Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2026 BHC Meeting Christopher Ewing, Purdue "Making the World of Gay Travel: From Sex Tourism to Gay Cruises in the Global South at the End of the Twentieth Century"
2026 BHC Meeting Giovanni Favero, Venice School of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice "In Search of Lost Craft: Artisanal Skills in the Ceramic District of Nove and Bassano Between Art and Industry, 1600-2000"
2026 BHC Meeting Jeff Fear, University of Glasgow, Cristina Stanca-Mustea, Independent Scholar "Co-Creating The Kohner Agency: A Paul Kohner Production 1920-1955"
2026 BHC Meeting Krisztina Fehervary, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA "State-socialist TV Commercials: Between Consumer Engineering and Capitalist Realism"
2026 BHC Meeting Susanna Fellman, University of Gothenburg "Co-Creating the Market: Governments, International Cartels and Creative 'Reconstruction'"
2026 BHC Meeting Robert Ferguson, Arizona State University Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting Núria Puig, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Maria Fernandez-Moya, CUNEF Universidad "Management Education and Domestic Business Landscapes: Insights from Spain, 1950s–1970s"
2026 BHC Meeting Camilla Ferri, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Business Humanities and Law "Branding Craft: Historical Uses of 'Craft' in Marketing Discourses"
2026 BHC Meeting Katie Filek, University of Toronto "'The Dam Builders from Milan:' On Material Reciprocities in Canada's Postwar Constructions, 1954-1971"
2026 BHC Meeting Joan Flores-Villalobos, University of Southern California "Intimate Hospitality: Black Boarding-House Keepers in U.S. Empire"
2026 BHC Meeting Clarissa Fontaine , University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "The Bedroom Programmers: How A Community of Hobbyists Built the Online Gaming Industry"
2026 BHC Meeting David Foord, University of New Brunswick "From Telegraphs to Telephones: Tracing the Socio-technical Transition in Canadian Telecommunications from 1846-1980"
2026 BHC Meeting Neil Forbes, Coventry University "'Immunity from Taxation'? The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, British Industry and Double Taxation After 1918"
2026 BHC Meeting Matthew Ford, Swedish Defence University Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi "'Big Days for the Progressive Funeral Director': The 1922 Tri-State Funeral Directors Convention and the Co-Creation of a Business Identity"
2026 BHC Meeting Marco Forero, EAFIT University, Andrew Primmer, EAFIT University "Excavating Global Capitalism: British Mining Enterprise in Colombia as conduits of Early Globalisation — An Internalisation Theory Case Study, 1824–1899"
2026 BHC Meeting Julia Fournier, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "'Kentucky Fried Children': For-Profit Child Care and the Politics of Family Policy in the 1970s"
2026 BHC Meeting Patrick Fridenson, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales "When does a new source enable a business historian to reopen a problem?"
2026 BHC Meeting Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School "Freeman Hunt and Commercial Civilization in Antebellum America"
2026 BHC Meeting Adam Frost, Southern Denmark University "The Gilded Cage: Agency and Structure in Strategic Uses of the Past"
2026 BHC Meeting Giacomo Gabbuti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna "Italian businesswomen in the twentieth century: data and sources"
2026 BHC Meeting Chloé Gaboriaux, University of Poitiers "Co-Producing Market Boundaries: For-Profit and Non-Profit Organisations Before the Law in Nineteenth-Century France"
2026 BHC Meeting Israel García Solares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ted Beatty, University of Notre Dame "Produce and Contain: the Growth and the Toxicity of Cyanide Production 1880-1930"
2026 BHC Meeting Bingbing Ge, Lancaster University "Patriotic Entrepreneurship: On Jian Zhang's Entrepreneurial Journey in China"
2026 BHC Meeting Boris Gehlen, Stuttgart University Roundtable presentation