Conference Programme


Detailed programme (Last update: August 12, 2008) download

Thursday, 21.8

14:30-17:30    Council Meeting
14:00-18:00    Registration (Clarion Hotel Admiral)
18:00-20:30    Welcome Reception (Faculty of Law, Dragefjellet skole)

Friday, 22.8

08:30-09:00    Opening of the Congress
9:15-10:45      Sessions I (90 min.)
10:45-11:15    Coffee-break
11:15-12:45    Sessions II (90 min.)

12:45-14:00    Lunch

14:00-15:00    Key-note speech 1
                     Franco Amatori, Bocconi University, Milan:                      “Business History as History”

15:00-15:30    Coffee-break
15:30-17:30    Sessions III (120 min.)
17.45-18.45    Panel session
                     Debating the Oxford Handbook of Business History                      Panel with Geoffrey Jones, Jonathan Zeitlin and Harold James

Saturday, 23.8.

08:30-10:15    Sessions IV (105 min.)
10:15-10:45    Coffee-break

10:45-11:45    Key-note speech 2
                     Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at                      the Harvard Business School: “Business History and the                      Great Divergence”

12:00-13:00    Session V (60 min.)
13:00-14:00    Lunch  /  women’s lunch
14:00-15:30    Sessions VI (90 min.)
15:30-16:00    Coffee-break
16:00-17:30    Session VII (90 min.)
17:30-18:30    General assembly of EBHA
19:00-19:45    Ascent to Mount Fløyen

20:00             Conference dinner at Fløyen
                     Announcement of the winner of EBHA’s dissertation-prize

 

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