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- There’s a notable shift toward experimental methodologies and speculative thinking, particularly in how we imagine economic alternatives. Some panels drew on fiction, film, and aesthetic practices to prototype post-capitalist scenarios, reflecting a desire to move from critique to creativity in economic thought.
- Gendered economic knowledge(s); finance and right-wing politics/cryptofascism; moral politics of value
- 'Beyond financial literacy'
- Non-Western vernacular economic knowledges and practices
- Understandings of money beyond the metaphor of 'medium'
- Households and debt, communicating money issues, religiosity and the economy
- Disclosing more productive and troubling relations between economic/epistemic/technological/ cultural practices and activism, and literary/cultural/social reflection and representation
- There’s exciting potential for creative partnerships with artists, writers, and science fiction communities. Speculative narratives about climate and crisis—especially in science fiction film and literature—can offer powerful entry points for engaging the public with questions of economic imagination, sustainability, and precarity. These narratives not only visualize possible futures but also challenge dominant logics of risk, growth, and value in ways that complement academic critique. The economic humanities can serve as a bridge: connecting data and discourse, institutional research and everyday life, financial abstraction and embodied experience. Through cross-sector collaboration, the field can help build more narratively rich, emotionally resonant, and socially attuned conversations about our economic futures.
- Engagement in policy and media debates regarding financial regulation of digital currencies; engagement in policy and media debates regarding environmental impacts of capitalism during climate crisis
- Several presentations—such as those discussing climate forecasting and financial crisis modeling—highlighted the importance of communicating economic risk in ways that resonate with broader audiences.
- Project of potentially starting a complementary currency
- Collaborative working practices in think tanks, advisory boards, insights into crypto currencies
- Financialisation and young people
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