SPP Masterclass - What Economics and Economic History can learn from Memory Studies

April 2022 | DIW Berlin | Organised by Stephanie Ettmeier (DIW Berlin + FU Berlin) and Marie Huber (HU Berlin)| Submission: tba | Invited Speaker: Ute Röschenthaler (Mainz University)

Join the Call for Papers (submission until 31 August 2021)! You can find more information on the CfP here and on the Workshops' Website.

Topic

How are individual and collective memories of extreme economic moments produced in a community? How do these memories translate into the political economy and shape the realm of possibility of macroeconomic policies? Why is some statistical data and economic policy represented more factual than other in the historical narration of national economies? How do some economic indicators become more powerful symbolic frameworks than others and receive different degrees of affective intensity? How can methods and key concepts of memory studies inform and enrich the historical and economics analysis related to these questions?

Taking our own research projects – dealing with the postcolonial economy of Francophone West Africa, and the recovery of the German economy from the Great Depression under the Nazis from 1933 onwards, respectively – as a starting point, we want to invite others working on economic experiences and expectations to discuss these questions with us. In a critical thinking and discussion focused workshop format we want to strengthen interdisciplinary conversation and provide methodological impulses for a broad range of research topics.