| When: | Back to Calendar » 08/03/2012 – 10/03/2012 (all-day) | Where: | Lausanne |
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Friday 9 March
9-9.30
Welcome and opening of the Conference: Sandra Bott (University of Lausanne)
Opening speech: Catherine R. Schenk (University of Glasgow)
Morning - Chair: Sébastien Guex (University of Lausanne)
9.30-10.30
Stefano Ugolini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
The Bank of England in the London Bullion Market, 1860-1914
10.30-11.30
Michele Blagg (Centre for Contemporary British History at King’s College, London)
The end of the rainbow, the demise of gold refining in London
11.45-12.45
Steven Topik (University of California)
How the Gold Standard Acted in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Afternoon - Chair: Olivier Feiertag (University of Rouens and University of Geneva)
14.15-15.15
Georges Gallais-Hamonno (Université d’Orléans), Thi Hong Van Hoang (Montpellier Business School)
Gold in France 1803 to date: from a currency to a financial asset
15.15-16.15
Rachel Harvey (Columbia University)
Maket Status/Status Markets : The London Gold Fixing in the Bretton Woods Era
16.30-17.30
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl (University of Lausanne)
Gold as a diplomatic tool. How the gold trade shaped political relations
between the United States and the European Community, 1958-1968
Saturday 10 March
Morning - Chair : Thomas David (University of Lausanne)
9.15-10.15
Catherine R. Schenk (University of Glasgow)
The Hong Kong Gold Market during the 1960s
10.15-11.15
Bernd-Stefan Grewe (University of Education, Freiburg)
The Golden Route to India: India’s Gold Control Policy and the Illegal Import of Gold (1960-1992)
11.30-12.30
Sandra Bott (University of Lausanne)
Gold at the heart of the competition between the Zurich and London financial markets, 1945-1975
For more information, check the conference’s website: http://www.unil.ch/hist/page89412.html
