Due to the current new coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak in Italy and the containment measures approved by the Italian Government, the conference has been cancelled and will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
Date:
Event location: Venice and Florence
The International Debt Crisis Revisited, 1979-1991, Venice-Florence, 16-19 March 2020
Part I – The Superpowers and the International Debt Crisis, 1979-1991
16 March - Venice
10.00 Welcome & Opening remarks
10:30 Panel 1
Chair: Francesco Saverio Leopardi (University of Bologna)
Maximilian Graf (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences), The East German ‘Debt Crisis’, the Soviet Union and the West
Pal Germuska (Hungarian National Archive), Hungary and the debt crisis of the 1980s
Discussant: Fritz Bartel (Texas A&M University)
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Panel 2
Chair: Verena Kross
Aleksandra Komornička (EUI), The Years of Turmoil: Debt Crisis, Domestic Power Struggles and the Solidarity Revolution, 1979-1981
Benedetto Zaccaria & Duccio Basosi (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), The US and the Polish Debt Crisis Revisited, 1979-1986
Discussant: Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (University of Glasgow)
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Keynote Speech: Federico Romero (EUI)
20.00 Conference dinner
17 March – Venice
9.30 Panel 3
Chair: Mattia Ravano (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Yasmina Aziki (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), The Moroccan debt crisis in 1983: A predictable bankruptcy?
Max Trecker (Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin), ‘I Want My Money Back!’ Or Why There Was No Thatcher-Moment in East-South Financial Relations
Discussant: Kim Seung Woo (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Final Roundtable
Coordinator: Duccio Basosi (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)
Speakers: Vladislav M. Zubok (LSE), Kathryn Furlong (Université de Montréal), Massimiliano Trentin (University of Bologna)
13.30 Lunch & transfer to Florence
Part II – The Global Financial System and the International Debt Crisis, 1979-1991
18 March – Florence
10.00 Opening remarks: Mauro Campus (University of Florence)
10.00 Keynote speech: TBD
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Panel 1
Chair: TBD
Mauro Campus (University of Florence), The public discourse on the debt crisis in the 1980s
Raphaël Orange-Leroy (CY Cergy Paris Université), Why did the debt crisis not happen sooner? A counterfactual inquiry into the financial difficulties of developing countries (1964-1979)
Discussant: Maximilian Graf (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
13.30 Lunch
15.30 Panel 2
Chair: Yasmina Aziki (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Fritz Bartel (Texas A&M University), From Banks to Bonds: The Changing Structure of Global Finance in the 1980s
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (University of Glasgow), Barclays, Paribas, and Société Générale in Poland, 1950s-1980s
Discussant: Duccio Basosi (Ca’ Foscari Universtity Venice)
19.30 Conference dinner
19 March – Florence
9.00 Panel 3
Chair: TBD
Kim Seung Woo (Graduate Institute, Geneva), Inter-state solution in the stateless market: the international debt crisis and the global supervision of the Eurocurrency market, 1979-1984
Mattia Ravano (Graduate Institute, Geneva), From trade promotion to debt restructuring: The changing approach of the G7 to East-West economic relations, 1979-1989
Verena Kröss (Jacobs University, Bremen), Understanding the World Bank’s Turn to Structural Adjustment Lending
Discussant: TBD
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Panel 4
Chair: Pal Germuska (Hungarian National Archive)
Kathryn Furlong (Université de Montréal), Transforming landscapes, Transforming livelihoods: Infrastructure, IFIs and International Debt Management (Medellín, Colombia 1950-1995)
Discussant: Max Trecker (Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin)
13.30 Lunch
15.00 Concluding Remarks: Mauro Campus University of Florence), Duccio Basosi (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Massimiliano Trentin (University of Bologna)
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