Program and speakers

Program

June 16, 2025

15:00-17:00: IMSW Dark Markets Design Workshop

16:00-17:00: Opens and Closes: The Future of Edinburgh’s Histories (a film by Sapphire Goss, produced, written and narrated by Liz McFall)

17:00-19:00: Welcome reception and book launch for Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action

June 17, 2025

9:00-17:00: Workshop Day 1

19:00-22:00: Conference dinner

June 18, 2025

9:00-17:00: Workshop Day 2

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).