TIAS Event: Wealth and Desire Symposium

9:00-9:30 Coffee

9:30-10:00 Welcoming words

10:00-11:30 Panel One: Desiring Wealth

• Özlem Celik (TIAS): "From asset to commons? Class and alternative housing futures in rentier capitalism"
• Tuomas Tammisto (University of Tampere): "The bones of Sengletaun: Materializing and defining value in Pomio, Papua New Guinea”
• Tero Toivanen (BIOS research unit, University of Helsinki): “The ecological wealth of the far right”

11:30–13:00 Lunch break

13:00–14:50 Panel Two: The Wealth of Desire

• Matti Eräsaari (University of Helsinki): “Time as wealth”
• Péter Szigeti (TIAS): “Wealth and opposites: Market-creating and market denying rules in property law”
• Pieta Savinotko (University of Eastern Finland): “Reconfiguring relationships with material possessions”
• Xin Liu (TIAS): “In defence of the numbers: The labor of luck in China’s lottery economy”

14:50–15:10 Coffee

15:10–16:25 Keynote – Hanna Kuusela (University of Jyväskylä): “The super-rich and desire: Understanding the cultural underpinnings of today’s growing inequality”. The keynote will be streamed online on Zoom.

16:40–17:30 Round table discussion (all panelists)