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The following call for papers can also be found at 
 
http://cs.muohio.edu/~HisEcSoc/Conferences/ECHE97_cfp.shtml 
 
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The History of Economics: Constructing the Canon 
European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE) 
17-19 April, 1997, Panteion University, Athens 
 
Contributions are requested for ECHE  97, whose broad theme will 
be the nature and role of the canon in the history of economics. 
In both literary and historical disciplines, the construction and 
role of the canon has been the subject of much recent debate. In 
the humanities, for example, the authority of the literary 
'classics' has been challenged: both directly, through fresh, 
often politicised readings, and indirectly, through a shift 
towards the analysis of previously marginalised literary forms. 
In the historical disciplines, a traditional historiography 
centered on 'the achievements of great men' has given way to 
richer, more varied, perspectives, feminist scholarship being but 
one of these. The history of economics, however, has in many 
respects been unaffected by these changes, with the canonical 
sequence of Smith, Ricardo, Marx etc. still constituting the 
skeleton for most teaching and scholarly discussion. 
 
Athens will be an appropriate venue to ask questions about the 
canon and authority in the history of economics. How is the canon 
formed and perpetuated, interpreted and reinterpreted? Are there 
multiple canons? What is the relationship between the canon and 
the way the history of economics is written? Are there 
perspectives or historiographical approaches that have been made 
difficult because of canonical authority? Can these issues be 
approached in the same manner in the history of economics as in 
literary criticism or history of science? For the Conference, 
preference will be given to original papers in the history of 
economics, but all contributions written with a conscious eye to 
the larger theme will be considered. 
 
In order to accommodate the growing number of conference 
initiatives at a European level, this year's ECHE will be on a 
reduced scale, with the final size depending on the scope and 
quality of response. The organising committee is 
 
J.L. Cardoso (Technical Univ., Lisbon), 
A. Jolink (Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam), 
P. Fontaine (Univ. Antilles, Guadeloupe), 
R. Leonard (Univ. Quebec, Montreal), and 
M. Psalidopoulos (Panteion Univ., Athens). 
 
Proposals for papers, accompanied by an abstract of roughly  
250 words, or requests for further information, should be  
directed to the address below. The deadline for proposals is  
July 15, 1996. 
 
Michael Psalidopoulos 
Panteion University -- 1997 ECHE 
Leoforos Singrou 136 
176 71 Athens, Greece 
 
Tel.: (x)3-01-922-80-56 / 922-36-78 
Fax: (x)3-01-922-36-90 
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