Critical Finance Studies
27-28 August 2020
Programme - Thursday 27th August
13:45 – 15:00 BST
Conference Welcome and Opening Panel Discussion: Pandemic as Financial Crisis
Welcome: Emily Rosamond
Opening Panel: Joyce Goggin, Eurydice Fotopoulou, Marina Vishmidt and Gargi Bhattacharyya
15:30 – 16:30 BST
Parallel Sessions
Session 1:
Everyday Financialization and Political Subjectivity
Networking Session
Chair: Ryann Donnelly
Fatih Karakaya – Credit Card Instalments: The Relationality of Financialization of Everyday Life
Yichen Rao – Dreaming like a Market: The Hidden Script of Financial Inclusion in China’s P2P Lending Platforms
Amy Whitaker – Is Ownership Real? The Structural Performativity of Property Rights
Session 2:
Discussion of Video Presentations
Chairs: Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans
Berkey Kabalay and Yunus Yücel – The Violent Character of Indebtedness: The Case of Turkey
Jiwoon Yulee – The Financialization of Social Reproduction: Focusing on the Contradiction between Chaebol Capital and Labor Precarity in South Korea
Caroline JF Metz – Profiting from Crisis yet again: the Financialisation of Distressed Debts in Europe
Charles Mak – Sovereign Debt Market: A Post-COVID-19 Perspective
Session 3:
Asset Accumulation, Finance and Trust
Discussion of Video Presentations
Chair: John Morris
Terhi Chakhovich, Marja-Liisa Kuronen, and Johanna Moisander – “Investment Risk as Vulnerability: The Context of Repairing Trust in CEO Public Communication
Alesja Serada, Jori Grym, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Tanja Sihvonen – Cryptocurrencies as Technologies of (Dis)Trust
Hayley James – Understanding present bias in workplace pension decision-making
Hanna Szymborska – Patterns of wealth accumulation and inequality at the intersection of gender and race in times of financialisation
Programme - Friday 28th August
13:30 – 14:30 BST
Parallel Sessions
Session 1:
Financialization vs De-Financialization
Networking Session
Chair: Ariane Agunsoye
Jenny McArthur – Infrastructure Debt Funds and the Growth of Shadow Banking in the Global Infrastructure Market
Johannes Petry – State Capitalism vs Neoliberalism: Capital Markets in China and the Global Financial Order
Lars Ahnland – Tides of Financialization
Session 2:
Discussion of Video Presentations
Chair: Joyce Goggin
Sarah Vowden – Contact/Less Exchange and Pandemic Proximities
Charlotte Warne Thomas – New labour (2020), film screening and artist talk
Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans, with Luke Mason – 7 Walks (Revisiting Ernest Gambart (1814-1902)
John Macintosh – Valuation, Narration, and the Global South in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Ami Clarke – The Underlying
15:15 – 16:15 BST
Parallel Sessions
Session 1:
Risk Societies and Cultures of Volatility
Networking Session
Chair: Emily Rosamond
Franziska Cooiman – The Political Origins of the Venturization of Europe’s (digital) economy
Andrei Guter-Sandu – Dangerous Liaisons: Nurturing Solidarity through Social Impact Bonds?
Jesse Cunningham and Huon Curtis – Noise as Information: Finance Economics as Second-Order Observation
Session 2:
Discussion of Video Presentations
Chair: Simon Lilley
Moad Musbahi – Family Finance: The FOREX Black-Market in Libya (2017-18)
Pauline Gleadle and Mustafa Erdem Sakinc – Value creation versus value destruction: the financialization of Big Pharma?
Stephanie Barral and Ritwick Gosh – Limited Scope of For-Profit Conservation Finance
Alessandro Maresca and Giulia Dal Maso – The greening of assetisation between eco-alchemy and interpellation
DT Cochrane – Where is Rent in Compustat? Economic Rent, Finance & Methodological Ambiguities
17:00 – 18:00 BST
Keynote – Annie McClanahan
Tipwork, Gigwork, Microwork
Please note: you will need to read Annie McClanahan’s text “Tipwork, Gigwork, Microwork” in advance to participate in this session. Access to this text will be provided after you sign up on Eventbrite.
18:00 – 18:15 BST
Closing Remarks
From 18:30 BST
Virtual Social