THIRTEENTH
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS
BUENOS AIRES 2002
SESSION X :
DIASPORA ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS, C.1000-2000,
21-22 September 2001
General State
Archives/Corfu, Old Fort
Corfu, Greece
Friday 21 September 2001
8:30
Bus from Acharavi
9:15-9:45
Registration
9:45-10:00
Tribute to Professor Franklin (Frank) Jan Aart Broeze
Dr Gelina Harlaftis
Session A: 10:00-11:45
Early diaspora entrepreneurial networks:
Jews and Armenians
Chairman: Dr Ioanna Minoglou
Commentator: Prof. Jonathan Israel
- Professor Michael Toch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“From Spain to India: Jewish Entrepreneurial Networks in Medieval Islam and Christianity, Genesis, Typology and Comparison”
- Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Tufts University, USA
“Global Trading Ambitions in Diaspora: The Armenians and their Eurasian Silk
Trade (1530-1750)”
3. Sushil Chaudhuri,
University of Calcutta
"Trading Networks in a
Traditional Diaspora - Armenians in India, 1650-1800"
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
Session B: 12:00-1:30
Early diaspora entrepreneurial networks in the
Mediterranean
Chairman: Prof. Anthony Reid
Commentator: Prof. George Dertilis
4. Maria Fusaro, St. Hugh’s
College, Oxford, U.K.
“Coping with transition. Greek
merchants and shipowners between Venice and England in the sixteenth century”
5. Carmel Vassalo, University
of Malta, Malta
“ The Maltese Entrepreneurial
Diaspora from the seventeenth century onwards. A review of the work done so far”
6. Claude Stuczynski, “ Religion and the ethics of
capitalism in the Marrano network: a reassessment»
1:30-2:30 Lunch
Session C: 14:30-16:15
Jewish entrepreneurial
networks in the 19th century
Chairman: Dr Maria-Christina
Chatzioannou
Commentator: Professor Anthony
Reid
7. Huibert Schijf,
Netherlands
“International Jewish bankers
in the nineteenth century as example of ethnic globalization”
8. Chiara Betta, University of
Indianapolis, U.S.A.
“The Trade Diaspora of Badgadi Jews: From
Ottoman Baghdad to China’s Treaty ports: 1843-1931
9. Andrew Godley and Peter Scott, Reading University, U.K.
“Jewish Entrepreneurship in
the Diaspora, 1880-1914”
16:15-16:30 Coffee break
Session D: 16:30-18:00
Greek Entrepreneurial diaspora
networks, 18th-20th centuries
Chairman: Assoc. Professor
Vassilis Kardasis
Commentator: Professor
Jonathan Israel
10. Stathis Gourgouris,
Rutgers University, U.S.A.
“The Concept of Diaspora in
the Contemporary World”
11. Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, University of Piraeus and Athens University of Economics and Business
“ Greek Diaspora
Entrepreneurship 18th-20th centuries: A Comparative and
Methodological Analysis”
18:15 Bus back to Acharavi
8:30
Dinner at the Hotel G.V. in Acharavi
Saturday 22 September 2001
9:15 Bus from Acharavi
Session E: 10:00-11:45
Chinese Entrepreneurial Diaspora
networks
Chairman: Professor Jonathan
Israel
Commentator: Professor Anthony
Reid
12.
Wai-keung Chung, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
“Institutional Transformation and the Creation of Chinese
Enterpreneurial Networks”
13. Chi Kong Lai, University
of Queensland, Australia
“China and the Maritime World: From Seagoing Junk Traders to the Chinese Bamboo Networks, 1600-2000”
14. Raj Brown, Royal Halloway and Bedford New College, University of London, U.K.
“A comparative perspective on
contemporary Chinese and Indian entrepreneurial networks in South East Asia and
Hong Kong”
11:45-12:00 Coffee Break
Session F: 12:00-1:30
Asian Entrepreneurial Diasporas
Chairman: Prof. George
Dertilis
Commentator: Professor Gabriel
Sheffer
15. William Gervase Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K.
“MiddleEastern and Western
Indian Diaspora in Southeast Asia, C 1750-1950”
16. Arthur Helweg, Western Michigan University, U.S.A.
“The South Asian Diaspora. Entrepreneurs and Change
Agents”
17. Caroline Pluss, Centre of
Asian Studies. The University of Hong-Kong
“Patterns of Integration: the
Indian, Jewish and Muslim Trade Diasporas in Hong Kong”
18. William D. Wray, University of British Columbia
"The 17th-Century Japanese Diaspora: Questions of
Boundary and Policy"
1:30-2:30 Lunch
Session G: 2:30-16:30
General Discussion: Comparing
diasporas
Chair: Ioanna Pepelasis
Minoglou and Gelina Harlaftis
16:45 Bus back to Acharavi
19:30 Excursion and Dinner at
the Venetian village of Peritheia (15 minutes from Acharavi)
Sunday 23 September 2001
10:00-19:00 Day excursion (an hour with the boat) to the northest islands of Greece: Othonoi and Erichoussa