Background The Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics (PANGeA), supported in part by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and its Lisa Maskell Fellowship, has graduated multiple generations of doctoral scholars in the historical humanities, arts and social sciences since its establishment in 2010. These alumni are leading professionals and scholars across Africa, contributing to industry, […]
The Money View Reading Group reads and discusses writings on money, banking, and finance. We are a self-directed group. Anyone interested in money and banking can read the readings, join us for discussions, or suggest future readings. We meet for 90 minutes via Zoom on Mondays at 2 pm Eastern Time US (New York). Current […]
The Money View Reading Group reads and discusses writings on money, banking, and finance. We are a self-directed group. Anyone interested in money and banking can read the readings, join us for discussions, or suggest future readings. We meet for 90 minutes via Zoom on Mondays at 2 pm Eastern Time US (New York). Current […]
This project is a collaboration between the Inequality Working Group and WAPLAC, following the success of our joint session in 2024 and 2025. We are organizing a special YSI panel at the upcoming WAPLAC Workshop 3, which will take place October 20-21, 2026, in Mexico City. Our YSI session will create a dedicated space for early-career […]
YSI – SIE Pre-Conference 2026 The Italian Economic Association is organizing its 67th Annual Scientific Meeting in Cagliari. The SIE Annual Scientific Meeting is one of the largest and most important gatherings of the Italian academic economics community, bringing together scholars from universities and research institutions across Italy and abroad. It provides a central space for […]
In partnership with the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics Policy (FMM), the Keynesian Economics Working Group of YSI is glad to open a call to offer partial travel stipends and accommodation* to young scholars who will present at the 30th FMM Conference. The conference will take place from 22 to 24 October 2026 in Berlin. *Before […]
This reading group has been created to amplify and deep our knowledge on money and finance from a wide perspective that can embrace the complexity of money’s nature, thus, the complexity of the financial system and its dynamics. Moreover, as it was cleverly unveiled by Émile Zola in his book L’Argent, the first book discussed […]
The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Africa Working Group (AWG) in partnership with the African Economic History Network (AEHN) presents the 2026 pre-conference for the AEHN 19th Annual meeting. This year’s conference is hosted in collaboration with Unit of Economic History at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Participants accepted for the YSI pre-conference will therefore, […]
This three-day professional gathering will bring together municipal and regional representatives, institutional actors, digital infrastructure providers, researchers and monetary innovators from across Europe to explore one central question: How can new monetary infrastructures strengthen territorial resilience and public innovation? Thousands of complementary currency projects are active worldwide today. Yet most policymakers have never heard of […]
The Money View Reading Group reads and discusses writings on money, banking, and finance. We are a self-directed group. Anyone interested in money and banking can read the readings, join us for discussions, or suggest future readings. We meet for 90 minutes via Zoom on Mondays at 2 pm Eastern Time US (New York). Current […]
Conflict has been central in the long and chequered history of state-making in Africa. The creation of artificial borders, new monetary regimes and trade patterns from the 1500s occurred not without conflict and resistance amongst and between various population groups. The colonial plunder of African resources and relegation of Africans to the margins of the […]
Political Economy of Development Reading Group Are you working on questions of development through a Political Economy lens? Or simply interested in how power, institutions, and political forces shape economic development? This monthly virtual reading group (every first Monday of the month) brings together young scholars working on Political Economy and development from across institutions […]
