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Conference Timetable at a Glance

Tuesday 4 September 2007

Tuesday 4 September , 17.30 -18.30

Cordingley Lecture Theatre

Special Pre-conference Lecture

Introduced by Karel Williams, CRESC, The University of Manchester

Larry Elliott, Economics Editor of the Guardian and Dan Atkinson, Economics Editor of the Mail on Sunday

Fantasy Island: The Illusions of the Blair Legacy

Wednesday 5 September 2007

Wednesday 5 September - 09.00-10.30

Plenary Session 1

Moderator: Paul Du Gay, CRESC, The Open University

Rachel Bowlby, University College London, Local, Local, Local

Franck Cochoy, l'Université Toulouse II, Hansel and Gretel at the Grocery Store: Progressive Grocer and the Little American Consumers (1929-1959)

Wednesday 5 September - 11.00-12.30

Session 101: Management, Managerialism and Elites 1
Moderator: David Wight, CRESC, The Open University   
101-a: "Rip it, Mix it, Share It"? Jan Ellis, Columbia University
101-b: Copyright Pirates, Underground Archivists, Balázs Bodó, Budapest University of Technology and Economics/Stanford Law School
101-c:  Digital Change for Creators in Film, Photography and Architecture, Regina Sperlich, Mediacult

Session 102: New Spirits of Capitalism 1
Moderator: Sarah Green, CRESC, The University of Manchester
102-a: De-Cola-Nising? New Waves of Resistance Culture, K Ravi Raman, University of Manchester
102-b: Mecca-Cola: A Study of Liquid Identity, Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University/The New School for Social Research
102-c: Relational Art and the New Spirit of Anti-Capitalism, Roger Sansi Roca, Goldsmiths, University of London

Session 103: Consumer Culture 1
Moderator: Liz McFall, CRESC, The Open University
103-a: Branding and Belonging: Globalised Goods and National Identity, John Sinclair, University of Melbourne
103-b: Excavating the Geographical Political Economies of Brands: Placing Newcastle Brown Ale, Andy Pike, University of Newcastle
103-c: The Devil and Customer Relationship Management: Information Technology and the Performativity of the Sign, Hannah Knox, CRESC, University of Manchester; Damien O'Doherty and Chris Westrup, University of Manchester; Theo Vurdubakis, University of Lancaster

Session 104: Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 1
Moderator: Chris Westrup, The University of Manchester
104-a:  Time and Value in a Work-World of the Future, Lisa Adkins, Goldsmiths, University of London
104-b: Governance2: Virtual Space, Virtual Economies, Elliot Che, Carleton University, Ottawa
104-c: 'Human Types' and the Cultural Role of Capitalism: Contemporary Lessons from Early 20th Century German Social Theory, Isabelle Darmon, University of Manchester

Session 105: Cultural Identities 1
Moderator: Adam Leaver, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester
105-a: User-Generated Pictures: An Examination of Photography in the Digital Domain, Sharla Sava, Simon Fraser University
105-b: “The Games Industry is a Proud Member of These Industries": Digital Games Industry-Education Collaborations and Fostering Creative Talent, Daniel Ashton, Lancaster University
105-c: On the Management of Cultural Companies, James Roberts, University of Leeds
105-d: The Venue is the Culture?, Yiu Fai Chow, Amsterdam School of Communications Research

Session 106:  Finance and Financalisation 1
Moderator: Karel Williams, CRESC, The University of Manchester   
106-a: Bay Street, Toronto’s Financial District: Staging the Cultural Economy? Anouk Bélanger, Eric Pineault and Louis Jaco, Université du Québec à Montréal
106-b: Stock Options in Executive Pay: Financial Engineering or Financial Bricolage? Ismail Erturk, University of Manchester
106-c: Operations Management and Financialisation: Worlds Apart? Mauro Zilbovicius, University of São Paulo
106-d: Situating a Culture of 'Financial Celebrity' within the Broader Culture, Skip McGoun and Janice Traflet, Bucknell University

