The Cultural Life of Money and Finance

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings.

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis.  The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds.

In this episode, Matthew is joined by Alaric Hall, Associate Professor in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and author of Útrásarvíkingar: The Literature of the Icelandic Financial Crisis (2008–2014). We discuss the particular forms of financialisation in Iceland prior to the crash, and the ways in which literature and culture responded to the crisis - and what we might learn from that cultural responses to the events of 2008. 

Alaric's book can be ordered or downloaded as a free PDF at https://punctumbooks.com/titles/utrasarvikingar-the-literature-of-the-icelandic-financial-crisis-2008-2014/. For more information about Alaric and his work, please visit https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/60/dr-alaric-hall.

For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney.

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance podcast explores money and finance through the arts and humanities – asking new questions about finance, the global financial system, and financial behaviour in the twenty-first century. In a series of conversations with researchers and practitioners, we look at how money is being, and has been, thought about in different contexts – across historical, cultural, ethical, religious, social, and material settings.

The Cultural Life of Money and Finance project is based at the University of Leeds, and is led by Matthew Treherne, Rachel Muers and Mark Davis.  The project is supported by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, and by the Leeds Creative Labs scheme at the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds.

This episode presents a conversation between Rachel, Mark and Matthew, and Catherine Baxendale, Executive Producer of Invisible Flock. Invisible Flock are an award-winning arts studio based in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and have been our artistic partners in the Cultural Life of Money and Finance project. We discuss some of the themes that have emerged in our collaboration - how money and finance shape relationships between humans, and between humans and the natural world; how finance helps shape our experience of time; the role of the digital in shaping financial experience; and how artistic activity and innovation can help reimagine the place of money and finance in our lives and societies.

To find out more about Invisible Flock, please visit https://invisibleflock.com; they are on Twitter @invisibleflock. For more information on the Culture Life of Money and Finance Project, please visit https://culturallifeofmoney.leeds.ac.uk, and follow us on Twitter @CulturalMoney.