MINUTES OF TRADING EURASIA PROJECT MEETING
5th May 2010
Present: Maxine Berg, Helen Clifford, Chris Nierstratz, Hanna Hodacs, Meike Fellinger & Anna
Guszcza.
Minutes taken by HC
1-2 July Workshop at Ashmolean
Now finalising list of participants & programme.(Now 34, no more spaces)
Final numbers needed within week for accommodation confirmation
ACTION HC: HC to take over admininistration, all e-mails to her for co-ordination as AG will be away
from 13 May (Robert Horton to deal with financial aspects, will need to unblock vendor number for
payment)
MF,CN, HH & FG to be in Oxford on 30th June (pm) for logistics/technical run through
Friday dinner - £15 or up to £20 per head
ACTION: AG to get permission to buy alcohol from Majestic Wine Sellers in Oxford
Project - Reporting
ACTION by ALL: MB underlined importance of keeping records of every presentation/all work
connected with the project. See example uploaded by MB. ERC reporting requirements rigorous and
detailed and ALL must keep their entries updated regularly (at leastevery 2 weeks) in order to make
official report possible.
Project - Sources
ACTION by ALL: MB stressed importance of putting sources found onto project intranet site, source
references and brief paragraph of description to aid identification, use key words, will facilitate sharing
of sources and research.
ACTION by ALL: Need for pictures on website copyright free, all to research and provide.
Uploading can take time, and more importantly space.
Should there be a maximum number on the site to avoid over use of space, say 50?
What are the images for?
Outcomes
Post Docs to consider Literature Survey of c.5,000 words ... to develop into a publication for a journal
e.g Historical Journal, Cultural and Social History, Itinerario, Eighteenth Century Studies etc.
or similar where articles discuss a number of books, round up 'state of the art'.
Other Events
For session at Soho House, Birmingham read Patrick O’Brien's article in Journal of Global History,
vol.5, part 3, November 2010
See list of events for 2012, which Maxine has discussed with Anne Gerritsen, include week 7/8
workshop
'New questions for historians of overseas trade'. Dates to be finalised.
Local & Global meeting, next week
Local & Global in India, 2nd June, 2011
ACTION See Economic History Conference in Cambridge 2012, project team should offer a panel,
deadline September 2011,
see scan of information leaflet with these minutes. Felicia volunteered in absence to co-ordinate.
Relationship of projects within the Global History Centre
DISCUSSION about how to disseminate and share information between the various projects which
come under the wing of the Global History Centre. Many share same specialists, and need to avoid
lack of co-ordination
between projects. How do we achieve this?
Create pages for each group on the INTRANET to assist planning of meetings and events
Possible to make resources page only accessible to each group
Importance of Website for public face of the project & Intranet as a working 'tool'
Should the Trading Eurasia Project use Facebook as a means of communication?
Problem of multiple e-mails, unread e-mails and confusion about who needs to know what, without
overload.