Finance & Trade

Few issues seem more relevant in today’s world than the discussion on democratic, social and ecological ways of transformation to create a good, sustainable and just world for all people on this unique planet and to save the ecological foundations of our lives.
These are reasons enough to meet for an international conference on “International Finance & World Trade: On the Way to a Democratic and Social-Ecological Transformation?” The conference will be an online event, hosted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna in the cosmopolitan city of Vienna on 28 and 29 September 2021.

The registration is now closed.

Please check out the finalised conference programme.. Registered participants are asked to check their email account for the general information email.

All the relevant data to take part in the Global Green New Deal discussion can be found on its webpage.

Hon. Prof. Supriya SinghHonorary Professor at RMIT University, Australia, & Sociologist of Money, Migration and Family

Keynote on "Money as a medium of care and abuse in international finance and COVID-19"

Author of "Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective" (2013)

Photo Credit: Breeana Dunbar

Prof. Dr. Ulrich BrandProfessor for International Politics at the University of Vienna, Austria

Keynote on "The Imperial Mode of Living: Approaches to a Social-Ecological Transformation"

Co-Author of "The Imperial Mode of Living" (2021, German original 2017)

Chairs the paper session on "Democracy, Society and Transformation"

Enrico Schicketanz, Mag.Doctoral Researcher on monetary systems at the University of Erfurt, Germany, & Conference Coordinator

Chairs the paper sessions on "Financial Governance and Money" & "Geopolitics and Development Finance"

Dr. Simone ClaarLeader of the Junior Research Group "Glocalpower", University of Kassel

Chairs the paper session on "Finance in Critical International Political Economy"

Dr. habil. Kai KoddenbrockLeader of the Junior Research Group "The political economy of monetary and economic sovereignty in West Africa compared", University of Bayreuth

Chairs the paper session on "Monetary and Economic Sovereignty in the Global South"

Nomaswazi MthombeniPhD Candidate, University of Witwatersrand & University of Kassel

Chairs the paper session on "Finance in Critical International Political Economy"

Paola D'Orazio, PhDResearch Assistant at the Chair of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University of Bochum

Chairs the paper session on "Social-ecological Finance"

Anil Shah, MAResearch Associate at the Department of Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel

Chairs the paper session on "Transforming Development and Post-Colonial Capitalism"

Prof. Dr. Gabriele SpilkerProfessor of Empirical Research Methods at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg

Chairs the paper session on "Global Trade Relations and social-ecological Change"

Dr. Werner RazaManaging Director of the Austrian Research Foundation for International Development

Chairs the political panel debate on Global (Green) New Deals

Richard Kozul-Wright, PhDDirector of UNCTAD’s Division on Globalization and Development Strategies

Camila Moreno, PhDResearcher on Global Biodiversity and Climate Governance, Humboldt University of Berlin, & Member of the Brazilian Grupo Carta de Belém