WORKSHOP: Race and Trust in Business

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PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A CLOSED WORKSHOP - CONTACT GLOBALCAPITALISM@HISTORY.OX.AC.UK FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

Convenor: Rowena Olegario

PROGRAMME

Welcome:  9:30 - 10:00

Session 1:  10:00 - 11:30

• Guido Van Meersbergen, "Prejudice, (Dis)trust and the Indian Marketplace: Appraising 'Others' in East India Company Sources"
• George Colpitts, "Trusting in the Fur Trade: Hudson's Bay Company Indian Debt and Character Books in the 19th Century"
• Janet Hunter, Discussant.

BREAK:  11:30 - 11:45

Session 2: 11:45 - 12:45

•  Andrew Smith, "Trading with the Other: How Cultural-Historical Context Shapes Managerial Perceptions of Distance." (co-authors Ludovic Cailluet and Aparajith Ramnath)
• Mehdi Boussebaa, Discussant. 

LUNCH:  12:45 - 2:00

Session 3:  2:00 - 3:15

•  Claire Twinn, HSBC archives
• Margaret Makepeace, East India Co. Records, British Library

Session 4:  3:15 - 4:15

• Rowena Olegario, "How American Exporters Assessed Foreign Merchants: The Interwar Period (1919-1940)"
• Ludovic Cailluet, Discussant

Wrap-up:  4:15 - 5:00