3rd Annual Conference 2007: Re-thinking cultural economy
Conference Announcement
5-7 September 2007
The University of Manchester
This Conference seeks to assess where the various debates about culture and economy and cultural economy have got to, and to explore where they may be going in the future. Discussion and debate will be structured around parallel streams of themed session papers as well as plenaries that address the following themes:
- Finance and Financialisation
- Consumer Culture, Branding and Marketing
- New Spirits of Capitalism: materiality, ethics and identities
- Theorising Culture, Economy and Cultural Economy
- The Cultural Economy of Management, Managerialism and New Organisational Elites
- Difference, Money and Borders
Plenary Speakers
Confirmed plenary and keynote speakers include:
Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday
Rachel Bowlby,
University College London
Franck Cochoy, l'Université Toulouse II
Larry Elliott, Guardian
Chris Gregory, Australian National University
Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Eric Hirsch, Brunel University
Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Constance
Nigel Thrift, The University of Warwick
Hugh Willmott, University of Cardiff
Conference Organising Committee: Paul du Gay, Sarah Green, Debra Howcroft, Liz McFall and Karel Williams
Conference Officer: Bussie Awosanya and Conference Manager: Josine Opmeer