Debt in History
Страна: Канада
Город: Toronto
Тезисы до: 01.08.2017
Даты: 18.05.18 — 19.05.18
Область наук: Исторические и археология;
Е-мейл Оргкомитета: ue_tom@hotmail.com
Организаторы: University of Toronto Scarborough
At a Q&A that followed a Toronto screening of Little Men (2016), a film about two families’ battle over a lease and its impact on the lives of its central protagonists, director Ira Sachs reflected on the modern-day struggle of many families to remain in the middle class. Sachs’s film speaks to the primacy of economics in discourse. Recent scholarship has shown the value of reading film and literature economically. The enormously influential work of David Graeber, Mary Poovey, Margot C. Finn, Julian Hoppit, Sandford Borins, Audrey Jaffe, Margaret Atwood, and others have opened up new avenues for thinking about money and the humanities. This conference aims both to consolidate and to advance criticism in literature, film, philosophy, and cultural studies by attending to some incarnations of debt and analyzing their wider implications.
Possible themes and topics:
Capitalism
Capital
Inheritance
Faith
Credibility
Chance
Marxism
Interest
Commerce
Trade
Liberalism
Finances
Housing
Rent
Mortgage
Banks
Credit
Debit
Ranking
Poverty
Labour
Forgiveness
Cash
Stocks
Forgery
Political Economy
Colonialism
Wealth
Веб-сайт конференции: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/03/29/debt-in-history