HAGLEY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY GRANTS.
Hagley Exploratory Research Grants. These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than fifty miles from Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.
Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants. These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are prorated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than fifty miles from Hagley, and $200/week for those within fifty miles. Application deadlines: March 31, June 30, and October 31.
For submission requirements, please visit http://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships. Questions about grant procedures may be directed to askhagley@hagley.org.
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BAKER LIBRARY EXHIBITION. Baker Library's exhibition, “At the Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation—The Formative Years,” features the extensive Polaroid Corporation archives. The exhibit is located in the North Lobby of the Baker Library Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business School or can be explored online at https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/polaroid/.
For more information about Baker Library Special Collections visit https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Collections-Archives/Special-Collections.
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BUSINESS HISTORY CONFERENCE MEETING. The 2018 Business History Conference (BHC) will hold its annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland from April 5–7, 2018. The theme is “Money, Finance, and Capital.” Please visit the BHC website for more information, http://thebhc.org/2018-bhc-meeting.
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WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS. The next gathering of the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) will convene July 29–August 3, 2018 in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts to consider the broad theme of “Waves of Globalization.” For more information, please visit the conference website at http://wehc2018.org/.
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ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY BLOG. This blog, started by Stephanie Decker, Christina Lubinski, and Dan Wadhwani, aims to be a hub to publish ongoing activities and publications, and exchange ideas and comments, for those involved in historical approaches to studying organizations. For more information, please visit http://orghist.com/.
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COMMODITY HISTORIES. The Commodity Histories website aims to “raise public awareness of the rich histories and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America via their crucial role in the growing of crops and the production of commodities that have become an indispensable aspect of people's daily lives throughout the world” and to that end provides “a public forum for research postings, news and information about the history of commodities.” The site also includes a searchable directory of researchers. Produced by the Open University and made possible through funding support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, the project team members are Sandip Hazareesingh and Mat Paskins. For more information, please visit http://www.commodityhistories.org/.
