Dear colleagues,

This is to announce that I am organizing on the 
behalf of the H2S (History of Social Science) 
group the second workshop on “History of 
economics as culture (Histoire culturelle des 
savoirs économiques)” to be held Friday 9 April 
2009 in Paris (exact location to be disclosed 
later). My intention is to bring together 
scholars from different disciplines 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:

- To consider the interactions between art, literature and economics;

- To discuss the interactions between cultural or 
artistic objects such as magazines, books, maps, 
photographs, paintings, graphs and economic 
thinking and to consider economic texts as 
cultural items and to reflect upon the 
consequences their physical form had on their reception.

- To consider economics as part of cultures 
(political, commercial, scientific, etc.) of past 
(including very recent past) societies; for 
example, to discuss the economic representations 
(or culture) of specific social groups such as 
merchants, workers, business men, etc.


The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers 
containing genuine unpublished research. I have 
already solicited a few papers but I have room 
for two or three more papers. If you have an 
interest in the above topics/issues, please send 
me a proposal or no more than 500 words or a 
draft paper of what you want to present before 
February, 15 at this address: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]


If you are interested in the subject, although 
but unable to send a proposal, feel free to 
contact me at the same address for further 
discussion/information. Also, last year program 
is available here: 
http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/ws/?id=81&page=programme.

Yours,

Loïc Charles