Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professor
Department of International History and Politics
The Graduate Institute Geneva
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2
1202 Genève
EDUCATION
| 4/2022 | Habilitation, venia docendi Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, University of Basel. |
| 3/2014 | PhD History, University of Zurich. |
| 1-6/2013 | Visiting Graduate Student, Department of History, University of Chicago. |
| 1-6/2012 | Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of Michigan. |
| 2008 | Lizentiat (M.A.) (highest honors), University of Zurich: History, English Literature, Social and Economic History. M.A. thesis on savings banks and pauperism in 19th-century Switzerland. |
EMPLOYMENT AND FELLOWSHIPS
| 9/2021- | Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professor, Department of International History and Politics, The Graduate Institute Geneva (Principal investigator: Decolonizing the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980; five-year project including two PhD positions). |
| 2020-7/2021 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (equivalent to lecturer), Modern European History, History Department, University of Basel. |
| 1-7/2020 | Post-Doc Return Grant Swiss National Science Foundation. |
| 2017-2019 | Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced Post-Doc Mobility Fellowship: Duke University (September 2017) Humboldt University Berlin (academic year 2017-18) CUNY Graduate Center NYC (academic year 2018-19)University of Vienna (June-December 2019). |
| 8/2013–2017 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (equivalent to lecturer) at the chair for Modern European History (Prof. Caroline Arni), History Department, University of Basel. |
| 2013 | Doc-Mobility Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation. |
| 2013 | Individual Fellowship, Vögelin-Bienz Foundation and Cantonal Archive Basel. |
| 2009-2012 | Collegiate in the transdisciplinary research project “Understanding Trust”, University of Zurich and Collegium Helveticum/Swiss Federal Institute for Technology, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Mercator Foundation. |
| 2008-2009 | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (junior faculty member) at the chair for Modern History (Prof. Jakob Tanner), History Department and Research Center for Social and Economic History, University of Zurich. |
| 2008 | Economics editor, Swiss weekly WOZ/ Wochenzeitung, Zurich. |
| 2004-2008 | Freelance journalist for various Swiss and German newspapers (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger, Spex and others). |
| 2001-2003 | Director of music program at the cultural center Rote Fabrik, Zurich (fulltime position organizing and promoting app. 50 concerts annually, with an annual audience of app. 35’000). |
PUBLICATIONS (*= peer review)
Monographs
Geld an der Grenze: Souveränität und Wertmaßstäbe im Zeitalter des Imperialismus 1871–1923 (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2024).
Rechtstrieb – Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus 1800–1900 (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2016). (Editorial board review)
Translated as: *Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism: Switzerland, 1800-1900, transl. A. Bresnahan, Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press 2021 (book series “Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany”).
Chinese translation forthcoming fall 2024.
Reviews of the German version of the book: Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken 813 (2017): 65–70 (Catherine Davies); Enterprise and Society 18, 2 (2017): 479–481 (Eve Rosenhaft); German History 35, 2 (2017): 324–326 (Michael Buchner); H-Soz-Kult 20. Dec. 16 (Monika Wienfort); WOZ/Wochenzeitung 20. Dec. 16 (Raul Zelik); Neue politische Literatur 62, 3 (2017): 525–527 (Margrit Schulte Beerbühl); WerkstattGeschichte 75 (2017): 133–135 (Timo Luks); Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 67, 3 (2017): 489-490 (Laura Rischbieter); Historische Anthropologie 25, 3 (2017) (Martin Schaffner); L’Homme Z.f.G. 29, 1 (2018): 159-162 (Margareth Lanzinger); Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 105, 1 (2018): 167-8 (Eric Häusler); Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 26, 3 (2018): 441–443 (Jan De Wolf); The Journal of Modern History 90, 2 (2018): 418–420 (Jan Logemann); The American Historical Review 123, 5 (2018): 1768-1769 (Kenneth F. Ledford).
Co-edited Book
Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy, (New York / London: Routledge 2016, with Peter-Paul Bänziger).
