Workshop Schedule
Day 1 – THURSDAY, May 22, 2025
Room: 25.1-035
12:00–13:15 — Lunch & Coffee, Cake
13:15–13:30 — Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ali Riza Taskale (Roskilde University)
13:30–14:45 — Panel 1: Narrative Machines & Counter-Stories
Moderator: Ali Riza Taskale
- Anne Mette Thorhauge (University of Copenhagen)
Fictive and factual finance in the context of digital games
- Max Haiven (Lakehead University)
Escape velocities: From corporate storytelling to fascist worldbuilding
- Gabriel Burrow (Birkbeck, University of London)
Writing counter-speculation
14:45–15:00 — Coffee Break
15:00–16:00 — Panel 2: Myths, Monsters, and Extractive Worlds
Moderator: Max Haiven
- Daniela Pessoa de Goes Calmon (ISS Netherlands)
Investor stories, activist counter-stories, and fictional storytelling in Brazil’s resource frontiers
- Alf Jørgen Schnell (University of Oslo)
Petronoia, or the (geo)political unconscious of a small extractive economy
Workshop Schedule
Day 2 – FRIDAY, May 23, 2025
Room: 25.2-005
09:30–10:30 — Keynote: Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside)
Speculative rationalities: Everyday life as fabulation
Moderator: Ali Riza Taskale
10:30–10:45 — Coffee Break
10:45–12:00 — Panel 3: Aesthetics of Financial Speculation
Moderator: Max Haiven
- Lola Alaska (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Rainbows in web3: The scam aesthetics of queer assets
- Alasdair King (Queen Mary, University of London)
Carnival of financial souls: Yella, speculation and spectrality
- Luise Li Norman Langergaard & Susanne Ekman (Roskilde University)
Daily practices, desire, and the liminal power of non-duality as immunity to domination
12:00–13:00 — Lunch (Provided)
13:00–14:15 — Panel 4: Modeling Futures: Crisis, Fiction, and Finance
Moderator: Sherryl Vint
- Andreas Kanaris Miyashiro (University of Warwick)
Caught up in the plot: Lehman Brothers, speculative fictions, and financial modelling
- Ekaterina Svetlova (University of Twente)
Speculative fiction and AI in finance
- Sofie Anker-Møller Damgaard (NTNU)
The economy of the storm: On KSR’s New York 2140
- 14:15–14:30 — Coffee Break
14:30–15:45 — Panel 5: Global Speculations and Institutional Myths
Moderator: Ali Riza Taskale
- Tamar Nir (University of Warwick)
Speculative futures: Governing higher education through financial narratives
- Sara Bencekovic (University of Luxembourg)
Financial centres between fictitious capital and capital fictions
- Tianren Luo (Brown University)
Finance fiction beyond the fictionality of finance: African finance sci-fi and the ecologies of market
15:45–16:00 — Coffee Break
16:00–16:45 — Closing Session & Discussion on Possible Special Issue
Facilitated by Ali Riza Taskale
Open discussion for all participants