Emotions and Capitalism

Emotions and Capitalism

Veranstalter
Christoph Conrad (University of Geneva); Sabine Donauer (Graduate School Languages of Emotion Free University, Berlin); Anne Schmidt (Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Veranstaltungsort
Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin
Ort
Berlin
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.06.2012 - 30.06.2012
Website
Von
Susanne Kassung, Geschichte der Gefühle, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung

Is there a nexus between emotions and capitalism? Following recent debates on the financial crisis or consumer capitalism, “yes” becomes the likely answer. However, the question how emotions were and are shaped in capitalist cultures and vice versa: how capitalist cultures are shaped through emotional discourses and practices is still widely under-researched. The conference on emotions and capitalism wants to help fill this gap: the aim is to offer a platform for new perspectives on the intimate connections that exist between emotional and capitalist practices.

Programm

Thursday, June 28, 2012

12:00-13:00
Registration and refreshments

13:00-13:30
Opening of the conference
Ute Frevert
Christoph Conrad, Sabine Donauer, Anne Schmidt

13:30-14:45
Opening talk
Karin Knorr Cetina, The market as an object of attachment
Discussion

14:45-15:00
Short coffee break

15:00-18:45
Financial and trade markets (chair: Helena Flam)
Sighard Neckel, Banking as emotional capitalism. Financial markets and greed
Fiona Allon, The wealth affect: Speculation as everyday habitus
Discussion

16:45-17:15
Coffee break

Catherine Davies, Investing in the 19th century financial marketplace: On the role of financial information, trust and emotions
Alexander Engel, "An Exchange is not to be loved, hated, feared, laughed at, or wept about": The public relations efforts of the Chicago Board of Trade, 1924-1948
Discussion

Friday, June 29, 2012

9:00-13:00
Habitus and Consumption (chair: Paul Nolte)

Adrian Howe, Becoming an emotional being under capitalism-Property, sexual infidelity and homicidal rage in Shakespeare and late modernity
Ben Manning, Culture, emotions and the economies of prisoner of war camps
Discussion

10:45-11:15
Coffee break

Avner Offer, Consumption and well-being: attitudes and evidence
Rachel Sherman, Privileged lifestyles, conflicted feelings: Elite consumers in New York City
Discussion

13:00-14:00
Lunch

14:00-18:30
Workplace (chair: Christoph Conrad)

Thomas Welskopp, Sons of Vulcan. Industrial relations and attitudes towards work among German and American iron and steel workers in the 20th century
Hazel Croft, Over-tired, over-stressed and over-burdened? Why did the emotions of women factory workers provoke such concern in wartime Britain?
Discussion

15:45-16:15
Coffee Break

Peter-Paul Bänziger, What makes people work: On passionate attachments to workplaces and other things in the emerging ‘consumer societies’ of the 20th century
Daniela Saxer, Advice for success: Negotiating emotions at work in the mass media (1920-1950)
Discussion

Saturday, June 30, 2012

9:00-13:00
Postsocialism as a capitalist laboratory (chair: Jonathan Zatlin)

Anna Temkina, Rationalization of Self in private life in contemporary Russia: unrealized life expectations
Julia Lerner, From socialism to capitalism on the wings of "Love": adapting the new emotional culture in post-Soviet Russia
Discussion

10:45-11:15
Coffee break

Suvi Salmenniemi, Domesticating capitalist logic in Russia. Notes from popular psychology self-help literature
Irina Belyakova & Elena Plakhina, Publicist discourse as a means of forming an emotional image of capitalism in Russia, 1960-present
Discussion

13:00-14:00
Final discussion

Kontakt

Christina Becher

MPI for Human Development, 94 Lentzeallee, 14195 Berlin

0049 30 82406 262

sekfrevert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de


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