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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.
2022/08/06 Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?
We’re organizing a workshop on ‘Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?’ at the Development Studies...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read
WAIFC Young Academic Award
Young Academic Award, hosted by The World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) invites young academics to submit papers or...
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Mar 4, 20222 min read
Imperial College London | Climate Investment Challenge 2022 | Invitation to Apply
The Climate Investment Challenge, a worldwide pitch competition created at the Imperial College Business School. The aim of the...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read


2022/03/08 |Ludovico Rella| An ecology of Money Infrastructures
This paper proposes an investigation of blockchain technologies – understood as money infrastructures – from the point of view of the...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read


2022/04/12 |Manuel Wirth| Doing Good with Finance? Impact investing and Marketization of the Youth Homelessness in the UK
In this talk, I present findings from my dissertation in which I studied the implementation of a social policy tool called the Social...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read


7-10/06/2022 Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (Call for papers)
With financial geographies as one of the core themes of the forthcoming Global Conference on Economic Geography in Dublin (7-10 June...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read


FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2021
This year’s winners are… Ludovico Rella (Durham University) Money’s Infrastructures: Blockchain Technologies and the Ecologies of the...
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Jan 10, 20221 min read


2021/12/14 Monthly Drink Event (online) – Sabine Dörry (guest speaker)
Monthly Drink event is a one-hour event being hosted online by FinGeo . It brings together early career researchers and PhD students,...
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Dec 7, 20211 min read


2021/12/08 | FinGeo Annual General Meeting (AGM) Wed 8th Dec 2021
FinGeo’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be Wednesday 8th December 2021 at 12noon GMT (London) via Zoom, 12.00-13.30 GMT (07.00-08.30...
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Dec 6, 20211 min read


2021/11/25 Monthly Coffee/Tea Event (online) – Karen Lai (guest speaker)
Monthly coffee/tea event – is a one-hour event being hosted online by FinGeo . It brings together early career researchers and PhD...
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Nov 18, 20211 min read
2 x Post-Doctoral Researchers in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000, University of Oxford
Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 | The University of Oxford We are seeking two Post-Doctoral Researchers to join the team working...
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Nov 18, 20211 min read
2021/12/13 Financing Care: Labour Rights Amid New Models of Investment
13 December 2021 16.00-17.30 UK GMT (online) As care needs rise, models of financial investment in the social care sector are...
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Nov 16, 20211 min read


2021/11/19 Valuing the City Symposium
A full-day symposium on the occasion of the publication of Built Up: An Historical Perspective on the Contemporary Principles and...
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Nov 10, 20212 min read


2021/12/13 – Andrew Leyshon “Neoliberal Fairy Tales and Authoritarian Realpolitik: Regul
Register for free here This paper outlines the ways in which sovereign regulatory authorities are responding to the challenge of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read


2021/11/29 – Susan Soederberg “Governing Urban Displacements in Global Capitalism”
Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read


2021/11/15 – Radha Upadhyaya “Employing Capital: Patient Capital and Labour Relations in Kenya's Manufacturing Sector
Register for free here Generating decent employment plays a key role in the creation of a new social contract and social cohesion in...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read


2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securi
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read


2021/10/11 – Madeleine Fairbairn “Farmland investment, environmental uncertainty, and racialized dispossession on the US
Register for free here In recent years, financial institutions have evinced a growing demand for agricultural properties. This...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read


2021/09/27 – Rex A. McKenzie “Wealth Chain Property Investment in the hinterland – Evidence from the Merseyside area in the Northwest of England
Register for free here In this paper, we estimate and evaluate the scale and impact of wealth chain investment coming from offshore...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
21-23.09.2021 Lectures on Uncertainty, Space and Power: why geography matters in the political economy of finance
Click here for registration!
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Sep 2, 20211 min read
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