Papers are invited to take either a comparative view, contrasting different geographical contexts, or a generalising, international perspective, investigating, for example, the internationalization and globalization of insurance or international networks and organisations related to insurance (congresses, societies, cartels, etc.).
They can investigate the business context, including competing forms of risk prevention and financial precaution in specific regions, the rise of local, non-Western insurance industries, and the interaction between local and international companies in insurance. The conference theme also includes the areas of consumption, such as the social and ethnic patterns of insurance markets, and the changing perceptions of risk in different geographic and cultural contexts especially in the face of the application modern AI approach.
Scholars are particularly invited to cross traditional academic boundaries by offering insights on geographical entanglements or trans-epochal developments. The conference follows an interdisciplinary format, bringing together scholars from various disciplines interested in the history of insurance from global perspectives, notably from:
- Business History
- International Business Studies
- Global History
- Consumer History
- the History of Law
- and Historical Sociology
