WORKSHOP: Race and Trust in Business

28 June 10:00
Old Library, University Church of St Mary’s, Oxford
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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