Registration is now open for the BHC’s online Mid-Year Conference

Registration is now open for the BHC’s online Mid-Year Conference, “Method and Madness: Reinventing History in a New Age of Extremes.”

https://thebhc.org/2022-midyear-meeting 

The Mid Year Conference enables members from around the world to easily and cost-effectively participate in the BHC and also launches the BHC’s activities for the 2022-2023 academic year. The 2023 BHC Annual meeting will take place in person in Detroit on March 9-11, 2023. The Mid-Year Conference will be held online on Friday, September 30 (from 9am to 3pm Eastern Time, 3pm-9pm CET).

Unlike the conventional presentation-based conference, the Fall conference will be organized around a series of mini-workshops focused on new approaches to the craft of historical scholarship.  The first set of workshops will examine new sources and new uses of old sources in business history research. Sessions will include the uses of visual materials, legal records, account books, and big data, among other sources. The second set of workshops will cover interpretive and analytical techniques, including the interpretation of senses, network analysis, topic modeling and the rhetorical uses of history. The third set of workshops will cover changes in the representation and dissemination of business history, including both conventional formats (books, scholarly articles) and newer formats (podcasts, social media, etc).

Anyone (both members and nonmembers) interested in participating should complete the short “Expression of Interest form by September 1st to provide the organizers a sense of the sources, methods, and forms of historical scholarship one is interested in discussing. Participants should also register for the conference here. Registration is free for members who are graduate students, $10 for regular members, and $20 for non-members.