Friday, 17 September 2004
15.00-16.00: Opening of the Conference
Welcome by Gerhard H. Gurtlich (Federal Ministry for Traffic, Innovation and Technology, Vienna, Austria)
Welcome by Helmut Hainitz (Austrian Federal Railway, Vienna)
Welcome by Paul Veron (UIC, Paris, France)
Opening of the conference by Michele Merger (President of IRHA, Paris, France)
16.00-19.00: Session 1 - Individual Across-Border Investors
Melanie Aspey (The Rothschild Archive, London, United Kingdom):
Making Tracks: Promoting The Rothschild Archive as a Source for Railway History
Christophe Bouneau (Universite Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3 and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, France):
The Pereire Family Strategy in the Field of International Finance in the 1850-1860's
Ihor Zhaloba (University Library, Czernowitz, Ukraine):
Leon Sapieha - a Prince and a Railroad Entepreneur
Michele Merger (Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, CNRS, Paris, France):
Raffaele de Ferrari, Duke of Galliera, an Investor of European Stature
Ralf Roth (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany):
The Rise and Fall of the Railway King Henry Bethel Strousberg: Difficulties of International Railway Investments in Germany in the 1860s
19.45: Evening Lecture
Rocio Robles Tardio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain):
Economic Investment and Railway Publicity. The Influence of Railway Photographs Circulation on French and Spanish Modern Painting in the 19th Century Second Half
Saturday, 18. September 2004
9.00-13.00: Session 2 - Across Border Investments in Europe
Francisco de los Cobos Arteaga & Tomas Martinez Vara (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain):
Spanish Society of Secondary Railways: the Failure of a Major International Project to Create an Additional Railway Network in Spain
Gustav Sjoblom (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom):
International Constraints, Railway Finance and the Menace of Motorization in Germany, 1925-35, Including a Brief Comparison with Sweden and Great Britain
Daniela Felisini (Universita di Roma "Torre Vergata", Italy):
Railway Investments in Italy in the 19th Century
Magda Pinheiro (Instituto superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal):
The French Investors in Portuguese Railways from 1855 to 1884: Three Cases
Frans Buelens (University of Antwerp, Belgium):
British and French Investments in the Belgian Railroad Sector During the 19th Century
Augustus J. Veenendaal (Institute of Netherlands History at The Hague, The Netherlands):
The Dutch as Railway Investors at Home and Abroad
Saturday, 18. September 2004
15.00-19.00: Session 3 - From Europe into the World: Oversea Investments
Diane K. Drummond (University of Leeds, United Kingdom):
Reasons for Sustained British Investment in Overseas' Railways, 1830-1914: The Imperial Dream, Engineers' Assurances or an 'Investment Hungry' Public?
Ian J. Kerr (University of Manitoba, Canada):
John Chapman and the Promotion of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 1842-1850
Robert Lee (University of Western Sydney, Australia):
French Finance and Railway Construction in Northern China, 1895-1905
Ian Thompson (Unidad de Transporte, Chile):
The Transandine Railway: a Hundred Year Long Financial Disaster that still Attracts Investors
Maria Teresa Ribeiro de Oliveira (University of Brasilia, Brazil):
The Establishment of Railways in the 19th Century Brazil and the British Imperialism
Bulent Bilmez (Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey):
Railway Projects as 'Modernisation Projects': Review of Ottoman Railways to 1918
19.45: Evening lecture
Andrea Giuntini (Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy):
Invitation to Our Next Conference in Italy
Gerhard H. Gurtlich (Federal Ministry for Traffic, Innovation and Technology, Vienna, Austria):
Semmering Railway. The History and Financial Aspects Then and Today
Sunday, 19. September 2004 9.00-12.00: Excursion
Walter Potucek (Austrian Federal Railway, Vienna):
Guided Tour Along the UNESCO World Heritage Semmeringbahn
13.00: End of the Conference