New episode is available in the Hagley History Hangout—Gregory Hargreaves interviews Bernardo Batiz-Lazo about his book, Cash & Dash: How ATMs & Computers Changed Banking(Oxford, 2018). Batiz-Lazo, professor of FinTech History & Global Trade at Northumbria University, used Hagley collections related to the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society. In Cash & Dash, Batiz-Lazo discusses his research on the history of financial technology, including the development and adoption of ATMs & computer networks. Financial service firms found numerous reasons to adopt automation, while consumers found as many
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I am pleased to announce a new event of the 2020-21Yale Mellon Sawyer Seminar “The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum” that might be of interest to this group.
Speaker: Christopher Kelty, UCLA
Title: The Participant in Troubled Times
Time: 12 pm (EST), October 29
RSVP: https://rb.gy/kufdcn
Abstract:
Participation is more troubled than ever. A global pandemic has people isolated and unable to touch while demanding ever more constant mediated participation. Protests to protect democracy continue in Hong Kong, in Bolivia, against corruption in Lebanon, and police brutality in the US and
I am pleased to announce the inaugural event of the 2020-21Yale Mellon Sawyer Seminar “The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum.”
Speaker: Safiya Noble, Associate Professor of Information Studies at UCLA.
Title: New paradigms of justice: How knowledge curators can respond to the information crisis
Time: 12 pm (EST), October 16, 2020
RSVP: https://rb.gy/ez1v0u
Abstract:
In her recent best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression, Dr. Safiya Noble challenges the idea that “Big Tech” offers an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Her work argues that the
Business History: Building for the Future
Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference
Virtual meeting
March 11-13, 2021
Proposals due November 14, 2020
The originally agreed theme of ‘The Ubiquity of Business’ has been dropped. Instead, a new theme ‘Business History: Building for the Future’ has been developed. This year’s BHC annual meeting will be unlike any previous annual meeting as it will be a virtual one. It is hoped that this is only a temporary interlude from the standard get-togethers which we all value so much. However, it also provides an opportunity to be innovative. Four
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The Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The Department is committed to broadening the history of health and medicine, and seeks new colleagues who address areas not covered by existing faculty, specifically in the areas of pre-modern medicine, health, and healing before 1800, and in medicine, health and healing in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or
Happy Indigenous People's Day! The University of Virginia is thrilled to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD fellowship in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2021. Any student admitted to a PhD program in the College of Arts & Sciences who intends to work in Indigenous Studies (art history, environmental science, history, religious studies, sociology, Spanish, etc.) can apply for the fellowship.
For information on the Interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship at UVA, please click here: https://graduate.as.virginia.edu/interdisciplinary-doctoral-fellowship. For faculty contacts and more information