19.03.2018 - 20.03.2018

Contextualizing Bankruptcy: Publicity, Space and Time (Europe, 17th to 19th c.)

Internationale Tagung

  • 19. Jahrhundert Frühe Neuzeit Tagung
  • 14:00 Uhr (19.03.) - 15:30 Uhr (20.03.)
  • DHIP

Although bankruptcy was a rather exceptional situation in the life of a merchant, it has explanatory power for routines of economic stakeholders, for their space of experience and their horizon of expectation. We can therefore use the irregularity of failure as an indicator of regularities. Considering the long, non-uniform and unsteady transition from merchant capitalism to industrial and financial capitalism, we suggest to start a dialog between modernistes and contemporanéistes.

The conference focuses on the various forms of contextualizing business failure and puts forward three major research axes: Covering and Uncovering – Secrecy and Publicity; Economic Space and Area of Jurisdiction; Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency.

Organisation:
Natacha Coquery (Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, université Lyon 2, Institut universitaire de France)
Jürgen Finger (DHIP)
Mark Sven Hengerer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)

Informationen und Anmeldung: event@dhi-paris.fr