Co-edited Journal Issues
“Konflikt”, Historische Anthropologie 24, 3 (2016) (with Caroline Arni).
* “Wissensgeschichte ökonomischer Praktiken”, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 37, 2 (2014) (with Monika Dommann and Daniel Speich-Chassé).
Journal Articles
“Koloniale Währungen: Medium der Macht”, in: Merkur 77 (April, 2023), n° 887, 32–43.
“Pathologien der Freiheit: Fanon und die Psychiatrie”, soziopolis.de, 25 November 2021
https://www.soziopolis.de/pathologien-der-freiheit.html
* “Moral Economy as a Site of Conflict: Debates on Debt, Money, and Usury in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century”, Geschichte & Gesellschaft, special issue 26: “Moral Economies”, edited by Ute Frevert (2019), 75–101.
* “Usury and the Problem of Exchange under Capitalism: a Late-Nineteenth-Century Debate on Economic Rationality”, Social History 42, No. 4 (2017), 501–523.
* “Debt and Its Attachments: Collateral as an Object of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Liberalism”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, No. 3 (July 2017), 715–742.
“Editorial: Konflikt”, Historische Anthropologie 24, No. 3 (2016), pp. 309-312 (with Caroline Arni).
* “Das Wissen der Schulden: Recht, Kulturtechniken und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus”, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 37, No. 2 (2014), pp. 148–164.
“Einleitung: Wissensgeschichte ökonomischer Praktiken”, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 37, No. 2 (2014), pp. 107–111 (with Monika Dommann and Daniel Speich-Chassé).
* “A Thorn in the Side of Social History. Jacques Rancière and Les Révoltes logiques”, International Review of Social History 57, No. 1 (2012), pp. 61–85 (invited translation; revised and expanded version of article in German below).
“Ein Stachel in der Seite der Sozialgeschichte. Jacques Rancière und die Zeitschrift Les Révoltes logiques”, Sozial.Geschichte online 5 (2011), pp. 8-37.
* “Schuld und Schulden. Zürich, 1842”, L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 22, No. 2 (2011), pp. 113–120.
“Jenseits des ‘cash nexus’. Sozialgeschichte des Kredits zwischen kulturanthropologischen und informationsökonomischen Zugängen”, WerkstattGeschichte 53 (2009), pp. 89-99.
“Die ‘Rappenkasse’ des Jakob Stutz. Erziehung zur Sparsamkeit und die Ökonomie symbolischer Güter im 19. Jahrhundert”, Traverse – Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d‘histoire 2009/3, pp. 120–133.
Book Chapters
“Westafrika und die Zürcher ‘Geschwistergemeinde’: Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik bei Paul Parin, Goldy Parin-Matthèy und Fritz Morgenthaler”, in: Neujahrsblatt der antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich 182 (2018), 107–117.
“Histories of Productivity – an Introduction”, in Histories of Productivity: Genealogical Perspectives on the Body and Modern Economy, New York / London: Routledge 2016, pp. 1–19 (with Peter-Paul Bänziger and Marcel Streng).
* “The Boundaries of Debt: Bankruptcy between Local Practices and Liberal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Switzerland”, in Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause (eds.), The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective, Lanham MD: Rowman Lexington 2016, pp. 51–65 (revised expanded version of chapter in German below).
“‘Falliment’ – The Social Life of a Legal Category: Knowledge and Morals in Bankruptcy Proceedings (Basel, 1840s)”, in Andreas Gestrich, Martin Stark (eds.), Debtors, Creditors, and their Networks: Social Forms of Monetary Dependence from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, (Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London – Supplement Nr. 3), London 2015, pp. 217–251.
“‘Rechtstrieb’: Schulden, Personen und Verfahren im liberalen Kapitalismus (Schweiz, 19. Jahrhundert)”, in Gabriele Jancke, Daniel Schläppi (eds.), Die Ökonomie sozialer Beziehungen, Stuttgart: Steiner 2015, pp. 177–198.
