Upcoming | Market Talks | Workshops | Other
Our network regularly comes together in workshops to discuss topics within the field of Economic Criticism. We usually inivte experts to join us during these meetings. Supplementing the workshops are the Market Talks where guest speakers from various disciplines present their takes on Economic Criticism. Market Talks are open to members of the interested public. If you wish to attend, write us at info@economic-criticism.de
Upcoming Events
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Market Talks
The Econopoetics of Global Toxicity: Economic Criticism Meets Ecocriticism in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (September 2024)
Dr Stacey Balkan (Florida Atlantic University)
The Economy of Cultural Awards (May 2023)
Prof. Dr. James English, University of Pennsylvania
Introduction to Critical Finance Studies (March 2023)
Dr. Emily Rosamond, Goldsmiths University of London
Wattpad, Platform Capitalism, and the Feminization of Publishing Work (November 2022)
Dr. Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University
Narratology and Economic Science. Resituating the Economic Model (January 2022)
Prof. Dr. Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University; President of the International Society of the Study of Narrative
Heterodox Economics and Economic Criticism (July 2021)
Prof. Dr. Jakob Kapeller, University of Duisburg-Essen;
Main editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter
Workshops
Writing Workshop: Methods for Analysing Literature, Culture, and the Economy (September 2023 and September 2024, Innsbruck)
Teaching Economic Criticism in Academia and Beyond (March 2023, Linz)
Postcolonial Studies & Economic Criticism (September 2022, Münster)
Guest:
Prof. Dr. Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin, Franklin & Marshall College
Cultural Studies & Economic Criticism (February 2022)
The Place of History in Economic Criticism (September 2021)
Economic Criticism: Mapping the Field (May 2021)
Guests:
Dr. Victoria Bateman, University of Cambridge
Dr. Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh
Other Activities
25-28 Sept 2025, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
International Conference
Negotiations of Value in the Romantic Age
organised by network member Gerold Sedlmayr, with a keynote by Joanna Rostek on “The Value of Economic Criticism for Romantic Studies”
June 2025, University of Edinburgh
Network Members Barbara Straumann and Joanna Rostek present at the international conference Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities
July 2024, Freie Universität Berlin
Network Members Melissa Kennedy, Caroline Koegler, Natalie Roxburgh and Joanna Rostek present at the international conference Model Imaginaries: Literature, Economics, Abstraction
July 2022, TU Dortmund / University of Innsbruck
Digital Student Conference: Case Studies in Economic Criticism
May 2022, University of Magdeburg
Graduate and Postgraduate Workshop on Economic Criticism for the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)
November 2021, Leipzig University
Economic Criticism Panel at the BritCult 2021 Conference:
The Super-Rich Through the Lens of Economic Criticism