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Although bankruptcy was a rather exceptional situation in the life of a merchant, it has explanatory power for routines of economic stakeholders, for their space of experience and their horizon of expectation. We can therefore use the irregularity of failure as an indicator of regularities. Considering the long, non-uniform and unsteady transition from merchant capitalism to industrial and financial capitalism, we suggest to start a dialogue between modernistes and contemporanéistes. The conference focuses on the various forms of contextualizing business failure and puts forward three major research axes: Covering and Uncovering: Secrecy and Publicity; Economic Space and Area of Jurisdiction; Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency.Free entry upon reservation: event@dhi-paris.frProgramme Bankruptcy_formatted (pdf)Partners: Institut historique allemand, Institut universitaire de France, Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenComité d’organisation: Natacha COQUERY (Lyon), Jürgen FINGER (Paris/Munich), Mark Sven HENGERER (Munich)&#160;[caption id="attachment_667" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Vladimir Makovsky, Vladimir Makovsky - Bankruptcy, marked as public domain, more details on Wikimedia Commons[/caption]&#160;Monday, 19 March 2018&#160;15:00   Meet &#38; Greet15:30   Welcome and IntroductionThomas MAISSEN (Institut historique allemand): Director’s Welcome AddressJürgen FINGER (Institut historique allemand/Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich): Contextualizing Bankruptcy: Perspectives and Research Axes&#160;16:30   Covering and Uncovering: Secrecy and PublicityChair: Jérôme SGARD (Sciences Po, Paris)Jean-Paul BARRIÈRE (University of Franche-Comté, Besançon): Notary Bankruptcies in 19th-Century France in the Eyes of Justice and Profession: Between Secrecy and PublicityEric HÄUSLER (University Bern): Social Acceptance Through Publicity? The Bernese Geldstag. as an Example of a Legitimate Bankruptcy Proceeding in the Long 19th CenturyTyson LEUCHTER (University of Chicago): An Abyss of Debt: Corporatism, Bankruptcy, and Responsibility in Restoration France&#160;Tuesday, 20 March 2018&#160;9:00   Economic Space and Area of JurisdictionChair: Laurence FONTAINE (Centre Maurice Halbwachs CNRS-ENS-EHESS, Paris)Benoît SAINT-CAST (University Lumière Lyon 2): Cross-Border Bankruptcies, Local Rules and Conflicts of Jurisdiction in Lyon, Second Half of 17th CenturyStefan GEIßLER (ETH Zurich): The Lloyd’s List: Providing Security against BankruptcyMargrit SCHULTE BEERBÜHL (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf): The International Speculation Bubble of 1799 and Cross-border Insolvency Practices&#160;11:30   Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency 1Chair: Jasper KUNSTREICH (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a.M.)Viera REBOLLEDO-DHUIN (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines): The Inter-se of Commercial Regulations: The Bankruptcies of Parisian Booksellers-publishers in the 19th CenturyLaurine MANAC’H (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris): Questioning Contractual and Legal Definitions of Liability in Spanish Bankruptcy Proceedings: Surroca, Comas y Cía’s Case in early 19th-Century Catalonia&#160;14:00   Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency 2Chair: Mark Sven HENGERER (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich)Riina TURUNEN (University of Jyväskylä): Past, Present and Future in the Narratives of Finnish19th-Century Urban BankruptsEmmanuel DEBRUYNE (Catholic University of Leuven): Should I Stay or Should I go? Bankrupts and their Residential Mobility in “Belle Epoque” Belgium, 1896–1914&#160;15:30   Final discussionMark Sven HENGERER (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich): Final Commentary and Conclusion&#160;&#160;Institut historique allemandHôtel Duret-de-Chevry8 rue du Parc-Royal75003 ParisTel   +33 (0)1 44 54 23 80Fax  +33 (0)1 42 71 56 43event@dhi-paris.frwww.dhi-paris.fr