Wednesday 5 September - 13.30-15.00

Plenary Session 2

Moderator: Sarah Green, CRESC, The University of Manchester

Chris Gregory, Australian National University, On Money and Boundaries: A Perspective from Economic Anthropology

Eric Hirsch, Brunel University, Qualities of Betelnut and Qualities of Money in Melanesia

Wednesday 5 September - 15.30-17.00

Session 201:    Management, Managerialism and Elites 2
Moderator: Mike Savage, CRESC, The University of Manchester
201-a: The Liquidity of Social Capital: The Interconnected Networks of Westminster and the City, Martin Lodge and William Jennings, London School of Economics and Political Science and Yuval Millo, University of Essex
201-b: Cultural Embedding and Disembedding amongst Political Networks at Westminster, Aeron Davis, Goldsmiths, University of London
201-c: The Outside Interests of the Culture Elite, David Griffiths, University of Manchester
201-d: Everything for Sale: How Non-Executive Directors Make a Difference, Julie Froud, Adam Leaver, Gindo Tampubolon and Karel Williams, University of Manchester

Session 202: New Spirits of Capitalism 2
Moderator:Liz McFall, CRESC, The Open University     
202-a: The Contemporary Economic Imaginary and the Neoliberal Subject, Andrew Sayer, Lancaster University
202-b: Emerging Spirit of Indian Capitalism: Historical Habitus, Global Context and Developmental Ethics, Anuja Prashar, Goldsmiths, University of London
202-c: Manna from Heaven: Evangelical Capitalism, Capitalist Theology, and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Tony Perucci, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
202-d: Making Use of the American Dream: Ethics, Culture and Class Position in the Global Capitalist System, Rachel Finn, University of Manchester

Session 203: Consumer Culture 2
Moderator: Paul DuGay, CRESC, The Open University     
203-a: From Culture Industry to Copyright Industries: Industry Definitions in the Hands of Spin-Doctors and Politicians, Patrik Wikström, Karlstad University
203-b: Being Creative or Being Industry? Juggling Between Culture, Creativity and Enterprise in the Creative Industries, Roberta Comunian, University of Leeds
203-c: Beyond Media Exposure: Interactive Audience Engagement and Mainstreaming in the Convergent Media Environment, Peter Csigó, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
203-d: Who Needs Cultural Intermediaries, Indeed? Maureen Molloy, University of Auckland and Wendy Larner, University of Bristol

Session 204: Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 2
Moderator: Tony Bennett, CRESC, The Open University     
204-a:  Cultural Economy and Reciprocal Global Cultural Flows, David Baronov, St. John Fisher College, Rochester
204-b: The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries, Jeremy Valentine, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
204-c: A Critical Overview of 'Cultural Economy': Lessons from Comparative Research, Matthieu de Nanteuil and Rocio Nogales, University of Liege

Session 205: Cultural Identities 2
Moderator: David Wright, CRESC, The Open University     
205-a:  Network Production and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Eran Fisher, The New School for Social Research, New York
205-b: Paying the Field: The Cultural Economy of Arts Journalism at Naspers (2004-2005), Gabriel J. Botma, Stellenbosch University
205-c: Bourdieu and the Field of Literary Production, Beth Driscoll, University of Melbourne

Session 206: Finance and Financalisation 2
Moderator:  Ismail Ertürk, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester    
206-a: The Part Played by Public Sector Restructuring in Furthering the Predominance of the Financial Sector, Jean Shaoul, Anne Stafford, and Pamela Stapleton, University of Manchester
206-b: The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and Finance Capital: A Note on Gaps in the 'Accountability' Debate, Darinka Asenova, Glasgow Caledonian University and Matthias Beck, University of York
206-c: Financing Goodwill? Cultures of Funding and Autonomy Within the UK Voluntary Sector, Rosie Read, Bournemouth University

Wednesday 5 September - 17.05-17.45

Cordingley Lecture Theatre

Plenary Session 3 – A Business Point of View
Moderator: Karel Williams, CRESC, The University of Manchester

