2025
Dec 8-9, 2025, Wesleyan. What are the political and social processes through which risk is conceptualized and measured? How do societies decide what to fear and what to act on? How do they trade costs for benefits, and how does protection from uncertainty and risk get distributed? What is the role of the state in managing risks and uncertainties?
- SASE 2025, Featured book salon discussant, China’s Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang.
- SASE 2025, Book salon discussant, Visions of Financial Order by Kim Pernell.
- SASE 2025, Montreal, “American Political Economy in the Twentieth Century: A View from the Bench.”
- May 9-11, Politics, Culture, and Markets conference at UC-Berkeley!
- December 3, “Re-Reading Karl Marx’s Capital, volume 1: Paul North in Conversation with Roberto Saba, Basak Kus, Stephen Cucharo, and Ulrich Plass” Wesleyan University.
- November 21, “Thinking Through Research Design: Theory, Data, and Mixed Methods” Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur
- November 13, “Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance“, Asia School of Business, Kuala Lumpur.
- October 28, Workshop hosted by Basak Kus and Wolfgang Streeck: “Law and Political Economy: American and European Perspectives” Max Planck Institute, Cologne.
- June 28, Author Meets Critics: “Neoliberalism, Finance, and Democracy in the US.” Book panel with Brian Judge, Jakob Feinig, and Onur Ozgode. SASE, Limerick.
- June 18, “From Finance to Climate: “Economistic Fallacies,” “Organized Irresponsibility,” and “Tragic Individualization” En Route to Democratic Crisis,” Max Planck Institute, Cologne- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture.
- June 4, “There Is More to It Than the Repeal of Glass-Steagall: Drifting, Micro, and Information-Based Financial Regulation,“ Max Planck Institute, Cologne- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture.
- May 28, “Counting Backwards from the US Financial Crisis: On Economists, the Protective State, and “Not Using the Power of the Crown,” Max Planck Institute, Cologne- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture.
- May 24, “Adaptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm – A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang” SASE WAG Forum.
- May 22, “Planning for Climate Change Expert Workshop,“ International Karl Polanyi Society.
- May 13, Book talk: “Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance,” Carlos III, Madrid.
- May 3, “Politics and Sociology of Finance: New Books on the Block” with Basak Kus, Kim Pernell, Megan Tobias Neely. SASE WAG Forum.
- April 29, Book talk: “Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance” AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization, Sciences Po in Paris.
- February 24. “Taking Neoliberalism Out of the Gutter: A Polanyian Fix,” Yale Law School, Neoliberalism and Capitalism as Keywords in History Conference.
- February 8. “Guardians of Prudence?: Economists, Risk Regulation, and the Protective State.” University of Montreal, Center for Research in Ethics.
2023
- Professor Kus gave a talk as 2023 faculty at STS Summer School @ Harvard.
- Professor Kus co-organized a conference at Freie University in Berlin on “Greening the Economy“(June 2-4, 2023)
- Watch: “Financialization, Credit, and Inequality” The MacMillan Report
