Programme

University of Amsterdam, University Library, Singel 425

Room: The “Doelenzaal”

 

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

 

10:00 – 11:00   Registration and coffee

 

11:00 – 12:00                                 

Keynote Speaker: Diane Negra (University College Dublin)

“Gendering the Recession”

 

Chair: Miriam Meissner (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

 

12:00 - 13:00                    Lunch

 

13:00 - 14:30                    Wednesday, August 13 Session 1

Speculation

 

Chair: Joyce Goggin (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Marieke de Goede (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

“Speculative Values and Courtroom Contestations”

Charles Barthold (University of Leicester)

“Deleuze and Finance”

Benjamin Lozano (University of California, Santa Cruz)

“The Distribution of Economic Space. Towards an Economy of the War Machine”

 

14:30 - 15:00                   Coffee

 

15:00 - 16:30                    Wednesday, August 13                     Session 2

Indebtedness

 

Chair: Simon Lilley (University of Leicester)

Bert Azizoglu (The New School University)

“Paying for Debt: The Labor Market Implications of Growing Household Debt”

Radman Selmic (Goldsmiths)

“(Re)Production of Indebted Subject(s) - Case of Greece”

Julia Leyda (Sophia University)

“Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Allegory of Debtor Capitalism”

 

16:30 – 18:00                   Wednesday, August 13                     Session 3

Behaving Financially

 

Chair: Geoff Lightfoot (University of Leicester)

Matthew Tiessen (Ryerson University)

“Banking at Street Level”

Matthew Haigh (University of London)

“"Rational behaviour? Environmental Regulation, Finance and the Market"”

Pieter Lagerwaard (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

“Negotiating Global Finance”

 

18:30                                 Dinner

Kantjil en de Tijger, Spuistraat 291-293.

 

 

Thursday August 14, 2014

 

10:00 - 11:00                                  

Keynote Speaker: Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths)

“Casino Capitalism rebooted: Abenomics and integrated resorts in Japan”

 

Chair: Robert Wosnitzer (New York University)

 

11:00 – 11:30                   Coffee

 

11:30 – 13:00                   Thursday, August 14 Session 4

Imperceptibility

 

Chair: Benjamin Lozano (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Emily Rosamond (Goldsmiths)

“Economic Figuration”

Peter Pelzer (Independent)

“Office Baroque”

Roberto Mozzachiodi (Goldsmiths)

“Visualizing Crisis. Poetics of Austerity in Contemporary European Cinema”

 

13:00 - 14:00                    Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:30                    Thursday, August 14                          Session 5

Financial Resistance

 

Chair: Emma Dowling (Middlesex University)

Derek Curry (University at Buffalo)

“Control Society Resistance”

Derrick Chong (Royal Holloway, University of London)

“Class War on Wonga”

Simon Lilley and Geoff Lightfoot (University of Leicester)

“Taking One for the Team”

 

15:30 – 16:00                   Coffee

 

16:00 - 17:30                    Thursday, August 14 Session 6

Financial Basics

 

Chair: David Harvie (University of Leicester)

Ivan Ascher (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

“Speculative Finance and the Capitalist Mode of Prediction”

Natalie Roxburgh (University of Oldenburg)

“Finance and Pharmacology in American Fiction and Film”

 

17:45                                  Dinner

Haesje Claes, Spuistraat 275

 

 

Friday August 15, 2014

 

9:00 - 10:30                      Friday, August 15                                                Session 7

Financial Sentiments

 

Chair: Frank Jan de Graaf (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences)

Christian Klöckner (University of Bonn)

“Finance and Its Nostalgic Discontents”

Skip McGoun (Bucknell University)

“Colonial American Origins of Anti-Bank Sentiment”

John Morris (Durham University)

“Value-at-Risk and Stress Testing”

 

10:30 - 11:00                    Coffee

 

11:00 - 12:30                    Friday, August 15                                               Session 8

Financial Subjectivation

 

Chair: Emily Rosamond (Goldsmiths)

Lauren Tooker (University of Warwick)

“Ludicrous Finance”

Zeev Rosenhek and Daniel Maman (The Open University of Israel and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

“Financial Literacy as a Moralizing Project”

Emma Dowling (Middlesex University) and David Harvie (University of Leicester)

“A Measure of Change: Governing Financialised Subjects in a Post-crisis Economy”

12:30 - 13:30                   Lunch

 

13:30 – 15:00                   Friday, August 15                                                Session 9

The Financial Class

 

Chair: Pieter Lagerwaard (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Jennifer Gradecki (University at Buffalo)

“Insider Information in the Markets of Art and Finance”

Lukas Hofstätter (Goethe-University)

“Global Financial Markets as Locations of Class Formation”

Miriam Meissner (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

“Urban Habitat and the Everyday Life of Financialization”

 

15:00 - 15:30                    Coffee

 

15:30 – 17:00                   Friday, August 15 Session 10

Destabilising Critique

 

Chair: Lauren Tooker (University of Warwick)

Robert Wosnitzer (New York University)

“The Structure of (Financial) Speculation as Derivative Politics”

Charalampos Fytros (Lancaster University)

“Heidegger and Modern Finance”

Timo Walter (Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement)

“Criticizing Finance From the Inside”

 

17:00 – 17:15                  Closing Comments

 

17:15                                 Drinks