Event overview
A research training workshop.
This is a research training workshop that addresses the relationship between economics and social science, through the question of global neoliberalism. The workshop consists of talks from 4 leading global social scientists and interventions from ESRC DTC research students. Philip Mirowski has published widely on neoclassical and neoliberal economics. Nick Gane has conducted extensive research the relationship between sociology and neoclassical /neoliberal economics. Bernard Stiegler is a well known political philosopher who has written extensively on political economy.
Chair: Prof. Scott Lash
Speakers:
Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame. He is author of, among others, Machine Dreams (2002), The Effortless Economy of Science? (2004), More Heat than Light (1989), Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste (2013), and ScienceMart: privatizing American science (2011). He is editor of Agreement on Demand (2006) and The Road from Mont Pèlerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective (2009), and Building Chicago Economics (2011) among other works. Outside of ongoing research on the history and analysis of the commercialization of science, he is also working on a computational complexity approach to the crisis, and a new book on the history of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics, sometimes called the Nobel. He was awarded the Ludwig Fleck Prize from 4S in 2006, and has been visiting professor at Yale, Oxford, NYU, Duke, Paris, the University of Technology-Sydney and the University of Amsterdam.
Nicholas Gane was born in Brighton in 1971. He grew up in North London before studying for a BA in Sociology and an MA in Social and Political Thought at the University of Warwick (1990-95). He returned to London to study for a PhD on Max Weber and Postmodern Theory, which he completed in 1999. Nicholas first joined the Department at York in 2002, before leaving for Brunel University in 2004. He rejoined the Department in September 2006. He is a board member of Sociology and Theory, Culture and Society, and is the editor of the Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review. His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the fields of social theory and the sociology of new media.
Bernard Stiegler is the Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, also a professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne where he teaches philosophy. Before taking up the post at the Pompidou Center, he was program director at the International College of Philosophy, Deputy Director General of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, then Director General at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). Professor Stiegler has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, technology, digitization, capitalism, consumer culture, etc. Among his writings, his three volumes of La technique et le temps(English Translation: Technics and Time), two volumes of De la misère symbolique, three volumes of Mécréance et Discrédit and two volumes Constituer l'Europe are particularly well known.
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=4260
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun 2013 | 10:00am - 1:00pm |
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