IMTFI/Fellows - Presentations
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| Date | Presenter | Title of presentation | Venue | |
| 6/8/16 | Sibel Kusimba | Using Social Network Analysis to Analyze Social and Economic Empowerment Through M-Pesa Use | USAID and NetHope's Women's Empowerment and Digital Financial Services – Exploring the Connections | |
| 5/9/16 | Divine Fuh | Shuffering and Shmiling: Reflections on Researching African Women's Struggles in Uncertain Tim | Keynote address, CODESRIA-AARC Gender Symposium, Cairo, Egypt | |
| 2/29/16 | Andrew Crawford | Exploring Rosca Dynamics with a Cambodian Factory Worker Board Game | German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin | |
| 5/1/16 | Mrinalini Tankha | Currency Counterpoints: Money and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba | Panel on Political and Economic Changes in Cuba, Conference on Cuba Transitions: What's Left Out? Brown University | |
| 11/11/15 | Ndunge Kiiti | Mobile Money Technology in Kenya: Lessons in In(Exclusion) for Development | Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) Seminar Series | |
| 10/21/15 | Ndunge Kiiti | The Digital Wallet: How Mobile Money is Transforming the Business Landscape in Kenya | Johnson Africa Business Society (JABS), Cornell University | |
| 11/30/15 | Ursula Dalinghaus | Cashing out of the euro? Situating affective monetary attachments in the Euro-Zone | UCSD Science Studies Colloquium Series, UC San Diego | |
| 7/18/15 | Anke Schwittay | Innovative Models for Generating Actionable Academic Research | Human Innovation Conference, University of Oxford | |
| 7/3/15 | Nithya Joseph | Gold-Based Financial Histories in the Silk-Reeling Industry in South India | Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) | |
| 7/3/15 | Joshua Greene | The Circulation and Transformation of Value in Transborder Currencies | Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) | |
| 7/3/15 | Magdalena Villarreal | The Circulation and Transformation of Value in Transborder Currencies | Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) | |
| 5/7/15 | Bill Maurer | Money and its Redemption | Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | |
| 5/1/15 | Josh Blumenstock | Promises and Pitfalls of Mobile Money in Afghanistan: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial | ICTD Singapore May 15 2015 | |
| 3/14/15 | Smoki Musaraj | A Postcolonial Invention or A Battle for a New Market?: Pushing Mobile Money at the Margins of Europe | American Ethnological Society, San Diego | |
| 3/14/15 | Mrinalini Tankha | Palimpsests of Money and Currency Exchange in Cuba | American Ethnological Society, San Diego | |
| 3/14/15 | Ursula Dalinghaus | When Cash is the Tie That Binds: On the Materiality of Banknotes in the Euro-zone Debt Crisis | American Ethnological Society, San Diego | |
| 3/14/15 | Ivan Small | Mobile Monies and Imaginaries: Remittance Histories, Hopes and Hypotheticals in Sai-gon/Ho Chi Minh City | American Ethnological Society, San Diego | |
| 3/14/15 | Sibel Kusimba | Idioms of Practice around Mobile Money in a Coming of Age Ritual in Western Kenya | American Ethnological Society, San Diego | |
| 3/9/15 | Nithya Joseph | And Our Ears Have Been Empty Since Then: Gold Ownership, Gender, and Work Vulnerability in a South Indian Silk-reeling Hub | Conference: AJEI 2015 workshop on Gender: Politics, Labour, Law, Development , Associ-ation Jeunes Etudes Indiennes and Benaras Hindu University, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India | |
| 3/4/15 | Bill Maurer | Media of Exchange | A Symposium on Cryptographic Currencies at New York University | |
| 12/11/14 | Nithya Joseph | And Our Ears Have Been Empty Since Then: Gold Ownership, Gender, and Work Vulnerability in a South Indian Silk-reeling Hub | Women, Labour and Livelihoods Workshop, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, India | |
| 12/8/14 | Dharmendra Sharma | Industry Challenges and Policy Barriers in Adoption of Mobile Value Added Services in Remote Islands | Australian Information Systems Conference - ACIS 2014 in New Zealand | |
| 12/6/14 | Smoki Musaraj | Materialities and Socialities of Speculation: An Anthropology of Construction and Real Estate in Postsocialist Albania | American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. | |
| 12/4/14 | Caroline Schuster | Riding Paraguay’s Credit Bicycle: Financial Movement, Cyclicality, and Pedaling Debt on Metaphors of Economic Life: Fluids, Ghosts, Food and Other Financial Bodies” | American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. | |
| 12/4/14 | Mrinalini Tankha | La Bolita: Money and Medi(t)ated Speculation in Havana’s Informal Economy" | American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. | |
| 12/4/14 | Smoki Musaraj | “Fiks Fare (Right On)!, an Ambivalent Whistleblower: Cynical Parody and Investigative Journalism As a Powerful Anti-Corruption Discourse in Albania” | American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. | |
