a blog on the social studies of finance
[link to the job post at WBS’s site: University of Warwick Job Search: Research Fellow in OHRM (104809-1221) (wcn.co.uk)] We are seeking to recruit a PostDoctoral Research Fellow to work on a research project funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship scheme on the theme of “Financially redesigning the Anthropocene: Investigating tools, data, and practices […]
The Philosophy & Finance Network is hosting a terrific Zoom panel discussion of my book Taking the Floor. Four leading social scientists, Donald MacKenzie, Michael Barzelay, Katherine Chen, & Jose Ossandon, as well as my own sum-up of the book’s core message. Oct 13th, 4:00 PM UK time. https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83148274093 Two years after the book was […]
Register for the event HERE Ahead of the coming UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP26), this panel event is a call for social scientists and policy makers to take into account the social context in which climate risk modelling takes place. Since the Paris Agreement of 2015, policy makers have called on the financial sector to address climate change. Central bankers have responded […]
From Christian Borch Ten years ago this day, US markets opened to a palpable sense of unease. Investors were concerned about the ongoing Greek debt crisis, which grew from the global financial meltdown in 2008. At 2:32pm Eastern Daylight Time, what started as nervousness and hesitation collapsed into pure terror as US markets nosedived. In […]
Financial Work Futures Research Centre Seminar & Workshop “Dark Fun: The Cruelties of Hedonic Communities” Professor Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University Tuesday 11th June 2019, 12:30PM – 1:30PM Bush House (S) 3.01 Dear Colleague, Please join us for the next FinWork Futures Research Seminar, by Professor Gary Fine from Northwestern University. Lunch will be provided. […]
In the current context of financialization, automation and political turbulence, the Social Studies of Finance holds a unique potential to illuminate contemporary economic and societal challenges. The classic research of MacKenzie, Callon, Knorr Cetina, Preda and Zaloom revealed the hidden relationships between the technical and the economic on Wall Street, but this work now needs to […]
From Rita Samiolo Financial Work Futures Research Centre Seminar: “The Social Structure of Algorithmic Trading” Professor Christian Borch, Copenhagen Business School Wednesday 12th June 2019, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Bush House (S) 3.01 Dear colleague, Please join us for the next FinWork Futures Research Seminar, by Professor Christian Borch from Copenhagen Business School. It will take place […]
With its central London location, unique research culture, and scholars like Paula Jarzabkowski, Hugh Wilmott, Jean-Pascal Gold, Andre Spicer or myself (Daniel Beunza) the PhD program at Cass Business School offers a unique opportunity to join the Social Studies of Finance community at one of Europe’s leading business schools. With its young, international, and highly […]
If you are attending this summer’s Academy of Management Conference in Chicago, here’s three events that I have organized, and which explore topics on finance within organization theory. Financial crisis First, a symposium titled “Organizational Lessons, One Decade After the Financial Crisis.” The year 2018 marks the one-decade anniversary of the global financial crisis. In […]
Futures of finance and society, 2018 University of Edinburgh, 6-7 December Organisers: Nathan Coombs, Tod Van Gunten Keynotes: Donald MacKenzie, Annelise Riles, Gillian Tett Sponsors: Edinburgh Futures Institute/University of Edinburgh Call for papers available here Ten years on from the global financial crisis, the settlement between finance and society remains ambiguous. Regulation has been…