Stephen Francis, Belvedere Partners

Private Equity: A Practitioners Point of View

Thursday 6 September 2007

Thursday 6 September - 09.00-10.30

Plenary Session 4

Moderator: Julie Froud, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester

Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Constance, Flow Cultures: The Temporalization of Financial Markets

Hugh Willmott, University of Cardiff, Political Cultural Economy and the Financialisation of Brand Equity

Thursday 6 September - 11.00-12.30

Session 301: New Spirits of Capitalism 3
Moderator: Sarah Green, CRESC, The University of Manchester     
301-a: Neo-Liberal Transformation of Islamism in Turkey: Changing Conceptions of Social Justice, Sinan Erensu, Sabanci University
301-b: Workplace Experiences of Self-Alienation: The Downside of the 'New Spirit of Capitalism'? Jana Costas, University of Cambridge
301-c: The Concept of 'Anthonian Economy' in in the Monastery of Vatopaidi, Mount Athos, Michelangelo Paganopoulos, Goldsmiths, University of London
301-d: Havana, Cultural Capital 2007: The Value of Literature in the Cultural Economy, Parvathi Kumaraswami, University of Manchester

Session 302: Consumer Culture 3
Moderator: Paul du Gay, CRESC,The Open University  
302-a:  Speaking of Change, Holding to Principles: Cultural Dilemmas at Marks and Spencer in the Mid-1990s, Janice Winship, University of Sussex
302-b: The Model as Mediator, Julie Sommerlund, Denmark Design School
302-c: Retailing Retro Style: Cultural Capital, Class and Gentrification, Sarah Baker, University of East London

Session 303: Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 3 - Cultural Entrepreneurs, Clusters and Networks: Imaginaries and Practices
Organiser:     Bas van Heur, Technische Universität Berlin
Moderator:    Bas van Heur
303-a: Creative Industries Clusters and Urban Growth Coalitions, Doreen Jakob, Technische Universität Berlin
303-b: Networks, Space and Relations in the Fashion Industry in Milan, Marianna d'Ovidio, University of Milan-Bicocca
303-c: The Myths and Realities of Urban Music Clusters, Bas van Heur

Session 304: Difference, Money and Borders 1
Moderator: Hannah Knox, CRESC, The University of Manchester    
304-a: Regional Imaginary: The Tourist Service Class as Cultural Intermediaries in the Pearl River Delta of China, John Nguyet Erni, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
304-b:  Plastic Money/Bodies/Selves: Credit Cards, Plastic Surgery, and the Creation of Endless Consumer Desires in the U.S., Laurie Essig, Middlebury College
304-c: From Steel to Meal: Effects of Commercialisation and Economisation, Lotta Braunerhielm and Thomas Blom, Karlstad University

Session 305: Finance and Financalisation 3
Moderator: Anne Stafford, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester   
305-a:  Is the Stockmarket a Disciplinary Institution? French Giants Firms and the Regime of Accumulation, Adam Leaver, University of Manchester and Sukhdev Johal, Royal Holloway, University of London
305-b: Trading Cultures: The Moment of Exchange, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley, University of Leicester
305-c: Private Equity: A Good Story to Tell? Julie Froud and Karel Williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
305-d: The Metamorphosis of Mass Savings into Financial Capital: Financialisation and the Cultural Economy of Funds, Eric Pineault, Université du Québec à Montréal

Thursday 6 September - 13.30-15.00

Session 401:   Management, Managerialism and Elites 3
Moderator:  Adam Leaver, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester   
401-a: 'Sticky' Knowledges, 'Mobile' Business Schools and Practice-Orientated Learning Spaces: Exploring the Cultural Economy of Business Education, Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham
401-b: Talk and Numbers: Trying to Make a 'Flat' World Go Around, Chris Westrup, Debra Howcroft and Susanne Langer, University of Manchester
401-c: The Interplay of the Organisational and Wider Culture Through the Lenses of the CEO: How Grave are the Consequences of Misperceptions, and Do Managerial Actions Still Hold an Influencing Potential? Marcin Chyczewski, University of Manchester
401-d: New Work, New Culture and the New Work Contract, Taliessin Reaburn, University of Melbourne

