Our Events

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

Network Members Melissa Kennedy, Caroline Koegler, Natalie Roxburgh and Joanna Rostek present at the international conference “Model Imaginaries: Literature, Economics, Abstraction

Date: 4-6 July 2024, John F. Kennedy Institute | Freie Universität Berlin

Market Talk on The Econopoetics of Global Toxicity: Economic Criticism Meets Ecocriticism in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction with Dr Stacey Balkan (Florida Atlantic University)

Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2024, at 4.00 p.m. (CET)

Previous Market Talks

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

Previous Workshops

Writing Workshop: Methods for Analysing Literature, Culture, and the Economy (September 2023, Innsbruck)

Teaching Economic Criticism in Academia and Beyond (March 2023, Linz)

Guests:
Dr. Stephan Pühringer, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Prof. Dr. Franziska Birke, School of Education Freiburg

Postcolonial Studies & Economic Criticism (September 2022, Münster)

Cultural Studies & Economic Criticism (February 2022)

Guest:
Prof. Dr. Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin, Franklin & Marshall College

Guests:
Prof. Dr. Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina
Prof. Dr. Helen Hester, University of West London
Dr. Nick Srnicek, King’s College London

The Place of History in Economic Criticism (September 2021)

Guests:
Prof. Dr. Gareth Austin, University of Cambridge
Prof. Dr. David Hawkes, Arizona State University

Economic Criticism: Mapping the Field (May 2021)

Guests:
Dr. Victoria Bateman, University of Cambridge
Dr. Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh

Previous Other Activities

July 2022

Digital Student Conference: Case Studies in Economic Criticism (TU Dortmund / University of Innsbruck)

May 2022

Graduate and Postgraduate Workshop on Economic Criticism for the German Association for the Study of British Cultures (BritCult)

November 2021

Economic Criticism Panel at the BritCult 2021 Conference:
The Super-Rich Through the Lens of Economic Criticism