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Regular
Sessions |
| (*) Information as of June 28,
2002 |
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Session 60
| Title: |
Travelers: the world
inventory |
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Organizers: |
Norberto O. Ferreras (Brazil) and Adrián G.
Zarrilli (Argentina) |
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Contact: |
Address: Norberto O. Ferreras, Monsenhor Bruno 581
Apto. 203, 16015-190, Meireles, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil. Ph: 0055 85
244 0992. Email: nferreras@yahoo.com. |
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Description: |
The American territories were not unknown to
Europe, but travelers approached them for the first time as unknown
and as subject of study by natural history. The world became known
as never before thanks to the process of capitalist "integration."
To have a better understanding of the relationship between
knowledge of the world, capitalism and travelers, this session will
adopt the following periods: we can place a few scientific
travelers in the XVIIIth century; they were pioneers, wealthy and
related to European academies. We place travelers who were
naturalists in the first decades of the XIXth century; after them
we find poor travelers who traded in exotic specimens to be able to
continue their journeys. They discovered plants and their
"by-products". We find entrepreneur travelers ready to tap the
existing resources since the end of the XIXth century. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Adelaide Gonçalves Pereira (Brazil);
Eurípides Funes (Brazil); Heloisa Jochims Reichel (Brazil);
Ivone Barbosa Cordeiro (Brazil); Marcelo F. Figueroa (Argentina);
María Verónica Secreto (Brazil); Raquel Nieman
(Agentina); Rodolfo Pastore and Nancy Calvo (Agentina); Tomás
Perez Vejo (Mexico); Cintia Russo (Argentina). |
| Room: |
Pacará A |
| Date / Time: |
THURSDAY 25, 8:45 - 12:45 |
Session 61
| Title: |
Argentina and Brazil, a comparative analysis of
their internal processes and external conditioning in their
economic histories |
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Organizers: |
Mario D. Rapoport (Argentina), Guillermo Vitelli
(Argentina) and Wilson Cano (Brazil) |
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Contact: |
Address: Mario D. Rapoport, Instituto de
Investigaciones de Historia Económica y Social, Facultad de
Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Córdoba
2122, (1120) Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ph: (00)54 11 4370 6153. Fax:
(00)54 11 4370 6153. Email: irapopor@econ.uba.ar. |
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Description: |
In the light of the processes of integration and
the modes of international insertion of both countries into world
economy, the comparative analysis of their historical processes
takes on particular importance. On the other hand, the different
performances of the economic structures of Argentina and Brazil,
which faced a similar international context, require an analysis as
to what extent these divergences respond to an external determinism
or to their own internal, economic, political and social
processes. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Santiago Chelala and Mario Rapoport (Argentina);
Andrés Musacchio (Argentina); Gillermo Vitelli (Argentina);
Noemí Brenta (Argentina); Angelita Matos Souza (Brazil);
Norberto Aguirre and Carolina Crisorio (Argentina); Lidia Knecher
(Argentina); Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes (Brazil); Luiz Estrella
Faria (Brazil); Alexis Saludjian (France); Emilce Tirre
(Argentina); Eduardo Madrid (Argentina); Ligia Osorio (Brazil);
María Heloisa Lenz (Brazil); Fausto Saretta (Brazil).
Commentators: Noemí Brenta (Argentina); Mario Rapoport
(Argentina); Wilson Cano (Brazil); Gillermo Vitelli
(Argentina). |
| Room: |
Atlántico C |
| Date / Time: |
FRIDAY 26, 8:45 - 12:45 |
Session 62
| Title: |
Savings banks as financial institutions: role,
performance and impact |
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Organizers: |
M. Ross (United Kingdom) and Paul Thomes
(Germany) |
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Contact: |
Address: Duncan M. Ross, Department of Economic
and Social History, University of Glasgow, 4 University Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland. Ph: 44 0 141 330 3586. Fax: 44 0 141 330
4889. Email: D.Ross@socsci.gla.ac.uk. |
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Description: |
This session will take an explicitly inclusive and
comparative approach to the role, performance and impact of savings
banks in the process of economic and financial development. There
are three main principles. First, we will take a long-term
perspective, so that papers on recent (e.g. post deregulation and
merger performance in the UK) activities will be as welcome as
those dealing with nineteenth century savings gathering in Europe,
North America or anywhere else. It is hoped that this will
encourage a range of approaches, including involvement from
scholars in cognate disciplines who are interested in these
institutions. Secondly, the organisers seek to encourage analysis
not only of the institutions, but also of their customers; that is,
we wish to explore savings activity and the contribution of savings
banks to savings rates in those countries in which they developed.
