History of 'Economics as Culture' 3rd Workhop
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Université de Cergy-Pontoise (France)
Les Chênes II, Salle des Thèses
10 am - 5.15 pm

This workshop, which is organized on behalf of THEMA (CNRS UMR 8184), 
EconomiX (CNRS UMR 7235) and the Cachan History of Social Science Group 
(H2S), brings together scholars from different disciplines to discuss 
from an historical vantage point, the place of economics in our culture. 
Below are some 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 ; in 
particular, to discuss the economic representations (or culture) of 
specific social groups such as merchants, workers, businessmen, etc.

Christopher Burke (University of Reading – Dept of Typography and 
Graphic Communication)
The Linguistic Status of Pictorial Statistics

Emma Helena Minns (University of Reading – Dept of Typography and 
Graphic Communication)
Picturing Soviet Success: Soviet pictorial statistics 1931-1940

Sophie Cras (Université Paris I – Dept of art history)
“Artistic Shareholding” Experiments in the 1960s

Arnaud Orain (Université de Bretagne Occidentale – Dept of economics)
Success in, or with the help of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres ? A Case 
Study of Eighteenth Century French Economists

Gül Karagoz – Kizilca (SUNY Binghamton and Ankara University)
Bringing the Public into the Arena of Politics :
Ottoman Newspapersand the Quest for Fiscal Responsibility for an 
Emerging Voice of “the Public”

The full program can be dowloaded at: 
http://thema.u-cergy.fr/presentation/news-21/article/cfp-histoire-culturelle-des

If you plan to attend the workshop, please contact the organizers: Yann 
Giraud ([log in to unmask]) and Loïc Charles ([log in to unmask])