Session 402: Consumer Culture 4 - Spaces, Knowledge and Markets of the Cultural Economy: Exploring Critical and Historical Themes in Advertising
Organiser: Stefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary College, University of London
Moderator: Chris Hackley, Royal Holloway, University of London
402-a: Fabricating the Market: The Promotion of Life Assurance in the Nineteenth Century, Liz McFall, The Open University
402-b: Creativity, Tacit Knowledge and Business Strategy: Re-Assessing the 'Americanisation' of British Advertising in the Interwar Years, Stefan Schwarzkopf
402-c: Marketing, Market Relations and Relational Understandings: Knowledge Practices  of the Outdoor Advertising Industry, Anne Cronin, Lancaster University

Session 403: Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 4 - Watching the Defectives: Power, Surveillance and the Other
Organiser: Bethany Klein, University of Central England
Moderator: John Storey, University of Sunderland
403-a: Dramatising Security: Surveillance, Authority, and Linguistic Categories, Stuart Price, De Montfort University
403-b: Policing Mobilities: Surveillance and the Taxicab Industry, Beverly Geesin, University of York
403-c : 'Predator' or Prey: Journalistic Surveillance on Dateline's To Catch a Predator Series, Bethany Klein, University of Central England and Claire Wardle, Cardiff University

Session 404: Difference, Money and Borders 2 - Traces and Signposts: Money, Borders and Visibility
Organiser: Sarah Green, University of Manchester
Moderator:Sarah Green, CRESC, The University of Manchester
404-a: Money vs. Barter, Jyasri Dutta, University of Birmingham
404-b: Money, Materiality and Value: Rethinking the Virtual Economy, Hannah Knox and Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
404-c: On the intimacies of minor monetary exchanges in the Aegean: retracing relations and separations between Mytilene and Ayvalik, Sarah Green, CRESC, University of Manchester

Session 405: Finance and Financalisation 4 - Re-Inventing the Wheel: A (Re)turn to Culture in International Political Economy?
Organiser: Johnna Montgomerie, CRESC, University of Manchester
Moderator: Johnna Montgomerie, CRESC, The University of Manchester
405-a: Cultural Political Economy in the History of Economic Thought: Reanimating the Smithian Concern for Cultural Critique, Matthew Watson, University of Warwick
405-b: A Science of Faith: Uncovering the Hidden History of Economic Thought, Earl Gammon, University of Sussex
405-c: Notions of Value in the Labour Market, Why the Neoclassical Supply/Demand Framework Cannot Explain Relative Wages, Paul Lewis, University of Birmingham
405-d: The Material Foundations of Symbolic Consumption: An Inquiry into the International Political Economy of Mass Consumerism, Johnna Montgomerie

Thursday 6 September - 15.30-17.00

Session 501: Management, Managerialism and Elites 4 - Globalisation and Management Elites
Organiser: Hugo Ceron-Anaya, University of Essex
Moderator: Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, University of Leicester
501-a: Capital Theory and the Dynamics of Elite Business Networks in Britain and France, Charles Harvey, University of Strathclyde and Mairi Maclean, University of the West of England
501-b: The Emergence and Growth of US-Style Business Education in Mexico (1955-2005), Bernardo Batiz-Lazo,   University of Leicester and John Wilson, University of Central Lancashire
501-c: Business, Golf and Globalisation: The Perfect Threesome, Hugo Ceron-Anaya, University of Sussex
501-d: Business and Community between India and the Gulf: Muslim Entrepreneurs in Kerala, India, Filippo Osella, University of Sussex and Caroline Osella, SOAS, University of London

