About this event

The Thirteen Annual Conference of the Critical Finance Studies Collective.

Building Back Better? Financing a Resilient, Sustainable and Inclusive Global Recovery.’

This conference – co-organised by the University of Leeds, Tilburg University and the University of York – is part of an ongoing project that seeks to engage with finance in critical and creative ways.

Shedding light on the limitations of current economic systems, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to demand the development critical financial insights, drawing from a range of disciplines – from economics to law, sociology, accounting, arts and culture, philosophy, and politics, to name a few.

Over a year into the global pandemic, international organizations and national governments have declared their intentions to ‘build back better’ from the unprecedented health, socioeconomic, and humanitarian crisis triggered by Covid-19, which has caused a multi-scalar global financial meltdown. Not only are populations being offered a recovery, but vision of a more equitable and sustainable post-pandemic world. This is unlikely to be simply a case of building a new consensus on how to govern or rebuild the global economy. As such, in a world dominated by the imperatives of financial accumulation, we might well ask: building back better for whom?

This year we are delighted to announce three keynote lectures from:

Professor Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi).

Professor Daniela Gabor (University of the West of England, Bristol).

Professor Brett Neilson (Western Sydney University).

Full programme available