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News & Opportunities
Welcome to FinGeo’s News & Opportunities — your hub for the latest updates, calls for papers, job openings, and event highlights in financial geography. Please stay connected with our global community, explore new opportunities, and keep up with the evolving intersections of finance and space.


Call for Submissions: 2026 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize
(Deadline: 30 September 2026) ๐๐๐We are delighted to open submissions for the 2026 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize, celebrating outstanding early-career research at the intersection of finance and space. If your dissertation makes a compelling contribution to financial geography, we would love to hear from you. ๐๐๐Eligibility: Dissertations completed between 1 January 2025 and 31 March 2026 are eligible. We welcome submissions from any discipline, provided they centr
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Aug 211 min read
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8th FinGeo International Seminar: Contemporary Advances in Financial Geography
2โ3 February 2026 University of Bologna (Italy) Palazzo Marescotti โ Via Barberie 4, Bologna The 8th FinGeo International Seminar brings together international scholars, researchers, practitioners, and institutional representatives to explore contemporary advances in financial geography in a high-level, welcoming academic environment. Hosted by the University of Bologna , in collaboration with the Department of Management , the Regional Studies Association , the journal Fin
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Jan 281 min read
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FinGeo blog article series: Teaching Financial Geography in Higher Education.
This FinGeo blog article series is dedicated to the teaching of financial geography in higher education. Whilst research in financial geography has advanced considerably in recent years, there has been comparatively little discussion about how it is taught in higher education. This series contributes to this end by bringing together reflections from three teaching-active academics on their experiences in the classroom. Dr Araby Smyth of Mount Allison University reflects on t
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Jan 121 min read
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4th FinGeo School, University of Bologna (Italy)
The 4th FinGeo School will be held at University of Bologna (Italy) from the 30st January to 1st February 2026. We welcome all scholars, policymakers, professionals, and practitioners, early, mid, and senior, interested in advances in financial geography in a high-quality, scientific, enriching, and friendly environment. FinGeo school targets early-career researchers (Post-Grad, PhD students, Post-docs, etc.), but it is open to anyone interested. This edition will focus on in
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Oct 26, 20252 min read
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๐ฃ 8th FinGeo Seminar (2 - 3 February 2026, University of Bologna, Italy) - call for abstracts for short presentations open
The FinGeo Seminar aims at debating advances in financial geography within the following broad nexuses: (1) Geography, Finance, Development & Social Businesses (2) Geography, Finance & Environmental and Social Sustainability (3) Geography, Finance & Technology advances We will discuss, among others, FinTech, AI-finance nexus, sustainable finance, biofinance, climate finance, finance for social business, relational credit, philanthropy, development finance from different persp
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
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2025 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize Winner: Dr. Andra Sonea
The FinGeo Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 2025 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr Andra Sonea , from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, for her outstanding thesis, โ Everyday Banking, a Critical National Infrastructure in Transition: The Case of Access to Banking in the UK. โ Andra Sonea has recently completed her PhD in Urban Science at the University of Warwick. Currently a postdoctoral resear
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Oct 22, 20251 min read
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The Second Global Financial Geography (FinGeo) Conference and the Third FinGeo School
Last February, the National University of Singapore hosted two significant events in financial geography that brought together scholars...
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Jul 13, 20251 min read
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CfP - Special Issue on The UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation: Negotiating an End to Tax Injustice? (Finance & Space)
Special Issue Editor(s) Daniel Haberly, University of Sussex, UK Alex Cobham, Tax Justice Network, UK Miroslav Palanskรฝ, Tax Justice...
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Jul 13, 20253 min read
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๐ข Call for Submissions: 2025 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize
The FinGeo Network is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for the 2025 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize . We invite recent...
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Jul 13, 20251 min read
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๐ Global Research Forum: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Finance
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Second Global Financial Geography (FinGeo) Conference and the Third FinGeo School , organized by...
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Jul 13, 20251 min read
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๐ 2024 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize Winner!ย ๐
FinGeo is delighted to announce that the 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Imogen Liu for her exceptional...
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Oct 4, 20241 min read
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"Mapping the Global Story of Money" Book Talk and Signing
๐ฃ Join Us for an Exciting Evening! ๐ Explore the intricate world of global finance with renowned authors Dariusz Wรณjcik and James...
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Aug 25, 20241 min read
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Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)
โจ Save the Date! โจ The FinGeo Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) is scheduled for ๐
Thursday, 3rd October 2024 ๐
at: ๐ 12pm UTC...
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Jul 25, 20241 min read
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2nd Financial Geography (FinGeo) Global Conference
๐ Announcing the Second Financial Geography (FinGeo) Global Conference! ๐
Dates: FinGeo School for Early Career Scholars: 24-25...
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Jun 4, 20241 min read
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2024June - FinGeo Online Book Talk Series
๐ข FinGeo Online Book Talk Series Title: Disrupting the Speculative City: Property, Power, and Community Resistance in London Speakers:...
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May 28, 20241 min read
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Call for Submissions: 2024 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize
๐ Exciting Opportunity ๐ We are now inviting submissions for the 2024 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize. ๐ To be eligible,...
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May 20, 20241 min read
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Save the Date: Join Us for the FinGeo Annual General Meeting 2024!
We are pleased to announce the date of the next FinGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM). Date: Tuesday 7th May 2024 Time: 13:00-14:00...
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Mar 7, 20241 min read
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Book Talk on 15 March 2024, 3pm-4pm (CET) - The Urban Empire of Finance: Power and Inequalities in Asset Management Capitalism
๐ The Urban Empire of Finance: Power and Inequalities in Asset Management Capitalism ๐๏ธ Date & Time: Friday, 15 March 2024, 3pm-4pm...
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Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024
๐๐ข Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024 Session Title: Knowledge Creation in Finance Organizer: Dr. Stefanos Ioannou,...
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Feb 5, 20241 min read
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Call for submissions 23 February 2024 - Session proposal for the RGS-IBG Conference, London, 27-30 August 2024
๐ Attention FINGEO Members! Immerse yourself in the world of financial visualization at the RGS-IBG Conference in London, Aug 27-30,...
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Feb 5, 20241 min read
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