Critical macro-finance workshop. Goldsmiths, University of London, 9-10 September 2019. Warwick Critical Finance Group and Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre are co-organising a two-day workshop later this year to explore the seam between critical macro-finance and IPE. Instead of the standard panel and paper presentation format, the organisers are inviting …
State of power 2019: Finance. Transnational Institute Annual Report #8, January 2019. This year the TNI have devoted their annual report to the varied dimensions and dynamics of financial power, asking how popular movements might regain control over money and finance. The report features essays by leading activist-scholars on topics ranging …
Finance capital and the ghosts of empire: An interdisciplinary symposium. University of Sussex, 5-6 April 2019. Following a successful 2017 symposium at Goldsmiths, this upcoming two-day event will bring together artists, activists and scholars from a range of fields to revisit ‘colonial debts, extractive nostalgias, and imperial insolvencies’. The deadline for …
Financial models and society: Villains or scapegoats? Panel discussion recorded at FSN 2018 For those who missed it in Edinburgh, you can now listen to an audio recording of the session on Ekaterina Svetlova’s new book, Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats? (Edward Elgar, 2018). In addition to Ekaterina, the …
Accumulating capital: Strategies of profit and dispossessive policies. University of Paris Dauphine, 6-7 June 2019. Marlène Benquet and a group of colleagues are organizing a major two-day conference in Paris later this year and are inviting paper submissions that address the following themes: Accumulation and exploitation Accumulation and finance Accumulation …
The Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is inviting applications for postdocs in the following areas: Women and the Future of Work (Point of contact: Elizabeth Hill) Asset Ownership and the New Inequality (Point of contact: Martijn Konings) The deadline for applications is 29 January 2019. More information …
Pledge: An interdisciplinary workshop on the history and politics of a persistent security device. University of Marburg, 21-22 November 2019. Nina Boy and Christian Wenzel are organizing a two-day workshop next year and have issued a call for abstracts. The deadline for submissions is 15 February 2019. For more information, please see …
Finance and Society, vol. 4 no. 2 (2018). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 4, number 2. The issue includes research articles by Jacob Assa on the rhetoric of GDP and Reijer Hendrikse et al. on the embrace of FinTech by …
Futures of finance and society, 2018. University of Edinburgh, 6-7 December.
Money as a democratic medium. Harvard Law School, 14-15 December 2018. The full conference programme for this event has now been published and can be accessed here. Further information is available from the conference website. The conference is open to all students of money, the monetary system, and the modern economy, …
