京都大学 大学院経済学研究科・経済学部

SEMINAR SERIES

Economic and Business History Seminar

Takafumi Krosawa, Jan Logemann, Ai Hisano, Matthias Kipping, Yen Nie YONG(Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University; Privatdozent (Lecturer), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Associate Professor, the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies/Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo; Professor of Policy, Schulich School of Business, York University; Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto Unviversity; respectively)

Date&Time:
2025.3.5 (Wed) 13:30 - 17:20
Venue:
SMBC Hall on B1F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg., Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University *Pre-registration is required
Language:
English
Contact:
Takafumi Kurosawa

Business History Kyoto

Moderator: Steven Ivings (Kyoto Unviversity)

1) 13:30-14:10
"The dynamics of the “first industry”: a long-term global history of textiles" Takafumi Krosawa (Kyoto Unviversity)

2) 14:10-14:50
"Corporate Growth in a 'Taboo Market': The Deathcare Industry in the United States since the early 20th Century" Jan Logemann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

3) 14:50-15:30
"Crossing Boundaries: Industrial Designers and Multi-Industry Work" Ai Hisano (the University of Tokyo)

[Coffee Break]

4) 15:50-16:30
"How the management consulting industry became hegemonic: emergence, expansion, explosion" Matthias Kipping(Schulich School of Business, York University)

5) 16:30-17:10
"Gendered Productivity in State Capitalism: The Case of Singapore Airlines, 1960s-2010s" Yong Yen Nie (Kyoto Unviversity)

If you would like to participate in this seminar, please register yourself from the weblink below, before March 5, 1:00 pm: 
https://forms.gle/EHT2QJ54dx59EfkLA