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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.
2019/05/15 – Sao Paolo, Brazil – FinGeo’s 6th Global Seminar – Geography, Finance
FinGeo’s 6th Global Seminar – Geography, Finance and Uneven Development, São Paulo, Brazil Place: Sao Paulo, Brazil Venue: University...
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Dec 18, 20181 min read
2019/01/08 – Brussels, Belgium – European Commission Conference on “Promoting Sustainable Finance”
EC Conference on “Promoting Sustainable Finance” January 8-9, 2019 – Brussels CALL FOR PAPERS The Technical Expert Group (TEG) on...
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Nov 14, 20184 min read
Building Financial Resilience: Migrant Economies of Charitable Giving
– Al James, Kavita Datta, Jane Pollard and Quman Akli – A decade on from the financial crisis, and despite some initial murmurings about...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
Does spatial concentration of the Russian banking sector hinder lending to peripheral regions and SM
– Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura – For Russia, the geographical unevenness in the financial development is obvious. There are marked...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
Reversing neoliberal subjectification. Practicing collective dis-identification and putting life in common.
– Cesare Di Feliciantonio – In the last decades homeownership has been increasingly promoted by policy-makers, buying a house seen as an...
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Nov 14, 20182 min read
3rd-6th/09/2019 – 2nd Annual Conference of the The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance
The Conference Committee are seeking 40 high quality papers for the conference with each paper having a 30-minute speaking slot. Papers...
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Nov 10, 20181 min read
2019/04 – Washington, DC – Paper Sessions Annual Meeting of the American Association of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)
Paper session proposal for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)–Washington D.C., April, 2019 Session...
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Oct 16, 20188 min read
Algorithms and the Anthropocene – Finance, Sustainability and the Promise and Hazards of New Financial Technologies
– Thomas Skou Grindsted – Since the global financial crises (2007-2009), we have experienced one big crash with a temporality of years...
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Oct 8, 20182 min read
International Financial Centres After the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit
– Dariusz Wójcik – It has been ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers unleashed panic in financial markets, marking the eruption...
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Sep 24, 20185 min read
Financial integration in Europe, a geographer’s perspective
– Michiel van Meeteren – One thing which has increasingly bugged me since I started researching EU financial integration is how...
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Jul 12, 20184 min read
Impact investing in Pakistan: The role of private debt and shadow banking in financing development
– Juvaria Jafri – Philanthrocapitalism rests on the notion that philanthropy can be more successful when it is more like business. This...
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Jul 12, 20183 min read
Communications Officer and Executive Committee Member – Global Network on Financial Geography
We are looking for a volunteer to join FinGeo team! The Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) is an open and interdisciplinary...
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May 16, 20182 min read
Philanthro-capitalism, social enterprises, and global development
– Dennis Stolz and Karen P.Y. Lai – While the 2008 global financial crisis created financial meltdown as well as socio-economic crisis of...
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Mar 28, 20182 min read
2018/09/3 – 2018/09/4 – Coventry, UK – “Selling (critical) finance”: Getting your work published
“Selling (critical) finance”: Getting your work To be held on 3rd – 4th of September 2018 at the University of Warwick Agenda For Early...
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Mar 28, 20182 min read
2018/07/24 – Cologne, Germany – Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Global Network on Financial Geography
The FinGeo Executive Committee is delighted to invite all current and prospective FinGeo members to the 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM)...
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Mar 12, 20181 min read
Creating institutional power in financialised economies: The firm-profession nexus of advanced business services
– Sabine Dörry – Despite major crises, financial capitalism is enjoying a period of relative stability. Financial powers – underpinned by...
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Mar 9, 20183 min read
Financialising the State: Recent developments in fiscal and monetary policy
– Ewa Karwowski, Marcos Centurion-Vicencio – The financialisation of the state is widely assumed but rarely analysed in detail. After...
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Feb 6, 20183 min read
The geographies of financial activities within an emerging international financial center: the case
– Fenghua Pan, Sarah Hall, Hua Zhang – Despite Beijing being the well-known political center of China, its reputation as an international...
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Jan 13, 20181 min read
PhD Candidate – The Geography of Corporate Financialization – Leuven, Belgium
The Division of Geography & Tourism at KU Leuven (Belgium) is looking for a full-time PhD candidate for 4 years. Together with a...
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Dec 11, 20173 min read
2018/05/30 – 2018/06/02 – Brussels, Belgium – 1st FinGeo Spring School
First FINGEO Spring School 30 May – 2 June 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium *** Local Organizers: Manuel Aalbers (KU...
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Nov 24, 20174 min read
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