For six days in July, the University of Montreal at Quebec looked for all the world like HOPE Center North, with several Center affiliates, fellows, and visitors, past and present, playing active roles in a summer school on the history of science and econoimcs.
Among the twenty-seven participants, the following had HOPE Center connections: E. Roy Weintraub, John Singleton, Matt Panhans, Till Dueppe, Verena Halsmayer, Erich Pinzon-Fuchs, and Juan Carvajalino. In addition, two participants in recent HOPE Center Summer Institutes, Rebecca Livernois and Camila Orozco-Espinel, were present, as were Judy Klein, Tim Leonard, and Tom Stapleford, all three of whom have been at Duke for recent HOPE conferences.
The nearly weeklong summer school was full of rich conversation and debate. In the afternoons, graduate students presented their PhD or postdoc projects, and in the mornings there were intriguing discussions of several book projects of senior scholars: Ted Porter's Unknown History of Human Heredity, Judy Klein's Protocols of War, Tim Leonard's Illiberal Reformers, and Hunter Heyck's Age of System. Those were all complemented by a discussion with Tom Stapleford about the difference between the historical epistemology of economics and the history of economic thought, and by a thought-provoking essay by Roy Weintraub on McCarthyism and the mathematization of economics.
The Montreal Summer School in the History of Science and Economics was sponsored by the History of Economics Society as part of its New Initiatives Program, the economics department at the University of Montreal at Quebec, and the Interuniversity Centre for Research in Science and Technology.