Genius for Sale! About the Speakers
December 20, 2013
by Diana Greenwald | Filed in: Conferences • Current Events
Professor Karol Borowiecki (Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark), is an economist working on the effects of geographic factors, well-being, and conflict on composers’ creative output.
Dr. Philip Bullock (University Lecturer in Russian, University of Oxford) is currently writing a critical life of Tchaikovsky that examines commercial factors shaping audience perception of cultural intimacy.
Professor Narve Fulsås (Professor, University of Tromso, Norway), author of a groundbreaking study of Ibsen’s finances that challenges widespread ideas about the playwright’s literary evolution.
Professor Robert Gildea (Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford), author of Children of the Revolution. The French 1799-1914 among other works on French and European history.
Professor Kathryn Graddy (Professor, Brandeis University), an economist working on using three centuries of European auction data and rankings created by French art critic Roger de Pile (1635-1709) to test the persistence of taste for art.
Diana Greenwald (Doctoral student, Economic & Social History, University of Oxford) uses econometrics to study the relationship between economic and social change and the changing content of paintings in 19th c. France.
Jonathan Paine (Doctoral Student, Modern Languages, University of Oxford) studies the economic functions of narrative and methods of establishing narrative value in nineteenth-century French and Russian literature.
Dr. Richard Taws (Lecturer, University College London) studies eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, with a particular interest in the visual culture of the French Revolution and its aftermath. He is currently working on a new book about the relationship between art and new communication technologies—the Chappe optical telegraph in particular—in France in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Prof. Williams Mills Todd III (Professor of Russian, Harvard University) has published widely on the sociology of literature, economic theories of transaction and literary theories of author-writer relations and is currently working on the serialisation of the novel in nineteenth-century Russia.