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Conference Schedule


  • Day 0: 2nd of July
  • Day 1: 3rd of July
  • Day 2: 4th of July
6:00 pm -  6:30 pm
Meeting of the Scientific Committee
6:30 pm                 
Reception at the conference venue
  9:00 am - 10:00 am
Registration
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Conference Opening Session
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Addresses by Sponsors
  • Andrzej Jarczyk, President of PZUW
  • Tomasz Mańko, Vice-President of PKO Ubezpieczenia
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Insurance: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges – Panel Discussion
  • Andrzej Jarczyk, President of PZUW
  • Tomasz Mańko, Vice-President of PKO Ubezpieczenia
  • Mariusz Wichtowski, President of Polish Motor Insurers' Bureau
  • Adam Śliwiński, Director of The Institute of Risk and Financial Markets SGH (moderator)
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
Coffee Break
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
Keynote Speech by Giovanni Ceccarelli
Dealing with uncertainty: insurance and maritime risks in Renaissance Florence
  1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Presentations by Supporting Organisations
  1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Lunch Break
  2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Session 1: Facilitating Slavery: Risk Management in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic World
Chairperson: Giovanni Ceccarelli
  • A Dutch Insurance Company and its Links To Slavery (18th Century) - Sabine Go
  • Slavery Insured: A study of the involvement of the Amsterdam Assurantie Compagnie of 1771 in the Atlantic slave economy in the late eighteenth century - Eva Seuntjens
  • Sourcing a New History of Insurance on the Enslaved in the Nineteenth Century United States - Benjamin Wiggins
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Session 2: Mutual Insurance, Historical Contracts, and Theoretical Perspectives
Chairperson: Robin Pearson
  • The Historical Development and Regional Resilience of Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia – A Case Study in Global Context - David Marlett and Austin Eggers
  • Conspiracy theory of insurance - Krzysztof Ostaszewski
  • A contract for all seasons: the flexibility and functionality of the cambium maritimum (Genoa, XVII-XVIII) - Valentina Zolesio and Luisa Piccinno
  • The Theory of Mutual Insurance - Some Notes on the History and an Application to Climate Change - Roland Eisen
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Conference Gala Dinner to be held in the Main Reading Room of the SGH Library (Rakowiecka 22B, 02-521 Warsaw)
     smart casual
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Keynote Speech by Irma Dugelby Pointelin
Shaken Ground, Rising Shields: The History of Earthquakes and Earthquake Insurance in Mexico
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Session 3: Insurance Markets and Regulation in Central and Eastern Europe
Chairperson: Roland Eisen
  • Renaissance of Insurance at the End of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th Century in the Małopolska Wschodnia - Lyubov Klapkiv
  • Development of the property insurance market in CEE countries - a comparative analysis - Aleksandra Hęćka-Sadowska and Dorota Wiśniewska
  • The impact of European integration on the post-war development of insurance regulation in Ukraine - Olha Dymnich and Tetiana Stetsiuk
  • Financial risk management in the capital activities of a listed company, with particular emphasis on market and liquidity risk - Edyta Watkowska
  • Factors Influencing Purchase Intentions in Insurance Selection, with a Special Focus on Environmental Factors - Alicja Stankiewicz
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Session 4: Historical and Political Dimensions of Social Security and Pensions
Chairperson: Piotr Manikowski
  • The decline of non-military Montepios in early Mexico: a historical, actuarial and financial perspective - Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia
  • The political economy of the pension system: Mexico in historical perspective - Gustavo A. Del Angel
  • Social Security in Iran. Brief review of history and structure - Shima Jowzi and Piotr Manikowski
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm
Coffee Break
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Session 5: Risk, Consumer Protection, and Insurance in a Historical Context
Chairperson: Adam Śliwiński
  • Paving the way for risk prevention. Lessons from the past - Natalia Szpurko
  • Consumer Risks in Insurance: Challenges and Implications - Anja Tkalčević
  • Sense of security as a key factor influencing the historical development of insurance (new stylized facts) - Norbert Duczkowski
  • Environmental Sustainability and Insurance: Mapping the Historical Progress - Malwina Lemkowska and Monika Kaczała
  • Cotton Futures as Risk Management Tools: Contrasting Effects on Recession Risk in the UK and USA, 1878–1914 - Mikołaj Wiśniewski
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Lunch Break
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Session 6: Insurance and Emerging Risks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Chairperson: Marietta Janowicz-Lomott
  • A Historical Analysis of Governmental Catastrophe Insurance Programs - David Marlett and Stephen Jablonski
  • Risks in international trade - Agnieszka Łyskawa
  • Cyber risk: What we do and don't know - Marcel Freyschmidt
  • The History of the Development of Alternative Weather Risk Transfer Tools - Maksym Shylov
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Closing Remarks
4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Guided City Tour


 
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