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

Registration for this year’s conference is now open. The selection of papers and panels is still ongoing and a full programme will be published once this process is complete, but if you would like to attend regardless, please register here.

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?