Session 502:  New Spirits of Capitalism 4
Moderator: Mike Savage, CRESC, The University of Manchester   
502-a: Transformations of Achievement Careers, Felix Bühlmann, Université de Lausanne
502-b: Counting on Failure: Political Observation, Auditing and Polling Day, Alexander Thomas Telford Smith, Keele University
502-c: A New House in the Suburbs: Real Estate, Class and Culture in Santiago de Chile, Tomas Ariztia, London School of Economics and Political Science
502-d: Political Transition, Value Change and the Motorisation in Portugal in the 1970s, M. Luísa Sousa, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and Rafael Marques, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Session 503:  Consumer Culture 5
Moderator: Johnna Montgomerie, CRESC, The University of Manchester    
503-a: Producing Goods: Singularisation and Concealment in Chilean Private Health Insurance, Jose Ossandon, Goldsmiths College, University of London
503-b: Lesbian Media Texts: Commerciality, Politics and Consumption Practices, Faye Davies, University of Central England, Birmingham
503-c: Fashion, Style and the Design of Meaning in a Global Image Economy, David Slayden, University of Colorado, Boulder

Session 504: Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 5
Moderator: Debra Howcroft, CRESC/MBS, The Unversity of Manchester
504-a: From Brewing Beer to Brewing Culture: The Shifting Stakes of Social Fields, Judith Thissen  and Andre van der Velden, Utrecht University
504-b: Cooking, Calibration and the Cultural Economy, Alan Warde, University of Manchester
504-c: Enabling or Inhibiting the Creative Economy: the Role of the Regional Dimension in England, Caroline Chapain, University of Birmingham and Roberta Comunian, University of Leeds

Session 505: Difference, Money and Borders 3 - Exploring the Spaces and Places of the 'Economy'
Organiser: Mike Pryke, The Open University
Moderator: Mike Pryke, The Open University
505-a: The Emotional Economy, Susan Smith, Durham University
505-b: The Ordinary Economy, Roger Lee, Queen Mary College, University of London
505-c: Exploring the Spaces and Places of Cultural Economy, Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham
505-d: Human Nature, The Context of Decision-Making, and the Methods of a New Economic Geography, Gordon Clark, University of Oxford

Friday 7 September 2007

Friday 7 September - 09.00-09.45

Plenary Session 5

Due to unforeseen circumstances Angela McRobbie had to withdraw from the programme

The conference will start today at 10.00 with coffee and teas in the foyer area.

Friday 7 September - 10.15-12.00

Session 601: New Spirits of Capitalism 5
Moderator: TBC   
601-a: New Ethical Values: How Spirituality Informs Decisions in Healthcare, John MacArtney, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
601-b: Disorganised Medicine: Direct to Consumer Advertising and Embodied Health Movements, Paul C Fuller, St. John Fisher College, Rochester
601-c: The Promise of Re-Inventing Capitalism: Ethical Consumerism and the 21st Century Act of Indulgence, Juliane Reinecke, University of Cambridge
601-d: The Role of Feminist Philanthropy in a Social-Change Economy, Nancy Alexander, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven

Session 602:  Consumer Culture 6
Moderator:   Mike Savage, CRESC, The University of Manchester   
602-a:  The Anatomy of Cultural Omnivorousness, Modesto Gayo-Cal, Universidad Diego Portales
602-b: Consumer Culture: The Customer Rules and Other Myths, Helen Richardson, University of Salford and Rachel McLean, Manchester Metropolitan University
602-c: Class, Culture and the Chavs: The Struggle for Reflexive Individualism in Contemporary Britain, Alex Hensby, University of Cambridge

Session 603:  Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 6
Moderator:  Alan Warde, The University of Manchester    
603-a: Representations of Economy and Organisation in Popular Culture, Martin Parker, University of Leicester
603-b: New Directions of Research on Art, Science and Religion and Challenges Posed by Dualist Valuation of ‘Expert’ and ‘Public’ Cultural Economies, Brian Wynne, Lancaster University and Stephanie Koerner, University of Manchester
603-d: Culture or Class? Plural Economies, Paul O'Kane, Goldsmiths, University of London

