Negotiating Integrity: Playing by the book, rewriting the rules, fiddling and cheating

18th March 2014

Conference at Goldsmiths on April 4th on questions of integrity, rules fiddling and cheating. Featuring a keynote by Alex Preda, plus presentations on the manipulative strategies of financial analysts, spread betting odds manipulation, and algorithmic fakes. Registration deadline 21st March. Read More

6th Critical Finance Studies conference

14th March 2014

Call for papers for the 6th Critical Finance conference, due to take place in Amsterdam from 13-15 August. Deadline May 1st. Read More

Opening the Black Box of Financial Institutions

20th January 2014

Call for Papers for a mini conference at SASE, co-organised by Olivia Nicol and David Stark (deadline Feb 3rd) Read More

Domesticizing Financial Economies: Knitting Fibers of Transaction, Algorithm and Exchange

2nd December 2013

Call for papers for a mini-conference at SASE focusing on everyday encounters with monetary devices, commercial circuits, algorithms and financial assessment and exchange. Read More

Social History of Money and Credit

4th November 2013

Call for papers for workshop at Portland State University on “The Social History of Money and Credit” on May 22-24, 2014. Read More

MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives

14th October 2013

MoneyLab: a new site for researchers interested in digital experiments with revenue models and alternative payment forms and currencies Read More

Everyday Debt and Credit: Special Issue of Cultural Studies

26th September 2013

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cultural Studies exploring how debt and credit circulate through the everyday and the intimate. Edited by Gregory J. Seigworth and Joe Deville. Expressions of interest by February 2014. Read More

Postdoc investigating digital & peer to peer finance

9th August 2013

Full time post-doctoral position at Lancaster University investigating digital connectivity and peer-to-peer relationships in financial services Read More

An interview with Philip Mirowski

23rd July 2013

An interview with Philip Mirowski on Estudios de la Economía, including reflections on how Facebook teaches you to be a neoliberal agent and how the performativity programme ends up with sociologists recapitulating economists Read More

Sociology of financial markets PhD position

14th June 2013

A new PhD scholarship in the sociology of financial markets has just been announced at Copenhagen Business School Read More