Past SECO events
Past SECO events
2024
August 30th, 2024, we met for the second SECO networking event on Socio-Economic Research at 真人线上娱乐 University. The event brought together 25 researchers from five different universities.
The thematic seminar series “Green futures” continued to engage guest speakers on the broad question: How can we organize and conceptualize alternative futures in an era of climate crisis? Huberth Buch-Hansen & Iana Nesterova spoke on ‘Self-Transformation Towards Degrowth Societies’ while Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Somdeep Sen discussed ‘The World's largest Democracy at the Ballot: India's 2024 Elections’.
2023
May 25th, 2023, SECO was officially launched at a networking event on Socio-Economic Research at 真人线上娱乐 University.
The SECO lunch seminar programme
Autumn 2024
October 23
Peter Wilson Leys and Rocio Silva Santisteban: A South American Eco-feminist transition: from hope and alternatives to struggle and resistance in Peru
October 30
Kristian J. Sund: Bounded sustainable entrepreneurship: uncertainty, perceptions, and tensions
November 6
Line Jespersgaard Jakobsen: Corporate Sovereignty formation in the capitalocene: natural resources, greening investments and subjectivity
November 27
Lukas Bogner and guests: Law and Political Economy session
Spring 2024
January 31
Alexander Chen: Political-theoretical discussion on whether China is capitalist or socialist and an attempt to explain why the disagreement persists.
February 28
Hanaan Balala: The Role of the Rule of Law in the Socio-Economic Development of Societies
March 13
Kerstin Carlson: Judicializing Non-Repetition: Can a Right Build a State? (Colombia book project
April 3
Malin Nystrand : The role of credit in commercial exchange relations in the rice sector in northern Uganda.
April 24
Milan Babic: Antinomies of the environmental state: The state as market actor in the green transition
May 15
Johan Fischer: The Moral Economy of Plant-Based Futures
Autumn 2023
October 5
Samina Luthfa: Environmental Justice Movement from the Global South: Achievements and Challenges in attaining sustainability in Bangladesh
November 8
Lars Buur: Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa
December 13
Peter Wilson Leys: The value bind: what environmental and ecological economics can learn from David Graebers idea of value
Spring 2023
March 22
Kristian J. Sund and José Anson: The Decline of Mail: Postal Industry Decision-Makers’ Interpretations in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
March 30
Davide Secchi: Modeling Aggregate Resistance to Change.
April 26
Christoph Sorg: The socialist calculation debate in the age of digitalization and climate crisis
May 31
Franziska Cooiman: Imprinting the economy: The structural power of venture capital
June 14
Nina Torm: Returns to training among informal workers: Evidence from urban sites in Kenya and Tanzania
Fall 2023
October 5
Samina Luthfa: Environmental Justice Movement from the Global South: Achievements and Challenges in attaining sustainability in Bangladesh’
November 8
Lars Buur: Land, Rights and the Politics of Investments in Africa<
December 13
Peter Wilson Leys: The value bind: what environmental and ecological economics can learn from David Graeber’s idea of value.
Spring 2024
January 31
Alexander Chen: Political-theoretical discussion on whether China is capitalist or socialist and an attempt to explain why the disagreement persists.
February 28
Hanaan Balala: The Role of the Rule of Law in the Socio-Economic Development of Societies
March 13th
Kerstin Carlson: Judicializing Non-Repetition: Can a Right Build a State?
April 3
Malin Nystrand: "The role of credit in commercial exchange relations in the rice sector in northern Uganda.
April 24
Milan Babic: Antinomies of the environmental state: The state as market actor in the green transition
May 15
Johan Fischer: The Moral Economy of Plant-Based Futures