Money and violence.
Friends House, London, UK, 17 September 2026.
Christopher Harker and Sebastian Paredes Smith are organising a one-day conference on money and violence in London.
This one day, in-person only conference brings together scholars from across the social sciences to interrogate how monetary forms, institutions and imaginaries are implicated (or not) in various forms of violence including rotting, coercion, harm, and conflict. Relations between money and violence span war, debt/credit, everyday life, illicit and shadow economies, colonial and postcolonialisms, and the monetization of risk, punishment, and survival. The conference invites empirically grounded and theoretically informed papers that engage with money and violence across different geographical and historical contexts, including but not limited to warfare, policing, borders, development, financial markets, humanitarianism, and household economies. By fostering dialogue across anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, heterodox economics and related fields, the conference aims to chart the different ways in which money and violence are brought together empirically and analytically, outline what new relations are emerging and discuss what can be learnt through historical contextualisation and geographical comparison?
See the full call for papers here: cfp-money-violence-2026. Abstracts should be sent to christopher.harker@ucl.ac.uk and sebastian.smith.18@ucl.ac.uk by 28 May 2026.
The organisers also encourage attendance without presenting. This event is free and lunch is included, but attendance is limited and registration required. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/money-and-violence-tickets-1989050179631