Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Future of Finance Conference | April 13

Futures of Finance
April 13th, 9:00AM - 6:00PM20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor (Journalism Department)
full details: http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/conferences/fof/
RSVP: http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/rsvp.php?eventId=232


The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU and the Bruce Initiative for Rethinking Capitalism at UCSC are collaborating to organize a public discussion on the Futures of Finance.  Join us for a day-long conversation with financial practitioners, journalists, and policy makers, and scholars of finance and financial cultures.
Futures of Finance will feature panel discussions centered on four broad areas:  1) Money and Banking, 2) Financial Cultures 3) Financial Literacies and Scholarly Knowledge, and 4) Financial Practices and Interpretations.

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Schedule

9:00 AM Opening Remarks
Arjun Appadurai, Godard Professor of Media, Culture & Communication, New York University

9:30 AM Panel Discussion: Money & Banking
Prabhat Patnaik, Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning | Jawaharlal Nehru University
Michael MacDonald, Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations, Williams College
William Cohan, Journalist and Author, Fortune, New York Times, Vanity Fair, and others.

11:15 AM Panel Discussion: Financial Cultures
Caitlin Zaloom, Assistant Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University
Bethany MacLean, Journalist for Vanity Fair and co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

1:30 PM Panel Discussion: Financial Literacies and Scholarly Knowledge
Randy Martin, Chair, Art & Public Policy, New York University, Tisch School for the Arts
Bob Meister, Professor of Social Sciences & Political Thought, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lynn Stout, Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate & Securities Law, University of California, Los Angeles

3:15 PM Panel Discussion: Financial Practices & Interpretations
Benjamin Lee, University Professor of Anthropology & Philosophy, New School Universtiy
Emanuel Derman, Professor of Professional Practice, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research | Columbia University
Michael Laskawy, Visiting Scholar, NYU Rudin Cente; recently Senior Economic Advisor to Senator Charles Schumer and Director of the Senate's Joint Economic Committee

5:00PM Closing Remarks: Robert Meister


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