(All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time)
All panels shown in the program are FREE and Open to the Public.
Those interested in attending the panels are welcome to read the papers beforehand.
For access to the papers, please email psu.business.history.workshop@gmail.com
PROGRAM
Smith Memorial Student Union
SMSU RM 294
1825 SW Broadway
THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
Reception, 6:00pm
Keynote address, 6:30 PM
- Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto), Keynote | Kinship, Uncertainty and Profit: Speculation Across “Culture” and “Economy”
Karl Miller Center
SMSU RM 294
615 SW Harrison St
FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
Panel 1, 9:00–10:45: Family Firms: Honor, Succession, and Legacies
Discussant: Thomas M. Luckett
- Matthew Hollow (University of York), “O Father, Where Art Thou? Reevaluating the Impact of Distance and Absence on Family Succession in Entrepreneurial Firms”
- Isabel Robinson (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dexnell Peters (University of the West Indies-Mona), “‘Debts of Honor’: The Silent Partners in the Firm of Antony Gibbs and Sons”
- Andy Urban (Rutgers University), “‘Is Elizabeth Seabrook the Right Name?’: Frozen Foods and the Family Struggle over Seabrook Farms as a Brand, Product, and Concept, 1951–1959”
Panel 2, 11:15–1:00: Family as Agents and Clients: The Normative and the Imagined
Discussant: Erika Vause
- Elena F. Hoffenberg (University of Chicago), “A Family of Credit or Credit for the Family? Kinship and Jewish Credit Cooperatives in Poland, 1914–1939”
- Ryan Moran (University of Utah), “Responsibility as an Imperial Commodity: Postal Life Insurance in Colonial Korea”
- Patricia Schechter (Portland State University), “Gender, Cooperatives, and Worker Housing in Spain: The Casas Baratas in Córdoba Province in the 1920s”
Panel 3, 2:45–5:00: Close Kins, Distant Kins: Informal Ties and Legal Infrastructures
Chair: Chia Yin Hsu
Discussant: Sudev Sheth (University of Pennsylvania)
- Shalin Jain (University of Delhi), “Business within Family and Kinship: The Jain Merchants in Early Modern South Asia”
- Rachel T. Van (California State Polytechnic University-Pomona), “Crossing Oceans,
Crossing Cultures: Kinship as a Capitalist Repertoire, 1800–1880s” - Justin Simard (Michigan State University College of Law), “Commerce as Calling: Lawyers, Kinship, and the Development of Economic Trust in Nineteenth-Century New York"
SATURDAY, 25 MAY 2024
Panel 4, 9:00–10:45: Small Business, Microcredit, Shared Interest, and Gender
Discussant: Thomas M. Luckett
- Donica Belisle (University of Regina), “Bonds of Extraction: Canadian Business Wives in the British Trans-Pacific”
- Tara A. Bynum (University of Iowa), “Lists, Ledgers, and Friends: Or, Accounting for Eighteenth-Century Black Communities in Rhode Island”
- Qiuyang Chen (University of Warwick), “Rural Women and Private Credit: Microcredit Crises in Southeast Coastal China, 1987–1992”
Panel 5, 11:15–1:00: Business-Women: Marital Status, Motherliness, and Making Money
Discussant: Erika Vause
- Amy M. Froide (University of Maryland-Baltimore County), “What Happens to the Household Trade when the Spouses Break up? Marital Separation and Family Businesses in Eighteenth-Century London”
- Bryna Goodman (University of Oregon), “‘Mother-wealth’ and the Governance of Leaky Capital: Gender, Financial Imagination, and the Stock Exchange in Early Twentieth-Century China”
- Sara Pinto (University of Porto), “‘And in This, She Was Exposed and Earned Her Living’: Women and Moneylending in a Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Seaport”
Panel 6, 2:45–5:00: Spousal Ties, Colonial Marriages, and Blended Families
Discussant: Chia Yin Hsu
- Jiwon Han (City University of New York), “A Credit to Their Families: Family Ties, Dutch Merchants, and Financial Networks in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
- Aleksandr Turbin (University of Illinois-Chicago), “Family, Kinship, and Gender in Commercial Relations in the Russian Far East in the Late Imperial Period”
- Ivan Sicca Gonçalves (University of Campinas), “Making Families, Fortunes, and Caravans: Portuguese Settlers in Central Angola, Nineteenth Century”
- Sophie Rose (University of Tübingen), “The Dutch West India Company and Eurafrican Family Life on the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast”
Co-Organizers:
- Chia Yin Hsu (Portland State University)
- Thomas M. Luckett (Portland State University)
- Erika Vause (St. John’s University)