How Bordeaux became Bordeaux: persistence and privilege

Woody Powell American sociologist, Professor of Education, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication at Stanford University.

The seven-day week, the Ivy League, the British monarchy: some institutions outlast everything history throws at them. This talk tells the story of a stranger case: an 1855 ranking of Bordeaux wines meant to be temporary, which instead survived pestilence, wars, financial crises, and Nazi occupation to shape the global wine trade to this day. New archival evidence suggests its durability rests not on inertia or self-interest alone, but on privilege that persists by continually reinventing itself.

Event Schedule

• 17:30 - Onsite check-in opens, tea/coffee avilable
• 18:00 - Talk commences
• 19:00 - Talk concludes
• until 20:00 - Networking

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