Program and speakers

Preliminary program

June 16, 2025

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Pre-workshop event: Dark Markets Design Workshop

5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Welcome reception and book launch for Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action

June 17, 2025

9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Workshop program including paper presentations, poster presentations, and keynotes

7:00 p.m. –

Conference dinner

June 18, 2025

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Workshop program including paper presentations, poster presentations, and keynotes

Keynote speakers

We are delighted to welcome Professor Linsey McGoey and Professor Emeritus Alf Hornborg as keynote speakers for the workshop.

Linsey McGoey is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is known as a pioneer of ignorance studies, an interdisciplinary field that explores the role of strategic ignorance in economic exchange. Her books include The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World (2019, Zed) and Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2022, co-edited with Matthias Gross).

Alf Hornborg is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at Lund University. His work addresses global issues of sustainability and environmental justice, most recently with regards to the social and ecological repercussions of the emergence of money. His new book is called Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World (2024, Routledge).