‘(Re)Imagining Value’:

An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Organised by the Economic Humanities Network  
Funded by the Pioneer Awards Competition,
Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI)

 

Friday 26 May 2023, Newcastle University

 

         

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuhri/research/current-projects/

                                        

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Overview of the Day

9-9.30am: Registration

9:30-9:40am: Welcome!

9:40-10:40am: Keynote paper (Professor Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton)

10.40-11am: Tea and Coffee

11am-12.30pm: Parallel Panel 1

12.30-1.30pm: Lunch

1.30-3pm: Parallel Panel 2

3-3.30pm: Tea and Coffee

3.30pm-5pm: Parallel Panel 3

5-5.10pm: Break

5.10-6.10pm: Keynote paper (Professor Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh)

6.30pm: Conference Dinner

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Programme of Events

9-9.30am: Registration (main foyer, Devonshire Building)

9:30 -9:40am: Welcome

                     Dr Leanne Stokoe (Newcastle University)

                     (Room G21/G22, Devonshire Building)

9.40-10.40am: Keynote Paper: 

‘Performing Value: Metrics and Imagination in the Economic Humanities’

Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) 

(Room G21/G22, Devonshire Building)

10.40 -11am: Tea and Coffee (main foyer, Devonshire Building)

11am-12.30pm – Parallel Panel 1

Parallel Panel A (Room G21/G22, Devonshire Building)

Chair: Dr Leanne Stokoe (Newcastle University)

‘Allegorising Value: Justice, Property, and the Postlapsarian State in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Book V’

Dr Daniel Cadman (University of Sheffield)

‘Protecting the sacred organization through valuing the worker too much? Silencing practices in religious organizations’

Dr Victoria Pagan (Newcastle University)

‘Portraiture and Social Value: Revaluing Identities during the Reign of Terror’

Professor Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University)

Parallel Panel B (Room G.05, Percy Building)

Chair: Dr Sadek Kessous (Newcastle University)

‘How Discipline Shapes the Meaning of Value Creation in Higher Education’

Dr Lucy Hatt, Dr Jane Nolan and Dr Carys Watts (Newcastle University)

‘Rethinking Value Beyond Productivity: A Literary Exploration of the Meaning of Value’

Elena Trayanova (Creative Content Manager, Education Technology)

‘Re-Evaluating Love: Capitalism’s Borrowed Value’

Orlaith Darling (PhD candidate, Trinity College Dublin)

12.30 – 1.30pm: Lunch (main foyer, Devonshire Building)

1.30pm – 3pm: Parallel Panel 2

Parallel Panel C (Room G21/G22, Devonshire Building)

Chair: Dr Robbie McLaughlan (Newcastle University)

‘A Crisis of Credibility: Aesthetic “Value” and the Edwardian Socially-Marginalised Author’

Deborah Giggle (PhD candidate, University of East Anglia)

‘Forging an Economic Future? Female Victorian Travellers on the Industrialisation of the Antiquities Trade in Egypt and Japan, 1848-1880’

Margaret Gray (PhD candidate, Newcastle University)

‘Valuing Taxidermy and Taxidermizing Value in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend’

Angel Perazzetta (PhD candidate, Leiden University)

Parallel Panel D (Room G.05, Percy Building)

Chair: Professor Peter Knight (University of Manchester)

‘Why climst thou not the Mount Delectable’: The value of literature in theories of value’

Dr Dominic Walker (University of Cambridge)

‘Thinking about equality: evaluating numbers, evaluating manners’

Dr Simon Grimble (University of Durham) 

‘Re-Imagining the Value of History: Academic Historiography and the Active Life of Critical Understanding’

Dr David Manning (University of Leicester)

Parallel Panel E (Room G.13, Percy Building)

Chair: Dr Leanne Stokoe (Newcastle University)

‘Value for the Nation, Value for the North: Nationalism and the Shaping of British Museum’s Collection of Medieval Manuscripts, 1900-1939’

Olivia Baskerville (PhD candidate, University of London)

‘Value at the margins: the representation and conservation and vision of value in the institution- the case ofThe Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University’

Dr Nicola Baird (London South Bank University)

‘Conserving value: museum and heritage studies – Preserving aircraft collections at the risk of losing their value’

Haidy Elmesiry (PhD candidate, Newcastle University)

3pm-3.30pm: Tea and Coffee (main foyer, Devonshire Building)

3.30pm – 5pm: Parallel Panel 3

Parallel Panel F (Room G21/G22, Devonshire Building)

Chair: Dr Rob Hawkes (Teeside University)

‘From Provincial to Place-Making: The Spatial Economy of the Black British Novel’

Dr Chloe Ashbridge (Newcastle University)

‘Two Ballerinas, or What’s the Value of an Occupation?’

