Finance and society conference 2026.
Copenhagen Business School, 10-11 September.

The call for papers for this year’s conference will close on 1 May 2026.

What on earth is going on? The current conjuncture is marked by pervasive uncertainty, shifting temporal horizons, and growing concentrations of wealth and power. Asset managers are asserting their infrastructural dominance, private equity is trying to own whatever it can. The corporate rollout of LLMs is engulfing populations in AI slop and drone strikes. The tech bubble is transforming landscapes through the spread of gargantuan data centres hungry for energy. The hopeful still look to industrial policy for decarbonization and the green state for post-capitalist solutions. How can we understand finance and society amid this mix of moods and system-dynamics?

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:

Acid or peak? Varieties of capitalism at the end of the world
Susi Geiger, University College Dublin

FinTech capital
Paul Langley, Durham University

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