Working Groups

Current working groups

Diversity conference

The Diversity Caucus held its first conference (via Zoom) on May 24-25, 2021. The conference featured 12 (single-authored and co-authored) presentations from 17 scholars. The breadth of participants was global in scope, including scholars in Japan, Italy, France, Turkey, India, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, and the United States. Contributions addressed topics, themes, personae, and institutions that often go unaddressed in professional forums. Participants explored the meaning of diversity for the history of economic thought and related fields, and its significance for practitioners in these fields. A selection of papers presented at the online conference will be published in a symposium to appear in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. The Diversity Caucus hopes to organize a second conference for Summer 2022.

Coordinator Scott Scheall

Codes of conduct

The working group coordinates the discussion on codes of conduct.

Coordinator: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Members: Danielle Guizzo, Manuela Mosca, Ana Paula Londe Silva

Historiography & Diversity

The group has been focused on what diversity means in terms of methods and subjects of study. It reflected on the link between diversity and the production of knowledge in the history of economics and held two specific sessions on anti-Semitism in HET and gender as an analytical category for history.

Coordinator Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

Projects

Other working groups were discussed: Mentorship, Childcare, Definitions of Diversity, Institutions Observatory, Feminist economics, Pluralism in methods and topics, Racism in HET, LGBTQ+ in HET, Accessibility, Social and Cultural Inclusion.