Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2011.
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This is to remind you that we are organizing on behalf of the H2S
(History of Social Science) group, Economix (CNRS UMR 7235) and
THEMA (CNRS UMR 8184), the fourth annual workshop on the “history
of ‘economics as culture’ (Histoire culturelle des savoirs
économiques)” to be held Friday, March 9th, 2012 at the University
of Cergy-Pontoise (near Paris, France). Since its first
installment in 2009, this workshop is bringing together scholars
from different disciplines such as economics, history, art and
literary theory, science and technology studies – this list is not
exclusive – to discuss, from an historical vantage point, the
place of economics in our culture.
Below are some suggestions of topics that exemplify what will
be at issue:
- Discussions of the interactions between art, literature and
economics; for example how artists, writers have articulated more
or less elaborate representations of what was the economy and/or
political economy and/or some part of these.
- Studies of the interactions between cultural or artistic
objects such as magazines, books, maps, photographs, paintings,
graphs and economic thinking. Also, we encourage scholars to
consider economic texts as cultural items, reflecting upon the
consequences their form had on their reception.
- The depiction of economics as part of cultures (political,
commercial, scientific, etc.) of past (including very recent past)
societies; in particular, discussions of economic representations
(or culture) of specific social groups such as merchants, workers,
businessmen, etc.
The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers containing genuine
and unpublished research. If you have an interest in these topics,
please send us a proposal of no more than 1000 words or a draft
paper of what you want to present before December 15, 2011 at the
following address:
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Loïc Charles (INED / University of Reims) and
Yann Giraud (THEMA / University of Cergy-Pontoise)