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ยป Humanomics Alumni Colloquium
2021 Fall
Humanomics Alumni Colloquium
"American Gods and the Bourgeois Era: The Stories We Tell Ourselves"
November 6, 2021
Chapman University Homecoming
After two stimulating virtual colloquia in 2020, the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy invites all Humanomics alumni to participate in a one-day colloquium—“American Gods and the Bourgeois Era: The Stories We Tell Ourselves”—on Saturday, November 6, 2021 as part of Chapman’s Homecoming weekend. As in all Humanomics experiences, the aim is to engage with texts from different disciplines, considering the challenges of multiple perspectives, and to deconstruct the perceived tensions the texts.
We will discuss concurrently Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Deirdre McCloskey and Art Carden’s Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich. Gaiman frames his novel on the mythological stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the world and to give order to our daily lives. We create our culture and our gods, and both are only powerful as long as we believe in them.
McCloskey and Carden frame their economic history around the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the modern bourgeois world and offer an alternative explanation for our prosperity—the idea of a liberal ethical order to buy low and sell high and make the world rich.
What gods do we think we empower with commerce? Supposing such gods are only as powerful as we believe them to be, what do we empower and disempower if we tell ourselves the McCloskey-Carden story of the Great Enrichment?
The core of a Humanomics colloquium lies in civil discourse and a commitment to read all materials in advance. Please plan to bring your books to the discussion and to be present and on time for all sessions.
Schedule for the day (Wilkinson Hall 221)
Continental Breakfast: 8:15 – 9:00 a.m.
Session 1: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. American Gods
Session 2: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich
Break: 11:00 – 11:15 a.m.
Session 3: 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. “What do these texts have to do with one another?”
Lunch (off campus)
If you would like to participate, the Smith Institute will reimburse the cost of your books up to $40. Please submit the book receipts to Carol Campos (cacampos@chapman.edu), Smith Institute's Operations Administrator.
2021 Spring
Humanomics Alumni Virtual Colloquium
"The Past in the Present: Structures and Values"
April 24, 2021
Registration is closed.
Following the interest in our first Alumni Colloquium in December 2020, the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy invites all Humanomics alumni to participate in a one-day virtual colloquium—“The Past in the Present”—on Saturday, April 24, 2021. As in all Humanomics experiences, the aim is to engage with texts from different disciplines, considering the challenges of multiple perspectives, and to deconstruct the perceived tensions the texts and our interpretations present to us as a group.
We will discuss concurrently William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The books, one fiction and one non-fiction, written by authors from different centuries, races, and life experiences, explore the values and structures of the country, posing serious questions about the possibilities for change in light of the past’s imprint on the present, and the future.
The core of a Humanomics colloquium lies in civil discourse and a commitment to read all materials in advance. Please plan to bring your books to the discussion and to be present and on time for all sessions.
Schedule for the day
Pre-Session Coffee: 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. PST
Session 1: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. The Sound and the Fury
Break: 10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Session 2: 10:45 - 12:15 p.m. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
If you would like to participate, the Smith Institute will reimburse the cost of your books up to $40. Please submit the book receipts to Carol Campos (cacampos@chapman.edu), Smith Institute's Operations Administrator.
2020 Fall
Humanomics Alumni Virtual Colloquium
"Race and Economics"
December 5, 2020
Fall 2020 is the 10th Anniversary of the first Humanomics class at Chapman University. To celebrate, the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy invites all Humanomics alumni to participate in a one-day virtual colloquium on “Race and Economics” on Saturday, December 5, 2020. As in all Humanomics classes, the aim is to challenge and deconstruct the perceived tension between economics and the humanities.
The conferees will discuss concurrently Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Walter Williams’s Race and Economics, and an excerpt from Jeff Chang’s We Gon’ Be Alright. Following the Humanomics tradition, the format will be three Socratic roundtable discussions led by Profs. Jan Osborn and Bart Wilson.
The core of a Humanomics colloquium lies in civil discourse and a commitment to read all materials in advance. Please plan to bring your books to the discussion and to be present and on time for all sessions.
Schedule for the day
Pre-Session Coffee Hour and Introductions (optional) |
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. (PST) |
Session 1 Race and Economics, pp 1-110 Sellout, pp 1-39 |
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. |
Session 2 Sellout, pp 93-197 "Vanilla Cities and their Chocolate Suburbs" |
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. |
Lunch (on your own) |
11:45 - 1:00 p.m. |
Session 3 Race and Economics, pp 111-141 Sellout, pp 201-289 |
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. |
If you would like to participate, the Smith Institute will reimburse the cost of your books up to $50. (We will provide a fair use copy of the excerpt from We Gon’ Be Alright.)
The deadline to register is closed.