Conference schedule

Please note: This is a preliminary schedule and may be subject to change.

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

11:15 am - 11:45 am

Insurance: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges – Panel Discussion

11:45 am - 12:15 pm

Coffee Break

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Keynote Speech by Giovanni Ceccarelli
Dealing with uncertainty: insurance and maritime risks in Renaissance Florence

1:00 pm - 1:20 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 (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