Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference (APEBH), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 16-18 February 2006

The inaugural Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference was hosted by Gordon Boyce and his colleagues at the Queensland University of Technology. Professor Arun Sharma, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) welcomed 49 participants from across the globe including from the USA, Brazil, England, Scotland, Norway, Japan, China, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia. They listened to 45 papers organized into two parallel sessions. In addition, Professor Kaoru Sugihara of the University of Osaka delivered the keynote lecture, the second in the recently established Butlin lecture series in honour of the late Professor Noel Butlin. His lecture was entitled, ‘Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Global History: Japan, East Asia and Beyond’. The conference finished with a plenary session, which heard presentations from three of Australia’s leading business archivists.

The Blackwell conference paper prize, worth $200, was awarded to Mark Wilson of the Australian National University for his paper entitled: ‘Dual Distribution in Retail Chains: The Case of Tooth & Co. (1935-65)’

Pierre van der Eng presenting the Blackwell conference paper prize to Mark Wilson.

A reception was organised at Old Government House, official residency to Queensland’s governors from 1862 to 1909. The conference dinner was held on board a traditional paddlesteamer riverboat along the Brisbane river. The Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand held its Ordinary General Meeting at the conference. The Society, organisers of the conference, gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Queensland University of Technology in hosting the conference and the University of Wollongong in organising registration. APEBH 2007 is planned for Sydney in February 2007. Details to follow shortly.

Images from the Conference

	Olav Wicken and Kaoru Sugihara
	Jean-Paul Bassino, Les Oxley, John Singleton and Peter Meyer
Maggie Shapley, Michael Piggott and Bruce Smith	Paul Robertson and David Mitch
Gordon Boyce

James Reveley and Stephen Morgan

Martin Shanahan and Pierre van der Berg

Rick Garside and Takeshi Yuzawa