On September 22, 2022, the BHC held its second annual mid-year meeting. The theme of the virtual event was “Method and Madness: Historical Interpretation in a New Age of Extremes.” One-hundred, twenty-six people participated, 41 percent of whom were emerging scholars and 55 percent of whom were based outside the United States.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a collection of peer-reviewed essays based on the conference. The essays all touch of the value of play and playfulness in research methods – especially during historical moments of uncertainty and transformation. They are grouped into four themes: new sources of play, seeing anew, sensing new connections, and entertaining new representations. A list of the essays can be found below and they are all freely available until September and can be found here.
Sincerely,
Dan
Methods of Musement
| Practice of play | Authors | Essay title |
| Introduction | Wadhwani, Sorensen | Methods of Musement |
| New Sources for Play | Kirsch, Decker, Nix, Girish Jain & Kuppili Venkata. | Using Born-Digital Archives for Business History: EMCODIST and the Case of E-Mail |
| Zeng & Tao | Social Media as a source | |
| Black | Noticing Material Culture | |
| Seeing Anew | Ballor, Recio & Vanatta | Surveillance Archive: Using Reports in Business History |
| Van | Account Books as Social Technologies | |
| Sensing New Connections | Hisano & Kube | Engaging with Experiences: The Senses as Lenses in Business History |
| Rinaldi, Salvaj, Pak & Halgin | Databases, Network Analysis and Business History | |
| Villamor, Prieto-Nañez & Kirsch | The Promise Of Machine-Learning- Driven Text Analysis Techniques For Historical Research: Topic Modeling And Word Embedding. | |
| Entertaining New Representations | Staley & Assmusen | Models, Objects and Ghosts: Visualizing History |
| Wilson & Tilba | Business History and the ‘Practical Turn’ |
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