The University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, together with the Department of Banking, Finance and Accounting of the University of Warsaw organised an International Scientific Conference on “Financialization – impact on the economy and society”, which will was held on 4-5 December 2015 in Rzeszów, Poland.
The aim of the conference was to present the problem of financialization and initiate discussion on the subject, to develop the Polish definition of financialisation, define strategic research directions and to promote international studies on the subject. The organiser intended to integrate the various points of view from academia dealing with this issue. Room was made for interdisciplinary discussions, as the conference was addressed to representatives of both socio-economic sciences and the humanities.
The inaugural lecture “Financialization – a multidisciplinary approach” was delivered by prof. Jan Toporowski from SOAS, University of London, FESSUD’s leader of Work Package 6.
Other members of the FESSUD project were actively involved in this high-level conference as part of the Conference’s Programme Committee:
- Prof. Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (coordinator of the FESSUD project)
- Prof. Krzysztof Opolski, University of Warsaw, Poland – President of the Program Committee (member of the FESSUD Stakeholder Group),
- Prof. Trevor Evans, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin (Senior project partner),
- Prof. Hansjörg Herr, Berlin School of Economics, Germany (Senior project partner),
- Prof. Alessandro Vercelli, University of Siena, Italy (Work Package 7 leader),
- Prof. Alfred Janc, Poznań University of Economics, Poland (Senior project partner),
- Prof. Krzysztof Jajuga, Wrocław University of Economics, Poland (Scientific Advisory Committee member)
To consult the agenda of the agenda, please click here.
To visit the conference webpage, please click here.