“Ökonomischer Individualismus und moralischer Paternalismus. Sparkassen im Kanton Zürich während der Zeit des Pauperismus (um 1820-1860)”, in Thomas David/Valentin Groebner/Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl/Brigitte Studer (eds.), Die Produktion von Ungleichheiten – La production des inégalités, Zurich: Chronos 2010, pp. 133–144.
Reviews
Minu Haschemi Yekani, Koloniale Arbeit: Rassismus, Migration und Herrschaft in Tansania (1885–1914), Frankfurt am Main 2019, German History 38, No. 1 (2020), 142–144.
Uffa Jensen, Wie die Couch nach Kalkutta kam: Eine Globalgeschichte der frühen Psychoanalyse, Berlin 2019, Psychoanalysis and History 22, No. 3 (2020), 389–392.
Uwe Fuhrmann, Die Entstehung der “Sozialen Marktwirtschaft” 1848/49: Eine historische Dispositivanalyse, Konstanz 2017, HSOZKULT/H-Net, April 25, 2018.
“Von Anfang an prekär” [Review: P. Eiden-Offe, Die Poesie der Klasse: Romantischer Antikapitalismus und die Erfindung des Proletariats, Berlin 2017], WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung 51, December 21 2017, p. 21.
“Frantz Fanon, der Arzt im Kampf gegen die pathologischen Identitäten” [Review: F. Fanon, écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté: textes réunis, introduits et presents par Jean Khalfa et Robert Young, Paris 2015], WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung 31, August 3, 2017, pp. 18–19.
Thomas Macho (ed.), Bonds: Schuld, Schulden und andere Verbindlichkeiten, München 2014, WerkstattGeschichte 72 (2016), pp. 101–103.
Johannes Bracht, Geldlose Zeiten und überfüllte Kassen. Sparen, Leihen und Vererben in der ländlichen Gesellschaft Westfalens (1830-1860), Stuttgart 2013, H-Net, H-Soz-Kult, July 24 2015, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2015-3-056.
“Aufwachen aus der grossen Nacht” [Review: Achille Mbembe, Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft, Berlin 2014], WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung 5, January 29 2015, p. 23.
Paul Veyne, Foucault. His Thought, his Character, Cambridge [etc.] 2010, International Review of Social History 57, No. 1 (2012), pp. 113–115.
Jan Ole Arps, Frühschicht. Linke Fabrikintervention in den 70er Jahren, Berlin 2011, Sozial.Geschichte online 6 (2011), pp. 248–253.
Laurence Fontaine, L’économie morale. Pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle, Paris 2008, Historische Anthropologie 18 (2010), pp. 322-324.
“Mit Marx aufs weite Meer” [Review: Marcel van der Linden/Karl Heinz Roth (eds.), Über Marx hinaus. Arbeitsgeschichte und Arbeitsbegriff in der Konfrontation mit den globalen Arbeitsverhältnissen des 21. Jahrhunderts, Berlin/Hamburg 2009], WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung 13, April 1 2010, p. 25.
“Adam Smith war gar nicht so” [Review: Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing. Die Genealogie des 21. Jahrhunderts, Hamburg 2008], WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung 3, January 15 2009, p. 25.
Miscellanea
“A Science of the Specific: Interview with Mary Poovey”, Historische Anthropologie 24, No. 3 (2016), pp. 432–444 (with Caroline Arni).
“Saalverbote gegen Linke – Kalter Krieg im Volkshaus”, in Urs Kälin, Stefan Keller, Rebekka Wyler (eds.), Hundert Jahre Volkshaus Zürich. Bewegung, Ort, Geschichte, Baden 2010, p. 71.
“Geld, Banken, Kredit 1850–1936”, in Economic and Social History online, www.eso.uzh.ch (co-editing of a chapter for an online textbook by the University of Zurich; with Gisela Hürlimann and Jakob Tanner, 2006).
‘”In wilder, fiebriger Begeisterung’ – Popkonzerte im Hallenstadion”, in: Heiner Spiess (ed.), Das Hallenstadion – Arena der Emotionen, Zurich 2005, pp. 170–223 (with Thomas Kramer).
