Business and Society Research Group


Programme 2008-09


Michaelmas term 2008: "The Moral Economy?"

Monday 20 October  at 5.00pm
Mishko Hansen  (PhD candidate, Judge Business School, and former Hedge Fund Manager)
Adam Smith and the Trajectories of Global Capitalism
Suggested readings: TBC

Followed by drinks at "The Anchor"

Monday  3 November at 5.00pm
Dr. Ben Colburn  (Lecturer, Philosophy)
Autonomy, responsibility, and the market
Suggested reading: Ronald Dworkin 'Equality of What? Part 2:  Equality', pp. 65-119 in his book Sovereign Virtue (Harvard, 2000).
Respondent:  Dr Serena Olsaretti (University Senior Lecturer, Philosophy)

Followed by drinks at "The Anchor"

Monday 17 November at 5.00pm
Tugce Bulut  (PhD Candidate, SPS)
Pierre Bourdieu and the tyranny of the market

Karin Doolan  (PhD Candidate, Education)
Using Bourdieu to explore educational inequalities in Croatian higher education

"What does it mean to use a Bourdieuan conceptual lens to explore students' higher education choices and experiences? What are the methodological implications of working with his concepts of cultural capital, field and habitus? What does it mean to exercise epistemological vigilance in a Bourdieuan sense? The presentation will touch upon these questions in order to raise and prolematise some of the issues that need addressing when working with Bourdieu's framework; in this particular case relating to an understanding of higher education participation issues in a Croatian context."
 
Suggested reading: Potter, Garry (2000): For Bourdieu, Against Alexander: Reality and Reduction. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 30, Number 2, pp. 229-246

Followed by drinks at "The Anchor" 

No Meeting on 1st December 

Monday 8 December at 5.00pm
Last meeting of the Term.
Dr Bruno Frère (SPS and Université of Liège)
Solidary economy as an imaginary of practice in the anti-globalization movement
Suggessted reading: TBA

Followed by drinks at "The Anchor"

Film Nights 8.00pm at the Graduate Union

Each film will be followed by a discussion round and debate

Thursday 30 October
Enron: The smartest guys in the room
Moderator:  Ioanna Boulouta
Discussants:
Prof Geoffrey Whittington,  Emeritus PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Financial Accounting, Judge Business School.
Dr Stelios Zyglidopoulos,  University Lecturer in Strategy, Judge Business School.

Thursday 13 November
Wall-Mart: The high cost of low price
Moderator: Ioanna Boulouta
Discussants: TBD

Friday 5 December
Who killed the electric car?
Moderator: Mishko Hansen
Discussants: TBD

Lent Term 2009

For information about  the Group, Format for sessions, Research meetings, Film Nights and  One-Day workshops  please visit the Business and Society Web-page.

 

Conference:
The CRASH at CRASSH: Real and Unreal Money  (29-30 Jan 09)

Thursday 29 January at  6.15pm
Jean-Paul Votron (Former CEO of Fortis)
Keynote Address on The Financial Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Venue: LT1, Judge Business School, Trumpington St. Cambridge

Friday 30 January 09  (9.30am-6.00pm)
The CRASH at CRASSH: Real and Unreal Money
 Venue: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane
Registration required  

 

Sessions:
Monday 26 January  at 5.00pm
Cancelled

Monday 9 February at 5.00pm
Critical Reflections on  Economic Thought
Capitalism as competitive sport: forms of authority in neoliberal thought.
Will Davies  (PhD candidate, Sociology and Cultural Studies, Goldsmith College, University of London) 
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Linking market mechanisms and property rights: one of the most fateful errors of economic theory. A critical perspective on a classical assumption that still rule today's economic thought  -  Adam Smith, Karl Marx
Christoph Freydorf  (Diplom candidate, Economic Sociology and Development Sociology, Universität Bielefeld, Germany)


Monday 23 February at 5.00pm
Corporate Philanthropy
Katharina Rietzler (PhD Candidate, History / UCL)
International philanthropy from a historical perspective

Monday  9 March  at 5.00pm
Topic: Actor-Network-Theory

Peter Erdelyi (PhD Candidate, Department of Management, LSE, London)
Actor-Network Theory and the Technological Economy
 
Ariane McCabe (PhD, Judge Business School, Cambridge)
Making TRIPS Global and Local: Using ANT to Explore the Travel of Intellectual Property Rights from Geneva to Mexico and Brazil
 
Isam Faik (PhD Candidate, Judge Business School, Cambridge)
Actor-Network Theory and Modernisation Processes
 

Followed by drinks at "The Anchor". 

In cooperation with the Trinity Politics Society we'd like to invite you to a talk by Michael Edwards: "The Rise of Philanthrocapitalism and the decline of civil society"

Wednesday 11 March 6.15PM in the Junior Parlour, Trinity College Admission £1.50/£1 for Trinitarians;             Refreshments served.

Easter Term 2009

Planned Activities 

One-Day Workshops:
Friday 22 May
Fair Trade - A moral economy? Can Fair Trade resist market rationality? 

Saturday 23 May
Business and Poverty: Exploring the strategy and practice of corporate-led poverty alleviation initiatives

 Workshop's Paper (23 May).      NB Please do not quote without authors' permission

Sessions:

Monday 1st June at 5.00pm
Speaker: Michael Green
Philanthrocapitalism: the role of business in development 

Films:

Thursday 28 May at 7.30 pm at the Graduate Union
An inconvenient truth 
(2006; won the Academy Award 2007 for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song)
Moderator:  Ioanna Boulouta
Discussants:
Dr David Reiner (Senior Lecturer, Judge Business School)
Miss Svetlana Tashchilova (PhD Candidate, Land Economy)

Proposed Themes
One-Day workshops on:
- The New French Pragmatist School of Economic Sociology
- Business Approaches to Poverty Alleviation

Sessions on:
- Actor-Network-Theory
- Trust And Social Capital
- Social Movements and Social Change
- Regulation and Auditing

If you are interested in presenting your research, please get in touch with us. Business and Society Research Group

 
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