Please note: This is a preliminary schedule and may be subject to change.
09:00 am - 10:00 am
Registration
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Conference Opening Session
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Addresses by Sponsors
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Coffee Break
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Keynote Speech by Giovanni Ceccarelli
Dealing with uncertainty: insurance and maritime risks in Renaissance Florence
12:45 pm - 2:00 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)
2:00 pm - 2:50 pm
Lunch Break
2:50 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 Dinner
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Session 1: 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 2: Historical and Political Dimensions of Social Security and Pensions
- 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 3: Risk, Consumer Protection, and Insurance in a Historical Context
- 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 4: Insurance and Emerging Risks: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- 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
