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Note that papers on this site are in draft form and are the intellectual property of the author. In general, it is best not to cite without permission from the author.
Spring Quarter 2007 Workshop Schedule
Apr 10: Larry Herrigel, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Roles and Rules:
Ambiguity, Experimentation and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany
Paper in pdf format
Apr 24: Erika Vause, History
In The Red and In The Black:
Debt Imprisonment and the Culture of Credit in France, 1793-1867
Paper in pdf format
May 1: Barney Keller
The sociology of poker (complete with demonstrations!)
Paper in pdf format
May 8: Erik Thomson
May 15: Stephen Zarlenga, American Monetary Institute
The Nature of Money - Aristotle vs. Adam Smith
May 22: Edward LiPuma
The Habitus of Speculation
Paper in pdf format
Additional presentations for spring are yet to be posted, but will happen soon.
Winter Quarter 2007 Workshop Schedule
Jan. 16: Caitlin Zaloom
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU
Presenting chapter 1 and 6 from her new book, Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (amazon link), a joint presentation with the globalization workshop. The links to the chapters below are copyright Zaloom and the University of Chicago press and are not for use other than this workshop.
Chapter 1: Materials of the Market [3.22mg]
Chapter 6: The Discipline of the Speculator [2.08mg]
There will also be a dinner with professor Zaloom that evening for graduate students and those interested in talking more with her in the South Loop: Thai Spoon, 601 South Wabash. Graduate students from the University will have their dinners reimbursed up to a certain amount, so please make the effort to get out of Hyde Park, as this location is right off of the #2 or #6 bus routes at Balbo and Wabash, or from the Harrison stop on the red line. Please contact ecoslor at uchicago.edu if you are interested, so I can get a head count for a reservation.
Tue, Feb 6: Jayson Beaster-Jones, post-field anthropology
Experiencing the Brand, Branding the Experience:
Shopping the ‘Music Store of the Universe’
Chapter on retail consumption and branding in Bombay. We'll workshop the first 18 pages primarily
Paper here (PDF format)
Feb 20: Erin Metz, northwestern university
Budgetary Units: Reworking Weber's Forgotten Economic Unit
Feb 28: Aaron Pitluck, Assistant Prof of sociology at IL State
Moral Behavior in Stock Markets is Shaped by Mandates and Market Structure
This paper compares Islamic motivated investing behavior in Malaysia
with socially responsible investing in the U.S.
Dr. Pitluck’s areas of specialization include
global finance, economic sociology, the Asia-Pacific area, and
social theory. His dissertation research focused on
speculative activity in global financial markets in Malaysia.
He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Paper here (PDF format)
Special time and place:Wed 2/28, 3:00-4:20, Cobb 106
Fall Quarter 2006 Workshop Schedule
Oct. 3: Robert Zeithammer
Assistant Professor, Chicago GSB
Presenting a joint paper written with Christopher Adams of the Federal Trade Commission: "Modeling online auctions with proxy-bidding: Ascending versus Sealed Model"
Download in PDF format
Oct. 17: Reading Session
Meeting to discuss consumption-related material
Oct. 31: Francois Velde
Economics Department
Nov. 14: Karen Hunt
Nov. 28: Brian Brazeal
Anthropology Department, PhD Student
Fall Quarter, 2005
Oct. 5: Karin Knorr
Sociology & Anthropology
What is a financial market: Markets from promises
Oct. 19: Diane Grams
Cultural Policy Center
Territorial Markers: The case of public art in Bronzeville
Nov. 2: Eric Boria
PhD Student, Loyola University
Neo-Fordist consumption, or the local specificity of the industrial city
Nov. 16: Dan Cook
Visiting Professor in Sociology from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Subjectifying the child consumer
Nov. 30: Terry Clark (Sociology) & Dan Silver (Social Thought)
A Theory of Urban Scenes
Winter Quarter 2006
Jan. 18: Gustav Peebles
Post-doc, Columbia University
Wicksell’s Complaint, or, Why do Currency Reserves Exist?
Presentation (pdf)
Jan. 25: Alex Preda special session
Playing the Market Alone: Cognitive Practices and Sociality Forms of Independent Traders
Feb. 1: Sherine Hamdy
PhD Student in Anthropology, NYU
The market in human organs and tissues in Egypt
Feb. 15: Panel session on love & consumption
Discussants include: Terry Clark, Danielle Wallace
Email me (ecoslor at uchicago.edu) if you are interested in participating
Spring Quarter 2006 Workshop Schedule
Note change in date
Apr. 12: Jessica cattelino
Anthropology Department
Fungibility: Florida Seminole Tribal Casinos, Social Reproduction, and the Politics of Money
Apr. 19: Omar Kutty
Anthropology, post-field
Purifying Public Capital: Privatization, Sanitation and the Fantasy of Homogeneity in Delhi
May 3: Jenny Huberman
PhD Student, Anthropology Department
Shopping for People, or Shopping for People: Deciphering the Object of Consumption among Tourists in Banaras
Thurs. May 4: Alan Klima Special Session with semiotics workshop
Ghosts and money in Thailand
Time and Location TBA
May 17: Julie Chu
Anthropology Department, Wellesley
Ghost money in southern China
May 31: Lily Chumley
PhD Student, Anthropology Department
Art markets in china and Taiwan
To find out more about this workshop, contact the student coordinator: Erica Coslor (ecoslor (at) uchicago.edu).
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