Bill Maurer in Economic Anthropology, Volume 12, issue 1 ABSTRACT. Experiments in money often recapitulate long-standing human concerns over finality and fixity, despite money’s reference points in political authority, trust, and the memorialization of relationships of credit and debt. From
Save the Date! The Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI)@UCI, Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Social Anthropology (CIESAS Occidente) and the UCI Department of Anthropology present: Book Talk | Mariana Luzzi and Ariel Wilkis | The
Bill Maurer, anthropology, Payments Dive, Jan. 21, 2025 Artificial intelligence has already changed the payments landscape in ways the average consumer and business owner may not notice, but in 2025, the emerging technology might make itself more visible as we
January 29, 2025Wednesday,9:00am-11:00amPST (11:00am-1:00pmCST)Location: CIESAS Occidente (Av. España #1359, Col. Moderna), Guadalajara; Livestream link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1109730163969986This hybrid event will be held in Spanish, the recording with English subtitles will be uploaded to the CIESAS YouTube channel. Zoom (pre-registration required via email)Contact:
June 4, 2024Tuesday, 12:00-1:00pmPTLocation(Hybrid): Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) #3323Online Zoom registration: bit.ly/RattanUCI Introduced and moderated by Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UCI and Director, IMTFI About the talk:Contemporary politics in India present a puzzle: the last decade has led to
IMTFI Fellow Oludayo Tade, Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, shares his research published in Protest In the first week of February 2023, videos of two people who stripped naked in some banking halls located in Southern Nigeria went viral.
Bill Maurer, anthropology, Christian Science Monitor, April 15, 2024 For some people, physical currency is crucial for daily life. In 2021, the “unbanked” share of the population stood at 4.5% of U.S. households – nearly 6 million, according to the
By Claire Greene, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Apr. 8, 2024 At a living history museum in Massachusetts, you can visit a bank built in 1835. That bank has sturdy fluted pillars, a design element that has wordlessly spelled out
IMTFI and the UCI Department of Anthropology for a book talk: Data Money or Cryptocurrencies: Marco Polo Comes to the 21st Century with Koray Caliskan, Parsons School of Design, the New School Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, 12:00-1:00pmPTLocation (Hybrid Event): Social
By Melissa K. Wrapp and Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine In 2021, researchers from the University of California, Irvine partnered with the Filene Research Institute to study the role of financial institutions in our era of mis- and disinformation.
