The Dawes Plan and the Rescue of the Global Economy

Thursday, 26th September
16:00 – 16:30 Welcome Address
16:30 – 18:30 Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics): Keynote: The Rise and Fall of the Dawes Plan, 1922-1932
Roman Köster (Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities): The stabilisation of European currencies during the 1920s: An unfinished story
19:00 Reception at the GHI

Friday, 27th September

1.) The Role of England:
9:30 – 11:15 Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford): Britain, Europe and the Changing Global Order
Brian D. Varian: (University of Newcastle): German competition and the fashioning of British protectionism in the 1920s
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Neil Forbes (Coventry University): The Dawes Plan, London’s merchant banks and European stabilisation
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

2.) Monetary Stabilisation in Comparison
13.30 – 15.15 Benjamin Vogt (University of Oxford): Credit for Reconstruction – Austria’s League Loan, the Dawes Plan and the Evolution of the Interwar Multilateral Rescue Finance Toolkit
Marianna Astore (University of Oxford): The International Dimensions of Quota Novanta: Constraints and Opportunities of Italian Monetary Stabilization

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Kenneth Mouré (University of Alberta): Poincaré-le-franc: Monetary Stabilization in France
16.30 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17.45 Presentation of the editorial project “Germany´s global economic relations during the 19th and 20th century”: Volume on the 1920s
19:00 – 21.00 Conference Dinner Restaurant

Saturday, 28th September

3.) Re-creating the European Market? Trade liberalization during the 1920s
09:00-10:45 Madeleine Dungy (Trondheim University): Competing visions of trade and security after the Dawes settlement
Jamieson Gordon Myles (University of Oxford): Anglo-American Trade Finance and the Monetary and Economic Reconstruction of Europe
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

4.) Actors in European Stabilisation: Companies and Associations
11:00 – 12:45 Liane Hewitt (Center for History and Economics, Science-Po Paris): Cartel Diplomacy: The Golden Age of International Cartelization & Europe’s Interwar Stabilization
Marco Bertilorenzi (University of Padua): Cartels diplomacy: the role of the International Chamber of Commerce and League of Nation in the normalisation of French-German trade
12:45 – 13:00 Concluding Remarks
13:00 Lunch, End of the Conference