Organized by BHC President Sharon Murphy, the 2024 conference is on the theme of “Doing Business in the Public Interest” and will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 14th – March 16th. The call for papers, which was shared earlier this year, can be found here on the BHC website: https://thebhc.org/index.php/call-papers-bhc-2024
The deadline for receipt of all paper and session proposals for Providence is November 1, 2023.
In 2023 the BHC members elected four new trustees, and a new member of the nominating committee. Grace Ballor, Victoria Barnes, Chinmay Tumbe, and Paula Vedoveli will serve three-year terms as trustees through the 2026 meeting. Christy Chapin was elected to the nominating committee for a two-year term, 2023 to 2025. Members also picked Stephen Mihm as our president-elect. Leaving our board of trustees after three years of noteworthy service (and with many thanks) were Jennifer Black, Paula de la Cruz-Fernández, Eric Godelier, and Julia Yongue. Shennette Garrett-Scott also completed her two-year term on the nominating committee. Dan Wadhwani serves as past president, whilst Andrea Lluch became past president-on-board, having finished her term as past president, president, and president-elect. Our deep appreciation to all these officers and committee members who continue to volunteer their valuable time serving our scholarly organization.
To continue this cycle of leadership, elections will take place beginning in January 2024. To that end, the BHC Nominating Committee invites your nominations for BHC president-elect, trustees, and member of the nominating committee. If you are new to the organization and would like to know more about these roles and the structure of the BHC, I encourage you to look at https://thebhc.org/officers-current. Please send all nominations for these positions to committee chair, Dan Wadhwani, at dwadhwani@marshall.usc.edu by Wednesday, November 1, 2023.
Similarly, the BHC Grants and Prizes Committee invites nominations for the BHC Lifetime Achievement Award; the recipient will be announced at the Providence, R.I. meeting’s awards banquet. The criteria for this prestigious award are outlined here: https://thebhc.org/lifetime Please email the committee chair, Pamela Laird, pamela.laird@ucdenver.edu with any nominations by Monday, December 4, 2023.
I hope to see many of you at the 2023 mid-year virtual meeting held via Zoom on September 29th. More information about this meeting, titled “Doing Business History as Public History,” can be found at https://thebhc.org/index.php/2023-mid-year-meeting.
And finally, The Exchange, the BHC’s weblog, will now be sent as a monthly newsletter. You should have received the first issue on September 1st (please check your Spam folder in case the notification went there). To post announcements in The Exchange, please contact Paula de la Cruz-Fernández (web-editor@thebhc.org). You may use this link to subscribe.
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