Conference Announcement: “Financial Times: Economic Temporalities in U.S. Culture,” University of Frankfurt, March 26-28, 2015 Keynote Speaker: Elena Esposito (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) This conference inquires into the relationship between time, financial markets, and social practice. Taking finance’s commodification of time and risk (in derivatives, securities, etc.) and its prioritization of the future as a starting point, the conference establishes a conversation across the disciplines that explores the impact of financial temporalities on objective structures, our cultural investments in time, and everyday social practice. In four interdisciplinary workshops, we raise questions about the processes, practices, and temporalities of the financial markets and how these interact with the scope of action and forms of agency on an individual, political, national and global level. Dedicated to an interdisciplinary inquiry that builds on, yet transcends the traditional scholarly interests of American Studies, we reflect on the challenges of teaching across the disciplinary boundaries of cultural studies and economics, as well as consider the future of cultural criticism and our own collaboration. For more information and to register for the conference, please see our conference website: financialtimes-conference.de or contact us at financialtimes.conference@gmail. Conveners: Dr. Stefanie Müller (University of Frankfurt) and Christian Klöckner (University of Bonn) Sponsors: German Research Foundation (DFG), US Embassy in Germany, German Association for American Studies (DGfA), Association of the Friends and Sponsors of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
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