EH.N: CfP: Business History Conference 2008

[Maggie Levenstein]

The Business History Conference's 2008 annual meeting will be held in 
Sacramento, California, April 10-12, hosted by the California State 
University at Sacramento. Its theme is "Expanding Connections for 
Business History," with the goal of reaching across disciplines and 
audiences. It will focus on what business history offers to other 
fields of scholarship, as well as what business historians can learn 
from other scholarly perspectives. In addition, both the opening 
plenary and a roundtable will explore how business historians can 
work with the press to extend our reach into the public and business 
management arenas. Sessions will highlight research that is 
comparative, that contextualizes its subjects, or that examines any 
of the complex interactions that business activities involve. The 
conference will expand business history's intellectual connections 
and approaches, broadening our outreach to both scholarly and public 
audiences.

Sessions will include:

*Opening Plenary: Making Connections with the Press: A Conversation. 
Judith Dobrzynski, formerly Deputy Business Editor for the New York 
Times, Senior Editor for Business Week, and Executive Editor for CNBC.

*Roundtable: Connecting with the Public and Management
- John Landry, Editor for Business Development, Harvard Business Review
- Tom Standage, Business Editor for The Economist and author of _A 
History of the World in Six Glasses_ and _Victorian Internet_.
- Randall Stross, Columnist on Technology and Business for the New 
York Times and a professor of business at San Jose State University. 
His books include _The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison 
Invented the Modern World_ and _eBoys: The First Inside Account of 
Venture Capitalists At Work_.
- Howard Weaver, Pulitzer Prize Winner & Vice President for News, The 
McClatchy Company, the third largest newspaper company in the United 
States, including the Sacramento Bee and Knight-Ridder.
- Barbara O'Connor, Moderator, Professor of Communications Director 
of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media, California 
State/Sacramento

*Presidential Plenary: Putting Business Back in History
- Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, author of _A Consumers' 
Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America_ and 
_Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939_, winner 
of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is 
now working on a study of the rebuilding of American cities after 
World War II, focused around the life and career of urban redeveloper 
Ed Logue.
- Richard White, Stanford University, Immediate Past President of the 
Organization of American Historians and recipient of a MacArthur 
Foundation fellowship. His five books include _The Middle Ground: 
Indians, Empires and Republic in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815_, 
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His Journal of American History 
article, "Information, Markets, and Corruption: Transcontinental 
Railroads in the Gilded Age" marked the beginning of his current book 
project.

For the full call for papers, including travel grants and other 
opportunities for graduate students, see 
http://www.thebhc.org/annmeet/call08.html. The deadline for proposals 
is 24 September 2007. The BHC also offers several prizes, as well as 
grants to graduate students who are presenting papers. Please send 
queries to Maggie Levenstein, Program Chair, (MaggieL at umich.edu) or 
Pamela W. Laird, BHC President, (pamela.laird at cudenver.edu).

Send all proposals to Dr. Roger Horowitz, Secretary-Treasurer, 
Business History Conference, P. O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807, 
USA. Phone: (302) 658-2400; fax: (302) 655-3188; rh at udel.edu.