Book Launch: The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructures 

This online event launches the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, edited by Carola Westermeier (Max Planck Institute), Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (UG), and Barbara Brandl (Goethe-University Frankfurt).

This event will be of interest to anyone curious about how (digital) finance has become so core global society. It is an open event that showcases collaborative interdisciplinary research on how (a) infrastructures generally and (b) finance specifically have become crucial to societies around the world, and indeed to our globalized and increasingly digital society. Both practitioner and scholarly perspectives will be presented.  

Programme

1. Overview of the handbook (45 min)
   a. editorial introduction
   b. book contributors: 
   Edemilson Paraná, "AI as Financial Infrastructure"
   Roxana Ehlke, "Alternative Financial Infrastructures in Russia" 

2. Reflections on the book & further applications of "infrastructural gazing" (45 min): 
   a. Stephen Fallon (DMB Consulting, University of Cambridge)
   b. Gabriel Söderberg (Uppsala University, Sweden, Faculty of Economic History) 
   c. Kritika Saxena (University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics) (15min)

3. Discussion (30 min) 
   Responses by handbook editor & contributors
   Q&A

This event is co-organised by University of Groningen’s inter-faculty, transdisciplinary schools: Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, and its Data Autonomy as well as Digital Literacy & Inclusion theme groups, Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development, and its MacroFinance, Sustainability, and Ethics Research Group.