Friday, 09 October 2026
08:45 - 12:45
B18.005, Brig Campus

This workshop is organized in the framework of the SNSF-funded project Organised Business and Environmental Governance in Western Europe (1945–1995).

The workshop brings together scholars interested in integrating emotions into the history of capitalism and business history. It aims to foster reflection on the methodological challenges involved in researching emotions in economic contexts, while encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue on relevant concepts, theories, and analytical approaches.

Participants are expected to read the four draft papers in advance to facilitate in-depth discussion and constructive feedback.

Programme

08:45-10:30 Session 1  
  Alberto Gamboa (Graduate Institute, Geneva) Feeling the Rolls: The Economics of Emotional Display in Post-Napoleonic Litigation Records
  Izabel Barros (University of Lausanne and UniDistance Suisse) From Aristocrats and Military Officers to Enslavers: Exploring Emotions and Slavery from a Transimperial Perspective
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:45 Session 2  
  Michele Sollai (University of Basel) and Sabine Pitteloud (Unidistance Suisse) When Environmentalism Made Business Emotional: Business Associations and the 1970s Green Reckoning
  Ai Hisano (University of Tokyo) Creating Modern Sensations: The Structures of Feeling and Aesthetic Capitalism

Participation

If you’d like to attend the presentations, please contact Prof. Dr. Sabine Pitteloud.

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