SASE Event Archive
2026
Annual Conference: Bordeaux 2026
The SASE 2026 Annual Conference took place July 1–3 in Bordeaux, France. The conference focused on Fighting Divisions: Conflict and Power in a Post-Globalisation Order, examining conflict, inequality, power, and the changing political and economic landscape.
2025
Annual Conference: Montreal 2025
The SASE 2025 Annual Conference was held July 9–12 at the Palais des Congrès in Montréal, with virtual sessions from July 1–3. Under the theme Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times, the conference examined division, solidarity, inclusion, and the institutions and movements shaping collective life.
2024
Annual Conference: Limerick 2024
The SASE 2024 Annual Conference was held June 27–29 at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Its theme, For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics, and Technologies of Neoliberalism, framed conversations about economic life, institutions, politics, technology, and sustainability.
2023
Annual Conference: Rio de Janeiro 2023
The SASE 2023 Annual Conference took place July 20–22 in Rio de Janeiro, hosted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Centered on socio-economics in a transitioning world, the conference addressed changes in political economy, institutions, work, development, and innovation.
2022
Annual Conference: Amsterdam 2022
The SASE 2022 Annual Conference took place July 9–11 at the University of Amsterdam under the theme Fractious Connections in a Disruptive Age. The program covered labor, finance, technology, development, climate politics, and other areas of socio-economic research.
2021
Annual Conference: Virtual 2021
The SASE 2021 Annual Conference was held virtually in collaboration with the KHK Centre for Global Cooperation Research, IAQ, and DIFIS. With the Covid-19 pandemic as an important backdrop, the conference examined critical junctures in contemporary capitalism, inequality, institutional change, and possible paths of transformation.
2020
Annual Conference: Virtual 2020
The SASE 2020 Annual Conference was held online July 18–21 under the theme Development Today: Accumulation, Surveillance, Redistribution. Sessions considered changing approaches to development in the context of geopolitical shifts, new technologies, surveillance, redistribution, and growing inequality.
2019
Annual Conference: New York City 2019
The SASE 2019 Annual Conference took place at The New School in New York City under the theme Fathomless Futures: Algorithmic and Imagined. The conference examined algorithms, artificial intelligence, prediction, surveillance, labor, inequality, and the growing difficulty of anticipating economic and social futures.
2018
Annual Conference: Kyoto 2018
The SASE 2018 Annual Conference took place at Doshisha University in Kyoto under the theme Global Reordering: Prospects for Equality, Democracy and Justice. Topics included globalization, inequality, democracy, technological change, labor, regulation, global supply chains, and Asia’s changing place in the world economy.
2017
Annual Conference: Lyon 2017
The SASE 2017 Annual Conference took place in Lyon under the theme What’s Next? Disruptive/Collaborative Economy or Business as Usual? The conference considered digital platforms, the sharing economy, changing employment relations, new forms of production and consumption, regulation, and inequality.
2016
Annual Conference: Berkeley 2016
The SASE 2016 Annual Conference took place at the University of California, Berkeley under the theme Moral Economies, Economic Moralities. The conference brought together an international community of scholars to examine the relationship between economic life and morality, exploring how moral judgments shape markets, institutions, and economic behavior, while economic systems and technologies themselves create and reinforce ideas about value, legitimacy, and appropriate conduct.
2015
Annual Conference: London 2015
The SASE 2015 Annual Conference took place at the London School of Economics and Political Science under the theme Inequality in the 21st Century. Held from July 2–4, the conference brought together an international community of scholars to examine growing economic and social inequalities in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Discussions explored the concentration of wealth and income, austerity, labor markets, social mobility, education, political responses to inequality, and the institutions and policies shaping unequal outcomes across contemporary societies.
2014
Annual Conference: Chicago 2014
The SASE 2014 Annual Conference took place in Chicago under the theme The Institutional Foundations of Capitalism. Discussions explored the social, political, and institutional foundations of markets, including how capitalism adapts through periods of crisis and recovery and how economic activity is structured by institutions across different societies. The conference provided a broad forum for considering the forces that sustain, constrain, and transform contemporary market economies.
2013
Annual Conference: Milan 2013
The SASE 2013 Annual Meeting took place at the University of Milan under the theme States in Crisis. Held from June 27–29, the conference examined how states respond to economic crises and how those responses reshape the relationship between states and markets. Against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing recession, discussions explored state intervention, regulation, austerity, central banks, changing labor markets, and the political pressures created by economic instability.
2012
Annual Conference: MIT 2012
The SASE 2012 Annual Meeting took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge under the theme Global Shifts: Implications for Business, Government and Labour. Held from June 28–30, discussions explored the changing international division of labor, competition between multinational firms, varieties of capitalism, state-led development, labor and environmental standards, and the evolving relationships between business, government, and civil society.
2011
Annual Conference: Madrid 2011
The SASE 2011 Annual Meeting took place at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid under the theme Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: Actors, Institutions, Processes. Held from June 23–25, the conference examined the far-reaching changes reshaping contemporary capitalism across developed and developing economies. Discussions explored transformations in firms and global supply chains, markets and regulation, employment and welfare systems, globalization, liberalization, and the changing organization of production and work.
