Conference Programme
Detailed programme (Last update: August 12, 2008) download
Thursday, 21.8
14:30-17:30 Council Meeting
14:00-18:00 Registration (Clarion Hotel Admiral)
18:00-20:30 Welcome Reception (Faculty of Law, Dragefjellet skole)
Friday, 22.8
08:30-09:00 Opening of the Congress
9:15-10:45 Sessions I (90 min.)
10:45-11:15 Coffee-break
11:15-12:45 Sessions II (90 min.)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Key-note speech 1
Franco Amatori, Bocconi University, Milan: “Business History as History”
15:00-15:30 Coffee-break
15:30-17:30 Sessions III (120 min.)
17.45-18.45 Panel session
Debating the Oxford Handbook of Business History Panel with Geoffrey Jones, Jonathan Zeitlin and Harold James
Saturday, 23.8.
08:30-10:15 Sessions IV (105 min.)
10:15-10:45 Coffee-break
10:45-11:45 Key-note speech 2
Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School: “Business History and the Great Divergence”
12:00-13:00 Session V (60 min.)
13:00-14:00 Lunch / women’s lunch
14:00-15:30 Sessions VI (90 min.)
15:30-16:00 Coffee-break
16:00-17:30 Session VII (90 min.)
17:30-18:30 General assembly of EBHA
19:00-19:45 Ascent to Mount Fløyen
20:00 Conference dinner at Fløyen
Announcement of the winner of EBHA’s dissertation-prize