Friday November 8th, 2024, Claude Diebolt will be the guest of the Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Haguenau for a public lecture entitled ‘Once upon a time, there was Man and cliometry’.
Presentation: Taking its name from the historical muse ‘Clio’ and ‘metrie’, the art of measurement, cliometry is by definition the ‘quantitative projection of social sciences into the past’, according to Claude Diebolt. Among other things, it allows historical developments to be explained by the role of institutions, rules and human actions. As well as using historical sources, this discipline also uses statistical and mathematical sources to explain the evolution of societies.
This discipline, which originated in the United States, is very recent in contemporary historiography. It came to prominence when Robert Fogel and Douglass were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993 by Robert Fogel and Douglass North, before arriving in France under the impetus of our speaker.
Among other things, this conference will enable us to ask ourselves the following questions:
- How does cliometry work in practice?
- What interest does it have in the study of societies?
- How has it become established in contemporary research?
The conference will take place at 8pm at the Institut de Soins Infirmiers (21 rue de la redoute, Haguenau).
