Colleagues at Goethe University Frankfurt are recruiting a PhD student to work on a funded research project (Financial Empire: China’s Construction of an Alternative Financial System). The successful applicant will work as part of a team that examines the transformation of global financial structures in the context of increasing geopolitical …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Javier Solana at the University of Glasgow is recruiting two 3-year postdocs for a research project on Civic Finance. The overarching objective of Civic Finance is to develop a complexity-informed theory of law and finance that can underpin the foundations of a civic financial system; in particular, a financial system that …
