Critical Finance Studies 2016, University of Southampton
Conference Schedule
Updated on 2nd August 2016
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CFS 2016 printed schedule final
The map below shows the Highfield and Avenue campuses and Portswood High Street. The Highfield House Hotel is situated between the Highfield Church and Sainsbury’s. You can catch buses up to the campus from Portswood Road (e.g. bus U1A) if you wish to avoid climbing the hill.
We will meet you on Highfield Campus. Head onto University Road and keep on the western half of the campus.
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Registration from 11 am onwards. This will take place in Building 38 in the Hartley Suite (Highfield Campus).
Building 38 is on this map: Highfieldmap It has a lot of catering outlets and is marked with signage like ‘Lattes’ or ‘Arlott Bar’. The Hartley Suite is in the western part of this building, facing towards Southampton Common.
This photograph shows Building 38 (aka the Staff Club) just off to the right. The Nuffield Theatre is ahead with the green roof. The bus interchange is on the other side of that. We will be holding our conference in the Hartley Suite and also in the Nuffield Theatre.
This is another view of Building 38. The Hartley Suite is towards the right with the emergency escape stairs visible. You will not be able to get in by those stairs usually, so enter building from the left.
1.30 – 2 pm: Opening remarks by Helen Julia Paul and Natalie Roxburgh
2 – 3.15 pm
Panel 1: Historical Approaches to Critical Finance
Chair: Ivan Ascher
Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin
“Theorizing Money through the History of Accounting”
Mischa Suter
“Usury and Crisis in Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Case for a Historical Epistemology of Economic Rationality”
3.15 – 3.45 pm: Break
3.45 – 5 pm
Panel 2: Financial Structures, Transparency, and Visibility
Chair: Helen Julia Paul
Elton G. McGoun
“Pillars of the Community: The Enduring Classicism of American Banks, 1904-1954”
Mariana Santos
“Transparent Finance, Protected Wealth: Questioning the Transparency-as-security Logic in the Private Banking and Wealth Management Sector”
Panel 3: New Approaches to Finance and Fiction
Chair: Natalie Roxburgh
Emma Clery
“Reading Jane Austen After the Crash”
Barbara Straumann
“IOU: Financial and Moral Debt in Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit”
5 pm – late: Drinks and dinner
Drinks and dinner at the Cowherd’s Pub on Southampton Common. We can walk there in 20 minutes. We will guide you, but the walking directions are as follows:
From the conference venue head towards Avenue Campus. One way to do this is to go towards Southampton Common and take the path South West. It is marked as Lover’s Walk on this map. Cross Highfield Lane (marked on this map as Highfield Avenue) and keep going until you see a signposted footpath across the Common. This is in the vicinity of Omdurman Road. Take the footpath and go under the underpass then head towards the Model Yachting Lake (ahead and to the left). Keeping the pond on your right head southwards along Coronation Avenue pathway and the pub is in front of you.
Alternatively, call a taxi (02380 666666) or go by bus (U1C or U2c) from the Highfield Interchange (near to building 6, Nuffield Theatre). The buses will eventually end up on a main road called the Avenue which borders Southampton Common. The pub is at the southernmost edge of the Common.
After dinner, if you head eastwards along Winn or Westwood Roads and then turn right you will be on Portswood High Street. Turn left up the High Street to go back towards Highfield House Hotel.
