
On June 10–11, 2025, The New Institute’s Futures of Capitalism Program, led by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, convenes Collapse Finance, the inaugural workshop of the Global Consortium for Re-thinking Capitalism (GCRC).
Against the backdrop of deepening ecological, political, and economic breakdown, this gathering brings together leading scholars, journalists, and activists to rethink the role of finance in shaping our collective futures. Rather than treating collapse as a moment of failure, the workshop explores it as a space of possibility, where new alliances, practices, and ways of valuing can emerge. Through conversations spanning climate, democracy, digital infrastructures, and grassroots innovation, we will ask: What comes after collapse? And what kind of financial imagination do we need to build it?
Featuring keynote reflections by Gillian Tett (Financial Times), Collapse Finance marks the launch of an urgent global inquiry into the futures of capitalism.
Session one: Finance & Climate Collapse
Jens Beckert, Natascha van der Zwan and Adrienne Buller
Session two: Opening Finance’s Black Boxes
Carola Westermeier, Kristian Bondo Hansen and Gerhard Schick
Session three: Finance & Democratic Collapse
Robert Meister, Melinda Cooper and Giulia Dal Maso
Session four: Re-imagining the Homo Economicus
Michel Feher, Emily Rosamond and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Session five: Finance from Below?
Brett Scott, Rachel O’Dwyer and Hendrik Wagenaar
Closing roundtable: What Comes After Collapse?
Keynote Address: Re-imagining Collapse Through an Anthropologist’s Lens
Gillian Tett
Full list of participants: Jens Beckert, Kristian Bondo Hansen, Adrienne Buller, Melinda Cooper, Giulia Dal Maso, Michel Feher, Maja Groff, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Robert Meister, Rachel O’Dwyer, Felix Rohrbeck, Emily Rosamond, Brett Scott, Gerhard Schick, Gillian Tett, Hendrik Wagenaar, Carola Westermeier, Till Wittwer, and Natascha van der Zwan
Media inquiries: <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/662660/collapse-finance/#" onclick="location.href='znvygb:[email protected]?fhowrpg=Pbyyncfr%20Svanapr%20r-syhk'.replace(/[a-zA-Z]/g,function(c){return String.fromCharCode((c=(c=c.charCodeAt(0)+13)?c:c-26);});return false”>Alice Gustson (The New Institute)
Collapse Finance is produced by The New Institute Hamburg in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies, and organised by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Giulia Dal Maso, and Till Wittwer.
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