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Dear all,
we would like to invite you to the following workshop held at the
Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
(CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge:
Title: Value, Worth and Valuation
Date: Friday, 05 March 2010
Time: 11 am - 6.15 pm
Where: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
We are delighted to announce that our list of speakers include: Adam
Arvidsson - Steffen Böhm & Chris Land - David Graeber - Vito Laterza
- Celia Lury & Liz Moor - Davide Ravasi - Umut Yildirim
Places are limited, so please register early - until 25th February at
the latest - following the link on the following website: http://
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1252/
The participation fee is £15 (£10/student) and includes lunch &
coffee.
Please find the programme below (and see attachment).
For further details on the seminar, email the workshop organisers:
Vito Laterza ([log in to unmask]), Juliane Reinecke ([log in to unmask])
and André Spicer ([log in to unmask]).
Best wishes,
André, Juliane and Vito
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PROGRAMME 05th March 2010
10.30 – 11.00 am
Registration
11.00 – 11.15 am
Welcome and Introduction
11.15 am- 1.00
Session 1: Brand Value and Value Consumption
“Kitchen tool or piece of art? Symbolic value and the design of
product forms”
Davide Ravasi, Department of Management, Università Bocconi
Brand Valuation (Title TBA)
Celia Lury, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
& Liz Moor Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths,
University of London
1.00 - 2.00 pm
Lunch break
2.00 – 4.00 pm
Session 2: Anthropological Approaches: Value and its Other
“Value versus Debt - a possibly false antinomy for contemporary
social theory”
David Graeber, Department of Anthropology Goldsmiths, University of
London
“What is in the plastic bag? Value and the informal economy of anti-
depressants”
Umut Yildirim, Department of Social Anthropology, University of
Cambridge
“Capitalism and its Other: value, economy and religion in a Swazi
Pentecostal business town”
Vito Laterza, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
4.00 – 4.15 pm
Tea break
4.15 - 6.00 pm
Session 3: Economic Sociology of Valuation Systems
“Ethical Economy. A Theory of value for the information society”,
or less ambitiously, “Ethics and value in the information economy”
Adam Arvidsson, Department of Social and Political Studies,
University of Milan
“After the New Economy: Value, primitive accumulation and the global
division of labour”
Chris Land, Institute of Management, University of St Gallen / Essex
Business School, University of Essex
& Steffen Böhm, Essex Business School, University of Essex
6.00 - 6.15 pm
Closing
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