10.30 - 11.00

Registration (coffee provided)

11.00 - 11.15

Welcome and Introduction

Juliane Reinecke, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

11.15 - 12.45

Session 1: Brand Value and Value Consumption

Davide Ravasi, Department of Management, Università Bocconi
Kitchen tool or piece of art? Symbolic value and the design of product forms

Celia Lury, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
and
Liz Moor, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
Brand Valuation 

12.45 - 13.45

Lunch break

13.45 - 16.00 

Session 2: Anthropological Approaches: Value and its Others

Introduction & Session Chair:
Irene Peano, Dept of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

David Graeber, Department of Anthropology Goldsmiths, University of London
Value versus Debt - a possibly false antinomy for contemporary social theory?

Umut Yildirim, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
What is in the plastic bag? Value an the informal economy of anti-depressants

Vito Laterza, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Capitalism and its Other: value, economy and religion in a Swazi Pentecostal business town

16.00 - 16.30

Tea/ Coffee Break

16.30 - 18.00

Session 3:  Economic Sociology of Valuation Systems

Adam Arvidsson, Department of Social and Political Studies, University of Milan
Ethical Economy. A Theory of value for the information society, or less ambitiously, Ethics and value in the information economy

Chris Land, Institute of Management, University of St Gallen / Essex Business School, University of Essex , and
Steffen Böhm, Essex Business School, University of Essex
After the New Economy: Value, primitive accumulation and the global division of labour

18.00 - 18.15

Closing

André Spicer, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick