5-25 NOV: ONLINE PHASE
26 NOV 18-21 CET
PANEL 1: LAISSEZ-FAIRE OR STATE-CONTROL
DISCUSSANT:
Alexander Nützenadel
PARTICIPANTS:
Grietje Verhoef
State-owned enterprise: Africa’s market, the state and economic performance in the post-independence era
Frank Gerrits
Neoliberalism in the Global South: the African Development Bank and changing ideas about development
Cyrus Schayegh
State enterprises in the Middle East: three global dimensions
Zhaojin Zeng
Between socialist impact and imperial legacies: The transnational making of state enterprises in twentieth-century China
NETWORKING SESSION 1
PANEL 2: INFRASTRUCTURE, RAW MATERIALS & BEYOND
DISCUSSANT:
Carles Brasó Broggi
PARTICIPANTS:
Malak Laib
Manufacturing development: A case-study of the Egyptian iron and steel company (1945-1965)
Nathalia Capellini
Private-public relations in the Brazilian electric sector during the military dictatorship (1964-1985)
Joanne Tomkinson
Rewriting Ethiopia‘s place in the world: the Ethiopian aviation industrial complex
Neveen Abelrehim / Shakila Yacob / Simon Mollan
Economic independence and the responses of national oil companies during decolonisation: The case of Malaysia and Iran
Ayesha Omer
The history of Chinese infrastructure in Pakistan
NETWORKING SESSION 2
SUMMARY DISCUSSION
DISCUSSANT: Marie Huber
27 NOV 18-21 CET
PANEL 3: METHODS AND SOURCES
DISCUSSANT:
Alexander Keese
PARTICIPANTS:
Marie Huber
Why a site-specific history of state-enterprises matters
Sarah Kunkel
Farming and nation-building: Nkrumah‘s state farms and decolonisation
Stefan Tetzlaff
Private origins of the public sector: West German businesses, state enterprise and development planning
in India and Nigeria, c. 1954-1985
Mariusz Lukasiewicz
From decolonisation to financial globalisation: Towards a modern history of stock exchanges in Africa, 1960-1994
NETWORKING SESSION 3
PANEL 4: CONNECTIONS, CONTEXTS AND NETWORKS
DISCUSSANT:
Eric Burton
PARTICIPANTS:
Andrea Franc
Changing concepts of fair trade (ca. 1950 to 1980)
Luca Puddu
Development for whom? The struggle for control of the Development Bank of Ethiopia, 1950-1955
Annette Skovsted Hansen
Global history of the Ghanaian Black Star shipping line, 1957-1997
Amit Das Gupta
Capitalist countries enforcing planned economies in the developing world. The cases of India, Pakistan and Turkey
NETWORKING SESSION 4
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
DISCUSSANT: Glenda Sluga