Women, Money and Markets,2nd Annual Conference

University of Amsterdam, June 7th and 8th, 2018

Chair: Dr Joyce Goggin (UvA), Co-chair: Dr Emma Newport (University of Sussex)

Venue: Doelenzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek van Amsterdam, Single 425,

Day One: June 7, 2018

Thursday

Panel

Contributors

9:00 – 9:30

Joyce Goggin and Emma Newport

Welcome, housekeeping

9.30-11.00am

1:  Women, Investment and Mercantilism

Chair: Emma Newport

1.      Janette Rutterford (Open University) “Women Investors in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century”

2.      Helen Paul (University of Southampton), “Women and the use of power of attorney in the early eighteenth century: a South Sea case study”

3.      Eileen Chanin (Australian National University) “ Colonial Women, Growing Fortune, Moving Money from the late 18th-century Indo-Pacific”

11.00-11.30

Break

11.30-12.30

Keynote 1

Danielle v. d. Heuvel

Chair: Joyce Goggin

“Gender, Space and Money: Spatial Aspects to Female Entrepreneurship in Premodern Amsterdam.

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.15

2:  Women and Literary Marketplaces

Chair: Helen Paul

1.    Clara Dawson (University of Manchester) “Literary Value and the Gift Annual in the Early-Nineteenth Century”

2.    Alexis Wolf  (Birbeck, university of London) “Editor with a Capital E: Women-Authored Biographies and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace”

3.    Christine Pullen (Ind.) “‘Whiteley’s was Her Happy Hunting Ground’: Commerce and Consumerism in Amy Levy’s Novels”

4.    Adam Schoene (Cornell University) “Rags to Riches: Poverty and Domesticity in Riccoboni and Charrière”

15.15-16.15

3: Oliphant (1)

Chair:  Peter Collinge

“An Excellent Man of Business”: The Female Banker and Her Socio-Economic

Agency in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)

1.   Barbara Straumann (University of Zurich)

2.   Olivia Biber (University of Zurich)

16.15-16.30

Break

16.30-18:00

4:   Women and Their Contributions to Local (Global) Economies

Chair: Ben Moore

1.      Corina Brumaru (independent) “Growing Hemp in Transylvania Women and dress, Fabrics and consumption”

2.      Elizabeth Spencer ('The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester) “Accounting for the Wardrobe in Eighteenth-Century England”

3.      Kyung Hwa Eun (University of Alberta) “Frances Burney’s Literary Realism: Ephemerality of Shopping and Daily Life in Camilla”

Day Two: June 8, 2018

Friday

Panel

Contributors

9.30-10.30am

6:  Oliphant (2)

Finance, Capital and Value

Chair: Helen Paul

1.       Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam) “‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester”

2.      Jakob Nielson (Aarhus University )  “‘Beyond the Writers Power’: Financial Forms and the Affordances of Gender in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)”

10.30-11am

Break

11am-12.00

Keynote 2

Elizabeth Wallace

Chair:

Marieke de Goede

“Lady Credit Among the Bankers: The Female Body as an Imaginative Site in Early Capitalist Discourse”

12.00-13.30

7:  Female Consumerism, Activism and Radicalism

Chair:  Eileen Chanin

1.      Angelika Trawinska (Warsaw School of Economics SGH)

2.      Ewelina Nowak (Warsaw School of Economics SGH)

3.      Flore Janssen (Alexis Wolf ) (Birkbeck University) “Work, Money, Influence: International Consumer Activism and Labour Legislation”

4.      Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin) “‘The Ladies’ Committee’: Women and the Mechanics' Institute on the Goldfields of Victoria”

13.30-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.30

8:   Gender and the Formation of Political Economy

Chair:

Emma Newport

1.      Catherine Packham (University of Sussex)

2.      Richard Adelman (University of Sussex)

3.      Elisabeth Wallmann (University of Warwick)

4.      Claire Wilkinson (University of Cambridge)

15.30-17:00

9: Women and Image

Chair:  

Adam Schoene

1.      Peter Collinge (Keele)  “Image and Meaning in Joseph Wright’s Portraits of Two English Businesswomen”

2.      Lieke van Deinsen (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) “Image and Imago: Branding Female Authorship in the Late eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic’s Literary Market Place”   

3.      Nora Rodríguez Loro (Universidad de Sevilla) “Dedications and Symbolic Capital: The Patronesses of Drama in Queen Anne’s Reign”