Title: Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks, C. 1000 to 2000

Contact Information: Dr Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece). Email: minoglou@compulink.gr

Other Organizers: Professor Frank Broeze (Department of History, University of Western Australia); Dr Gelina Harlaftis (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece); Dr William Gervase Clarence-Smith (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)

Description: During the last millennium a succession of regional and long-distance trading networks, at first in Asia and Europe but later also stretching across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, lay at the heart of the gradual integration of the world into one global system.The study of such networks, which often took the form of ethnic diasporas, is becoming a vibrant field for economic, maritime and social historians. The purpose of this session is to take stock of the current state of the art and to lay the foundations for new directions in the study of diaspora entrepreneurial networks by soliciting a broad range of case studies from varying regions and periods.

Commentators: Professor Jonathan Israel (Princeton University), Professor Anthony Reid (University of California, Los Angeles), Professor Gabriel Sheffer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Professor George Dertilis (Athens University and Ecole des Hautes Etudes).

Participants:
Participants: Michael Toch (Israel); Ina Baghdiantz McCabe (USA); Sushil Chaudhury (India); Maria Fusaro (UK); Carmel Vassalo (Malta); Claude Stuczynski (Israel); Wai-keung Chung (USA); Chi Kong Lai (Australia); Raj Brown (UK); William Gervase Clarence-Smith (UK); Arthur Helweg (USA); Caroline Pluss (China); William D. Wray (Canada); Huibert Schijf (The Netherlands); Chiara Betta (Greece); Andrew Godley (UK); Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (Greece); Stathis Gourgouris (USA).

Commentators: Jonathan Israel (USA); Anthony Reid (USA); Gabriel Sheffer (Israel).

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