Friday, 5 August 2016
10 – 11.30 am
Panel 4: Forms of Financialization
Chair: Keith Hoskin
Julie Froud, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Nick Tsitsianis, and Karel Williams
“Financialization and the Fragile Temporality of Capital”
Emily Rosamond
“Shared Stakes, Distributed Investment: Socially Engaged Art and the Financialization of Social Impact”
Claes Ohlsson
“Early entanglements can hinder the ability to accumulate wealth”: How the Core Dimensions of Financial Literacy are Addressed in Mainstream Research Papers
11.30 – Midday: Break
Midday – 1 pm:
Keynote, Michel Feher: “The Character of Our Invested Selves”
(Introduced by Emily Rosamond)
1 – 2 pm: Lunch (Cold buffet lunch served in the Hartley Suite)
2 – 3.30 pm:
Panel 5: Finance and Financialization in Film and Fiction
Chair: Christian Kloeckner
Stefano Adamo
“Animal Spirits in Designer Suits: Representations of Finance in Contemporary Literature and Cinema-A Comparative Approach”
Christopher Flynn
“Marcel Carné’s Les enfants du paradis: Investing in Cultural Capital”
Joyce Goggin
“No More Goldbricking!: Neoliberalization and the LEGOfied Subject”
Panel 6: Finance and Industry
Chair: Ann-Christine Frandsen
Chris Robinson, Jerry Buckland, Zoë St. Aubin, and Wayne Simpson
“Ethical, Behavioural and Neo-classical Finance Issues in Payday Lending Regulation”
Pauline Gleadle and Vincent Pieterse
“Dutch Biotech: A Financialization perspective”
Pauline Gleadle, Stuart Parris, and Jiayun Hu
“Divergent Responses to Financialization in UK Big Pharma? GSK versus AZ Compared”
3.30 – 4 pm: Break
4 – 5.15 pm
Panel 7: The Derivative
Chair: Claes Ohlsson
John Morris
“Indifference within Financial Derivatives: Security Logics and Affective Facts”
Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley
“Organizing Destruction: A Derivative Logic?”
Panel 8: Gender, Ethnicity, and High Finance
Chair: Stefano Adamo
Anika Thym
“Questioning the Financial Sector from Within: A Critical Analysis of Autobiographies by Insiders”
Eleni Chatzivgeri, Neeta Shah, and Pauline Gleadle
“Representations of Gender and Ethnicity in a Big Four Firm’s Annual Report: Insights from Semiotic Analysis”
5.15 pm – late: Drinks and dinner at the Brewhouse Pub at the top of Highfield Lane.
The pub lies between the Highfield and Avenue campuses and is 5-10 minutes walk away. We will walk you there. The pub is at the top of Highfield Lane and Highfield House Hotel/Portswood High Street are at the bottom of it. Highfield Church is about half way up.
Saturday, 6 August 2016
Note: A wedding will be held in the Hartley Suite so we will be in the Nuffield Theatre all day, except for lunch.
10.00 – 11.30 am
Panel 9: The Question of Risk
Chair: Chris Robinson
Orla McCullagh
“A Critical Review of the Treatment of Endogenous Risk in Financial Risk Models”
Adam Leaver and Daniel Tischer
“Social Network Risk in Financial Markets: Revisiting the 2008 CDO Crisis”
Christian Kloeckner
“Find out what the future will cost you”: Risk, Uncertainty, and Disasters in Fictions of Finance
11.30 – Midday: Break
Midday – 1 pm:
Keynote, D’Maris Coffman: “A Financial History of the Future”
(Introduced by Helen Julia Paul)
1 – 2 pm: Lunch (Hot two-course lunch served in Terrace Restaurant in Building 38)
2 – 3.15 pm
Panel 10: The Screens of Finance
Chair: Emily Rosamond
Sine N. Just
“The rhetoric of #GamerGate: Online controversy, Technological Affectivity, and Human Emotionality”
Deniz Coral
“Markets with Many Faces: The Role of Screens in the Financial Imagination”
Panel 11: Agency and the Question of Resistance
Chair: Anika Thym
Iona Sharp Casas
“Work as Construct: Immaterial Labour and Corporate Zombies in Mary Harron’s American Psycho”
Tim Christiaens
“Can the Right to be Lazy Resist Financialization? A Critical Assessment of Lazzarato’s Theory of Resistance”
3.15 – 3.45 pm: Optional tour of the Bloomberg Suite
3.45 – 5.15 pm
Panel 12: The Abstraction and its Discontents
Chair: John Morris
Natalie Roxburgh
“Public Credit and the Virtual”
Peter Pelzer
“Remembering Forward: Considerations of Time Aspects on the Financial Markets”
Ivan Ascher
“The Gambling Ethic and the New ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism: Bayesian Probability and the Rise of the Algorithm”
5.15 – 5.30 pm: End of conference discussion
5.30 pm – late: Drinks and dinner
Baan Mai Thai Restaurant on Portswood High Street. This restaurant is just opposite Sainsbury’s and just five minutes walk from the Highfield House Hotel.