SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
13.00-13.00 Arrival at ZZF
Welcome and Introduction
13.30-13.45
Rüdiger Graf and Stefanie Middendorf
Section I – In Search of Economic Populism
Legacies of Populism
Chair: Stefanie Middendorf
13.45 -15.15
Jan Logemann, Political and Economic Populism in the United States around 1900: Ideas, Images, and Lasting Legacies
Catherine Davies, Populist Critiques of Finance in the Late 19th and early 20th Century
15.15-15.45 Coffee Break
Populist Mobilization
Chair: Rüdiger Graf
15.45-17.15
Maurice Cottier, More or Less Government Intervention? The Dilemma of the American Center-Left in the 1970s
David Bebnowski, Conservative Populism: The Popularization of Free Market Doctrine and the Ascent to Power
17.15-17.30 Coffee Break
Section II – Popular Representations of “the Economy”
Approaching the Public
Chair: Kim Christian Priemel
17.30-19.00
Nicolas Delalande, The Populo as an Economist. The Popularization of the Economy in the French Satirical Press, from the 1880s to the 1930s
Katarzyna Jarosz, Currency and Identity in Post-Soviet Space Seen Through the Lens of Museums
19.00 Conference Dinner
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Figures of Economic Power
Chair: Frank Bösch
9.00-11.00
Marcus Böick, Hate Figure, Monster and Slaughterhouse: Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, the Treuhandanstalt and the Economic Reconstruction of Eastern Germany after 1990 as Extreme Examples of a Popular (Attention) Economy
Kim Christian Priemel, Metonomizing Murdoch. How Tycoon Tales Help Reduce Complexity
Stefanie Middendorf, Moral Bonds, Political Extremes and Images of “the Creditor” in the Interwar Year
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
Visualizing Economic Abstractions
Chair: Annette Vowinckel
11.15-12.45
Simon Küffer, The Visual Rhetoric of Money – Aesthetics, Affects and Narratives in Contemporary Mass Media Images
Monika Dommann, Container, Bezos, Ever Given: A Visual History of Logistics
12.45-13.45 Lunch Break
Section III – Political Conflicts and Economic Arguments
Controlling the Economy Across Borders
Chair: Marie Huber (Berlin)
13.45-15.15
Rüdiger Graf, Controlling Global Flows. Oil and Data Companies as World Rulers
Carina Moser, “People who don’t make anything, cannot buy anything” – The Free Trade Policy Debates in Politics and Media in the US in the 1990s
15.15-15.45 Coffee Break
Economic Extremism
Chair: n.n.
15.45-17.15
Quinn Slobodian, Investments for Survival: Goldbugs, Moneypocalypse, and the Rise of the Libertarian Right
Philipp Müller, Populism or Class Struggle? Left-Wing Resistance to “Speculators” in Spain after Franco
Concluding Discussion
17.15-18.00
Die Konferenz wird gefördert von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
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