Approximately 250 newspaper articles on music, pop culture, and economic issues.
TEACHING
| Spring 2024 | Seminar “Global History of Psychology”, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. |
| Spring 2022 | Seminar “Social History for a Global Age”, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. |
| Fall 2021 | Seminar “Global History of Science: Colonial Encouters and Beyond”, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. |
| Fall 2020 | Freshman Seminar “Die Massen in der Geschichte: Soziale Bewegung und politische Imaginationen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”, University of Basel. |
| Spring 2017 | Reading Course “Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik im globalen 20. Jahrhundert”, University of Basel. |
| Spring 2017 | Freshman Seminar “Die Massen in der Geschichte: Soziale Bewegung und politische Imaginationen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert”, University of Basel. |
| Fall 2016 | Reading Course “Geschichten des Kapitalismus”, University of Basel. |
| Fall 2016 | Interdisciplinary Colloquium “Dimensionen der Sozialtheorie” (graduate student and junior faculty workshop series, co-convened with Bianca Hoenig, History Department, University of Basel). |
| Spring 2016 | Proseminar “Der Sound der Dekolonisierung”, University of Basel. |
| Fall 2015 | Reading Course “Gestaltwandel der Utopie: eine globale Ideengeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert”, University of Basel. |
| Fall 2015 | Interdisciplinary Colloquium “Dimensionen der Sozialtheorie” (graduate student and junior faculty workshop series, co-convened with Eva Brugger, History Department, University of Basel). |
| Spring 2015 | Interdisciplinary Colloquium “Dimensionen der Sozialtheorie” (graduate student and junior faculty workshop series, co-convened with Sarah Schilliger, Sociology Department, University of Basel). |
| Spring 2015 | Research Seminar “Die Moderne der Dienstmädchen” (co-teaching with Prof. Caroline Arni), University of Basel. |
| Fall 2014 | Freshman Seminar “There’s a Riot Goin’ On – Streiks und Massenprotest nach 1945”, University of Basel. |
| Spring 2014 | Proseminar “Gründerkrise und die Erfindung der Ökonomie, 1870-1914”, University of Basel. |
| Fall 2012 | Seminar “Das Prinzip Gleichheit: Port au Prince 1791 – Paris 1848 – Petrograd 1917” (co-teaching with Prof. Caroline Arni), University of Basel. |
| Fall 2010 | Proseminar “Geschichte und Theorien der Geschichtswissenschaft”, University of Zurich. |
| Spring 2009 | Proseminar “Einführung in die Geschichtswissenschaft: Armut als historisches Problem”, University of Zurich. |
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
| 2023– | Member of the editorial board Historische Anthropologie: Kultur – Gesellschaft – Alltag |
| 2020– | Member of the editorial collective Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d’histoire |
| 2018–2020 | Member of the academic network “Doing Debt: Praxeologie der Staatsverschuldung im langen 20. Jahrhundert”, a research group sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; initiators: Prof. Laura Rischbieter, PD Stefanie Middendorf. |
| 2014– | Manuscript peer review for Comparative Studies in Society and History, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue suisse d’histoire, Routledge, Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte. |
| 2004-2008 | Member of the advisory board for music sponsorship, Arts Council, City of Zurich. |
SUPERVISION OF PHD THESES
Pokuaa Jasmine Oduro-Bonsrah: “Observing Child Rearing Practices in Decolonizing Africa” (SNSF Eccellenza Project “Decolonizing the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980, start: Sept. 2021)
Joshua Klein: “Ethnopsychiatric Experts: Scientific Internationalism and the Reconfiguration of the Mind, 1930–1930” (SNSF Eccellenza Project “Decolonizing the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980”, start: Sept. 2021)
SUPERVISION OF MA THESES
Rafael Werner: “Medizinische Pluralität zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts anhand des Verhältnisses von Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland zur Homöopathie im Journal der practischen Heilkunde 1796 – 1834” (completed spring term 2015, second reader, University of Basel).