| 11/12/14 | Ndunge Kiiti | The Use of Mobile Money Services and Platforms among Vulnerable Populations in Kenya | UNCTAD Single-year Expert Meeting on the Impact of Access to Financial Services, Includ-ing by Highlighting Remittances on Development: Economic Empowerment of Women and Youth Geneva, Switzerland. | |
| 11/6/14 | Tiar Shantiuli | Banking with the patron: a case study of patron-client relations in Makassasr, Indonesia | 3rd International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Business Management (ICEBM) in Penang, Malaysia | |
| 10/13/2014 | Smoki Musaraj | Incongruent Translations: Measuring Informality and Corruption in Postsocialist Albania | Global Studies Seminars. Denison University, Granville, Ohio | |
| 10/9/14 | Bill Maurer | Stumbling into payments | Money as Communication conference, USC | |
| 9/27/14 | Bill Maurer | Owning payment | Digital Cash! conference, UCLA | |
| 9/17/14 | Bill Maurer | Unto a stranger thou mayest...?' The interest in interest, from Deuteronomy to the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indices | UC Irvine School of Law, Comparative Perspectives on Jewish and Islamic Law conference | |
| 9/10/14 | Erwin Alampay and Charlie Cabotaje | Using Mobile Money as a Conditional Cash Transfer Conduit in the Philippines |
CPR (Communication Policy Research) South2014 in Cape Town, South Africa | |
| 8/21/14 | Bill Maurer | Is There a Public Interest in Payment? Bitcoin and Beyond | University of Pretoria, Money in the Making of World Society conference | |
| 8/14/14 | Bill Maurer | Is There a Public Interest in Payment? Bitcoin and Beyond | UC Center in Sacramento | |
| 7/16/14 | Mani Nandhi | Financial Inclusion of Urban Poor Migrants: Mirage or Myth – A Reality Check | 2014 International Association for the Economic of Participation (IAFEP) conference | |
| 7/10/14 | Isabelle Guérin and Magdalena Villareal | Carola and Saraswathi: Juggling wealth in India and in Mexico | SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) Mini-Conferences/Domesticizing Financial Economies: Knitting Fibers of Transaction, Algorithm, and Exchange, July 10-12, 2014 | |
| 6/25/14 | Milind Sathye | Determinants of Accepting Mobile Value Added Services by Women Micro Entrepreneurs in Fiji | International Workshop of Information Technology and Internet Finance , PACIS 2014. | |
| 6/1/14 | Bridget Kustin | Economic Anthropology after 1989: Rationality, Risk, and Uncertainty | 18th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality: After the Change: 1989 and the Consequences in the Sciences | |
| 5/9/14 | Caroline Schuster | Work-cycle, Debt-cycle: Cyclicality and Periodization of Obligation in Paraguayan Microfinance | Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) Biennial Meeting, 2014 | |
| 4/17/14 | Ivan V. Small | Capitalist Samplers and Remittance Teasers: Diaspora, Desire, and Difference in Saigon, Vietnam | "Circuits of Love", Association of Asian American Studies conference San Francisco | |
| 4/3/14 | Ivan V. Small | Anticipating a Market: Consuming Driving and Driving Consumption in Southeast Asia | Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine | |
| 3/24/14 | Eric Osei - Assibey | What Drives Behavioral Intention of Mobile Money Adoption? The Case of Ancient S | ICTBM-14 Dubai | |
| 3/22/14 | Nithya Joseph | The politics of producing silk, owning gold, and interacting with the state in a South Indian town | Association of Indian Labour Historians and the VV Giri National Labour Institute, New Delhi, India | |
| 3/21/14 | Bill Maurer | Panel presentation at the conference, MoneyLab: | Institute of Network Cultures, University of Amsterdam, http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/moneylab/program-3/ | |
| 3/19/14 | Bill Maurer | Making Money Mobile: An Anthropologist Rides the Payments Rails | University College London: | |
| 3/17/14 | Bill Maurer | Closed Loops and Private Gateways: Money, Technology and the Public Interest in Payment” | London School of Economics: Social Anthropology Seminars 2013-2014 | |
| 3/13/14 | Bill Maurer | Giving the keynote lecture for the conference, Fiscal State and Social Citizenship II. Theorizing tax avoidance from socio-cultural perspectives, | Linköping University, Sweden | |
| 3/1/14 | Bridget Kustin | After the 1971 War: Islam, Secularism, and the Creation of Idealized Bangladeshi Development Subjects | Conference-Workshop: Global War Centenary 1914-2014, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan | |
| 2/26/14 | Stephen Rea | The origins of the financial inclusion agenda and mobile money and IMTFI" | University of California, Irvine - Session in Economic Anthropology | |
| 2/19/14 | Cyril Fouillet | Beyond boarders. Perspectives on financial inclusion spatial dynamics | Lecture at the Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode, Kozhikode | |
| 2/11/14 | Nithya Joseph | But without advances no one will come: The role of debt in labour contracts in a South Indian silk-reeling hub. | Association Jeunes Etudes Indiennes and Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University | |
| 2/11/14 | Kevin Donovan | Infrastructuring Poverty Alleviation: Cash Transfers, Ethical Regimes, and Technopolitics | "Mapping Science and Technology in Africa" Conference in Johannesburg |