Session 604:  Difference, Money and Borders 4
Moderator: Julie Froud, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester
604-a: Financialising Space, Andrew Leyshon, Shaun French and Tom Wainwright, University of Nottingham
604-b: 'Total Market Vision': Financial Markets, Visualisation Software and Unsettling Geographies, Mike Pryke, The Open University
604-c: The Multiple Identities of a Thing: Facets of Identity of a Share, Winroth Karin, Sodertorn University College and Jesper Blomberg, Stockholm School of Economics
604-d: Electronic Money and the Power of Central Banks, Costas Lapavitas, SOAS, University of London

Friday 7 September - 13.00-14.30

Session 701:  Management, Managerialism and Elites 5
Moderator: Adam Leaver, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester
701-a: Post Bureaucracy and the Politics of Forgetting: The Management of Change at the  BBC (1991-2002), Martin Harris, University of Essex and Victoria Wegg-Prosser, Bournemouth University
701-b: The Development Process of Original Television Programmes at the BBC: Does it Stimulate Creativity? A Case Study, Nicholas Nicoli, Intercollege Cyprus

Session 702:  Consumer Culture 7 - The Promotion of Consumption: Historical Perspectives on Promotion, Persuasion and Affluence – a Discussion Session
Organiser: Paul Du Gay, The Open University
Moderator: Paul Du Gay, CRESC, The Open University
Participants:  Franck Cochcy, Centre d’Etude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir; Sean Nixon, University of Essex; Mike Savage, CRESC, The University of Manchester; Stefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary College, University of London

Session 703: Cultural Identities 3
Moderator: Ismail Ertürk, CRESC/MBS, The University of Manchester    
703-a: Putting the Co-op into Hip-Hop: What Sort of Management is Possible in the Music Industry? Arthur Len, Molly Scott Cato, Russell Smith and Tom Keenoy, Wales Institute for Research into Co-operatives
703-b: Global Museums and Local Development Strategies, Elsa Vivant, London School of Economics/Université Paris 8
703-c: Animation Re-Orientation: The 'Animation Forum West Midlands', G(local)isation and the Creation of Regional Network Communities in the New Digital Age, Kerry Gough, University of Central England

Session 704:  Theorising Culture, Economy and the Cultural Economy 7
Moderator:  Sarah Green, CRESC, The Univeristy of Manchester    
704-a:  To "Speak the Language of Economy in Unfamiliar Ways":  A Cultural Analysis of the Affective Bonds in Paid and Unpaid Care and Domestic Work, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, University of Manchester
704-b: 'The Experiential Life’: Nature, Gender and the ‘Creative Class’, Mark Banks, Manchester Metropolitan University
704-c: Cultural Capital : An Empirical Investigation of Parental Educational Practices in the United Kingdom using Time Diary Data, Muriel Egerton, University of Oxford
704-d: Approaching Documents Ethnographically: The Case of Inquest Files, Ben Fincham, University of Brighton; Jonathan Scourfield, Cardiff University; and Susanne Langer, University of Manchester

Session 705:  Difference, Money and Borders 5
Moderator: Debra Howcroft, CRESC/MBS, The Unversity of Manchester
705-a:  Gendering Finance: Making Masculinities and Hierarchies at the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Jesper Blomberg, Stockholm School of Economics
705-b: Ethnic Culture Mediating Young People's Financial Literacy, Afroditi Kalambouka, Laura Black, Pauline Davis, Peter Farrell and Valerie Farnsworth, University of Manchester
705-c: An Anthropological Approach to Temporal Changes in Investment Management: The Interplay of Financial Calculation, Social Organisation and Personal Trajectories and Imaginaries, Horacio Ortiz, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Friday 7 September - 15.00-16.30

Plenary Session 6

Moderator: Karel Williams, CRESC, The University of Manchester

Nigel Thrift, The University of Warwick, The Allure

Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Untaming Economics, Unfixing Economies: Imagining a Cultural Studies of Political Economy

Friday 7 September - 16.30-16.45

Conference Closing Session

Abstracts of all papers

All the paper abstracts are listed in alphabetical order in the following document which is available to download as a Word file.

Abstracts.doc