Workshop – “Interrogating Economics in the Public Sphere”
On the
18th and 19th of April 2013, the ECONPUBLIC project will host a workshop on
“Interrogating Economics in the Public Sphere”. The event will bring together
historians, sociologists, and media analysts to review the outlying literatures
on public economic knowledge. In an intense but informal setting we will review
scholarship on history of science, political and economic history and
sociology. Our challenge is to elaborate on the research questions and the
research agenda that will explore the connections and overlaps between economic
journalism, the public production of knowledge, and knowledge as communicative
practice.
Venue:
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK.
Panel I:
The public understanding of economics: A recent media history
This panel
analyses the relationship between economic ideas, and their audiences, by
providing a historically informed examination of more recent changes in the
forms, and forums, which have mediated them. Panelists: Raymond Boyle
(University of Glasgow), Tim Rogan (University of Cambridge), Simon Potter
(Bristol University), Jane Chapman (Lincoln University), Scott Anthony
(University of Cambridge).
Plenary:
Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh), “Financial modelling as culture”
Panel II:
Social sciences and the media’s role in finance and financialization
This panel
aims to explore the links between journalism, economics and the public sphere,
as well as between the social sciences and financialization. Panelists: José
Ossandón (Universidad Diego Portales), Aeron Davis (Goldsmiths), Karel Williams
(CRESC, University of Manchester), Daniel Beunza (LSE), Tomas Undurraga
(University of Cambridge).
Panel III:
The uses of publicity: the 364 economists’ letter of 1981.
The
session brings together historians of the 1970s and 1980s to converse around
the object of the protest letter. We invite them to bring other objects from
the period that might help us understand the context of the protest, its form,
its precedents, and its consequences. Panelists: Aled Davis (University of
Oxford), Catherine Walsh (Goldsmiths), Duncan Needham (University of
Cambridge), Tiago Mata (University of Cambridge).
Panel IV:
Economic journalism: practices in national contexts
This panel
will compare diverse practices of economic journalism, exploring how national
narratives, institutional arrangements and professional cultures affect the
ways in which the economy is discussed in the public sphere(s). Panelists: Angel
Arrese (University of Navarra), Carolina Matos (University of Essex), Julien
Duval (CNRS), Roei Davidson (University of Haifa), Emre Tarim (Gothenburg
Research Institute).
Round-up
session with Christopher Godden (University of Manchester)
and Peter Sloman (University of Oxford)
For a
detailed program, see http://www.econpublic.hps.cam.ac.uk/events/workshop-interrogating/
The number
of participants is limited. If you are interested in joining the workshop
please contact us through the email: hpsecon@hermes.cam.ac.uk
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Tiago Mata
Senior Research Associate, "Economics in the Public Sphere"
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge, Free School Lane
Cambridge, CB2 3RH, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1223 330466 / Fax: +44 (0)1223 334554
http://www.econpublic.hps.cam.ac.uk