Dr Sadek Kessous (Newcastle University)

‘The Evaluative Logic of Meritocracy’

Owain Burrell (PhD candidate, University of Warwick)

Parallel Panel G (Room G.05, Percy Building)

Chair: Dr Cristina Neesham (Newcastle University)

‘Understanding Value in Context of Desire Towards Mundane Objects Amongst Men in India’

Devika Bahadur (PhD candidate, De Montfort University)

‘The Neoliberal Entrepreneur in the Fictional South Asian Megalopolis’

Samia Majid (PhD candidate, The University of Northampton)

‘Bees and Bonbibi: exploring multiple values in the culture of honey gathering towards a sustainable future for humans and nonhumans within the Sundarbans Delta, India and Bangladesh’

Dr Niki Black and Professor Maggie Roe (Newcastle University)

Parallel Panel H (Room G.13, Percy Building)

Chair: Dr Leanne Stokoe (Newcastle University)

‘System Gallery: What’s the Point?’

Daniel Goodman (PhD candidate, Newcastle University)

‘Articulations of ‘value’ in construction and urban development in the North East of England’

Dr Sarah Winkler-Reid (Newcastle University)

5 –5.10pm: Break (main foyer, Devonshire Building)

5.10pm-6.10pm: Keynote Paper:
‘“Absorbing, Mysterious, of Infinite Richness”: Bloomsbury’s Values’.

Professor Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh)

(Room G21/G22, Devonshire Building)

6.30pm: Conference Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'(Re)Imagining Value: An Interdisciplinary Symposium': Call for Papers

26 May 2023, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Keynote speakers: Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) and Professor Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh)

The Economic Humanities Network for the Newcastle University Humanities Research Institute (NUHRI) invites proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held on 26 May 2023.

The theme of the symposium investigates the role of value within the emerging field of economic humanities, which brings together researchers who identify a reciprocal relationship between the arts and social sciences. Recent scholarship within this field has interrogated the cultural metamorphosis through which economics was divested of the humanitarian concerns that were crucial to its Enlightenment origins, and became aligned with the ‘dismal’ pursuit of profit. By forging dialogues between literature, history, business studies, law, philosophy, politics and beyond, our network explores how economics shares with the humanities a view that individuals are motivated by desire, imagination and creativity, as well as considers how this perspective transforms how we understand value today. The symposium opens up discussions about what value means in an era driven by capitalism and post-pandemic recovery. We are particularly interested in the way that value measures what is ‘useful’, yet remains an enigma that evolves with the spirit of its age.

Ranging across the higher education and public sectors in their areas of specialisation, our keynote and guest speakers will address how the theme of value not only informs their work, but is also shaped by the disciplinary or critical lens through which it is studied. This methodology will provide delegates with an opportunity to reflect upon the benefits and challenges of defining value in their own research. Accordingly, we invite proposals for papers which broadly consider how value is imagined and reimagined across a range of scholarly fields and historical periods.
Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

•      Imagining value then and now: shifting linguistic or historical terms
•      The public arena: visions of value in institutions and/or government
•      Depictions of value in music, the visual arts, film, theatre, and performance
•      The representation of value through literary forms: prose, poetry,
       periodical, and pamphlet
•      Value in the market: finance, economics, and trade
•      Demonetising value: morality, relationships, and wellbeing
•      The evolution of value: scientific discovery and medical advances
•      Value at the margins: gender, class, race, and sexuality
•      Conserving value: museum and heritage studies
•      Religious values: faith, fanaticism, and revelation
•      Reading in new ways: approaching value across disciplinary lines
•      Dialogues of value: collaborations with industry, education
       and policy makers

Abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted to reimaginingvalue@gmail.com by 1 April 2023. Informal queries may be sent to the Economic Humanities Project Lead, Dr Leanne Stokoe (leanne.stokoe@ncl.ac.uk)

The symposium is generously supported by a NUHRI Pioneer Award, and will therefore be free to attend. We are delighted to be able to offer a number of travel bursaries for postgraduates and unwaged speakers. Please indicate in your abstract if you would like to be considered for a bursary.
For more information please visit the NUHRI website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuhri/research/current-projects/