11.00 Coffee, registration and introduction: Glenn Morgan and Mark Taylor
11.30 Alex Preda (Dept. of Sociology, University of Edinburgh)
Life in the Market: Self and Agency in the Online Financial Market
1.00 Buffet lunch
2.00 Richard Whitley (Manchester Business School)
Internationalisation and the Institutional Structuring of Economic Organisation: Implications for 21st century capitalisms
3.30 Coffee
3.45 Marion Fourcade (Dept of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley)
Cents and Sensibility: Economic valuation and the nature of nature in France and America
5.15 Finish

Presenters

Alex Preda is Reader in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a significant contributor to the social studies of finance research stream, co-editing the influential book 'The Sociology of Financial Markets' (Oxford UP 2004) with Karin Knorr-Cetina and since publishing a range of papers and book chapters on aspects of financial markets. He has published two recent books on this - 'Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism' (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and 'Information, Knowledge and Economic Life: An Introduction to the Sociology of Markets' (Oxford University Press 2009). He is currently working on an ESRC-funded research project: Technology, Action and Cognition in Online Anonymous Markets: A Sociological Study of Non-institutional Traders.

Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at Manchester Business School. He has published extensively on the organisation of the natural and social sciences, including The Intellectual and Social Organisation of the Sciences (Oxford University Press 1984, 2000). Recent books have included Divergent Capitalisms: The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems (Oxford University Press 1999), National Capitalisms, Global Competition and Economic Performance (Benjamin, 2000), The Multinational Firm (Oxford University Press, 2001), Competing Capitalisms (Edward Elgar, 2002) Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, institutional change and systems of economic organization (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Business Systems and Organisational Capabilities: The institutional structuring of competitive competences (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Marion Fourcade is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Warwick. Fourcade's first book (Economists and Societies, Princeton University Press 2009) is an analysis of the historical trajectories and transformations of economics as a discipline and profession in the United States, Great Britain and France since the end of the nineteenth century. Also within this broad line of research are a comparative study of transitions to neoliberalism in four nations (with Sarah Babb); an analysis of how international political and economic dynamics feed into the scientific and professional transformations of economics; and a book chapter on the "linked ecologies" between economics and business education in twentieth century America (with Rakesh Khurana). Fourcade's second book project is tentatively titled Measure for Measure: Social Ontologies of Classification. It investigates the cultural and institutional logic of what may be called "national classificatory styles" through three detailed cases studies, conducted simultaneously in France and the United States (on the ranking of wines, the digitisation of books and the economic valuation of nature). Other ongoing work focuses on the comparative and historical analysis of forms of political organization (with Evan Schofer and Brian Lande); and the relationship of market processes to social order (with Kieran Healy). Fourcade's research has been published in professional journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and Theory and Society.