Saturday May 19 2018

9am – 9:30am
Registration and Breakfast
(AA204/205)
9:30am – 11:00am

Panel 1: Debt in Our Times

Chair: Barbara Straumann (Zurich)
Jordan Bolay (Calgary), “Refusing to Participate in BMW Socialism: The Politics of Progressivism in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s My Present Age”
Eóin Flannery (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), “Debt, Guilt and Form in (Post-)Celtic Tiger Ireland”
Tom Ue (University of Toronto Scarborough and University College London), “Debt, Payback, and Economics in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive
(AA204)

Panel 2: Aesthetic and Political Economies

Chair: John Patrick James (Georgetown)
Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD), “The Aesthetics of (Non)Debt: Maurizio Lazzarato and Marcel Duchamp”
Jacob Bermel (York), “Political Economies of Language in the Kootenay School of Writing”
David Tough (Trent), “‘Tell Them You Have Zero Funds’: Writing Student Debt in Three Ontario Texts From the Early 21st Century”
(AA205)

 

11:00am – 11:30am
BREAK
(AA204/205)
11:30am – 1:00pm

Panel 3: The Victorian Empire

Chair: Noa Reich (Toronto)
Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen (Aarhus), “It-Narratives and Joint Stock Incorporation: High Finance in 19th Century British Literature”
Keith Clavin (US Coast Guard Academy), “Empire’s Residue: Queering the Economy in Cranford”
Sarah Dredge (Sheffield Hallam), “‘Failing Homo Economicus’: Money, Debt and Masculinity in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester”
(AA204)

Panel 4: Debt in Canada, Finance, and Multinationalism

Chair: Garry Leonard (Toronto)
Livio Di Matteo (Lakehead), “Perceptions of Debt and Deficits: Canada’s Federal Debt, 1867 to 2017”
Jeffrey L. McNairn (Queen’s), “Imagining Imprisoned Debtors: Literary Narrative and Insolvency Law in Upper Canada”
Neil ten Kortenaar (Toronto), “Two Kinds of Debt in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart”
(AA205)

1:00pm – 2:00pm
LUNCH
(AA204/205)
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Panel 5: Money and the Spectres of Generity

Chair: Keith Clavin (US Coast Guard Academy)
Andrew Woods (Western), “Debt as Science Fiction: Indebted Futurism”
Joe Conway (Alabama in Huntsville), “The Metaphysics of Bank Robbery: Money, Eros, and Ontology in the Hollywood Heist Narrative”
Garry Leonard (Toronto), “‘Til Debt Do We Part’: Moral Hazard, Film Noir, and the Puritan Legacy Behind the Story of American Debt”
Sandford Borins (Toronto) and Beth Herst (Independent), “Perverse Incentives: Film Narratives of the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis”
(AA204)

Panel 6: Political Economies in Early Modernity

Chair: John Patrick James (Georgetown)
Aidan Collins (York), “Stories of Credit, Debt and Failure in the English Court of Chancery, 1680-1750”
Marguerite Van Cook (CUNY), “Political Economics in the Work of Isabelle de Charrière Madame de Charrière – née Isabelle Van Tuyll, à Zuylen (1740–1805)”
Ruby Hanna Tuke (Queen Mary, University of London), “‘To Purchase the Gratitude of the Poor by the Payment of a Debt’: An Exploration of Gifts in Godwin’s Political Writing from the 1790s”
(AA205)

4:00pm – 4:30pm
BREAK
(AA204/205)
4:30pm – 6:00pm

Panel 7: Global Nineteenth Century

Chair: Noa Reich (Toronto)
Signe Leth Gammelgaard (Gothenburg), “Debt and the Human Body”
Christian Kloeckner (Bonn, Barnard College/Columbia University), “‘Beautiful Credit!’ Nostalgic Bonds and Debt Speculation in The Gilded Age
Rohan Ghatage (Toronto), “Financially Hazardous, Ethically Precarious: Ideological Configurations in Le Père Goriot
(AA204)

Panel 8: Labor and Debt in the Romantic Era

Chair: Tom Ue (University of Toronto Scarborough and University College London)
Barbara Straumann (Zurich), “IOU: Financial and Moral Debt in Victorian Fiction”
John Patrick James (Georgetown), “Blake’s Debt: Artisanship and the Future of Labor”
Pierre de Saint-Phalle (Nosophi—Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, and Université de Lausanne, Switzerland), “French Pamphlets on Public Debts Just Before 1789: E. Clavière Vs S. Linguet”
(AA205)