Finance and society conference 2025.
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September.

The call for papers for this year’s conference will close on 1 May 2025.

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?

As in previous years, we encourage innovative paper and panel proposals from across the full spectrum of ‘finance and society’ studies. The conference will include the following keynotes addresses:

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

Further guidelines and a more detailed list of proposed topics can be found in the call for papers and on the event webpage.