Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference
Miami, Florida April 20-22, 2001

The 2001 annual meeting of the Business History Conference will take as its theme Services and the Global Economy. We invite proposals for papers concerned with the historical evolution of all forms of business enterprise engaged in services with a special emphasis on their international dimensions. It is hoped to attract papers on the widest range of services including finance, utilities, trade, retailing, transport, advertising, tourism, entertainment and crime. Papers could explore both the enterprises and persons engaged in services and their geographical location in cities, regions or countries. Submissions are invited on all chronological periods, and papers on the role of services in Latin America, Asia and Africa are especially encouraged. Submissions on topics beyond the theme are welcome as well. All graduate students presenting papers are eligible for travel grants to defray costs associated with attending the annual meeting.

Proposals may be submitted for individual papers or for entire panels. All proposals should include one page abstracts and one page CVs or resumes for all participants. Panel proposals also should have a cover letter containing a title, a one paragraph panel description, suggestions for a chair and commentator, and contact information for the panel organizer.

Graduate students in the early stages of writing up their dissertations may apply for inclusion in designated workshops intended to discuss preliminary conclusions and methodologies in an informed but informal environment. Interested students should submit a one page abstract of their project and a one page CV. These proposals should indicate they are intended for the Dissertations in Progress sessions.

The deadline for submission is October 2, 2000. Please send five copies to Roger Horowitz, Secretary-Treasurer, Business History Conference, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807, USA.

Dissertations completed in the previous three years (1998-2000) are eligible for the conference's dissertation session. Proposals are welcome from Ph.D recipients in history, business administration, history of science and technology, economics and other fields whose work is on business history broadly defined. Presentations made at this session will be published in Enterprise & Society, the BHC journal. One dissertation will receive the Herman E. Krooss Prize for the best dissertation in business history, which includes a $500 award. Completed dissertations should be sent by October 2, 2000 to: Professor Jonathan Zeitlin, Department of History, 5213 Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706. Email: jzeitlin@facstaff .wis.edu.

The Program Committee consists of Geoffrey Jones (chair), Will Hausman, Kenneth Lipartito, and Mary Yeager. Address questions about proposals to Geoffrey Jones, Department of Economics, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, UK. Email:g.jones@reading.ac.uk.

Acceptance letters will be sent by November 30, 2000. Presenters are expected to submit abstracts of their papers in electronic form for posting on the BHC web site. Authors are also encouraged to post electronic versions of their full papers in advance of the April meeting.