The Dawes Plan and the Rescue of the Global Economy

The Dawes Plan and the Rescue of the Global Economy. International Conference 26th-28th September 2024

Veranstalter
Historische Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Deutsches Historisches Institut London (German Historical Institute London)
Ausrichter
German Historical Institute London
Veranstaltungsort
17 Bloomsbury Square
Gefördert durch
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; GHI London; Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung; Stifterverband; Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband
PLZ
WC1A 2NJ
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
26.09.2024 - 28.09.2024
Von
Roman Köster, Historische Kommission, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften

It is the hundredth anniversary of the Dawes Plan negotiations and the London Agreement of August 1924. To mark this occasion, the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Historical Institute in London are organizing a conference that places the Dawes Plan in the context of attempts to stabilize the European and global economy during the 1920s.

The Dawes Plan and the Rescue of the Global Economy. International Conference 26th-28th September 2024

The Dawes Plan, adopted at the London Conference from 16 July to 16 August 1924, celebrates its centenary next year. Researchers generally regard it as an important step towards stabilising the situation in Germany. It marked the beginning of the "good years" of the Weimar Republic until 1929, before the Great Depression brutally destroyed the improvement of conditions that had been achieved up to that point. However, such a perspective centred on the Weimar Republic fails to recognise that, in the eyes of the negotiators and many contemporaries, the Dawes negotiations were about much more: The complex treaty represented nothing less than an attempt to stabilise the global economy in the long term. After the chaotic post-war period, which many contemporaries saw as a continuation of the world war by other means, the global economy was to be returned to the growth-friendly path of liberal world trade and the global division of labour. The conference is focussing on the Dawes Plan, in order to open up new perspectives on the economic and financial history of the interwar period. At the same time, their significance for the political history of the 1920s will be emphasised.

Programm

Thursday, 26th September

16:00 – 16:30 Welcome Address

16:30 – 18:30 Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics): Keynote: The Rise and Fall of the Dawes Plan, 1922-1932
Roman Köster (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities): The stabilisation of European currencies during the 1920s: An unfinished story.

19:00 Reception at the GHI

Friday, 27th September

1.) The Role of England:

9:30 – 11:15 Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford): Britain, Europe and the Changing Global Order
Brian D. Varian: (University of Newcastle): German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 Neil Forbes (Coventry University): The Dawes Plan, London's merchant banks and European stabilisation

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

2.) Monetary Stabilisation in Comparison

13.30 – 15.15 Benjamin Vogt (University of Oxford): Credit for Reconstruction - Austria's League Loan, the Dawes Plan and the Evolution of the Interwar Multilateral Rescue Finance Toolkit.

Marianna Astore (University of Oxford): The International Dimensions of Quota Novanta: Constraints and Opportunities of Italian Monetary Stabilization

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 Kenneth Mouré (University of Alberta): Poincaré-le-franc: Monetary Stabilization in France

16.30 – 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 – 17.45 Presentation of the editorial project "Germany´s global economic relations during the 19th and 20th century": Volume on the 1920s.

19:00 – 21.00 Conference Dinner Restaurant

Saturday, 28th September

3.) Re-creating the European Market? Trade liberalization during the 1920s

09:00-10:45 Madeleine Dungy (Trondheim University): Competing visions of trade and security after the Dawes settlement

Jamieson Gordon Myles (University of Oxford): Anglo-American Trade Finance and the Monetary and Economic Reconstruction of Europe

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

4.) Actors in European Stabilisation: Companies and Associations

11:00 – 12:45 Liane Hewitt (Center for History and Economics, Science-Po Paris): Cartel Diplomacy: The Golden Age of International Cartelization & Europe's Interwar Stabilization

Marco Bertilorenzi (University of Padua): Cartels diplomacy: the role of the International Chamber of Commerce and League of Nation in the normalisation of French-German trade

12:45 – 13:00 Concluding Remarks

13:00 Lunch, End of the Conference

Kontakt

J.Triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

https://www.ghil.ac.uk/events/conferences-and-workshops/the-dawes-plan-and-the-rescue-of-the-global-economy
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