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2025
2 April 2025: The Capitalist State in the 2020s: Borders and carceral infrastructure
This series of four collaborative workshops will examine the evolution of the capitalist state in the contemporary moment, focussing on industrial strategy and financialization, militarism, and borders and carceral infrastructures.
28 March 2025: 3 Model of Form: Samuel Delany as a Theorist of Racial Capitalism
Samuel Fisher will discuss the paraliterary writings of Samuel R. Delany as occasions to think about how the literary mediates social form.
24 March 2025: Financial Nihilism Today
The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present a talk on financial nihilism by Amin Samman (City) with commentary from William Davies (Goldsmiths).
28 February 2025: The Working Day in Contemporary Art
We welcome you to this Marxism in Culture seminar with Kirsten Lloyd, Senior Lecturer in the School of History of Art at The University of Edinburgh
12 February 2025: The Capitalist State in the 2020s: Global militarism
This series of four collaborative workshops will examine the evolution of the capitalist state in the contemporary moment, focussing on industrial strategy and financialization, militarism, and borders and carceral infrastructures.
2024
5 December 2024: Will Capitalism survive the 21st century?
UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies presents its inaugural Annual Conversation with Gillian Tett, Ash Sarkar, and Thomas Piketty.
4 December 2024: The Capitalist State in the 2020s: Industrial strategy in the Global North
This series of four collaborative workshops will examine the evolution of the capitalist state in the contemporary moment, focussing on industrial strategy and financialization, militarism, and borders and carceral infrastructures.
22 November 2024: The supply chain capitalism of AI
A call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance through an environmental lens, with Dr Ana Valdivia - Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies
24 May 2024: Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution
Marnie Holborow will present her new book, which explores work and care provided in the home, and identifies their effects on gender inequality and discrimination.
23 February 2024: Clickbait Capitalism: A panel discussion
The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome panellists Carolyn Biltoft (Graduate Institute Geneva), Earl Gammon (Sussex), Emily Rosamond (Goldsmiths) and Amin Samman (City).
31 January 2024: Catastrophe Time! How do we live in a world that we’re actively unmaking?
The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present this multi-media event, film screening and discussion with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen and Bahar Noorizadeh.
2023
5 December 2023: Book launch: Forecasts, a Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome Caroline E. Schuster to launch her new book 'Forecasts, a Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster'.
21 November 2023: Book launch: Rethinking Drug Laws: Theory, History, Politics
The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome Toby Seddon to launch his new book 'Rethinking Drug Laws: Theory, History, Politics'
2 November 2023: Book launch: Traders and Tinkers
The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome Maitrayee Deka to launch her new book 'Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy (Stanford UP)
20 October 2023: Launching the Centre for Capitalism Studies
Featuring renowned artist Hito Steyerl, the pre-eminent economist Prof Ha-Joon Chang and commentary from journalist and economic commentator Grace Blakeley.