Yves Hänggi: “Geschichte schulpsychologischer Praxis im Kanton Basel-Stadt, ca. 1942-1993” (completed fall term 2015, second reader, University of Basel).
Jennifer Burri: “Die Polizei, die Nachbarn und die Dinge: Verdachtsökonomie und Prostitution in Basel um 1900” (completed spring term 2016, second reader, University of Basel).
Lena Heizmann: “Lohn, Kündigung und Geschirr: Arbeit und Arbeitskonflikte vor dem Basler Dienstbotenrichter, 1847–1849” (completed fall term 2016, second reader, University of Basel).
Eric Franklin: “Suffering in Support of the Suffrage: A Male Activist’s Fight for Equal Rights” (completed spring term 2017, second reader, University of Basel).
Milo Probst: “Anarchistische Geographien in der Schweiz im 19. Jahrhundert: Eine Geschichte der ökologischen Reflexivität” (completed spring term 2017, second reader, University of Basel).
Niculin Detreköy: “1837 – die umstrittene Volkszählung” (completed spring term 2018, second reader, University of Basel).
Cem Celik: “Das Denken von Kontinuität und Diskontinuität in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Die Idee der generationellen Übertragung und Transmission bei C.G. Jung (completed spring term 2018, second reader, University of Basel).
David Rentsch, “’Congo Atrocities’, Complicities and Colonial Innocence: Swiss Travelogues from the Etat Indépendant du Congo, 1885–1908” (completed spring term 2021, second reader, University of Basel).
Julia Stühlinger, “Neoliberalismus und Nationalismus. Über die Vereinbarkeit zweier Ideen bei Friedrich Hayek” (completed spring term 2021, first reader, European global studies, University of Basel).
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Decolonizing the Psyche: The Politics of Ethnopsychology, 1930–1980”, Forschungskolloquium Historisches Seminar Universität Kassel, 10 February 2025.
“Psychosis and Racism”, Meeting of DFG Network Geschichten des unverfügbaren Subjekts, University of Vienna, 16-17 Januar 2025.
“Geld an der Grenze: Koloniale Strukturen und kollidierende Temporalitäten”, invited lecture Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, 15 January 2025.
“Ethnopsychoanalyse und die postkoloniale Situation in Europa”, Forschungskolloquium Historisches Seminar Universität Luzern, 5 November 2024.
Psychoanalysis in 1960s West Africa, Universality and Particularity at the End of Empire, Associated Researchers’ Meeting, ERC research group “Madness in Africa”, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, (online), 22 February 2024.
Psychoanalysis in 1960s West Africa: Universality and Particularity at the End of Empire, Informal Reading Group (organizer: Joan W. Scott), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 6 February 2024.
Psychoanalysis in 1960s West Africa and the Reverberations of Decolonization in Europe, Colloquium Seminar für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Tübingen, 23 January 2024.
Colonial Currency and Its Everyday Contradictions, Colloquium Center Paul Bairoch for Economic History, Université de Genève, December 14, 2023.
Psychoanalysis in 1960s West Africa: Universality and Particularity at the End of Empire, colloquium Universität Erfurt, 21 November 2023.
Das Soziale und die Auflösung der Globalgeschichte, Conference “(Wiener) Profile der Sozialgeschichte: in memoriam Michael Mitterauer & eine Hommage an Franz X. Eder”, 9-10 November 2023.
Money at the Margins: Sovereignty and Measures of Value in the Age of Imperialism, 1871-1923, Geneva Global History Seminar, 26 October 2023.
Koloniale Währungen: Struktur und Assemblage im globalen Kapitalismus, Inaugural Lecture as Privatdozent, University of Basel, 5 October 2023.
Paper Values and Currency Transition: the Afterlife of German Colonial Currency in Tanzania, 1914–1925, Panel “Revolutionary Currencies”, Deutscher Historikertag Leipzig, September 20, 2023.
