Monday, 18 March 2018
14:00 Meet & Greet
14:30 Welcome and Introduction
Thomas MAISSEN (Institut historique allemand): Director’s Welcome Address
Jürgen FINGER (Institut historique allemand/Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich): Contextualizing Bankruptcy: Perspectives and Research Axes
15:15 Covering and Uncovering: Secrecy and Publicity 1
Chair: Jasper KUNSTREICH (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a.M.)
Jean-Paul BARRIÈRE (University of Franche-Comté, Besançon): Notary Bankruptcies in 19th-Century France in the Eyes of Justice and Profession: Between Secrecy and Publicity
Eric HÄUSLER (University Bern): Social Acceptance Through Publicity? The Bernese Geldstag. as an Example of a Legitimate Bankruptcy Proceeding in the Long 19th Century
17:15 Covering and Uncovering: Secrecy and Publicity 2
Chair: Jérôme SGARD (Sciences Po, Paris)
Tyson LEUCHTER (University of Chicago): An Abyss of Debt: Corporatism, Bankruptcy, and Responsibility in Restoration France
Saul SAMIR (University of Montréal): Far from the Light of Day: Bankrupt Parisian Minor Banks and Petty Bankers from 1882 to 1914
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
9:00 Economic Space and Area of Jurisdiction
Chair: Laurence FONTAINE (Centre Maurice Halbwachs CNRS-ENS-EHESS, Paris)
Benoît SAINT-CAST (University »Lumière« Lyon 2): Bankruptcy Rules, Local Jurisdictions and Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Lyons in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries
Stefan GEIßLER (ETH Zurich): The Lloyd’s List: Providing Security against Bankruptcy
Margrit SCHULTE BEERBÜHL (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf): The International Speculation Bubble of 1799 and Cross-border Insolvency Practices
11:30 Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency 1
Chair: Natacha COQUERY (LARHRA, University »Lumière« Lyon 2, Institut universitaire français)
Viera REBOLLEDO-DHUIN (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines): The Inter-se of Commercial Regulations: The Bankruptcies of Parisian Booksellers-publishers in the 19th Century
Laurine MANAC’H (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris): Questioning Contractual and Legal Definitions of Liability in Spanish Bankruptcy Proceedings: Surroca, Comas y Cía’s Case in early 19th-Century Catalonia
14:00 Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency 2
Chair: Mark Sven HENGERER (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich)
Riina TURUNEN (University of Jyväskylä): Past, Present and Future in the Narratives of Finnish
19th-Century Urban Bankrupts
Emmanuel DEBRUYNE (Catholic University of Leuven): Should I Stay or Should I go? Bankrupts and their Residential Mobility in “Belle Epoque” Belgium, 1896–1914
15:30 Final discussion
Mark Sven HENGERER (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich): Final Commentary and Conclusion