual online workshops
• WORKSHOP: Jeremy Adelman (Princeton): Capitalism in Global History, editors' introduction
• WORKSHOP: Maxine Berg (Warwick): Capitalism in Global History, articles from the virtual issue and elsewhere
• WORKSHOP: Joanna Innes (Oxford): Political Economy and Culture in Global History, series of blog posts
• Introducing GHoC doctoral research student Ben Schneider
• Introducing GHoC doctoral research student Sage Goodwin
• Virtual issue of 'Past & Present' on 'Capitalism and Global History' out now
• Sean Phillips
• Riccardo Liberatore
• READING GROUP: Katherine Paugh (Oxford), 'Social reproduction and labour'
• READING GROUP: William Clarence-Smith (SOAS), 'Manufacturing in the ‘Third World’, 1840s-1940s '
• READING GROUP: Jeremy Adelman, 'Ecology and the commons'
• Political Economy and Culture in Global History reading group meetings
• Ching Shih and the Pirates of the South China Coast: Shifting Alliances, Strategy, and Reputational Racketeering at the Start of the 19th Century
• Ching Shih and the Pirates of the South China Coast case study
• Burn Brightly and Fade Fast: The Story of Sun Records
• Discounting Gold: Money and Banking in Gold Rush California
• Case study on the story of Sun Records
• Discounting gold: Money and banking in Gold Rush California
• Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac
• Victoria Gierok
• Aftab Mallick
• Yung Au
• Welcome to our Global History of Capitalism research students 2021-22
• Dr Hunter Harris
• Dr Jonathan Tiemann
• The Alaskan fur rush and the Russian-American Company
• Capitalisms of the Indian Ocean
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Fahad Ahmad Bishara
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Michael O’Sullivan
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Hollian Wint
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Matthew S Hopper
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Abdel Razzaq Takriti
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Nile Green
• SEMINAR: Capitalism of the Indian Ocean - Nurfadzilah Yahaya
• Holy Scarcity and the Management of Mecca
• Between the Market and the Land: the Mechanisation of Quinoa
• Enclosing the English Commons: Property, Productivity and the Making of Modern Capitalism
• Sugar: Sustainability, Consumer Sentiment, and Regulation
• Making Money: Matthew Bolton and the Industrial Revolution in Coins
• Robert Maxwell’s Expectations Gap: Regulation and Reputation in the British Communications Industry, 1981-91
• Sexual Harassment in the “World’s Largest Store”: Managing Macy’s Department Store at the Start of the 20th Century
• Rhodes Must Fall: The Legacy of Cecil Rhodes in the University of Oxford
• Call for Papers: Slavery, Institutions, and Empire: Moving Beyond Microhistory
• The Apple of My Eye: A History of René Magritte’s, the Beatles’, and Steve Jobs’ Entwined Trademarks
• For all the Tea in China: The English East India Company
• Mapping Gulf Infrastructure and Territory
• Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
• Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926
• Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
• ** CANCELLED ** Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)
• Doctoral Studentship for 4th Year Students at Oxford, Global History of Capitalism Project, 2023-2024
• Studio 54: The Discothèque that Reinvented Nightlife
• To Infinity and Beyond: Pixar’s Journey to Reinvent Animation
• Itamar Toussia Cohen
• Introducing GHoC doctoral research student Itamar Toussia Cohen
• Nur Laiq
• Introducing Walter Scott doctoral research student Nur Laiq
• Morgan Breene
• Urvi Khaitan
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
• From Empires of Coal and Steam to the Petro-States and Saltwater Kingdoms: The Indian Ocean Roots of Fossil-Fueled Water in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, 1850-2100
• Malabar's Golden Trail: From the Indian Ocean to the Global Economy
• Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?
• An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
• "A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
• Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
• Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
• Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
• Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
• Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
• A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
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