Finance and society conference 2025
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September
Organisers: Leonard Seabrooke, Olga Mikheeva, Amin Samman
Keynotes: Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle
Sponsors: Velux and Villum Foundations
Call for papers available here
All signals indicate that the global economy is entering a period of heightened conflict. Big Tech and the US state are on the rampage to further expand markets and oppose regulatory interventions on global taxation and trade. Algorithmic forms of valuation and thinking are being rolled out not only on our phones but across large swathes of public services. State and business relationships now combine long-term asset manager capitalism with short-term realpolitik. The sprouts of green central banking and industrial policy are being trimmed. Measures of social and environmental progress are being binned. Infrastructures for capital and data are being weaponized on every side. What does all this mean for finance and society?
This year’s conference invites contributions that aim to extend and deepen the field of finance and society studies. We welcome the submission of papers and panels, as well as less traditional formats. Contributions from beyond academia – from artists, activists, policymakers, or practitioners – have been integral to the success of previous conferences and are again warmly invited.
The conference is organised by Leonard Seabrooke, Olga Mikheeva, and Amin Samman, in association with the Finance and Society Network (FSN), the Organizations, Markets, and Governance (OMG) research group in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, and the Algorithms, Data, and Democracy (ADD) project supported by the Velux and Villum Foundations.
Keynotes
- Beyond embeddedness: New directions for the sociology of finance
Christian Borch, University of Copenhagen - Paranoid finance, magic technology, fascist imagination
Fabian Muniesa, Mines Paris – PSL - Golden secrets: Tax havens and the gold trade in the 20th and 21st century
Vanessa Ogle, Yale University
Organisers
Leonard Seabrooke is Professor in International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Olga Mikheeva is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Amin Samman is Reader in International Political Economy in the Department of International Politics at City St Georges, University of London, UK.