Lecture | Workshop
Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
- Date
- Thursday 20 March 2025
- Time
- Address
- Huizinge Conference Room & Arsenaal A1.04
SI Editors
Prof. Stephanie Decker (University of Birmingham, UK), Dr. Nina Kleinöder (Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany), Prof. Simon Mollan, (University of York, UK), Dr Kevin Tennent (University of York, UK), Prof. Chibuike Uche (Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands)
Outline Schedule
| Room | ||
| 0900 | Welcome | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 |
| 0915 | Panel 1a | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 & Arsenaal A1.04 |
| 1045 | Coffee | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 |
| 1115 | Panel 2a | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 & Arsenaal A1.04 |
| 1245 | Lunch | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 |
| 1400 | Panel 3a | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 & Arsenaal A1.04 |
| 1530 | Coffee | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 |
| 1600 | Plenary | Huizinga Conference Room 2.60 & Arsenaal A1.04 |
| 1700 | Drinks/Dinner | Pakhuis Leiden |
Paper Sessions Schedule
|
0915 - Panel 1a |
Chairs: Stephanie Decker and Chibuike Uche |
In person or online |
|
Lloyd Melusi Maphosa (Queen’s University Belfast) |
Subaltern Capitalism and African Agency: Evidence from South Africa’s First Black Joint Stock Companies |
In Person |
|
Maha Rafi Atal (University of Glasgow) |
A Law Unto Itself: Corporate Power and the British Empire in Africa, 1889 to 1965 |
Online |
|
Christopher Hartwell (Zurich University of Applied Sciences & Kozminski University) Paul M. Vaaler (University of Minnesota) Boris Vinogradov (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) |
In the Service of the State: Business, Imperialism, and Authoritarian Capitalism |
In Person |
|
0915 - Panel 1b |
Chairs: Nina Kleinöder and Kevin Tennent |
In person or online |
|
Niamh Brennan (University College Dublin) Sean Power (Montpellier Business School) |
A Royal Principal-Agent Relationship: Insights from a Chartered Company |
In Person |
| Bart Van Holsteijn (Gothenburg University) |
Negotiating Corporate Sovereignty: the Chartering of the Society of Berbice in the Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Atlantic. |
Online |
|
Nuno Martins (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) |
Mozambique’s chartered companies in the age of capitalist colonialism |
Online |
|
1115 - Panel 2a |
Chairs: Stephanie Decker and Nina Kleinöder |
In person or online |
|
Niamh Brennan (University College Dublin) Christopher J. Napier (Royal Holloway, London) Sean Power (Montpellier Business School) |
Annual Report Maps for Propaganda: A Longitudinal British Colonial Case |
In Person |
|
Jennifer Confidence (University of Glasgow) Matthias Nnadi (Cranfield University) Karen McBride (University of Portsmouth) |
Currency Warfare Strategy and Imperialism in Civil Conflicts |
In Person |
|
Datong Qiu (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) |
The Wavering Kelp in Imperial Waters: Two Kelp Purchasing Disputes in Late 19th-Century Hokkaido |
In Person |
|
1115 - Panel 2b |
Chairs: Simon Mollan and Kevin Tennent |
In person or online |
|
Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez (University of California Los Angles) |
Minerals and Decolonization: Bauxite Mining and Struggles for Economic Sovereignty in Guinea (1950-1963) |
Online |
|
Klas Rönnbäck (University of Gothenburg) Kondwani Happy Ngoma (Stockholm School of Economics) Oskar Broberg (University of Gothenburg) |
Investors and decolonization: the varied effects of political independence on the return on investments |
In Person |
|
Marusz Lukasiewicz (Leipzig University) |
Late-colonial banking, agricultural finance and the cooperative movement: The Co-operative Bank of Western Nigeria, c.1945-1960 |
Online |
|
1400 - Panel 3a |
Chairs: Chibuike Uche and Nina Kleinöder |
In person or online |
|
Angelica Vasconcelos (Leibniz University Hannover) |
Mimicry and Resistance: Brazilian Accountants Confronting the Perceived Informal Imperialism of British Auditing Firms in the Early 20th Century |
Online |
|
Perez Melendez (University of California, Davis) |
Colonization’s Regional Avatars: Markets of Migration across the Brazilian Empire |
In Person |
|
Karen McBride (University of Portsmouth) |
An exploration of the ecological pictorial accounts of the East India Company’s biodiversity assets |
In Person |
|
1400 - Panel 3b |
Chairs: Kevin Tennent and Simon Mollan |
In person or online |
|
Rebekah McCallum (University of Glasgow) |
The Managing Agency System in Regional Operation: Recruitment, Restriction, and Regulation of lower management employees on company tea plantations in India, 1901-1938 |
Online |
|
Gijs Dreijer (Leiden University) |
Challenge or Opportunity? A Dutch Firm and the Exploitation of Foreign Colonial Empires in West Central Africa (1890s-1910s) |
In Person |
|
Giovanni Costenaro (European University Institute) |
Eurafrica in Transition: Transimperial Business Networks, MIFERMA, and the Legacies of Imperial Resource Extraction in Mauritania, 1952-1973 |
In Person |
Register
If you want to join (parts of) the workshop, please let Gijs Dreijer know via g.p.dreijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl