Social Studies of Finance Conference
Center on Organizational Innovation
 


An investor is depressed as he studies the share prices at the private stock gallery in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2002. (AP Photo/Teh Eng Koon)
 
Program; last updated May 2, 2002

Schedule

Thursday May 2nd

Empire Hotel. 63rd St. and Broadway.

7:45. Informal group dinner near the Empire Hotel for those participants who arrive on time. Location for dinner: Josephina, 1900 Broadway, across from the Empire Hotel. We meet at 7:45 at the lobby of the hotel.

Friday May 3rd

Room 1512 IAB building, Columbia University. International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street,

8:30 Welcome breakfast and introduction

11:30 - 1:00 Michel Callon, "Economic markets as calculative and calculated collective devices" and Y. Millo, "Safety in Numbers: How Exchanges and Regulators Shaped Index-Based Derivatives"

9:30 - 11:00 Alex Preda, "On Ticks and Tapes: Financial Knowledge, Communicative Practices, and Information Technologies on 19th Century Financial Markets" and Fabian Muniesa, "Reserved anonymity: On the use of telephones in the trading room"

1:00 - 2:00 lunch

2:00 - 3:30 Caitlin Zaloom, "Ambiguous Numbers: Trading and Technologies in Global Financial Markets" and David Stark, "A Sociology of Arbitrage: Market Instruments in a Trading Room"

4:00-5:30 Karin Knorr Cetina, "The Market as an Epistemic Institution" and Vincent Lepinay, "Finance as Circulating Formulas"

7:30 Dinner in Terrace in the Sky, at 400 W 119th St. The restaurant is two blocks away from Columbia.

Saturday May 4th

Room 902 IAB building, Columbia University. International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street,

9:00 - 11:00 Nigel Thrift, "Performing finance: the media and the construction of financial markets," and Peter Hagglund, "Making a stable investment object. The importance of having good connections in the stock market"

11:30 - 1:00 Susan Scott, "The Development Of Electronic Trading In The Futures Industry: Strategic Risk Positioning In A Globalising Age" and Daniel Beunza, "Risk Management in a World of Uncertainty"

1:00 - 2:00 lunch

2:00 - 3:30 Mitchell Abolafia, "Making Sense of Recession: Policy making at the Federal Reserve," and Annelise Riles, "Real Time: Governing the Market After the Failure of Knowledge"

4:00- 5:30 Closing summary: Harrison White

No group dinner scheduled

Sunday May 5th

9:00 Empire Hotel. 63rd St. and Broadway. Group departs for guided tour around Ground Zero at the gate of the hotel