Lunchtime Seminar - Empathy and Justice in the Era of the Financial Crisis

Dr Tammy Amiel Houser Senior Lecturer, the Department of Literature, Language & the Arts, The Open University of Israel and Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College

Date 22/05/2019 at 12.00 - 22/05/2019 at 13.00 Where Combination Room, Wolfson College

This talk joins the ongoing debate about the relationship between empathy and justice, by examiningthe neoliberal mobilization of empathy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

The talk focuses on a specific case study: the 2009 criminal trial ofRalph Ciofﬁ and Matthew Tannin, two Wall Street executives charged with conspiracy and fraud after their hedge fund collapsed. It analyzes the entanglement between the discourse of empathy and the neoliberal imaginary and its effect on this trial.

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