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Conference announcement: Financialisation and the financial crisis When: Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th October 2013 Where: Crowne Plaza Schiphol, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The five-year project Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development (FESSUD) receives € 7.9M funding from the E.U and the central issues addressed are the ways in which the growth and performance of economies in the last 30 years have been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; how has financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific economic, social, and environmental objectives?; the nature of the relationship between financialisation and the sustainability of the financial system, economic development and the environment?; the lessons to be drawn from the crisis about the nature and impacts of financialisation? ; what are the requisites of a financial system able to support a process of sustainable development, broadly conceived?’ This conference will address many of these issues. It will include sessions in which FESSUD researchers present and debate their research findings, key note speakers on financialisation and reforms of the financial system, and submitted papers. Keynote speakers include: Prof. Bob Jessop (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/profiles/bob-jessop ) Prof. Stephany Griffiths-Jones (http://stephanygj.net/) The conference sessions include: - Comparative analyses of the changing role of finance in economy and society - Theoretical advances on financialisation: an encompassing approach - Causes and consequences of the financial crisis: evaluations of the explanations - Finance, real economy and the State - Financialisation and well-being - Financialisation, environment and sustainability - Financial stability and macroeconomic policies Conference fee: 70 euros per day (210 euros for three days) to include lunch and refreshments (PhD students 50 euros per day) The views expressed during the execution of the FESSUD project, in whatever form and or by whatever medium, are the sole responsibility of the authors. The European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained thereinThis project is funded by the European Union under the 7th Research Framework programme (theme SSH) Grant Agreement nr 266800 Call for papers: We invite the submission of papers for presentation at the conference on the themes of the FESSUD project (for further information on that see www.fessud.eu<http://www.fessud.eu>): papers relating to the session topics indicated above particularly welcomed. Proposals with a 200 word abstract should be sent to the FESSUD office ([log in to unmask]) by June 17th 2013. Registration details will be available on the FESSUD web site from 10th May The FESSUD project (www.fessud.eu<http://www.fessud.eu>) is funded by the European Union under Framework Programme 7 (theme SSH) grant agreement no. 266800 Abstract of the FESSUD project The research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has unsurpassed experience of deploying diverse perspectives both within economics and across disciplines inclusive of economics. The programme is distinctively pluralistic, and aims to forge alliances across the social sciences, so as to understand how finance can better serve economic, social and environmental needs. The central issues addressed are the ways in which the growth and performance of economies in the last 30 years have been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; how has financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific economic, social, and environmental objectives?; the nature of the relationship between financialisation and the sustainability of the financial system, economic development and the environment?; the lessons to be drawn from the crisis about the nature and impacts of financialisation? ; what are the requisites of a financial system able to support a process of sustainable development, broadly conceived?’ Anders Lund Hansen, associate professor Department of Human Geography Lund University Sölvegatan 10, 223 62 Lund, Sweden phone +46 46 222 8762 http://lu.academia.edu/LundHansenAnders