FSN 2026: Keynotes announced

Finance and society conference 2026 Copenhagen Business School, 10-11 September. We are pleased to announce the keynote addresses for this year’s conference: Keynotes Acid or peak? Varieties of capitalism at the end of the world Susi Geiger, University College Dublin FinTech capital Paul Langley, Durham University The call for papers …

New book: Currency of nihilism

Currency of Nihilism. Amin Samman, Stanford University Press 2026. For customers outside the Americas, another code is provided for the Mare Nostrum Group-University Presses site. These codes do not expire. Download the promotional flyer: SUP flyer; MNG flyer Order from Stanford University Press (US) Order from Mare Nostrum Group-University Presses (Rest of the …

Symposium: Finance and ruination, Apr 2026

Finance and ruination: A symposium on critical finance, collapse and speculative futurity. University of Applied Arts Vienna, 23 April 2026. Colleagues at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures in Vienna are hosting a one-day symposium on the theme of finance and ruination. This symposium explores the entanglements of critical finance, …

CFP: Foundational issues in biodiversity finance, July 2026

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 …

FSN 2026: Call for papers open

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 …

PhD opportunity at Glasgow: Alternative finance for deep tech

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 …

CFP: Law, political economy, and the legal geography of money, June 2026

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 …

CFP: New mergers of feminism and finance, May 2026

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 …

Online launch and seminar: Redistributive imaginaries

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 …

Call for abstracts: Politics of payments, 7-9 Sep 2026

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 …