Programme
9:15 GIORGIO BELLETTINI (Director, Department of Economics, University of Bologna)
Welcome address
9:20 ROBERTO SCAZZIERI (Department of Economics, University of Bologna and National Lincei Academy, Bologna Academy of Sciences and Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Introduction
9:30 MAURICE AYMARD (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris)
Carlo Poni, from Technological to Social History
10:00 MAXINE BERG (University of Warwick)
Silk and Skill: Carlo Poni's Contribution to the History of European Industrialization
10:30 CRAIG MULDREW (University of Cambridge)
Work, Skill and the Market in Early Modern England
11:00 Coffee Break (Sala Giardino d’Inverno, Palazzo Hercolani)
11:30 ALESSANDRO FREDDI (Bologna Academy of Sciences; former Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna)
The Development of Craft Companies in the Bologna District: Between Technological Issues and Social Factors
12:00 PATRIZIO BIANCHI (University of Ferrara and Bologna Academy of Sciences, Emilia-Romagna Regional Government)
The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Transformation of Work Organization
12:30 PATRICK LEECH (Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna)
The Local and the Transnational: Worlds of Work with Carlo Poni
13:00 Light lunch and Farewell Address (Sala Giardino d’Inverno, Palazzo Hercolani)