We have a great list of financial geography related sessions at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Conference 2017 next week (29 August – 1 September), sponsored by the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). See you there!
- Platform Finance (1): Geographies of FinTech — Wednesday 30 August 2017, Session 1 (09:00 – 10:40), Skempton Building, Lecture Theatre 164
- Platform Finance (2): Placing Platform Capitalism — Wednesday 30 August 2017, Session 2 (11:10 – 12:50), Skempton Building, Lecture Theatre 164
- Mortgage markets and the financialization of home in the Global South — Thursday 31 August 2017, Session 2 (11:10 – 12:50), Sherfield/SALC Building, Room 2
- Financialisation in the Global South (1): Emerging Economies and Regions — Thursday 31 August 2017, Session 3 (14:40 – 16:20), Sherfield/SALC Building, Room 2
- Financialisation in the Global South (2): Low-Income Economies and Regions — Thursday 31 August 2017, Session 4 (16:50 – 18:30), Sherfield/SALC Building, Room 2
- Authors meet critics – Money and Finance after the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times (eds. Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon and Geoff Mann, Wiley, 2017) — Friday 01 September 2017, Session 3 (14:40 – 16:20), Sherfield/SALC Building, Room 6
- Locating the limits to financialisation — Friday 01 September 2017, Session 4 (16:50 – 18:30), RGS-IBG Lowther Room
Social event (organised by Amy Horton, Kelly Kay and Vincent Guermond): After the final session on Friday 1 September, people are gathering for informal drinks from 6.45pm onwards at the Hoop & Toy (https://goo.gl/maps/TvqB29w4UJv; about 10 minutes walk from the RGS).
Karen P.Y. Lai 