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 - 6.16 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]). For more information on the CRASSH
Business&Society group, see
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/186/business-and-society.htm
Best wishes,
André, Juliane and Vito
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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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André Spicer
Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour
Warwick Business School
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
[log in to unmask]
+44 (0)24 7652 4513
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/home
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