Conference Programme

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Title of SessionSession Organisers

Opening Session

 

 

Session 1/2: Comparing Risk Management Strategies in the Mediterranean and East Asian Maritime Business (16th-19th centuries)

 

Giovanni Ceccarelli

 

Session 3: Developments of Insurance Markets in Emerging European Economies

 

Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala and Marijana Ćurak

 

Session 4: Mutuality and the Rise of Actuaries in 19th century Europe and in Global Perspective

 

Christofer Stadlin and Geoffroy Legentilhomme

 

Session 5: The Many Meanings of Mutuality in Insurance History

 

Phillip Hellwege

 

Opening Session Day 2

 

 

Session 6: Post-demutualisation Insurance: Efficiency or Corporate Profitability?

 

Grietjie Verhoef, Monica Keneley and Antti Talonen

 

Session 7: Risky Business: Building an Integrated Insurance Pricing Database

 

Sabine Go, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Adrian Leonard and Antonio Iodice

 

Session 8/9: History of Insurance Markets in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe

 

Jacek Lisowski, Piotr Manikowski and Adam Śliwiński

 

Session 10: The Health Insurance Business: From Marginality to the Fastest Growing Sector in the First Decades of the 21st Century

 

Jerònia Pons-Pons and Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez

 

Session 11: The Price of Risk in History

 

Leonardo Caruana de Las Cagigas and André Straus

 

Session 12: Private and Public Insurance and Protection Against Social Contingencies

 

Bernard Harris, Liselotte Eriksson and Lars-Fredrik Andersson

 

Session 13: Global and Long-Term Perspectives in the History of Insurance

 

Phillip Hellwege

 

Session 14: Histoy of Insurance in Russian Markets

 

Martin Lengwiler

 

Session 15/16: Going Global? Marine Insurance and the Limits of Early Modern Globalization

 

Mallory Hope, Antonio Iodice and Lewis Wade

 

Session 17: Natural Disasters and Risk Management from a Global North-South Perspective

 

Welf Werner and Natalie Rauscher 

 

Session 18: Beyond the State. Insurance in Habsburg Central Europe from a Global Perspective

 

Matyas Erdelyi, Thomas Rohringer and Vojtěch Pojar

 

Session 19: Legal Perspectives in the History of Insurance

 

Phillip Hellwege

 

Session 20: Insurance in non-Western Contexts: Comparing Business Strategies in Different World Regions (19th/20th centuries)

 

Martin Lengwiler and Robin Pearson

 

Closing Session

 

 

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