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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.
Three research associates (PhD or Postdoc) in the field of climate change and global finance, Witten/Herdecke University
Witten/Herdecke University, which was founded in 1982, is Germany’s first privately funded university. At present, it has a staff of more...
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Jul 24, 20221 min read
FinGeo Travel Bursaries awarded
Congratulate the FinGeo Travel Bursaries winners! Jing Chu, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Durham University “The Variegated and...
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Jun 6, 20221 min read
2022/05/17 FinGeo / AAG webinar – Building Impact and Engagement into Your Early Academic Care
In this webinar, we will hear from economic and financial geographers who have been building engagement and impact into their research...
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May 11, 20223 min read
2022/05/10 |Alicia Giron| Geographies of Chinese Financial Flows in Africa
The objective of this research is to deepen the relationship between Chinese creditors and companies with African states. The hypothesis...
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Apr 12, 20222 min read
2022/04/26 – |Leigh Johnson| The Ironies of Disaster Sovereign Disaster Risk Financing for African States amidst Covid-19 and a Changing Climate
Amidst budget distress and fiscal austerity, African states face perennial barriers to accessing post-disaster public finance for...
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Apr 12, 20222 min read
FinGeo Bursaries to attendees of the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography – Apply by 25
FinGeo is providing a small number of bursaries (typically GBP £300-£400 each) to attendees of the 6th Global Conference on Economic...
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Apr 7, 20221 min read
2022/04/05 |Rachel N. Weber| Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic
5th April 2022, 17.30 BST, 18.30 CEST – Financial astrology: Real estate speculation during a pandemic How can an unforeseen crisis like...
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Mar 30, 20222 min read
2022/04/04 | FinGeo ECR Monthly Coffee meeting – guest speaker | Dariusz Wójcik |
FinGeo Early Career Researchers monthly coffee meeting: Mon 4th April (4 pm BST, London) The ECR Monthly coffee meeting is a one-hour...
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Mar 28, 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
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
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
2021/11/19 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
2021/09/27 – 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
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