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CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with Professor Mary Poovey

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages (CIDRAL)
Dates:14 January 2016
Times:10:00 - 12:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:Current University students
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This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market.

Professor Mary Poovey (New York University) will hold a seminar for postgraduate students, entitled, 'Modern Economics and The Financial Crisis' to complement her public lecture (13th January) 'Some Lessons of History: Why Economists Failed to Anticipate the Great Recession'

Mary Poovey is Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University. She has written widely on nineteenth-century British literature, as well as eighteenth-century British literature and culture, the history of literary criticism, feminist theory, and economic history. Her most recent books are 'Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain' (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and 'A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society' (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

Readings for the seminar are available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iumbmf4v5f5b8lh/AADaKcDyoqPDzWV2c8Fs43Oia?dl=0

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