FSN conference: Call for papers open

Futures of finance and society, 2018. University of Edinburgh, 6-7 December. The call for papers for this year’s FSN conference in Edinburgh remains open until 1 September 2018, and we are looking forward to receiving innovative paper and panel abstracts from across the full spectrum of ‘finance and society’ studies. …

CFP: From Fintech to Insurtech in China and the US

From Fintech to Insurtech in China and the US: Consumer-facing financial innovation and economic change. University of California Irvine, 28-29 September 2018. Professors Bill Maurer and Xian Xu are organizing a conference later this year as part of the 2018 California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogues. The deadline for abstracts is 6 July. More information is available …

Annual conference: Keynote speakers announced

Futures of finance and society, 2018. University of Edinburgh, 6-7 December. We are delighted to announce three confirmed keynote addresses for this year’s FSN conference in Edinburgh. A fourth will be announced shortly.   Finance studies twenty years after Callon Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh Financial citizenship: Experts, publics, and the …

Annual conference CFP: ‘Futures of finance and society’

Futures of finance and society, 2018. University of Edinburgh, 6-7 December. We are very pleased to announce that this year’s FSN conference will take place in December at the University of Edinburgh, on the theme ‘Futures of finance and society‘. The event will be organised by Nathan Coombs and Tod Van Gunten, …

Walking tour: Navigating finance and the imagination

Navigating finance and the imagination: A collaborative theoretical walking tour City of London/UCL, 14 April 2018. Max Haiven and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou are organising an unusual event later this year, with support from University College London and the Reimagining Value Action Lab. The deadline for applications is 28 February, so you’d better …

Workshop: Exploring the cashless society

Exploring the cashless society: Money, security, technology, value(s). Peace Research Institute Oslo, 12-13 February. We are supporting a closed workshop later this month in Oslo, organised by Nina Boy and funded by the Nordic Centre for Security Technologies and Societal Values (NordSTEVA), in association with the SOURCE Societal Security Network …

Upcoming conference: ‘Futures of finance and society’

We are pleased to announce that FSN is planning to co-sponsor a major conference later this year on the theme ‘Futures of finance and society’. The event is expected to take place in the UK during early December 2018. More details to follow soon.