Warsaw, 3-4 of July 2025, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

This international conference follows the history of the two predecessor conferences in Seville in 2019 and Basel in 2022. This third conference investigates insurance as a crucial element of social development, economic advances, globalization of financial services, and capitalism in general. It discusses risk and how we have coped with it from the early beginning of human society to the era of artificial intelligence, locally, regionally, and globally, with a closer look at the Central and Eastern European regions. This global lens invites the combination of the wide global perspective with micro-historical perceptions. The conference combines business professionals and academics from around the world.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to the diffusion of marine insurance in 19th century East Asia, insurance market developments, insurance and financial literacy education, the shift of market operations from analog, via digital towards artificial intelligence perspectives, and the history of insurance intermediaries.

Sessions and papers are invited to take either a comparative view, contrasting different geographical contexts, or a generalizing, international perspective, investigating for example the internationalization and globalization of insurance or international networks and organizations related to insurance (congresses, societies, cartels, etc.). They can investigate the business context, including competing forms of risk prevention and financial precaution in specific regions, the rise of local, non-Western insurance industries, and the interaction between local and international companies in insurance. The conference theme also includes the areas of consumption, such as the social and ethnic patterns of insurance markets, and the changing perceptions of risk in different geographic and cultural contexts especially in the face of the application of the modern AI approach.

The conference will be held as a two-day event, on 3–4 July 2025, and will be organized by the Department of Risk and Insurance of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics with the cooperation of the Department of Insurance of the Poznań University of Economics and Business as the co-organizer. Scholars are specifically invited to cross traditional academic boundaries by offering insights on geographical entanglements or trans-epochal developments. The conference follows an interdisciplinary format, bringing together scholars from various disciplines interested in the history of insurance from a global perspective, notably from Business History, International Business Studies, Global History, Consumer History, the History of Law, and Historical Sociology and business professionals.

Proposal Submission Guideline

• The submission deadline is 16 December 2024.
• Submission must be made electronically using https://globalinsurance.syskonf.pl
• Detailed submission instructions are available on the webpage.
• Each proposal should include the title, an abstract (maximum 500 words), and the author’s information.
• Scholars will be informed about the selection of their proposals around the end of December 2024.
• For further information, please contact the conference organizers: globalinsurance@sgh.waw.pl

More details and information are in the call for papers