Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting	Presenter(s)	Title
2026 BHC Meeting	Sandy Peeples, Johns Hopkins University	"Banking on Socialism: Theorizing Credit under Ujamaa in the 1970s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Erik Peinert, Boston University	"Ententes and National Champions in Postwar France"
2026 BHC Meeting	Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University	"China's First Foreign Factory Director: A German Manager and the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in 1980s China"
2026 BHC Meeting	Dorotea Petrucci, London Metropolitan University	"Italy's First National Trade Catalogues for the US Market (1939) and the Emergence of the 'Made in Italy' Brand"
2026 BHC Meeting	Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia	"The 21st Century 'New Economy': A Legal and Business History of Vertical Disintegration"
2026 BHC Meeting	Marco Martinez, University of Pisa, Valeria Pinchera, University of Pisa	"Trademarking Innovation: Exploring the Role of Intellectual Property in Italy's Fashion industry, 1861–1939"
2026 BHC Meeting	Daniela Pirani, University of Liverpool Management School, Beatrice Toti, University of Parma	"Pleasure in Food: From Counterculture to Critical Food Consumption"
2026 BHC Meeting	Sabine Pitteloud, UniDistance Suisse, Espen Storli, NTNU	"The Aluminium Industry and the Environment: Tackling Industrial Pollution in Switzerland, Scotland and Norway, 1890-2000"
2026 BHC Meeting	Mars Plater, UConn-Stamford	"Integrating Commercial Green Spaces in Nineteenth-Century New York City"
2026 BHC Meeting	Andrew Popp, Copenhagen Business School	"Collaboration, or Collaborators?"
2026 BHC Meeting	Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo	"Analyzing Innovation through a Historical Patent Database: The Case of the Colonial Congo Patent System (1888-Early 1960s)"
2026 BHC Meeting	Dhananjaya Premauden, University of Pennsylvania	"Colleges in Panic: How College Trustees Gambled with Native Land"
2026 BHC Meeting	Brigid Prial, University of Pennsylvania	"Constructing Chimpanzee Value: The Improvement of Nature in Robert Yerkes' Anthropoid Laboratory, 1913 – 1938"
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	Léna Prouchet, Copenhagen Business School	"Connecting the Dots: Business History Research on Social Entrepreneurship in the Global South"
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	Afua Quarshie, Johns Hopkins University	"Kitting Out the Nursery: Mothercare Shops and Mothering Technologies in Neoliberal Ghana"
2026 BHC Meeting	Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara	"Edward Bernays and His Indian Clients: Race, Nation and the Failures of International Public Relations in the 1950s"
2026 BHC Meeting	Alfred Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School	Roundtable presentation
2026 BHC Meeting	Alberto Rinaldi, University of Modena , Maria Carmela Schisani, University of Naples Federico II	"Women Entrepreneurs in Southern Italy (1800–1913): Evidence from a Large Historical Database"
2026 BHC Meeting	Charlotte Robertson, Harvard Business School	"Capital Anxiety: France, Germany, and the Politics of Foreign Investment before 1914"
2026 BHC Meeting	Daniel Robinson, Western University	"Biting Back: Philip Morris, Hans Haacke, and Corporate Art Sponsorship, 1965-1990"
2026 BHC Meeting	Christian Robles-Baez, Stanford University	"Bitterness and Power: The Transformation of Coffee into a U.S. Staple"
2026 BHC Meeting	Beatriz Rodríguez-Satizábal, Universidad del Pacífico	"Interviewing Entrepreneurs and Managers in the Andean Region: Learning Business while Doing History"
2026 BHC Meeting	Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow	"Exploring Business Influence and Business Power: The British Chamber of Commerce in the Argentine Republic in the Aftermath of the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War"