The Cultural Life of Money and Finance

This podcast was created by a team of undergraduate students who have been working with the Cultural Life of Money and Finance project this academic year. The podcast presents findings from their research on the theme of "Money in Transition", which has included interviews with other students and research in the University's coin collections. Appearing in the podcast are Alex Dalton, Ewan Hazlewood and Blythe Manson. Also contributing to the project were Max Nowers and Violet Robinson.

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 Isabella Clough Marinaro (John Cabot University), to discuss her work on money in the informal economy in Italy, especially in Rome. Isabella discusses issues relating to the importance of cash in the informal economy, the functions of formal and informal credit, the way in which financial practices in the informal economy affect experiences of time and temporality, and the relationship between money and shame. 

Isabella Clough Marinaro is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at John Cabot University in Rome. For more information on her work, see https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/isabella-clough_marinaro. 

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

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, Mark is joined by Katy Shaw, Professor of Contemporary Writings at Northumbria University in the UK, and they discuss her work on the credit crunch in contemporary culture. The podcast covers the idea that the entire financial system is a form of fiction; tackles the important issue of the public’s financial literacy; explores the gendered regime of finance; and makes a passionate case for the arts and humanities to work more closely with economics and social sciences to explore fully the cultural life of money and finance. 

Katy’s research interests include contemporary literature, especially working class literature, cultural representations of post-industrial regeneration, and the languages of comedy. An expert in twenty-first-century literature, Katy has produced two books on the crime author David Peace, a 2015 monograph on representations of the Credit Crunch in contemporary culture, and a collection on the teaching of twenty-first-century genre fiction. Her 2018 book Hauntology explored the persistent role of the past in the present of contemporary English Literature. To learn more about her work, see https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/s/katy-shaw/.

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

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 Kathryn Brown, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University. They discuss how the development of art markets in the twentieth century displayed particular forms of financialisation; what art markets can reveal about financial practices; and how financial and aesthetic considerations can coincide in the experience of viewing art. 

Kathryn is the author of Matisse: A Critical Life (Reaktion, 2021), as well of articles on art markets and finance. To learn more about her work, see https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/kathryn-brown/#tab5. 

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

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 Jonathan Patterson (University of Oxford), to discuss Jonathan's work on avarice in late Renaissance France. Jonathan explains how avarice was connected with notions of social class and gender, and relates to the physical presence of money. He also discusses how attitudes to money emerged in the context of humanism and religion, across multiple contexts. 

Jonathan is the author of Representing Avarice in Late Renaissance France (Oxford University Press, 2015); for more information on Jonathan's work, please visit https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/jonathan-patterson. 

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

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, Mark is joined by Leigh Claire La Berge, Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, about opportunities for arts and humanities to engage with money and finance through ideas of performativity and language, in particular how they have been utilised in social studies of finance. They also explore themes of temporality and invisibility, and how these are captured in the financial fiction writing of the 1980s and TV serials of the mid-2000s. Their conversation also touches on the importance of how money and finance are narrated, and the deeper political questions these narratives lay down, and why the arts and humanities might best serve utopian projects for a better financial system by empowering a literary studies of finance.

Leigh Claire is the author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (2019) (available at https://www.dukeupress.edu/wages-against-artwork), Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (2015) (available at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scandals-and-abstraction-9780199372874?cc=ca&lang=en&), and co-editor of Reading Capitalist Realism (2014) (available at https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609382346/reading-capitalist-realism). 

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

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 Kat Baxter, Curator of Archaeology and Numismatics at Leeds Museums and Galleries (https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/). They discuss Kat's work on a forthcoming exhibition, scheduled for February 2022 in Leeds City Museum, called Money Talks. They discuss the insights that can be gained when a collection of money-related objects are brought to the centre of attention in this way, and Kat discusses some of the key objects in the exhibition - from coin hoards to money-related toys. 

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler.

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, Rachel is joined by Devin Singh, Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth about his 2018 book entitled Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West. The issues discussed in the conversation include the connections between moneylending and warfare; why we talk about punishment as 'paying a debt'; theology and coinage, including why and why not people might put a sacred image on a coin; links between religious innovation and economic innovation; minting of coins as assertions of sovereignty; and the cultural history and contemporary relevance of the idea of 'dirty' money. 

Devin Singh's book is available at https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/589048. For more information on Devin, please visit https://religion.dartmouth.edu/people/devin-singh.

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 podcast was edited by Lisa Trischler. 

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, Mark and Matthew discuss Dante's response to developments in finance in late medieval Italy, exploring how the issues associated with avarice, usury and banking connect with twenty-first-century concerns about credit and debt, green finance, and the effects of economic growth. 

The conversation was first recorded as part of the Leeds Dante Podcast series, "Conversations on Dante", in October 2020. 

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.

In this episode, Rachel is joined by Kathryn Tanner, Frederick Marquand Professor of Divinity and Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, and author of Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism (Yale, 2019). We discuss how finance-dominated capitalism establishes particular models of subjectivity, and the role that religious traditions and institutions can play in broadening understanding of human potential in the context of the contemporary economy. 

Kathryn Tanner's book is available at https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300219036. For more information on Kathryn, please visit https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/people/kathryn-tanner. 

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.