Online book salon: Sociology and political economy of finance

New debates in the sociology and political economy of finance. LPE at Harvard Law School, 12 June 2023, 12.00–15.00 ET. The Law and Political Economy Programme at Harvard Law School is hosting an online book salon on new debates in the sociology and political economy of finance: Financial sociologists contribute …

New article: Infrastructural ambivalence in financial security

When transactions turn awry: Infrastructural ambivalence in financial security. Andreas Langenohl. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). This article conceptualizes financial transactions as parts of financial infrastructures. Not only do transactions perform services for the economy, mainly in the area of calculation and pricing, but there is also merit in a conceptually …

Just published: F&S vol. 9 no. 2

Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 2 (2023).   The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 2. The issue features a keynote article by Samuel Chambers on the theory and history of money. Research articles address the sociology of middle-class debt in Chile …

CITYPERC seminar: Financing climate futures

Financing climate futures: Six positions on climate finance. CITYPERC seminar, 25 May 2023, 17.00–18.30 GMT. The City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC) is hosting a seminar on politics of climate finance. Presenter: Gareth Bryant (University of Sydney) Discussant: Robert Kirsch (Arizona State University) International climate politics is dominated by ‘gap …

FSN 2023: Final call for papers

Intersections finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September.   The call for papers for this year’s FSN conference will close at the end of the month. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Daniela Gabor (UWE Bristol), Karen Lai (Durham University), and Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College). There will also …

Online event: Sociological perspectives on the bank failures of 2023

Sociological perspectives on the bank failures of 2023. Warren Center online event, 19 April 2023, 11.00–12.00 ET. The Charles Warren Center at Harvard and Just Money are hosting an online panel on the bank failures of 2023 from a sociological perspective: Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature …

New article: Figuring volatility

Figuring volatility. Ackbar Abbas. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). This article argues that there are parallels between developments in modern science and in art and culture, including the culture of finance, and that these developments can be tracked by a notion of volatility not just as change, but as how change …

Just published: F&S vol. 9 no. 1

Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 1 (2023).   The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 1. The issue features a keynote essay by Janet Roitman on platform economies beyond the North-South divide. Research articles address climate change central banking (Matthias Thiemann et …

FSN 2023: Conference CFP open

Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The FSN conference this year will take place in Brussels, Belgium. The call for papers is open and can be found here. With inflation and interest rates on the rise, the age of expansionary monetary policy is over. At …