Tagung: Boykott and Embargo. The Political Uses of Economic Power in the Twentieth Century

Boycott and Embargo – The Political Uses of Economic Power in the Twentieth Century

Am 10. und 11. Oktober 2008 findet im Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets (Clemensstr. 17-19, 44789 Bochum) die Tagung Boycott and Embargo statt. Die Tagung wird von Hannah Ahlheim und Rüdiger Graf organisiert und durch die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung gefördert. [Download: Conference program in English language] Tagungsprogramm Freitag 10. Oktober 2008 Begrüßung und Einleitung, 14.00-14.15, Hannah Ahlheim und Rüdiger Graf Sektion I, 14.15 – 16.00: Direct and Indirect Boycotts – Different Degrees or Types? Leitung: Klaus Tenfelde (Bochum) Kommentar: Kim Priemel (Frankfurt/Oder) Oliver Kühschelm (Vienna): Implicit Boycott. The Call for Patriotic Consumption in Austria in the Interwar Period Hannah Ahlheim (Berlin): Establishing anti-Semitic Stereotypes: Social and Economical Segregation of Jews by Means of “Political Boycott” in Nazi-Germany Kaffepause Sektion II: 16.30 – 18.15: Racializing Products and Consumption in the Interwar Period Leitung: Klaus Tenfelde (Bochum) Kommentar: Kiran Patel (Florence) Richard Hawkins (Wolverhampton): The Internal Politics of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1933-1938 Brett Sheehan (Los Angeles): Tariff and Terror: Economics and Politics and the Anti-Japanese Boycott, Tianjin China, 1929 – 1932 19.00 Abendessen der Konferenzteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008 Sektion III, 9.00-10.45: Moral Purchasing and the Power of the Consuming People Leitung: Constantin Goschler (Bochum) Kommentar: Roman Köster (Frankfurt/Main) Michelle Haberland (Statesboro/GA): Look for the Union Label: Organizing Women Workers and Women Consumers in the United States Apparel Industry, 1948-1985 Matthias Schmelzer (Berlin): Marketing morals, moralizing markets. Assessing the effectiveness of Fair Trade as a form of buycott Kaffeepause Sektion IV, 11.15-13.00: Embargoes in a divided Germany Leitung: Constantin Goschler (Bochum) Kommentar: Friederike Sattler (Potsdam) Simon Donig (Passau): A Limited Impediment. Mechanisms and Conceptions of the CoCom Embargo in the GDR Peter E. Fäßler (Dresden): Star Pupil or Dubious Alliance Partner? Bonn and the Early Phase of the Strategic Embargo 1950-1959 Sektion V, 14.00 – 15.45: U.S. Power and the Politics of Embargo Leitung: Kiran Patel (Florence) Kommentar: Malte Zierenberg (Berlin) Stephen Wilkinson (London): When is an embargo not an embargo? Five decades of successful failure in US-Cuba policy Rüdiger Graf (Bochum): Making use of the ‘Oil Weapon’. Western Industrialized Nations and Arab Petropolitics in 1973/74 Sektion VI, 16.15 – 18.00: The Presence and Power of UN Sanctions and Embargoes Leitung: Kiran Patel (Florenz) Kommentar: Jan-Erik Schulte (Bochum) Petar Dragišic (Belgrad): The United Nations Sanctions against Yugoslavia 1992-1996 Mikael Eriksson: Sanctions: Historical Connections and Contemporary Trends Schlussdiskussion, 18.00 – 19.00: Boycott and Embargo in the 20th Century Leitung: Constantin Goschler (Bochum) Für Anfragen und weitere Informationen wenden Sie sich bitte an Rüdiger Graf!