Oedipus as a Political Constellation: Psychoanalytic Experiments between West Africa and the European New Left, Conference “Dis-Ordering: Operating Epistemologies in Literature and Psychiatry since the 1970s”, Universität Bochum, 4-6 May 2023.
Global Oedipus? Psychoanalysis, Dependency, Decolonization; ETH Zurich, Colloquium Science Studies, May 10, 2023.
“Uneven Temporalities of Money in Imperialism”, Kolloquium Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und Theorie des Kapitalismus (Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lenger), Universität Giessen, July 13, 2022.
Beyond Futurity and Acceleration: Uneven Temporalities of Money in Imperialism, Konferenz “The Temporalities of Capitalism”, Universität Bern June, 22-25, 2022.
Temporalities oft he German Rupee in Colonial Tanzania, Economic History Colloquium, Universität Bayreuth, Juni 13, 2022.
“Politics of Ethnopsychoanalysis: a Conceptual History”, Remarque Institute, New York University, online conference “Ethnspsychiatry and Its Siblings”, May 17, 2022.
“Plantagenwirtschaft, Revolution und indemnité: Saint-Domingue/Haiti in der atlantischen Ökonomie”, Habilitationsvortrag, Historisch-philosophische Fakultät Universität Basel, 7. April 2022.
“’Wucher’: politique et expérience de la monnaie en temps de crise (Allemagne, Autriche, Suisse)”, Université de Lausanne, 7. März 2022.
The Politics of Ethnopsychology, Konferenz „New Perspectives in Transcultural Psychiatry“, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, 3.-5. November 2021.
“Histories of Knowledge in Society”, invited expert for summer school of the Center for the History of Knowledge, ETH and University of Zurich, September 13–15, 2021.
“Dekolonisierung der Psyche: Politik der Ethnopsychologie 1930-1980”, research colloquium Kulturwissenschaft, University of Lucerne, November 27, 2020.
“Mimetic Currency and Gradated Sovereignties in Colonialism”, conference “Things Beside Themselves”, University of Weimar, February 3-5, 2020.
“Geld zwischen Gewalt und Fragilität: Zirkulationskonflikte und Wertmassstäbe 1870–1923”, University of Vienna, colloquium of the Institute for Economic and Social History, November 12, 2019.
“Dekolonisierung der Psyche: Rorschachtests, Geschlechterverhältnisse und Gesellschaftskritik zwischen Sanga und Zürich”, Department of History, University of Bern, October 31, 2019.
“Zeit und Geld im historischen Alltag”, panel organized at the Swiss History Days, University of Zurich, June 5th, 2019 (with Matthias Ruoss, University of Berne).
“Metrics of Money and Power: Historical and Anthropological Approaches”, workshop organized at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 10th, 2019 (with Linsey Li, GC CUNY, and Neil Agarwal, UC Davis).
“Money Between Violence and Fragility: History and Anthropology of a Political Epistemics, 1870–1923“, Anthropology Colloquium, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, April 5, 2019.
“Money between Violence and Fragility: a Problem Statement”, Faculty Seminar Committee on Globalization and Social Change, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, March 5, 2019.
“The Critique of Political Economy and the Politics of Moral Economy”, Workshop “What is Left of Marxism? Historiography and the Possibility of Thinking with Marxian Themes and Concepts”, University of Trier, May 22-23, 2018.
“Towards a Cultural History of Money: Discourses of Economic Rationality in the Late Nineteenth Century” Colloquium for Economic and Social History, Humboldt University Berlin, April 25, 2018.
“Wucher, Geld und ökonomische Rationalität 1870–1950” Colloquium on Twentieth-Century German History, Humboldt University Berlin, February 8, 2018.
“The Civilization of Capital: How Empire Pervaded the Epistemology of Emerging Marginalist Economics”, Historical Materialism Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies London, Nov. 9–12, 2017.
“Moral Economy”, Authors’ workshop for a special issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Max Planck Institute Center for the History of Emotions Berlin, Sept. 14-15, 2017.
