• 10:30am 11:15am
    Registration, coffee and opening remarks
  • 11:15am 12:45pm
    Organizing Markets
    • Chair

      Bruce Robbins

      Columbia University

    • "Stories Economists Tell: Visions of Market and State, 1870-1940"

      Steven Medema

      University of Colorado Denver

    • "An Economic Waste Land: T.S. Eliot and John Maynard Keynes"

      Michael Tratner

      Bryn Mawr College

    • "The Problem of the Semicolonial Economy"

      Matthew Hart

      Columbia University

  • 12:45pm 2:00pm
    Lunch for Speakers and Chairs
  • 2:00pm 3:30pm
    States of Welfare
    • Chair

      Michael Szalay

      University of California, Irvine

    • "'The Real Salvation Army': Late-Victorian Insurance Salesmen in and out of Uniform"

      Timothy Alborn

      Lehman College, CUNY

    • "Forms of Preparedness: E.M. Forster, Risk, and Unemployment Insurance"

      Benjamin Kohlmann

      University of Freiburg

    • "Social Citizenship and the Emerging Welfare State in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"

      Janice Ho

      University of Colorado at Boulder

  • 3:30pm 4:30pm
    Coffee break
  • 4:30pm 6:30pm
    Ethics and the Economy
    • Chair

      Matthew Hart

      Columbia University

    • "'It ought to be law': Reading Ethical Culture into American Literary Realism"

      Mary Esteve

      Concordia University

    • "Authors as Producers, Then and Now"

      Michael Szalay

      University of California, Irvine

    • "Novel Languages of Economic Critique: Keynes meets Nietzsche and Bergson"

      Ute Tellmann

      University of Hamburg