Democracy and finance: An interdisciplinary conference. Graduate Institute Geneva, 16-17 February 2023. Carlo Edoardo Altamura and Seung Woo Kim are organizing a conference next year on the theme of democracy and finance. The conference, to be held at the Graduate Institute Geneva, wishes to investigate from an interdisciplinary perspective the …
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, vol. 23 no. 1 (2022). Edited by Lisa Adkins and Martijn Konings. With contributions from the editors, Michelle Chihara, Jane Elliott, Ute Tellmann, Amin Samman and more. From a certain angle, the claim that asset logics are a prominent aspect of our time could be …
Intersections of finance and society, 2022. City, University of London, 15-16 September. We are pleased to announce the keynote addresses for this year’s conference: Money has no value Samuel Chambers, Johns Hopkins University Finance/security infrastructures in historical perspective Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide …
Book launch – Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It City, University of London, 6 May 2022. CITYPERC will be hosting a public event to launch Alice Mah’s new book, Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We …
Intersections of finance and society, 2022. City, University of London, 15-16 September. After a two-year hiatus, we are delighted to announce that a 5th edition of the FSN conference will return to London in September this year. The call for papers is now open and can be found here. Events …
Bitcoin and stone money: Anglophone use of Yapese economic cultures, 1910-2020. Jo Walton. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and McKeon’s (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is …
Book launch – Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation City, University of London, 16 March 2022. CITYPERC will be hosting a public event to launch Liam Stanley’s new book, Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation (Manchester University Press, 2022). Stanley will be joined …
Ira Oscar Glick: At the crossroads of the sociologies of financial markets. Tom Duterme. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). This review essay looks at the plurality of research conducted today in the sociology of financial markets by examining a pioneering and little-known study – the PhD thesis of Ira Oscar Glick. …
Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 15 no. 1 (2022). Edited by Daniel Seabra Lopes, Ines Faria and Sandra Faustino. With contributions from the editors, Alexandre Abreu, Ismail Erturk, Steffen Dalsgaard and more. This special issue addresses a series of post-2008 financial developments by mobilising the concept of the tale, understood …
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is seeking a doctoral student in the field of private wealth research to join a project headed by Professor Jens Beckert. More information about the research topic can be found on the website of the Research Group on Wealth and …