Third, we seek to place savings banks in the context of their host
financial system and in this way be able to say something about the
changing nature and identity of the savings bank as a form of
organisation separate and distinct from commercial banks. The
relationship between savings and commercial banks in a variety of
settings will be explored. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Timothy Alborn (USA); Duncan Ross (UK); Cormac
O'Grada (Ireland); Paul Thomes (Germany); Joan Carles Maixé
Altés (Spain); Hilda Hellgren, K. Lillja, Tom Petersson,
Anders Sjolander (Sweden); Jos van der Linden (The Netherlands);
John Wilson (UK); G. Del Angel-Mubarak (USA). |
| Room: |
Atlántico A |
| Date / Time: |
THURSDAY 25, 14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 63
| Title: |
Central European and Eastern European countries:
the "comings and goings" towards a market economy
(1850-2000) |
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Organizers: |
Dan Popescu (Romania) |
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Contact: |
Address: Dan Popescu, Université Lucian Blaga
de Sibiu, 10 Boulevard de la Victoire, Región Sibiu, Code
2400, Romania. Ph/Fax: 004069235879. Email:
prorel@jupiter.ulbsibiu.ro. |
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Description: |
Since the beginning of the XIXth century, the
countries of Central Europe (in the first place) and those of
Eastern Europe (a little later) underwent a transformation towards
a capitalist system in their economies. After 150 years, many of
these countries, located in the area of influence assigned by the
Big Powers to the Soviet Union, moved away from capitalism and
turned to a strictly centralized economic system, imposed at first
by the force of arms and later by "socialist dictatorships". They
were experiences that failed. Therefore, as from 1989 - 1990, the
"goings" towards market economy began again. A "going" towards
integrated Europe, a "going" towards the future. The analysis of
these situations allows to show the costs, the profits, the losses,
and the possibilities of foreseeing them in the future. Conclusions
of great weight which will be useful for future economic
decisions. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Dan Popescu (Romania); Iulian Våcårel
(Romania); Robert Labbe (France); Mircea Ciumara (Romania); Stefan
Stefanescu (Romania); Vaclav Prucha (Czech Republic); Lidmila
Nemçova (Czech Republic); Sergiu Chircå (Moldavie);
Michael Gerhard Ambrosi (Germany); Joseph Bien (USA); Mircea
Pacurariu (Romania); Kumar B. Das and S. Mishra (India); Emilian M.
Dobrescu (Romania); Corvin Lupu (Romania); Lucian Giura (Romania);
Eugen Iordånescu (Romania); Doris-Louise Vasilescu (France);
Coralia Angelescu (Romania); Dan-Alexandru Popescu (France). |
| Room: |
Quebracho A |
| Date / Time: |
TUESDAY 23, 8:45 - 12:45 |
Session 64
| Title: |
Commodities: understanding the global economy
through the history of things, 1000-2000 CE |
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Organizers: |
Sven Beckert (USA) and Cemal Kafakar (USA) |
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Contact: |
Address: Sven Beckert, Harvard University,
Department of History, 210 Robinson Hall, Cambridge MA, 02138 USA.
Ph: 001 617 495 0697. Fax: 001 617 496 3425. Email:
beckert@fas.harvard.edu. |
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Description: |
The production, trade, and consumption of
commodities such as silk, salt, oil and cotton have woven together
different parts of the world throughout the centuries. This panel
will explore the character of these international links and show
how they have changed during the past 1000 years. Papers will
investigate the connections between agriculture, trade, industry
and consumption created by particular commodities, examine the
impact of an increasing global integration of markets on the way
things were produced and ask how we can understand the particular
ways specific places were integrated into the world economy. Taken
together, the papers will inquire into the impact of states,
diverse resource endowments, non-state actors, and the distribution
of social power in particular places on the spatial structure of
the production and consumption of a number of core commodities. We
will pay particular attention to the people who facilitated these
global networks-merchants, diaspora communities, and migrant
workers, among others. During the past years, historians have
increasingly become interested in understanding processes,
identities and networks that transcend the nation-states. This
panel wants to encourage the emergence of more global approaches to
understanding the development of past economies as well by
interrogating the changing relationships between the economies of
different towns, cities, regions and nation-states to one another.
Such an approach will allow us to focus on diverse and seemingly
contradictory developments, such as the spread of free labor and
slavery, industrialization and deindustrialization, markets and
states-in short, to think about the unity of the diverse. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Regina Grafe (UK); Peter Coclanis (USA); Cemal
Kafadar (USA); Robert S. DuPlessis (USA); Claudio Zanier (Italy);
Carl A. Trocki (Australia); Ravi Raman (India); Sven Beckert (USA);
Marco Belfanti (Italy) and Fabio Giusberti (Italy). Chairs: Sven
Beckert (USA) and Cemal Kafadar (USA). |
| Room: |
Jacarandá |
| Date / Time: |
WEDNESDAY 24, 14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 66
| Title: |
Consulates and trade in Spanish America,
XVIth-XVIIIth centuries |
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Organizers: |
Bernd Hausberger (Germany) and Antonio Ibarra
(Mexico) |
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Contact: |
Address: Bernd Hausberger, Lateinamerika-Institut,
Freie Universität Berlin, Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197
Berlin, Germany. Ph: 0049 30 83855556. Fax: 0049 30 83855464.
