Upcoming Events
Date/Time: December 2, 2025 09:00 AM PT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Chris Vasantkumar (Macquarie University)
Topic: “How Memecoins Explain the World: Understanding the New Currency of Charisma”
Date/Time: January 29, 2026 03:00 PM PT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Muir (City University of New York)
Topic: TBA
Date/Time: February 26, 2026 03:00 PM PT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Myriam Amri (University of Cambridge)
Topic: TBA
Date/Time: March 26, 2026 07:00 PM PT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Nishita Trisal (Ashoka University)
Topic: TBA
Date/Time: April 30, 2026 03:00 PM PT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Smoki Musaraj (Ohio University)
Topic: TBA
2025-2026 Events
Date/Time: October 30, 2025 03:00 PM PDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Kevin P. Donovan (University of Edinburgh)
Topic: “Parastatal: The Cohabitation of Safaricom and the State in Kenya”
2024-2025 Events
Date/Time: May 27, 2025 03:00 PM PST
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Mrinalini Tankha (Portland State University)
Topic: “Denominating Sovereignty: The Politics of Demonetization in Cuba”
Date/Time: April 29, 2025 03:00 PM PDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Ryan Calder (Johns Hopkins University)
Topic: “DebtMiles: Points, Plastic, and the Price of Paradise”
Date/Time: March 25, 2025 06:00 PM PDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Makoto Nishibe (Senshu University)
Topic: “The Possibility of Vector Money: Diversity, Plurality, and Multidimensionality of Value”
Date/Time: February 25, 2025 03:00 PM PDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Emily Gilbert (University of Toronto)
Topic: “Protest Policing and Financial Sanctions”
Date/Time: December 11, 2024 05:00 PM PST
Location: Online via Zoom
Panel Discussion “Money in Islamic Thought”
Moderator: Daromir Rudnyckyj, Counter Currency Laboratory, University of Victoria
Speakers:
Dr. Ryan Calder – Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Ahcene Lahasana – CEO, Salihin Shariah
Dr. Mufti Yousuf Sultan – CEO, Adl Advisory
Date/Time: November 26, 2024 03:00 PM PST
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Ferda Demirci (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Topic: “Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin”
Date/Time: October 22, 2024 03:00 PM PDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine)
Topic: “This Side of Forever: Crypto, Credit Unions, and Data Infrastructures of a Double Double Movement”
Date/Time: September 24, 2024 03:00 PM PDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Robbie Alberto (University of Victoria)
Topic: “Theories of Value: Items of Adornment and CS:GO Skins”
2023-2024 Events
Date/Time: Sept 21, Thursday, 1:30PM (PST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Reading: Gold v. Crypto, 2014-2023
Presenter: Elizabeth Ferry
Date/Time: Oct 19, Thurs, 1:30PM (PST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Reading: TBA two weeks in advance.
Presenter: Gustav Peebles
Date/Time: Nov 30, Thurs, 1:30 (PST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Reading: TBA two weeks in advance.
Presenter: Emily Gilbert
Date/Time: Jun 26, Monday, 5:00PM-6:30PM (PDT)
Location: Online via Zoom
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