Being In Debt - Workshop

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Organised by the TORCH Image and Thought Network

9.00 Elettra Stimilli (Rome), The Power of Debt

10.30 Postcolonial Perspectives on Debt, roundtable discussion with Meera Sabaratnam (Soas), Stefano Bellin (Warwick) and Sabrina Keller (Kassel)

11.30 Gendered Debt
Alessandra Gissi (Naples), Productive and Reproductive. The 'Essential Function' of Women as Debt

Amali Wedagedara (Hawaii), Debt and Resistance. A Study on Agrarian Women’s Protests in Sri Lanka

 

2.30 Institutional Debt

Ngina Chiteji (NYU), The State as an Instrument of Indebtedness

Mia Gray (Cambridge), The Multi-Scalar State, Institutional Practices, and Debt

 

4.00 Theory of Debt

Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Bissonnette (Montréal), Alexandros Raptis (Thessaloniki) and Camilla De Simone (Chieti-Pescara)

 

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