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The Economic History Association will present a Roundtable, "The Future
of Economic History," at the upcoming AHA meeting in Atlanta on
Friday, January 5 at 4:45 p.m. The five speakers will offer 5-10
minutes of thoughts on the nature, problems, and future prospects of the
field, followed by open discussion. I am advertizing this as widely
as possible in order to draw in a wide range of scholars -- especially
social and cultural historians who have pulled back from
economic issues (in large part, I suspect, because of the heavily
econometric methods now practiced by many economic historians). What I
hope emerges from the discussion is a better sense of how the field can
be reshaped to once again include the questions of politics, culture and
ideology that drive so much historical work at the moment. In other
words, this session is aimed at not only economic historians, but at
all the others who may have given up in frustration upon hitting yet another
general equilibrium model. Can we find ways to talk about the economy,
economic change, ideologies that draw us together rather than dividing
along methodological lines? If you are at the AHA, please come by for
discussion and light refreshments.
The five speakers are historians with a diverse range of interests and
approaches. I am sure that their names will be familiar to many of you:
John H. Coatsworth (Harvard University, AHA Pres.)
Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Brown University)
Michael A. Bernstein (UC, San Diego)
Robert S. Duplessis (Swarthmore)
T. J. A. LeGoff (York University)
Convener: Judith A. Miller (Emory)
Please repost this message on any discussion groups you think might be
appropriate. The Economic History Association is working on a wide
range of initiatives to draw more historians back to the field and
wishes to publicize these efforts as broadly as possible. If you have any
questions, contact me via email (histjam@emory.edu) or via phone,
404-727-6564. Thank you very much.
Judith A. Miller
Emory University
Forwarded by:
J. B. "Jack" Owens, Professor of History
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA
e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu
www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack