Workshop “Nineteenth century businesswomen. A retrospective glance at women entrepreneurship."

PROGRAM

Thusday, December 8

08:30 | Welcome of participants

08:45 | Introduction
Louis-Augustin Barrière, Director of the C.L.H.D.P.P, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
Charlotte Le Chapelain, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

09:00 - 10:30 | Session 1
Businesswomen managing their wealth
Chair: Rebeca Gomez-Betancourt, Université Lumière Lyon II

09:00 | Women, wealth and business (Milan, 19th century)
Stefania Licini, University of Bergamo

09:45 | Noblewomen, business, and financial management in nineteenth-century France
Elizabeth Macknight, Berghahn Journals

10:30 | Coffee break

10:45 - 13:00 | Session 2
Businesswomen in social contexts. Family, social constructions and norms.
Chair: Herrade Igersheim, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg

10:45 | Des femmes dans les affaires d’entreprises industrielles du 19è - le cas de Nantes -
Paulette Robic, Nantes Université

11:30 | The role of contexts
Beatrice Craig, Ottawa University

12:15 | Avoir une femme pour concurrente dans l’exploitation minière des Pyrénées : une préoccupation du comte de Beust, années 1780
Daniel Fischer, Université de Lorraine

13:00 | Lunch

14:15 - 17:45 | Session 3
Forgotten figures
Chair: Claude Diebolt, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg

14:15 | Becoming Blanche Leigh: Risk Taking in Fin de Siècle Britain and France
Jennifer Aston, Northumbria University

15:00 | The Story of Rosa – The Fall of a Female Entrepreneur in the 19th Century Pest-Buda
Kristóf Kovács, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

15:45 | Coffee break

16:15 | Filomena Ferrari, from farmer to entrepreneur. A successful case of Swiss migration to Italy in the second half of the 19th century
Donatella Ferrari

17:00 | Hidden figures? Finding Female Investors in Nineteenthcentury France
Alexia Yates, University of Manchester

Friday, December 9

09:00 - 10:30 | Session 4
Business women in nineteenth century Europe. Legal contexts.
Chair: David Deroussin, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

09:00 | The status of the « trading woman » within the scope of the ADHGB
Martin Löhnig, University of Regensburg

09:45 | La femme « d’affaires » dans la jurisprudence française au XIXe siècle
Alexis Mages, Université de Bourgogne

10:30 | Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 | Session 5
Freedom of being an entrepreneur? Women and the Saint-Simonian school
Chair: Chrystelle Gazeau, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

11:00 | Le saint-simonisme au féminin : l’avènement de la figure féminine dans le mouvement industriel des années 1830
Marie Janin, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III

11:45 | Réflexions sur une expérience existentielle et intellectuelle d’une ‘femme du peuple’: Suzanne Voilquin (1801-1876)
Ragip Ege, Université de Strasbourg

12:30 | Lunch

14:00 - 16:15 | Session 6
Female business owners in Helsinki, Moscow and Bologna
Chair: Faustine Perrin, Lund University

14:00 | Women and business in urban Northern Europe
Beatrice Moring, University of Helsinki/Cambridge

14:45 | Female factory-owners in the industry of Moscow, 1840s–1860s
Galina Ulianova, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

15:30 | Self Employed women as small traders – manufacturers and retailers in the city of Bologna in the second half of the XIXth century
Maria Chiara Liguori, CINECA

16:15 | Farewell Coffee