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Dear colleagues, Due to multiple requests, we are going to extend the submission deadline to 10th May 2019 for the 1st FinGeo Global Conference. Please register for the conference and submit the abstract at http:// *fingeo.bnu.edu.cn* <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fingeo.bnu.edu.cn%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C87f0121a939d4c75933008d6ce2d5ba7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636923091541918148&sdata=PC6KByK6Yj6ZxiALOS%2Ba4QiT3IOaa9y8qPgLLNZ0p2s%3D&reserved=0>. Best wishes, Fenghua *CALL FOR PAPERS* *1st FinGeo Global Conference 2019* *Global Financial Shift? Mapping a Financialized World in Transformation* *Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, September 15-18, 2019* *https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffingeo.bnu.edu.cn&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C87f0121a939d4c75933008d6ce2d5ba7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636923091541918148&sdata=Kxs4Cv1TsbnGo9K%2FTuC8WAV%2BmbCAWjpvAUPGAw8QyBI%3D&reserved=0* <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffingeo.bnu.edu.cn%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C87f0121a939d4c75933008d6ce2d5ba7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636923091541918148&sdata=LwvsK85QfHUYFytS7mfsFnAudc7HvfpegP%2BVgwgLVsQ%3D&reserved=0> The Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo), launched in 2015, has grown to an interdisciplinary membership of over 500 scholars and experts from over 50 countries around the world. Building on the success of several global seminars and a FinGeo Spring School, the time is ripe for FinGeo to start a new chapter by organizing a global conference. The first FinGeo global conference will be held at Beijing Normal University in China, on September 15-18, 2019. The FinGeo Global Conference 2019 will bring together researchers from geography, finance, economics, sociology, political science, urban studies, business studies, public policy and other disciplines from all over the world, to share research on new developments in the world of finance and their impacts on economy, society and environment at different scales, from local to global. We also welcome practitioners and policy makers to join the event. It will provide a platform for dialogue on the cutting-edge concepts, theories, methods and practices that can inform our understanding of the financialized world we all live in. Conference themes will include (but will not be limited to) the following: - The causes, mechanisms and consequences of financialization, and their spatiality - Financial instability and crises in space and time - Geographies of fintech and internet finance - Geo-politics and political geography of finance - International financial centers - global financial networks - Financing and regional development - Infrastructure finance - Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) - Offshore financial centers and tax havens - Present and future of RMB internationalization - Sustainable finance - Financial inclusion and exclusion - Finance, innovation and entrepreneurship - Geographies of debt - Microfinance and development - The finance–real estate nexus - Financial and business services complex - Geography of financial markets (bank, venture capital and et al.) *Conference venue* Jingshi Xuetang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China *Important dates* - January 2019: Website launch, online abstract submission opens - 10 May 2019: Abstract submission deadline - 15 September 2019: Opening of conference and special sessions for early career researchers - 16 to 18 September 2019: Conference presentations *Abstract and special session proposal submission* You can register and submit the abstract via the conference website (*fingeo.bnu.edu.cn). The deadline for online abstract submission is 10th May 2019. * <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fingeo.bnu.edu.cn%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C87f0121a939d4c75933008d6ce2d5ba7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636923091541918148&sdata=PC6KByK6Yj6ZxiALOS%2Ba4QiT3IOaa9y8qPgLLNZ0p2s%3D&reserved=0> *Confirmed keynote speakers in plenary sessions* - Manuel Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium - Martine August, University of Waterloo - Daniel Haberly, University of Sussex, UK - Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham, UK - Xiuping Hua, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China - Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK - Weidong Liu, Chinese Academy of Science, China - Jessie Poon, University at Buffalo, USA - James Sidaway, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Dariusz Wójcik, University of Oxford, UK - Fulong Wu, University College London, UK - Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky, USA *Conference organizers* Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University Global Network on Financial Geography (*https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.fingeo.net&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C87f0121a939d4c75933008d6ce2d5ba7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636923091541918148&sdata=u8oA3Z%2BHTDeAFBoW3ao%2FCOtCRPMcOqZqDbhbqWIN3HQ%3D&reserved=0)* <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fingeo.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7CECONOMICGEOGRAPHY-L%40listserv.uconn.edu%7C87f0121a939d4c75933008d6ce2d5ba7%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C636923091541918148&sdata=xtch1PgN7a0eUISU1zPjyw02dLYGB8oB89mG2474o7g%3D&reserved=0> Should you have any question, please contact us via email to *fingeo2...@163.com*. -- Fenghua Pan, Associate Professor School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing,100875 Email: panfeng...@gmail.com; panfeng...@bnu.edu.cn
