Events


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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