Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Dr Daniela Peluso, is an invited participant at the Anthropology of Finance Symposium taking place on 25th March and hosted by the University of Bologna’s Department for the Cultural Heritage in Ravenna, Italy. The symposium ‘The Hau of Finance: Ethnographic inquiries into impact investing and the moral turn in finance’ will inaugurate the ERC-funded project ‘The Hau of Finance: Impact Investing and the Globalisation of Social and Environmental Sustainability’ headed by Professor Marc Brightman. Due to the travel ban that is in effect, the symposium will now take place virtually.
Dr Peluso, together with Gillian Tett (Financial Times), Knut Myhre (Oslo Museum of Cultural History) and Daniel Neyland (Goldsmiths, University of London), will form a roundtable that will comment on the project participants’ work offering an anthropological approach to impact investing, blended finance, philanthropy and philanthrocapitalism.
Daniela is excited about this event because it signals the emerging importance of the Anthropology of Finance as an important field, and also aligns with her own research and teaching.