2019 BHC Meeting

The 2019 annual meeting of the Business History Conference took place at the Hilton Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, a World Heritage Site.

The theme of the conference was "Globalization and De-Globalization: Shifts of Power and Wealth." The archived version of the call for papers is available here.

The program committee consisted of Marcelo Bucheli (co-chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrea Lluch (co-chair), CONICET; Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University; Espen Storli, NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Laura Phillips Sawyer, Harvard Business School; and 2019 BHC president Teresa da Silva Lopes, University of York. 

 

Photos from this annual meeting

BHC Members: submit your own photos from this meeting


Dancing commences

Alexia Yates, 2019 Kerr Prize chair

Andrea Schneider pays tribute to Chris Kobrak at the reception in his honor

Andrea Lluch and Marcelo Bucheli, Co-Chairs of 2019 Program Committee

Dance lessons for business historians

Mira Wilkins delivers keynote address on multinationals

Marcelo Bucheli announces the winner of the 2019 Scranton Prize for best article in Enterprise and Society

President-Elect Ed Balleisen lets loose on the dance floor

Roger Horowitz receives thanks for his service to the BHC