This workshop asks how global economies resonate in, and are shaped by, local situations and settings from the nineteenth century to the present. Across two panels, papers investigate this theme through explorations of visual and political economies, economies of knowledge, information, global finance, and the dynamics of power. How does the category of “economies” help us think about a range of phenomena, both with and beyond the economic, narrowly defined? What kinds of connections do various types of economies reveal about systems of exchange and circulation across a range of sites and scales?

Panel 1 (12-2 pm): Life and Labor on Display: Economies of Culture in Film, Photography, and Theater

Jisoo Lee (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Minna Lee (PhD Student, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)
Rachel Miller (PhD Candidate, American Culture, University of Michigan)
Adam Tooze (discussant, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University)
David Spreen (chair, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)

Panel 2 (2-4 pm): Power, Policing, and Publics in North American Contexts

Maximillian Alvarez (PhD Candidate, History and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan)
Stacey Bishop (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Alexander Stephens (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Adam Tooze (discussant, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University)
Adam Fulton Johnson (chair, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Photo: "Containers, Port of Rotterdam" (Luke Price, CC BY 2.0)