Finance and society conference 2025.
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September.
The programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places available for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register 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?
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
Roundtables
- Financial infrastructures
- Barbara Brandl, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Juvaria Jaffri, Matthias Kranke, Eleni Tsingou, Carola Westermeier
- Re-assembling green finance scholarship
- Katharina Dittrich, Julius Kob, Niina Hakala, Clara McDonnell, Annika Stenström, Natascha van der Zwan
Panels
- Financial subjectivities I and II
- Asset stranding
- Business of finance
- Philosophy of finance
- Biodiversity finance
- International money and finance
- Fintech I and II
- Financial youth cultures
- Green finance I and II
- Finance and the state
- Risk and insurance
- Intangible assets
- Managing public debt
- Spaces of finance
- Everyday asset struggles
- Politics of central banking
- Financing technological hype
The conference is organised by Leonard Seabrooke, Amin Samman, and Olga Mikheeva, 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.