In partnership with the BBS Decolonisation Project, throughout the seminar series we will be presenting the potential value of Business History’s contributions to our understanding of the pasts, presents and possible futures of colonising and decolonising. We will hear presentations by business, management and financial historians from within and beyond BBS, with all staff invited. The series will showcase the diverse, innovative, and often transdisciplinary historical research being undertaken across these fields and will present us with often unfamiliar “histories of the present” that can help us in developing and deepening our understandings of how decolonizing and recolonizing may play out in the coming decades. We also envision these presentations as providing food for thought on ways to incorporate insights from business, management and financial history into our teaching and curricula.
You are invited to the first seminar “The ‘History of the Present’: indigenous management knowledge” on 11th April 2024 at 2pm – 3.30pm UH G12, those who want to watch online can join on Zoom
Stephen Cummings, Professor of Management and Associate Dean (International and Accreditation) at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand will focus his talk on his upcoming book, Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks, to be published by SAGE, where he will highlight, reflect on, and welcome discussion on the issues he raises.
