Just published: F&S vol. 7 no. 2

Finance and Society, vol. 7 no. 2 (2021).   The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 7, number 2. The issue includes research articles by Christopher Gibson on the financialisation of public water and Daniel Souleles on alienation amongst option traders, as well …

PhD positions at JLU Giessen

Two PhD positions have been announced by the Collaborative Research Centre at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) on the “Dynamics of Security”. The posts are aimed at scholars working in the field of Security Studies and/or the Social Studies of Finance: The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 138 “Dynamics of Security …

Postdoc at WBS: Financially redesigning the Anthropocene

Warwick Business School is inviting applications for a postdoctoral research fellow on a project led by Katharina Dittrich, entitled “Financially redesigning the Anthropocene: Investigating tools, data, and practices for climate risks and targets”. Capital allocation is a powerful way of distributing agency – both diverting and directing it. The consequences …

CFP: Financial infrastructures, July 2022

Financial infrastructures: From colonial trajectories to global digital transformations. University of Amsterdam/SASE 2022, 9-11 July 2022 Barbara Brandl, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, and Carola Westermeier are organizing a mini-conference in Amsterdam next year as part of SASE 2022. The growing concern of social scientists and the general public regarding the impacts of …

Postdoc opportunities at Max Planck

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions in the following areas: Political Economy (Professor Lucio Baccaro) ƒEconomic Sociology (Professor Jens Beckert) Posts are expected to start on 1 October 2022. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2022. More information available here.

CFP: Digitalisation and alternative monetary and financial spaces, 2022

Digitalisation and creation of alternative monetary and financial spaces. Université Grenoble Alpes, 9-10 June 2022. Researchers from Université Grenoble Alpes, Université de Genève and Université de Lausanne are organising a workshop on the theme of digitalisation and monetary-financial alternatives: This two-day workshop proposes an exploration of the intersection between digitalisation …