11/30 David Bholat, ‘Why British Banks entered the Mortgage Market’

Tuesday, November 16, 2010; Cobb Hall Room 403 12:00 PM David Bholat, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago David’s talk will focus on the multiple factors that lead British banks to start making residential mortgage loans for the first time

11/2: Siva Arumugam, ‘Markets in Sovereignty: Credit and the Price of Politics’

11/2 Siva Arumugam, Department of Anthropology; “Markets in Sovereignty: Credit and the Price of Politics” Tuesday, 12-1:20p.m.; Cobb Hall 403 Excerpt from paper: The credit crisis over the last two years has laid bare a number of features of the

Saskia Sassen, ‘Novel Logics of Exclusion in the assembling of global spaces’

June 2nd, 12pm: Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; Novel Logics of Exclusion in the assembling of global spaces

Sean Dowdy, ‘Marvelous Meditations: Rain Speculation & the Marwari Stranger Merchant’

May 12th, 12pm: Sean M. Dowdy, Department of Anthropology; Marvelous Meditations: Rain Speculation & the Marwari Stranger Merchant

Chen Chen, ‘The Interaction of State and Market: A Brief History of Private Remittance Firms in Guangdong and Fujian (1912-1949)’

January 26th, 12pm: Chen Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago; The Interaction of State and Market: A Brief History of Private Remittance Firms in Guangdong and Fujian (1912-1949) The financial network that connected the emigrant communities in Southeast