Entrepreneurship scholars interested in the use of archives and historical methods may be interested the Business History Conference's virtual event: "Method and Madness: Business Historical Methods in the New Age of Extremes." The event will be held online on September 30 and is comprised of hands-on workshops on new types of archival sources, interpretive methods, and forms of historical representation. The program can be found below. For more information and to register please see here.
Formed in 1954, the Business History Conference is an interdisciplinary association dedicated to historical research on entrepreneurs and firms in their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. For more information see here.
Method and Madness:
Business Historical Methods in a New Age of Extremes
September 30, 2022
All Times as Eastern Time (EST)
9:00am Welcome
9:15am Reinventing Interpretation
- Interpreting Visual Sources (R. Halpern and C. Quirke)
- Interpreting the Senses (A. Hisano and S. Kube)
- Understanding Material Culture (J. Black and M. Moskowitz)
- Topic Modeling (M. Villamor & F. Prieto-Nañez)
- Databases, Network Analysis and QCA (E. Salvaj, A. Rinaldi & S. Pak)
- Built and Natural Environment (TBA)
10:15am Break
10:30am Reinventing Sources
- Account Books (R. Van, C. Rosenthal, W Deringer)
- Email (S. Decker & David Kirsch)
- Online Archives (P. Scranton, E. Balleisen, A. Lluch & G. Jones)
- Advertisements (S. Das and C. Meyers)
- Forms and Reports (S. Vanatta and G. Recio)
- Legal Records (A. Merck)
11:30am Break
11:45am Reinventing Form
- Visualizing the past (D. Staley)
- History-as-Dialogue: Podcasting (B. Batiz-Lazo and company)
- Business History and Business/Policy in Practice (J. Wilson & A. Tilba)
- Microhistory (A. Popp and S. Lewis)
- Curation (M. Moskowitz)
- Tiktok History (Z. Zeng)
12:45pm Break
1:00pm Wrap Up: The Future of the Past
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Daniel Wadhwani
Professor
University of Southern California
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