Ideas Exchange Events Schedule (2023-2024)
Location: Online via Zoom
Date/Time: Sept 21, Thursday, 1:30PM (PST)
Reading: Gold v. Crypto, 2014-2023
Presenter: Elizabeth Ferry
Location: Online via Zoom
Date/Time: Oct 19, Thurs, 1:30PM (PST)
Reading: TBA two weeks in advance.
Presenter: Gustav Peebles
Location: Online via Zoom
Date/Time: Nov 30, Thurs, 1:30 (PST)
Reading: TBA two weeks in advance.
Presenter: Emily Gilbert
Location: Online via Zoom
Date/Time: Jun 26, Monday, 5:00PM-6:30PM (PDT)
Reading: “Un-Making Graeber’s Fetishisms: Rethinking Person, Value and Social Creativity in Colonial “Dream Economies””.
Presenter: Chris Vasantkumar
Date/time: Jan 23, Monday. 9:00AM-10:30AM (PST)
Reading: Peebles, Gustav. 2011. The Euro and Its Rivals Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Presenter: Gustav Peebles
Date/time: Feb 24, Friday. 9:00AM-10:30AM (PST)
Reading: Graeber, David. 1996. “Beads and money: notes toward a theory of wealth and power.” American Ethnologist. 23:4–24
Date/time: Mar 20, Monday. 9:00 AM- 10:30AM (PST)
Reading: Kanters, Coco. 2023. “Failing Forward: Creativity and Experimentation in the Alternative Economy” (Proof version to be published)
Presenter: Coco Kanters
Date/time: April 17, Monday, 9:00 AM- 10:30AM (PST)
Reading: Blacklock, Brayden. 2023. “The Gift and the Market: Alternative Economic Relations in the Comox Valley Local Exchange Trading System” (MA Thesis, University of Victoria)
Presenter: Brayden Blacklock