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