EVENT DETAILS

The Spirit of Calculation: Contemporary Finance in the Weberian Imaginary Date: Wednesday, 3:00 pm, April 25th Place: Humanities Gateway 1030

The Department of English with the co-sponsorship of the Departments of History
and Anthropology, the Humanities Center, the Critical Theory Emphasis, the Critical
Theory Institute, the Center for Ethnography, and the Institute for Money, Technology,
and Financial Inclusion presents a lecture by Arjun Appadurai:

The Spirit of Calculation: Contemporary Finance in the Weberian Imaginary

Date: Wednesday, 3:00 pm, April 25th
Place: Humanities Gateway 1030

There will be an informal reception immediately following the talk.

Arjun Appadurai is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and
Communication at New York University, where he is also Senior Fellow at the
Institute for Public Knowledge. He has authored numerous books and scholarly
articles, including Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger
(Duke UP, 2006) and Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization,
(Minnesota UP, 1996).