Email: sonora@zedat.fu-berlin.de. You can also contact Antonio
Ibarra: jibarra@weber.ucsd.edu. |
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Description: |
The study of the Trade Consulates as institutions
of the old regime in the organization and representation of
"Trading Elites" in the Spanish colonial empire in America provide
an important tool to analyse the performance of Spanish trade
policy. From this perspective, the private agents of American
colonial trade and corporate institutions joined their interests
and oriented the trading policy in their jurisdictional
territories. To become acquainted with the internal dynamics of
corporate institutions and the tensions which fragmented the
corporatively represented groups is relevant to document the
confrontations of political and economic elites to control the
internal circuits of imperial circulation. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Enriqueta Vila Vilar (Spain); Guillermina del
Valle (Mexico); Antonio García de León (Mexico);
Héctor Noejevich (Peru); Estela Cristina Salles (Argentina);
Bernd Hausberger (Germany); Antonio Ibarra (Mexico); Zacarías
Moutoukias (France); Manuel Lucena Giraldo (Spain); Luis Alonso
Álvarez (Spain); Michel Bertrand (France); Cristina Mazzeo
(Peru); Clara Elena Suárez Argüello (Mexico).
Commentators: Carlos Sempat Assadourian (Mexico); Carlos Marichal
(Mexico); Fernando Jumar (Argentina). |
| Room: |
Buen Ayre B |
| Date / Time: |
WEDNESDAY 24, 14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 67
| Title: |
Confiscations of the estates of the regular
clergy and capitalistic accumulation in early modern Europe and
American continent |
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Organizers: |
Fiorenzo Landi (Italy), Germán Rueda Ernanz
(Spain) and Eduardo Cavieres (Chile) |
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Contact: |
Address: Fiorenzo Landi, Bologna University, Via
S.Vitale 16, 48020 S. Agata (RA), Italy. Ph: 00 39 0545 45454. Fax:
0039 051 2097620. Email: landi@mail.cib.unibo.it. |
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Description: |
The systems of accumulation of the Catholic
Regular Clergy are based on a peculiar conception of wealth and of
its use, that is, in some ways, antithetical to the conception that
governs tha clergy of the Protestant World. The protestant ethic
had an important role in promoting the development of Capitalism.
Why not examine the role of the catholic ethic through the
management of thousands and thousands of convents, monasteries and
abbies in Catholic Europe - as an impediment or element that
delayed the establishment of new economic tendencies? |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Germán Rueda (Spain); Gaetano Sabatini
(Italy); Katerina Aroni-Tsichli (Greece); Eduardo Cavieres (Chile);
Jorge Troisi Melean (Argentina); Julián Pablo Díaz Lopez
(Spain); Fiorenzo Landi (Italy); Alberto Tanturri (Italy);
Francesco Dandolo (Italy); Maurizio Pegrari (Italy); Mario
Spedicato (Italy); Luis Lopez Martinez (Spain). |
| Room: |
Quebracho B |
| Date / Time: |
WEDNESDAY 24, 14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 68
| Title: |
Export economy and economic growth. The Chilean
nitrate cycle. New approaches and comparisons |
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Organizers: |
César Yáñez (Spain) and Claudio
Robles (USA/Chile) |
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Contact: |
Address: César Yáñez, Universidad
de Barcelona, Escuela de Empresariales, Diagonal 696 08034,
Barcelona, Spain. Ph:34 93 403 5859. Fax: 34 93 402 4594. Email:
yanez@eco.ub.es. |
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Description: |
In the decades of change between the XIXth and the
XXth century, Chile experienced an important economic boom
supported by its mining contribution (mainly nitrates). In this
session, the Chilean economy of this period is reviewed in the
light of new hypothesis and problems suggested by recent
historiography, outlining the elements of structural and
institutional change that triggered it, as well as the causes
accounting for its subsequent decline. The session emphasizes the
contrast between the Chilean export cycle and that of other Latin
American countries. We are also interested in comparing the growth
of the export phase at the end of the XIXth century and the
beginning of the XXth century to the events at the end of the XXth
century. |
| Presented Papers: |
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Participants: |
Felipe Abbott (Chile); Eduardo Cavieres (Chile);
Mauricio Folchi (Chile); Mario Matus (Chile); Claudio Robles
(Chile); César Yáñez (Chile/Spain). |
| Room: |
Jacarandá |
| Date / Time: |
MONDAY 22, 14:00 - 18:00 |
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