Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities

About the event

Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention to questions of money, finance, and the economy. At the same time, social scientists have increasingly drawn on humanities-based methodologies in their analyses of economic phenomena.

“Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” is a landmark conference dedicated to mapping this emerging interdisciplinary space and charting its multiple potential futures. It aims to bring together researchers working across the field to explore common approaches and share empirical and theoretical insights. It will showcase the state of the art in the Economic Humanities and reflect on emerging tendencies and future directions.

In addition to keynote lectures and panel presentations, the conference will experiment with an innovative “Laboratory of Economic Concepts,” consisting of workshops focused on keywords from the economic lexicon, and drawing on participants’ varied disciplinary and intellectual perspectives to illuminate the terms’ genealogies, meanings, and potential reinventions.

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Organisers

• Professor Paul Crosthwaite (School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures)
• Professor Rachel Muers (School of Divinity)

How to attend

This project is open to all, and various ticket types are available. You can find them all available to book on Eventbrite.

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We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Our interdisciplinary environment brings together specialists in all periods and genres of literature and literary analysis. Working with colleagues elsewhere in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) and across the wider University of Edinburgh, we are also able to support research which crosses further boundaries between disciplines and/or languages.