News
Sixth European Congress on
World and Global History - Minorities, Cultures of Integration,
and Patterns of Exclusion
February 4, 2021
The researchers associated with this project will be presenting their ongoing research on insurance in non-Western contexts at a session of the Sixth European Congress on World and Global History with a focus on Minorities, Cultures of Integration, and Patterns of Exclusion. The Congress will take place online June 14 - June 16 2021 and in situ in Turku from June 17 - June 20, 2021. The panel analyses the position of minorities in financial markets in a comparative framework with case studies on at least three different geographic regions: the Middle East (with a focus on Turkey in the late Ottoman period and the nascent Republic), sub-Saharan Africa (focussing on West-African countries such as Ghana and Nigeria in the decolonisation period), and East and South-East Asia (especially late 19th and early 20th centuries China).
For more information on the Congress, click here.
Doctoral Position Project "Global Cultures of Risk" 100%, fixed term, 2,5 years (possibly extendable to 4 years)
April 8 2020
The History Department of the University of Basle, Switzerland, is opening a doctoral position as part of the joint research project "Global Cultures of Risk: Insurance in Non-Western Contexts (1870–1980)", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
The doctoral position will be responsible for one of four subprojects, investigating "Development through insurance. The formation of an insurance industry in sub-Saharan Africa (World War I to 1970s)". The subproject focuses on the insurance-related policies of international organisations in sub-Saharan Africa (UNCTAD, International Labour Organisation, United Nations) and on African countries (e.g. South Africa, Nigeria or Cameroon), and their insurance markets.
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Global Cultures of Risk team at the “Risk and Insurance Business in History” conference (June 12 - 14, 2019) in Seville, Spain
July 15 2019
The researchers associated with this project participated in the “Risk and Insurance Business in History” conference in Seville where Robin Pearson, Yong Han, Eva Kocher and Claus Musterle presented their respective papers at a session.
5th Schweizerische Geschichtstage June 5 -7, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland
June 7 2019
Robin Pearson (Project Director) and Claus Musterle (Doctoral student) participated in the 5th Schweizerische Geschichtstage 5th-7th June 2019 at the University of Zurich with the subject “wealth”. Whilst Professor Pearson presented a paper entitled “Orientalist Attitudes vs. Local Norms. The Diffusion and Reception of Life Insurance in Asia (1870-1970)” co-written by Dr Yong Han (Post Doc), Claus Musterle gave a talk on the genesis of a Turkish market for life insurance between 1890 and 1940. For more details, click here. For the panel report on the session, click here.
Risk and the Insurance Business in History, an International Conference, June 12 - 14, 2019, Seville, Spain
June 7 2019
The researchers associated with this project will be presenting their ongoing research on insurance in non-Western contexts at a session of “Risk and the Insurance Business in History,” a conference held 11-14 June 2019 in Seville, Spain. Taking insurance as a representative branch of the tertiary sector, the session analyses the expansion of the service sector into non-Western markets. It highlights the concept of cultures of risk as an analytic tool for understanding the institutional and cultural conditions of non-Western approaches to risk. For more details, click here.
Kick-Off Workshop, January 24 -25, 2019 at Hull University, Hull, United Kingdom
Feb 2 2019
On January 24-25 a first team meeting was held at the University for the project Global Cultures of Risk: Insurance in Non-Western Contexts 1870-1980, co-directed by Martin Lengwiler and Robin Pearson. This meeting was the first opportunity for some of the new team members to become acquainted. Preliminary drafts of papers were presented, ideas on sources and methodologies were exchanged, and structural and organisational plans for the project were discussed.