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Gilded Time: Boom-bust subjectivities in informal gold mining economies

University of Birmingham · Arts Building, Birmingham, B15 2TT, and online

Join guest speaker Associate Professor Amy Penfirled (University of Bristol) for this edition of the DASAtalks seminar series.

Prof. Andrea Prat (Columbia University) - Political Power and Market Power

ETH Zurich

This Workshop & Lecture Series on the Law & Economics of Innovation is a joint project of ETH Zurich and the Universities of St. Gallen and Zurich.

The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2026: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI – with Professor Michael I Jordan

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

About the Dennis Gabor Lecture

Strategy in the Family Firm

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

This masterclass will explore how strategy is different in a family enterprise. Topics include how owner goals affect the strategy and growth trajectory of the business, the importance of strategic…

Global Tax Seminar Series – “Trusts and Tax Residence: Enabling Tax Avoidance and Undermining Transparency”

London School of Economics and Political Science · CKK 1.07, 1st Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE London, WC2A 3LJ

128th Distinguished Research Lecture: Harnessing Sunlight & Mentoring Startup Founders to Address Climate Change (Michael McGehee)

University of Colorado Boulder · Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), Chancellor's Hall and Auditorium

Professor Michael McGehee (Chemical and Biological Engineering, RASEI) built his research group with a mission to pattern materials at the smallest length scales to address one of humanity’s biggest…

Capitalism’s Legal Regime

Harris School · Sky Suite at the Harris School of Public Policy

How do legal systems shape capitalism and the creation of wealth? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Katharina Pistor, a leading scholar of law, property rights, and corporate…

Demi Guo @ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Speaker Series (ETL)

STVP, Stanford Technology Ventures Program · Nvidia Auditorium, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, United States

Demi Guo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pika, a generative AI video platform she founded in 2023. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Harvard and later pursued a PhD in…

Public seminar: Morton Wan (University of Oxford)

University of Oxford · Cinema, Schwarzman Centre

'“Scheming for Profit”: The First Made-In-China Piano'

Strengthening America’s Submarine Industrial Base

NC State University

The United States is expanding its Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) to meet growing national defense requirements, creating significant opportunities for North Carolina manufacturers.

Uneasy Streets: How Chinese Money Is Remaking Urban Britain - Caroline Knowles [Manchester/online]

University of Manchester · Alistair Ulph Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester

This talk explores Chinese investment and its impact on British cities.

Book Launch: gta papers 11 - Macroeconomics

ETH Zurich

Launch of the latest issue of gta papers, "Macroeconomics", edited by Matthew Critchley. With contributions by Sandro Armanda, Gregorio Astengo, Samaa Elimam, Huma Gupta, Ateya Khorakiwala, Juliana…

Debt and Power in the Digital Age

University of Birmingham · Alan Walters Building, Birmingham, B15 2SB

This year the Birmingham Business School Advisory Board invites Yanis Varoufakis to deliver a lecture on Global Economy and Debt in the Digital Age.

Medicare Basics

Stanford BeWell

Medicare is the primary health coverage for most retirees in the United States, but it isn't one simple plan. Understanding how its parts fit together, and when to act, can save you real money.

EDITION Symposium 2026: Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250

University of Edinburgh

An in-person symposium (and optional preceding workshop) to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which will feature a series of talks.

Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2026: 'Tensions between political and legal dimensions in the settlement of investment disputes' - Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Professor Emerita at Geneva Law School

University of Cambridge · Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Berkowitz/Finley Lecture Hall

Register here if attending online Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is Professor Emerita at Geneva University Law School and founder, former director, and a current faculty member of the Geneva LL.M. in…

Executive Forum with Winston Crawford, Senior Director of Global Ad Sales for Apple Ads

Business · Mitch Daniels School of Business, Rawls Hall, Room 1086, 100 South Grant Street

The Executive Forum is open to the public, as seating permits, and provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of topics and issues facing business and management.

Is Capitalism the Enemy of Nature?

King's College London · Bush House North East Wing, Strand Campus, London

A public lecture with Professor Joseph Heath (University of Toronto) under the Market Economies and Green Ideals programme

BEYOND Conference 2026

University of Manchester · The Lowry, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ

BEYOND Festival and Conference is back in Media City for 2026! The event brings together creative industry leaders, researchers, policymakers, technologists and funders to explore how new thinking…

Producing Precarity: Transnational labour, Multinational Capital, and Complicit Governance Go Rural on the Canadian Prairies

University of British Columbia · C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research

Join the Centre for Migration Studies on Monday, November 23 at 11:45 AM-1:50 PM in the C.K. Choi Building (Room 120) for a talk featuring Dr.