Green Capitalism? At the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History
Investigate and experience the unfolding history of American business, technology, and innovation and its impact on the world, with Hagley at this upcoming conference!
SCHEDULE:
Thursday, 30 October
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:30 Welcoming remarks
Erik Rau, Hagley Museum and Library
Hartmut Berghoff, German Historical Institute-D.C.
9:30-12:00 Session 1: Firms as Conservationists?
William D. Bryan, Emory University: Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development for the American South
Julie Cohn, University of Houston: Utilities as Conservationists: The Conundrum of Electrification during the Progressive Era in North America
David B. Cohen, Brandeis University: Capitalism and the Wilderness Idea: The Case of the Great Northern Paper Company
Frank Uekötter, University of Birmingham: How Green was Chemurgy? A Movement in Search of Corporations
Comment: Ann Greene, University of Pennsylvania
12:00-1:00 lunch
1:00-3:00 Session 2: Consumers’ Demands
Ai Hisano, University of Delaware: Making Natural: Coloring Florida Oranges, 1930s-1950s
Brian C. Black, Penn State Altoona: Energy Hinge: Green Consumerism and the Energy Scene since 1973
Rachel Gross, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Greening Outdoor Recreation in the Age of Plastics
Comment: Adam Rome, University of Delaware
3:30-5:30 Session 3: Globalization
B. R. Cohen and Matthew Plishka, Lafayette College: Cottonseed, Oil, and the Environmental Entanglements of a Global Gilded Age Industry
Emily K. Brock, Max Planck Institute: Naming Commodities: Colonial Power, American Business and the Rebranding of a Tropical Forest Tree in the Philippines
Simone Müller-Pohl,University of Freiburg: Why American Cities go Wasting Abroad: Local Political Economy and International Trade in Hazardous Waste
Comment: Yda Schreuder, University of Delaware
5:30-6:30: Reception
6:30-8:30: Dinner
Friday 31 October
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-11:30 Session 4: Firms Going Green
David Kinkela, State University of New York Fredonia: Hi-Cone Plastic Six-Pack Rings, Ocean Pollution, and the Challenge of a Global Environmental Problem
Bart Elmore, University of Alabama: Towards a History of Sustainable Business?: What the Coca-Cola Company Can Tell us about the Ecological Causes of Corporate Restructuring
Leif Fredrickson, University of Virginia: The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Environmental Technology Innovation and Marketing as Policy Obstruction
Ann-Kristin Bergquist. Umeå University: Dilemmas of Going Green: Company Strategies in the Swedish Mining Company Boliden 1960-2000
Comment: John McNeil, Georgetown University
12:30-2:00 Session 5: Governance
Roman Köster, Bundeswehr University Munich: Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965-1990
Hugh Gorman, Michigan Technology University: The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance
Comment: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
2:00-3:00 Conference summary
Christine Meisner Rosen, Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley
Advance registration is free but required. Contact Carol Lockman, clockman@Hagley.org, for program and registration information.
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