Seminars 2011-12

Summer Term 2012

The seminars will be held at 5.30pm in Room CON 1.03, 1st floor of Connaught House, LSE.

 

Summer Term 2012

30 April

Stephanie Decker (Aston University)

‘The Silence of the Archives: Post-colonialism and the Practice of Historical Reconstruction from Archival Evidence’ 

14 May

    

Dan Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

 

The Building Blocks of Business History

28 May

Shigehiro Nishimura (BHU and Kansai University)

European Patent Control: How did US Multinationals Organise Technology Flows across the Atlantic Ocean

 

 

Lent Term 2012

The seminars will be held at 5.30pm in Room 1.03, Clement House Building, LSE.

23 Jan

Stephan Werner (LSE)

 "Reinsurance and Risk during the Great Depression: the Kölnische Rück company"    

 

6 Feb

Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE)

 "What Caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A look at bank management in the 1920s"

 

 

20 Feb

Sarah Wilson (University of York)

"Financial Crisis and Responding to 'Socially Useless' Banking: Challenges for the 21st century and lessons from the past"  

 

5 Mar

Armin Grünbacher (University of Birmingham)

 "The Americanisation that never was? The first decade of Top Management training in post-war Germany, 1954-64"   

 

Michaelmas Term 2011

17 October

Eric Golson (LSE)

'Adapting to War: The Swedish Ball Bearings Industry' 

31 October*

Paul Barry-Walsh (Fredericks Foundation)*

 "Big Government is Bad, the Market-place should be Freed to Restore Prosperity. This will Make us a More Fulfilled Nation".

 

14 November

Stewart Fleming (BHU)

"International economic policy co-operation:why the G 20 is failing to live up to expectations."

 

28 November

Howard Cox (University of Worcester)

'Post-war Government Controls on Publishing: or, Why Austerity Britain Gorged on Magazines'   

The seminar will be at 5.30 held in different rooms this term: On 17 October we will be in Room U.108, Tower One, LSE, on 14 November in Clement House Building, Room G.04, and on 28 November in Room G.05.

 

*This is a BHU-ING Seminar which will be held at ING Bank, 60 London Wall. Pre-registration is required: please contact t.r.gourvish@lse.ac.uk| if you wish to attend