<br>Colleagues<br>Please circulate to anyone who might be able to make a contribution, and please have them contact <b class="gmail_sendername">J. Carles Maixe-Altes</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maixe@udc.es">maixe@udc.es</a>></span> on a first instance.<br>
Kind regards<br>Bernardo and Carles<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Call for papers</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN RETAIL FINANCE<span style="color:red"> </span>OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">(Session proposal for the
11th International Congress of the Spanish Association of
Economic History, [XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación
Española de Historia Económica, AEHE]. Madrid, September 2014)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Organisers: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">J. Carles Maixé-Altés (</span><a href="mailto:maixe@udc.es" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">maixe@udc.es</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">) and Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo (</span><a href="mailto:b.batiz-lazo@bangor.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">b.batiz-lazo@bangor.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Several authors have noted that the history of computing and information technology must be considered in a wide context, spanning countries,
industries and societies. With this in mind whilist continuing with the effort by Bátiz-Lazo, Maixé-Altés and Thomes (Routledge,
2011), we aim to focus in greater depth on a region that seems to have received little attention.</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"><br>
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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> Spain and Latin America form a
nucleus of exceptional importance. Most business organizations in these geographies are chiefly "late" adopters of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">adopters of computer technology,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> that is, they tend to embrace tried and tested applications and emphasise "tropicalization" and "domestication". This panel thus aims to bring together an
interdisciplinary group of scholars to better understand the
historical transformations in which technological change has
operated in retail finance within Spain and Latin America.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <br></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">In this framework, the following lines of work are
proposed:</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- Technology within different financial institutions: banks,
savings banks, mutual banks, central banks, cooperative banks and public banks</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">-The world of insurance and its companies <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- Mechanisation and automation of stock markets and
financial markets <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- Financial businesses and hardware manufacturers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- The viewpoint of the history of applications and
software in retail finance: systems of bank interconnection, new
financial products and the scale and diversification of markets
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- “Plastic cards” and financial self servicing <span> </span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- The historical and sociological basis of a
cashless society, financial digitalisation and customer
relationship management<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- Comparisons between industries and countries <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">- Digitalisation and financial globalisation <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB">Agenda:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-GB"> All parties interested in contributing to this
session are invited to send a proposal of their paper via
electronic post to any of the organisers (including a title,
authors, relationship and a brief extract of the proposal). The
deadline for receipt is 21 December 2012. In the spirit of the
organisers, we plan to promote an edited book collecting the
contributions to this session. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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