A conference sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Date and Time: Saturday and Sunday, February 12-13, 2000
Location: Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Organizers: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
This conference will explore historical and contemporary dimensions of the corporation in American life as a social and political force. Bringing together scholars in business history and related fields, it will highlight the new, contextualized approach to the study of business. Topics include religion and business, the corporation and the polity, the state, law and innovation, and business response to social issues of racial and gender equity. Presentations will be broad, synthetic, and discussion-provoking.
Session I: Business, Religion, and Civic Society
- The Corporation and Civic Society -
Peter Dobkin Hall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
- The Corporation as Utopian Impulse -
Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Session II: The Polity and the Modern Corporation
- How Enterprise Became Private -
Richard John, University of Illinois -- Chicago
- The Primacy of Politics: The Modern Corporation as Social Construction -
Gerald Berk, University of Oregon
- The State and Innovation in the Private Sector -
David Hart, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Session III: Corporate Personalities
- Corporate Governance Structures and their Alternatives -
Colleen Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
- Reconsidering the Corporation as a Person -
Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles
- Imagemaking in Corporate America - Eric Guthey, Copenhagen Business School
Session IV: Big Business and the Problem of Equity
- Corporate Responses to Anti-Business Movements, 1945-90 - David Sicilia, University of Maryland -- College Park
- Corporate America and Race Relations -
Steven Adams, Independent Scholar
- The Gendering of Corporate America -
Angel Kwolek-Folland, University of Kansas
To Register...
All interested parties are welcome to attend. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register please send email to ds190@umail.umd.edu with the following information:
Name:
Address:
Telephone number:
Plan to attend Saturday luncheon: Y/N?
Plan to attend Saturday reception: Y/N?
Plan to attend Saturday banquet: Y/N?
Plan to attend Sunday luncheon: Y/N?
For additional information about the conference program, directions to the Hagley Museum and Library, and hotel information, please visit the conference website or contact David Sicilia at the address below.
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