The Financial Literacy Group aims to dissect, analyze, and comment on the diverse forms of writing (professional, popular and literary) that created the conventional wisdom challenged by the current financial crisis.
In addition to using established modes of publication, the Project is exploring new approaches to the dissemination of knowledge and research results. We have been cooperating with Open Book Publishers . . .
The Project is generating scholarly publication, starting with This Is Enlightenment, edited by Clifford Siskin and William Warner, and forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2010. . . .
The Project is collaborating with NYU’s Anglophone Project and France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in a two-year Research Seminar (2009-2011) . . .
The Project was awarded a NYU Humanities Initiative Working Research Group grant that connects scholars from the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science with colleagues . . .
The Project organizes a speakers series that has included Peter De Bolla on “The Architecture of Concepts: Parsing Human Rights" and William St Clair on "The Parthenon in the Age of Enlightenment."
Members of the Project have been forwarding its goals at a wide range of conferences. The 2009 Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia featured a division session on “This Is Enlightenment," as will the 2010 Conference in New Mexico of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. . . .
