MERCATOR Conference | LSE
Department of Economic History, LSE, London | 17 – 18 June 2024
What is a financial crisis? Perceptions, memories, analyses in a long-run historical perspective
Third annual conference of the ERC-funded project ‘The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk’ (MERCATOR), directed by Youssef Cassis.
Research Seminar | Adam Smith Business School
University of Glasgow, Glasgow | 13 December 2023
15 years from the Global Financial Crisis. What memory is left?
Research Fellow Giuseppe Telesca delivers this paper for the ‘Entrepreneurship, Development and Political Economy’ seminar series at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
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Conference | Centre de Recherche en Économie de Grenoble
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble | 16 November 2023
Remembering and forgetting financial crises
Professor Youssef Cassis presents a paper exploring the possibilities of combining cultural history, in particular memory studies, and financial history, to better comprehend the causes of recurring financial crises.
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KEYNOTE SPEECH | Congress of French Business History
ESCP Business School, Paris | 14 – 16 June 2023
Finance, crises et capitalisme
Professor Youssef Cassis delivers the closing keynote speech for the ‘Congrès international d’histoire des entreprises’ on Crises, Transitions and Resilience.
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KEYNOTE SPEECH | Geneva Graduate Institute
Albert Hirschman Centre for Democracy, Geneva | 16 February 2023
Finance, Politics and Democracy
Professor Youssef Cassis will deliver the keynote speech in this Geneva Graduate Institute interdisciplinary conference dealing with the topic ‘Democracy and Finance’.
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Workshop | European University Institute
Sala Capitolio (Badia Fiesolana) | 17 – 18 November 2022
Anniversaries, memory, and history of financial crises
Second annual workshop of the ERC-funded project ‘The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk’ (MERCATOR), directed by Youssef Cassis.
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KEYNOTE SPEECH | University of Lisbon
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon | 14 November 2022
International Finance, Capitalism and Authoritarian Regimes
Professor Cassis will deliver his keynote speech on the relation between international finance and authoritarian regimes.
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Economic History Seminars | London School of Economics and Political Science
Department of Economic History, LSE, London | 13 October 2022
Remembering and forgetting financial crises
Within these series of seminars organised by the Economic History Department at LSE, Professor Cassis delivers his lecture on ‘Remembering and forgetting financial crises’ and the lessons we can draw.
Workshop | Central European University
Central European University, Vienna | 6 – 7 October 2022
Battles of narratives, battles of memory. Making sense of the ebbs and flows of the memory of the Great Depression
MERCATOR Project Director Youssef Cassis and Research Fellow Giuseppe Telesca present their paper at the Collective memory of economic crises and transformations conference organised by the Central European University in Vienna.
Conference | Association of Business Historians
Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow | 1 – 2 July 2022
The Memory of the Great Depression in the Financial Press, 1981-2019
MERCATOR Research Fellow Giuseppe Telesca will present his paper at the 2022 Association of Business Historians Conference in Glasgow.
Conference | European Business History Association
Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid | 24 June 2022
Remembering, misremembering, forgetting. Financial Crises (1982-2022)
Members of the MERCATOR team will present a number of papers at the 25th European Business History Association Congress in Madrid.
KEYNOTE SPEECH | Diplomatische Akademie Wien
Diplomatische Akademie Wien | 9 – 10 June 2022
Recharging Austro-American Relations
Professor Youssef Cassis gives keynote speech on the importance of studying how financial crises are remembered.
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Research Seminar
Emeroteca (Badia Fiesolana) | 22 November 2021
Deciphering the memory of senior bankers
Organised by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies within the activities of the MERCATOR project, this research seminar will discuss methodological challenges in interviewing financial elites.
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Book launch
Zoom event | 21 September 2021
The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis
Edited by Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten. The presentation and discussion of the main issues raised by the book, including how the legacy of the Global Financial Crisis has been tested by the Covid crisis, will be moderated by a journalist with the editors and two EUI contributors, Ramon Marimon (professor of economics) and George Papakonstantinou (former Greece Finance Minister).
Project launch
Hybrid: Sala Europa (Villa Schifanoia) / Zoom | 31 May – 1 June 2021
How are Financial Crises Remembered?
Opening workshop of the ERC-funded project ‘The Memory of Financial Crises: Financial Actors and Global Risk’ (MERCATOR), directed by Youssef Cassis.
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