2025
- SASE 2025, Montreal featured event– discussing China’s Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang.
- May 9-11, Politics, Culture, and Markets conference at UC-Berkeley!
- February 27, we are hosting Juliet Schor at Wesleyan!
- February 12, TikTok v Garland, roundtable discussion.
2024
- 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)
- Professor Kus organized a panel on the elections in Turkey. Watch:
Watch: “Financialization, Credit, and Inequality” The MacMillan Report
