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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.
The pandemic city (by Martin Sokol)
The Covid-19 pandemic has reignited debates about the future of cities. Optimists hope that – in response to the pandemic – our cities...
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Apr 15, 20213 min read
International Review of Financial Analysis Special Issue: Globally sustainable banking & finance in support of evidence-based policy making
We are delighted to invite you to submit towards our conference and a special issue in International Review of Financial Analysis (1st of...
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Apr 7, 20217 min read
Two PhD positions – Research Group “The political economy of monetary and economic sovereignty in West Africa compared"
Two Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d) in the Junior Research Group ‘The political economy of monetary and economic sovereignty in West Africa...
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Apr 6, 20213 min read
21/04/2021 The ‘Strong Leader’ Trap: The Unintended Consequence of China’s Global Investment Strategy
21 April 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm (Singapore Standard Time). Register via Zoom : https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-vrToqGNw...
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Mar 26, 20211 min read
2021/03/30 – Raquel Rolnik: Post 2008 financialized housing geographies: from above, from below
On the 30th March 2021, 13h-14h BST , Raquel Rolnik (University of Sao Paulo) will present to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series....
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
Capital flows and geographically uneven economic dynamics: a monetary perspective (by Karsten Kohler)
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has led to a renewed interest in finance, financial instability, and financialisation among...
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Mar 9, 20212 min read
Fintech, Philanthropy and Development: Emerging Issues with Digital Inclusion (by Juvaria Jafri)
Among the features of a global agenda centred on a finance-philanthropy-development nexus is a collaborative approach to advancing...
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Mar 9, 20213 min read
2021/03/16 – Vincent Guermond: Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of M
On the 16th March 2021, Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway) presented to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. His talk was entitled :...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
CfP – 2021 RSA Regions in Recovery e-festival (special session) – FINancial GEOgraphies
FinGeo will be hosting a special session (SS34 FINGEO) at the 2021 RSA regions in Recovery e-festival (2-18 June 2021) and invite...
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Feb 23, 20212 min read
Chinese State-owned bank expansion into Europe: Bank branches and subsidiaries (by Paolo Balmas and Sabine Dörry
– Paolo Balmas and Sabine Dörry – China’s global ambitions are being expressed, among others, by its huge infrastructure project ‘Belt...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
2021/02/16 – Vladimír Pažitka (Oxford): Financial centres in investment banking networks: insi
Vladimír Pažitka started working at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, as a research assistant in May...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
The bridging role of Hong Kong for Chinese firms’ integrating into global financial networks (by Cheng Fang and Fenghua Pan)
— Cheng Fang and Fenghua Pan — The recent social unrest in Hong Kong, which began in 2019, has reignited debates about Hong Kong’s future...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
2021/02/02 – Shaina Potts (UCLA, USA): Debt in the time of Covid
On the 2nd Feb 2021 Dr. Shaina Potts of UCLA presented the first ever FINGEO virtual seminar, entitled “Debt in the time of Covid”, the...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
2021 FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series 1 (Feb – Mar)
Please register on the RSA website: https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/fingeo-2021/ Coming up in 2021: FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series ...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
11x research positions “Practicing Place” – Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt [Deadline: 10 Dec 2020]
The Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is seeking to fill an overall of eleven researcher positions – ten part-time positions (75%)...
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Nov 12, 20201 min read
Call for Papers – Warwick Critical Finance: Manuscript development workshop 2.0
Call for Papers – Warwick Critical Finance: Manuscript development workshop 2.0 For Early Career Researchers, writing and publishing...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
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2x Research Associate in Finance and Geography – Oxford University [Deadline: 2 Dec 2020]
Oxford University is seeking to appoint two Research Associates to work on the project ‘Cities in Global Financial Networks: Financial...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM: FLOWS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY (KU Leuven)
OPEN-RANK (I.A. TT ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE OR FULL) PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM: FLOWS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY KU Leuven, the University of...
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Nov 9, 20201 min read
2020/11/25-26 — “Evolving Geographies of FinTech” (FinGeo online workshop)
Full programme here Registration here The workshop will take place online via Zoom. Please register via the link above by 23rd November...
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Nov 9, 20204 min read
Money and Borders (by Mariana Santos and David Bassens)
– Mariana Santos and David Bassens – The constitutive importance of space to money and financial relations and practices has been widely...
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Oct 28, 20201 min read
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