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Upcoming Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date\/Time: March 26, 2026 07:00 PM PT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Dr. Nishita Trisal (Ashoka University)
\nTopic: “The Debts of Others: Guarantors, Defaulters, and Tripartite Relations at a Kashmiri Bank”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: April 30, 2026 03:00 PM PT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Dr. Smoki Musaraj (Ohio University)
\nTopic: TBA<\/p>\n

2025-2026 Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date\/Time: February 26, 2026 03:00 PM PT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Dr. Myriam Amri (University of Cambridge)
\nTopic: “The Blacklist of Bankers and Smugglers”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: January 29, 2026 03:00 PM PT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Dr. Lily H. Chumley (New York University) and Dr. Sarah Muir (City University of New York)
\nTopic: \u201cMemecoin Autocracy: Crypto Publics and Dynastic Sovereigns\u201d<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: December 2, 2025 09:00 AM PT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Dr. Chris Vasantkumar (Macquarie University)
\nTopic: “How Memecoins Explain the World: Understanding the New Currency of Charisma”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: October 30, 2025 03:00 PM PDT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Dr. Kevin P. Donovan (University of Edinburgh)
\nTopic: “Parastatal: The Cohabitation of Safaricom and the State in Kenya”<\/p>\n

2024-2025 Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date\/Time: May 27, 2025 03:00 PM PST
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Professor Mrinalini Tankha (Portland State University)
\nTopic: “Denominating Sovereignty: The Politics of Demonetization in Cuba”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: April 29, 2025 03:00 PM PDT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Professor Ryan Calder (Johns Hopkins University)
\nTopic: “DebtMiles: Points, Plastic, and the Price of Paradise”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: March 25, 2025 06:00 PM PDT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Professor Makoto Nishibe (Senshu University)
\nTopic: “The Possibility of Vector Money: Diversity, Plurality, and Multidimensionality of Value”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: February 25, 2025 03:00 PM PDT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Professor Emily Gilbert (University of Toronto)
\nTopic: “Protest Policing and Financial Sanctions”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: December 11, 2024 05:00 PM PST
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nPanel Discussion \u201cMoney in Islamic Thought\u201d
\nModerator: Daromir Rudnyckyj, Counter Currency Laboratory, University of Victoria
\nSpeakers:
\nDr. Ryan Calder \u2013 Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
\nDr. Ahcene Lahasana \u2013 CEO, Salihin Shariah
\nDr. Mufti Yousuf Sultan \u2013 CEO, Adl Advisory<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: November 26, 2024 03:00 PM PST
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Ferda Demirci (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
\nTopic: “Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: October 22, 2024 03:00 PM PDT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine)
\nTopic: “This Side of Forever: Crypto, Credit Unions, and Data Infrastructures of a Double Double Movement”<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: September 24, 2024 03:00 PM PDT
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nSpeaker: Robbie Alberto (University of Victoria)
\nTopic: “Theories of Value: Items of Adornment and CS:GO Skins”<\/p>\n

2023-2024 Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date\/Time: Sept 21, Thursday, 1:30PM (PST)
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nReading: Gold v. Crypto, 2014-2023
\nPresenter: Elizabeth Ferry<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: Oct 19, Thurs, 1:30PM (PST)
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nReading: TBA two weeks in advance.
\nPresenter: Gustav Peebles<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: Nov 30, Thurs, 1:30 (PST)
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nReading: TBA two weeks in advance.
\nPresenter: Emily Gilbert<\/p>\n

Date\/Time: Jun 26, Monday, 5:00PM-6:30PM (PDT)
\nLocation: Online via Zoom
\nReading: “Un-Making Graeber’s Fetishisms: Rethinking Person, Value and Social Creativity in Colonial “Dream Economies””.
\nPresenter: Chris Vasantkumar<\/p>\n

Date\/time: Jan 23, Monday. 9:00AM-10:30AM (PST)
\nReading: Peebles, Gustav. 2011. The Euro and Its Rivals Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
\nPresenter: Gustav Peebles<\/p>\n

Date\/time: Feb 24, Friday. 9:00AM-10:30AM (PST)
\nReading: Graeber, David. 1996. \u201cBeads and money: notes toward a theory of wealth and power.\u201d American Ethnologist. 23:4\u201324<\/p>\n

Date\/time: Mar 20, Monday. 9:00 AM- 10:30AM (PST)
\nReading: Kanters, Coco. 2023. \u201cFailing Forward: Creativity and Experimentation in the Alternative Economy\u201d (Proof version to be published)
\nPresenter: Coco Kanters<\/p>\n

Date\/time: April 17, Monday, 9:00 AM- 10:30AM (PST)
\nReading: Blacklock, Brayden. 2023. \u201cThe Gift and the Market: Alternative Economic Relations in the Comox Valley Local Exchange Trading System\u201d (MA Thesis, University of Victoria)
\nPresenter: Brayden Blacklock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upcoming Events Date\/Time: March 26, 2026 07:00 PM PT Location: Online via Zoom Speaker: Dr. Nishita Trisal (Ashoka University) Topic: “The Debts of Others: Guarantors, Defaulters, and Tripartite Relations at a Kashmiri Bank” 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: … <\/p>\n

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