“The Social Life of Debt: Cultural Perspectives on the History of Bankruptcy”, Study Day “Les faillis et leur devenir”, Université catholique de Louvain, March 29, 2017.
“The Untimeliness of Usury”, colloquium “Living Capital: Economy, Affect, Critique”, Humboldt University Berlin, Sept. 14–15, 2016.
“Usury and Crisis in Nineteenth-Century Europe: A Case for a Historical Epistemology of Economic Rationality”, 8th Critical Finance Studies Conference, University of Southampton, Aug. 4–6, 2016.
“Wucher und Wirtschaftssubjekte: Die imperialen Wurzeln ökonomischer Rationalität im späten 19. Jahrhundert”, Conference “Schmutzige Ökonomien”, University of Paderborn, June 10–11, 2016.
Intervention in Panel on Historiographic Turns, Conference “The Good Years: Historical Trajectories, 1980-2010”, Monte Verità, July 2, 2015.
“Von der moralischen Ökonomie zu den Rechtfertigungsregimes? Für eine Sozialgeschichte der Wortergreifung”, Annual Conference Swiss Society for Economic and Social History, University of Berne, June 5, 2015.
“Wucher und kapitalistische Moderne: eine rechtliche Obsession 1870-1900”, Modern History Colloquium, University of Berne, April 1, 2015.
“Eine Geschlechtergeschichte des Ökonomischen”, Invited Guest Lecture at the Institute for Gender Studies, University of Basel, September 24, 2014.
“Rechtstrieb – Schulden und Vollstreckung im liberalen Kapitalismus, 1800–1900”, Modern History Colloquium, University of Göttingen, July 8, 2014.
“Schuld, Pfand und Person: Bewertungsweisen von Personen und Objekten im 19. Jahrhundert”, conference “Produktive Körper: Aktuelle Forschungen zur Körpergeschichte des Ökonomischen”, University of Basel, June 5–7, 2014.
“The Work of the Pawn: Framing Persons and Objects in Debt Relationships ((Switzerland, 1880s)”, Conference “The Cultural History of Money and Credit”, Portland State University, Portland Oregon, May 22-24, 2014.
“Das Geschlecht der Ökonomie im liberalen Kapitalismus”, Invited Guest Lecture at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, University of Berne, May 7, 2014.
“The Problem of the Pledge and the Objects of Liberalism: Debt and Seizure in nineteenth-century Switzerland”, conference “Money, Manners, and Morals in the Modern World”, University of St. Gallen, April 24-25, 2014.
“Subjectivities of Debt in Liberal Capitalism”, Invited Guest Lecture at English Department, University of Zurich, December 5, 2013.
“Widersprüchliche Figuren im Falliment. Konkurs und soziale Positionierung, 1830–1870”, Annual Conference “L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft”, University of Basel, June 28, 2013.
“A Cultural History of Debt Enforcement in Liberal Capitalism”, University of Chicago, Modern European History Workshop, May 8, 2013.
“Juristisches Wissen und das Scheitern des Tauschs”, Annual Conference of the German Society for the History of Science (GWG), Mainz, September 29, 2012.
“Ausbeutung”, Workshop “In Search of the Economy”, University of Lucerne, September 13–15, 2012.
“Knowledge and Morals in Bankruptcy Proceedings (Basel, 1840s)”, European History Workshop, University of Michigan, March 22, 2012.
“Knowledge and Morals in Bankruptcy Proceedings (Basel, 1840s) ”, Colloquium “Approaches to a New Social History”, Tel Aviv University, February 4, 2012.
“Falliment“: The Social Life of a Legal Category. Dealing with Insolvency in 19th-Century Switzerland. Conference “Networks of Paupers and Debtors”, German Historical Institute, London, February 24-26, 2011.
“Rechtstrieb”. Personen und Verfahren in der Zwangsvollstreckung bei privaten Schulden in der Schweiz des 19. Jahrhunderts. Conference “Die Ökonomie sozialer Beziehungen”, Free University of Berlin , September 9-10, 2010.