Foundational issues in biodiversity finance. University of Groningen, 2 July 2026. Job de Grefte is organising a one-day workshop on biodiversity finance. As financial instruments and metrics are increasingly leveraged to govern biodiversity, urgent questions arise regarding their legitimacy, efficacy, and justice. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from …
Currency of Nihilism. Amin Samman, Stanford University Press 2026. For customers outside the Americas, this same code will also work on the Mare Nostrum Group-University Presses site. The code does not expire. Download the promotional flyer: Samman_Flyer20 Order from Stanford University Press (US) Order from Mare Nostrum Group-University Presses (Rest of the World)
Finance and society conference 2026. Copenhagen Business School, 10-11 September. We are delighted to announce that this year’s conference will again take place in Copenhagen. The call for papers is now open and keynotes will be announced shortly. A PDF version of the cfp can be found here. The application deadline …
Colleagues at the University of Glasgow are recruiting a PhD student to work on a funded research project (Exploring Alternative Finance for Impact-Driven Deep Tech Ventures). This project investigates whether alternative and social models of finance (such as impact investing, venture philanthropy, and blended finance) can be adapted to support …
Law, political economy, and the legal geography of money. Sciences Po Paris, 25-26 June 2026. Pieter-Augustijn Van Malleghem is organising an event at Sciences Po this June on the legal geography of money. In recent years, scholars have shown renewed interest in the geography of money and finance. While economic geography …
New mergers of feminism and finance. London School of Economics and Political Science, 8 May 2026. Rachel O’Neill and Simidele Dosekun are organising an event on feminism and finance. Looking across the contemporary media and cultural landscape, new ‘mergers’ of feminism and finance appear to be afoot. Across a variety of …
Redistributive imaginaries: Report launch and seminar. Online event, 18 March 2026, 12:00-13:30 CET. The University of Zurich is hosting an online launch and seminar for a new report on redistributive imaginaries: In Europe’s mixed economies of welfare, redistribution practices are dispersed through civil society. Voluntary organisations involved in the delivery …
Politics of payments: Theorizing the transformation of monetary orders. Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, 7-9 September 2026. Carolin Müller and Aaron Sahr are inviting submissions for a workshop in Hamburg on the politics of payments. They are also seeking applications for a related 4-week fellowship. Money is not merely …
Javier Solana at the University of Glasgow is recruiting two 3-year postdocs for a research project on Civic Finance. The overarching objective of Civic Finance is to develop a complexity-informed theory of law and finance that can underpin the foundations of a civic financial system; in particular, a financial system that …
Finance and democracy summer school. London School of Economics and Political Science, 4-5 June 2026. The LSE is hosting a summer school this June on finance and democracy, organised jointly by the Berkeley Program on Finance & Democracy, the Rhodes Center at Brown, and the European Institute and Huth Initiative …
