{"id":1347,"date":"2020-12-21T02:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/?page_id=1347"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:21:23","slug":"social-media-blogging","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/?page_id=1347","title":{"rendered":"TALKS\/EVENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3583 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2025\/11\/Governance-in-Flux-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2025\/11\/Governance-in-Flux-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2025\/11\/Governance-in-Flux-1-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2025\/11\/Governance-in-Flux-1-768x1154.png 768w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2025\/11\/Governance-in-Flux-1.png 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol';font-size: revert\">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?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SASE 2025, Featured book salon discussant,\u00a0<em>China&#8217;s Gilded Age by Yuen Yuen Ang.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>SASE 2025, Book salon discussant, <em>Visions of Financial Order<\/em> by Kim Pernell.<\/li>\n<li>SASE 2025, Montreal, &#8220;American Political Economy in the Twentieth Century: A View from the Bench.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>May 9-11, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/berkeley.edu\/politicscultureandmarkets2025\/home?authuser=0\"><span style=\"color: #a80a0a\">Politics, Culture, and Markets<\/span> <\/a>conference at UC-Berkeley!<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">December 3, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #9e1313\">Re-Reading Karl Marx\u2019s Capital, volume 1: Paul North in Conversation with Roberto Saba, Basak Kus, Stephen Cucharo<span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'\">, and Ulrich\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"markvz5pfkwuc\" style=\"font-size: revert;color: var(--contrast);font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"><span style=\"color: #9e1313\">Plass<\/span>&#8221; Wesleyan University.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>November 21, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #9e1313\">Thinking Through Research Design: Theory, Data, and Mixed Methods<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/asb.edu.my\/\">Asia School of Business<\/a>,<\/span> Kuala Lumpur<\/li>\n<li>November 13, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #9e1313\">Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance<\/span>&#8220;,<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/asb.edu.my\/\">Asia School of Business<\/a>,<\/span> Kuala Lumpur.<\/li>\n<li>October 28, Workshop hosted by Basak Kus and Wolfgang Streeck: <span style=\"color: #b30c0c\">&#8220;<a style=\"color: #b30c0c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifg.de\/1247329\/202410-law-and-political-economy.html\">Law and Political Economy: American and European Perspectives<\/a><\/span>&#8221; <span lang=\"EN-US\">Max Planck Institute, Cologne.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>June 28, Author Meets Critics: &#8220;<span style=\"color: #b30c0c\">Neoli<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #b30c0c\">beralism, Finance, and Democracy in the US<\/span>.&#8221; Book panel with Brian Judge, Jakob Feinig, and Onur Ozgode. <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/sase.org\/event\/2024-limerick\/\">SASE, Limerick<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">June 18, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #9e1313\">From Finance to Climate: \u201cEconomistic Fallacies,\u201d \u201c<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #9e1313\">Organized Irresponsibility,\u201d and \u201cTragic Individualization\u201d En Route to Democratic Crisis,<\/span><span style=\"color: #b30c0c\">&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifg.de\/1271748\/scholar-in-residence-lecture-series-2024\">Max Planck Institute, Cologne- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">June 4, &#8220;T<span style=\"color: #9e1313\">here Is <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #9e1313\">More to It Than the Repeal of Glass-Steagall: Drifting, Micro, and Information-Based Financial Regulation,<\/span>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000\"> <a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifg.de\/1271748\/scholar-in-residence-lecture-series-2024\">Max Planck Institute, Cologne- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifg.de\/1284253\/2024-Kus2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3011 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.01.47-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.01.47-PM.png 852w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.01.47-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.01.47-PM-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>May 28, &#8220;<span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #8f1313\">Counting Backwards from the US Financial Crisis: On Economists, the Protective State, and \u201cNot Using the Power of the Crown,<\/span>\u201d <span style=\"color: #b00e0e\"><a style=\"color: #b00e0e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mpifg.de\/1271748\/scholar-in-residence-lecture-series-2024\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Max Planck Institute, Cologne- Scholar-in-Residence Lecture<\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streaming-eu.mpg.de\/de\/institute\/mpifg\/2024_SiRLecture_%20Kus%201.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3013 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.03.08-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.03.08-PM.png 824w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.03.08-PM-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.03.08-PM-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>May 24, <span style=\"color: #942121\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #a30d26\"><span style=\"color: #942121\">A<\/span>daptive Political Economy: Toward a New Paradigm<\/span> \u2013 A Conversation with Yuen Yuen Ang&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/sase.org\/women-and-gender-forum\/\">SASE WAG Forum<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>May 22, <span style=\"color: #a30d26\">&#8220;<a style=\"color: #a30d26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karlpolanyisociety.com\/2024\/05\/08\/workshop-planning-for-climate-change\/\">Planning for Climate Change Expert Workshop,<\/a>&#8220;<\/span> International Karl Polanyi Society.<\/li>\n<li>May 13, Book talk: <span style=\"color: #942121\">&#8220;Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance<\/span><em>,&#8221; <\/em>Carlos III, Madrid.<\/li>\n<li>May 3, \u201c<span style=\"color: #a30d26\">Politics and Sociology of Finance: New Books on the Block<\/span>\u201d with Basak Kus, Kim Pernell, Megan Tobias Neely. <span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/sase.org\/women-and-gender-forum\/\">SASE WAG Forum.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>April 29, Book talk: <span style=\"color: #942121\">&#8220;Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of Finance&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'\">AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization, Sciences Po in Paris.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>February 24. \u201cT<span style=\"color: #942121\">aking Neoliberalism Out of the Gutter: A Polanyian Fix<\/span>,&#8221; Yale Law School<\/li>\n<li>February 8. &#8220;<span style=\"color: #942121\">Guardians of Prudence?: Economists, Risk Regulation, and the Protective State.<\/span>&#8221; University of Montreal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Kus gave a talk as 2023 faculty at<span style=\"color: #a81439\"> <a style=\"color: #a81439\" href=\"http:\/\/stsprogram.org\/summerschool\/about\">STS Summer School @ Harvard<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Professor Kus co-organized a<span style=\"color: #a81439\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #a81439\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/wesleyan.edu\/berlingreeneconomy\">conference<\/a> <\/span>at Freie University in Berlin on &#8220;<span style=\"color: #942121\">Greening the Economy<\/span>&#8220;(June 2-4, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/green-econ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2347 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2023\/06\/GREEN-ECONOMY-thumbnail-779x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2023\/06\/GREEN-ECONOMY-thumbnail-779x1024.png 779w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2023\/06\/GREEN-ECONOMY-thumbnail-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2023\/06\/GREEN-ECONOMY-thumbnail-768x1009.png 768w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2023\/06\/GREEN-ECONOMY-thumbnail.png 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":2347,\"width\":\"151px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"custom\",\"className\":\"is-resized\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Watch:<\/strong> \u201c<span style=\"color: #0a1da8\"><span style=\"color: #a81439\">Financialization, Credit, and Inequality<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<em>The MacMillan Report<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/90vT1DQRRzY?feature=shared\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3015 alignnone alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.10.47-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.10.47-PM.png 1160w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.10.47-PM-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.10.47-PM-1024x719.png 1024w, https:\/\/bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu\/files\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-02-at-1.10.47-PM-768x540.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\"} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:gallery --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":2899} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":2899} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":2899} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":2899} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 8-9, 2025, Wesleyan. 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