Program

The conference is scheduled from 9am to 7pm in the Rotunda, in the middle of the University of Virginia’s grounds.

8:30 to 9:00 – Coffee

9:00 – Panel #1. Metaphors of Money: Risk, Limits, and Alternatives

  • Anne Mayhew. “Money as Electricity”
  • Nicky Marsh. “Consenting Adults?: Risk and Sex in the Financial Economy”
  • John O’Brien, “Insurance, Risk, and the Problem of Representation”
  • Arthur Stinchcombe, “Epistemology of Studying Flows”

11:00 - Keynote
Philip Mirowski, “Desperately Seeking Biological Warrants: Toxic Assets, Circulation, Green Shoots, Self-Healing”

12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch Break

1:00 – Panel #2. The Social Life of Money

  • Matt Garrett, “The Liquid Life: Money and the Circulation of Success after Franklin”
  • Simone Polillo, “Wild Cats in Banking Fields: The Politics of Monetary Inclusion”
  • Jennifer Burns, “‘The Root of All Good’: Ayn Rand and the Meaning of Money”
  • Yarimar Bonilla, “The Cultural Politics of 200 Euros in Guadeloupe”

3:00 – Keynote
Franco Moretti, “Bourgeoisie. On Henrik Ibsen”

4:00 – Panel #3. The Economics of Money: Beyond Liquidity

  • Randall McGowen. “‘A Sort of Waggon-Way Through the Air’: Understanding Circulation in Eighteenth-Century England”
  • Hugh Rockoff, “On Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith on the Regulation of Banking”
  • Anush Kapadia, “Money Fetish: the Working Fiction of Credit”
  • Aaron Pitluck, “Stock Markets are Normally Illiquid: The Turgid Trading of Professional Investors”

6:00 – Keynote
Bill Maurer, “A Stitch in Time…”