CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with Professor Mary Poovey
| Dates: | 14 January 2016 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| 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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