Thursday 29 May 2008

19.00 Registration - Cocktail at Metzler-Haus, Alt-Bonames

Friday 30 May 2008

10.30 - 10.45 Welcome Address
Manfred Pohl, EABH e.V., Frankfurt am Main

10.45 - 11.15 Key Note Speech
History in the Making (pdf ca. 58kb)
Axel Weber, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank

11.15 - 12.30 Panel Discussion
10 Years of the Euro. The Eurosystem and its Prospects
Chair: David Marsh, London and Oxford Group, London
Harold James, Princeton University, Princeton
Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University, Milan
Axel Weber, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main
Otmar Issing, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt am Main

12.30 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 15.30 First Session - Part I
Chair: Philip L. Cottrell, Leicester University

European Banking and Financial Networks from the 14th to the 17th Centuries (pdf ca. 41kb)
Hermann van der Wee, Catholic University, Leuven
Helma Houtman-De Smedt, University of Antwerp

Amsterdam and London as Financial Centres in the 18th Century ( pdf ca. 50kb)
Larry Neal, University of Illinois

Mergers and Acquisitions in the Banking Industry: Britain 1885-1920 (pdf ca. 58kb)
Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 - 17.00 First Session - Part II

Banking Networks and European Financial Architecture on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution (pdf ca. 23kb)
Marc Flandreau, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

International Banking and Financial Houses (pdf ca. 54kb)
Richard Roberts, University of London

Q&A Session

20.00 Dinner hosted by the European Central Bank

Saturday 31 May 2008

10.00 - 11.30 First Session
Chair: Juan Carlos Martinez Oliva, Banca d’Italia

European and American Finances (pdf ca. 7kb)
Kathleen Burk, University College London

Ever Increasing Circles: Financial Networks and International Cooperation, 1918-1950 (pdf ca. 58kb)
Patricia Clavin, Jesus College, University of Oxford

European Multinational Enterprise, Finance, and American Prospects, 1950-1970 (pdf ca. 20kb)
Mira Wilkins, Florida International University, Miami

Question & Answer Session

11.30 - 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 - 13.30 Second Session: Internationalization in Banks. Consequences in the Archives’ Practices. Danger of Cultural Memory and Corporate Identity Loss.
Chair: Gabriele Teichmann, Sal Oppenheim jr. & Cie.

Define the Name, Define History - The Experience of Deutsche Bank (pdf ca. 72kb)
Martin Müller, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt

Going Global: Managing Archives at HSBC (pdf ca. 36kb)
Tina Staples, HSBC, London

Bringing the Historical Archives into the Third Millennium. Reflections from a Truly European Bank Perspective (pdf ca. 28kb)
Giampietro Morreale, Unicredit Group, Milan

Question & Answer Session

13.30 - 15.00 Lunch

15.00 - 16.00 Concluding Remarks
Gianni Toniolo, Duke University (USA) and LUISS (Rome)

16.00 End