Church of Burn. The Cockpit Theatre London, 8 December 2019.   In human history, Ritual Sacrifice has been pivotal in the ordering of economic relations and served to create civilisation, itself. We have forgotten this. The Church of Burn redefines money and recasts our relationship with it. In Ritual it …

The welfare state in financial times. University of Amsterdam/SASE 2020, 18-20 July 2020 Natascha van der Zwan and colleagues are organizing a mini-conference in Amsterdam next year as part of SASE 2020. In the mini-conference, we hope to explore the complicated new ways in which social and financial policies have …

Women, money, and markets (1600-1900). University of Zurich, 10-12 June 2020 Barbara Straumann and her colleagues at the University of Zurich are hosting another conference on women, money, and markets next year. As in previous years, the conference will address women’s relationship to money and their participation in trade, banking, …

Next week the University of Amsterdam will be hosting two events on the ‘finance-security nexus’. Both are organized by Marieke de Goede and Carola Westermeier as part of the ERC Consolidator Grant project, FOLLOW: Following the Money from Transaction to Trial, with support from the Amsterdam Center for European Studies …

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam is inviting applications for a funded PhD position on the theme of financial debt. The position is part of a broader research project, ‘A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt’: Society is drowning in financial debts. But it is unclear …

The Erasmus University Rotterdam is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy, in the area of philosophy of economics, to contribute to the research theme “Values in Finance”. Within this research theme, members of the core faculty of the Erasmus Initiative will engage in: (i) detailed methodological assessment of finance models …

Review of International Political Economy, vol. 26 no. 5 (2019). Edited by Nick Bernards and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn. With contributions from Marie Langevin, Daivi Rodima-Taylor and William Grimes, Chris Clarke, J.P. Singh, Marcel Goguen and Tony Porter, and Lorenzo Genito. This special issue foregrounds ‘infrastructures’ as a heuristic for injecting nuance …

Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room. Daniel Beunza, Princeton University Press 2019. Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a …

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature. Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro (eds), Dartmouth College Press 2019. Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. This is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dominance of our neoliberal …

The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction. Paul Crosthwaite, Cambridge University Press 2019. In the twenty-first century, leading publishers are under intense pressure from their conglomerate owners and shareholders to generate growth and profits. This book shows how these pressures have transformed the contemporary novel. Paul Crosthwaite argues that recent British …