at IU Europe Gateway
Gneisenaustr. 27, 10961 Berlin
Friday, 19 June 2026
10:15-17:15
in English
The conference focuses on how literary works engage with economic thinking and practices across space and time.
Organized by
Filippo Petricca, Indiana University Bloomington and Esther Schomacher, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
Literary Economics
Practices, Actors, Knowledge
By bringing together scholars working on Italian, Spanish, French, German and English literatures, this conference seeks to retrace how literary works rethink economic matters such as money, debt, and value.
At the same time, by fostering a conversation among scholars across the fields of the medieval, early modern, and (post-)modern periods, this conference intends to emphasize discussion and dialogue: contributions will highlight what literary approaches to economics share across the centuries as well as what makes them unique, while offering the opportunity to analyze the implications of each historical narrative.
Such a wide comparative approach to literary works may also help the audience to reconsider the specific economic knowledge included in literary texts as well as the relation between literary studies and economics as disciplines and fields of knowledge.
