News/Nouvelles – Moral Economy

2017/09/182017/09/18

CfP “Contextualizing Bankruptcy”, Paris, March 19-20, 2018

Call for Papers “Contextualizing Bankruptcy: Publicity, Space and Time (Europe, 17th to 19th c.)”

Date: March 19-20, 2018

Venue: Institut historique allemand, 8 rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, France

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Natacha Coquery (LARHRA, Lyon 2, IUF); Dr. Jürgen Finger (DHI Paris); Prof. Dr. Mark Sven Hengerer (LMU Munich)

Deadline: October 31, 2017

CfP Contextualizing Bankcruptcy (pdf)

Although bankruptcy is a rather exceptional situation in the life of a merchant, it has explanatory power for routines of economic stakeholders, for their space of experience and their horizon of expectation. We can therefore use the irregularity of failure as an indicator of regularities. Considering the long, non-uniform and unsteady transition from merchant capitalism to industrial and financial capitalism, we suggest to start a dialog between modernistes and contemporanéistes. The workshop focuses on the various forms of contextualizing business failure and puts forward three major research axes: Covering and Uncovering/Secrecy and Publicity; Economic Space and Area of Jurisdiction; Temporal Narratives of (In)Solvency.

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2016/11/12

New Paper on Biographical Method and Microhistory

“Entrepreneur Biographies as Microhistories of X“, in: Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The German-American Experience since 1700, eds. Hartmut Berghoff/Uwe Spiekermann, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute – Supplement 12, Washington D.C. 2016, S. 19-36.

Writing scientific biographies evokes the problem of representativeness or of integrating the single case into more general questions of scholarly interest. The establishment of a link between micro and macrolevels inspired the present paper, which attempts to conceptualize the link between the individual biographical case and more general questions via the concept of microhistory. Microhistory does not present an easy solution to this problem, but it can generate sensitivity for the epistemological problems and narrative pitfalls of the biographical genre. „New Paper on Biographical Method and Microhistory“ weiterlesen

2016/07/18

Interview im Projekt-Blog NS-Ministerien-BW. Eine vorbildliche Public History-Initiative der Kollegen in Baden-Württemberg

Mein Interview mit Sina Speit M.A. für den Projekt-Blog der Kommission “Geschichte der Landesministerien
in Baden und Württemberg in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus” ist erschienen:

Die Politisierung der Schulen wird in den Ländern betrieben. Die nationalsozialistische Bildungspolitik in Baden, Württemberg und im Elsass

Allen Interessierten ist darüber hinaus die hervorragende Internet-Seite der Kommission zu empfehlen, die Institutionen und Akteure der NS-Zeit in Baden, Württemberg und dem Elsass systematisch präsentiert. „Interview im Projekt-Blog NS-Ministerien-BW. Eine vorbildliche Public History-Initiative der Kollegen in Baden-Württemberg“ weiterlesen

2016/05/272016/07/03

Summer University “Cultures and knowledge of economy (18th-20th c.)”

Université d’été de l’IHA « Cultures et savoirs de l’éonomie (18^e-20^e siécle) » ⁄ DHIP-Sommeruniversität „Kulturen und Wissen der Ökonomie (18.-20. Jh.)“

21–24 JUIN 2016

Institut historique allemand, 8 rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris

Information und Anmeldung/informations et réservations: event@dhi-paris.fr

Programm (pdf)

Comité scientifique: Alain Chatriot (Sciences Po), Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po), Jürgen Finger (DHIP/LMU München), Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po)

Seit einigen Jahren erregt die Ökonomie von Neuem starkes Interesse bei Historikern und Historikerinnen, auch außerhalb der Wirtschaftsgeschichte im engeren Sinn. Immer mehr Projekte sind inspiriert von Theorien und Methoden der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, der cultural studies und der Wissensgeschichte. Diese Konjunktur gibt Anlass, die Diskussion mit Doktoranden und Postdocs zu suchen, die einschlägige Projekte verfolgen.

Depuis des années, l’économie suscite de nouveau l’intérêt des historiens et des historiennes même en dehors de l’histoire économique au sens strict. Les projets de recherche inspirés des théories et méthodes de l’histoire sociale et culturelle, des cultural studies et de l’histoire des savoirs se multiplient. Cette conjoncture incite à ouvrir la discussion entre doctorants et chercheurs postdoctoraux.

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2016/04/14

My new book on Nazi education policy in Southwestern Germany and Alsace is out

Although the Nazis strove for centralization and standardization, the results of their education policy varied from land to land. The school systems strikingly differed in Württemberg, Baden and Alsace. This variety had historical reasons. But it was preserved and restored by the different profiles of Nazi school policy in the three regions. The education reformers in Berlin did not succeed in overcoming regional forces of persistence, structural path dependencies and educational traditions, because teh federal states adapted central reform plans to the local circumstances. Thus, a limited freedom of design emerged for regional policy makers. „My new book on Nazi education policy in Southwestern Germany and Alsace is out“ weiterlesen