Finance and society conference 2026.
Copenhagen Business School, 10-11 September.
The programme for this year’s conference is now available here: finandsoc-2026-prog. There are limited places available for those not on the programme who wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here as soon as possible.
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?
Keynotes
- Acid or peak? Varieties of capitalism at the end of the world
Susi Geiger, University College Dublin - FinTech capital
Paul Langley, Durham University
Roundtables
- Currency of Nihilism
- Amin Samman, Christian De Cock, Adam Hayes, Mark Howard, Signe Leth Gammelgaard
- The Player and the Played
- Max Haiven, Marijam Did, Joyce Goggin, Teresa Heffernan, Miguel Sicart
Panels
- Venture capital
- Prediction markets I and II
- Democratic finance
- Housing and everyday finance
- Finance and AI
- Finance and the social
- Caveat creditor
- Green finance I and II
- Financing technological hype
- Histories of finance
- Finance and education
- Financial infrastructures
- IPE of financial infrastructures
- Financial subjectivities
- Finance and the state
- From ideas to financial practices
- Assets and assetization
- Offshore finance
- Politics of digital finance
- Apocalyptic finance
- Financial power
The conference is organised by Rosie Collington, Noya Kohavi, Amin Samman, and Leonard Seabrooke, in association with the Finance and Society Network (FSN) and the Organizations, Markets, and Governance (OMG) research group in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School.