24 OCT: BOOK LAUNCH – Atlas of Finance by Professor Dariusz Wojcik
BOOK LAUNCH
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
(Yale University Press, 2024)
6:30-8:30pm, Thursday, 24th October 2024 The Pod, Level 16, NLB 100 Victoria St Singapore, 188064 Registration (in-person): Eventbrite
| 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm | Registration |
| 6:30 pm to 6:35 pm | Welcome Remarks by Professor Elaine Ho Lynn-Ee NUS Department of Geography & NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Vice Dean of Research |
| 6:35 pm to 7:00 pm | Presentation by Professor Dariusz Wojcik NUS Department of Geography |
| 7:00 pm to 7:15 pm | Discussion by Dr Patrick Hoffmann Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub Singapore |
| 7:15 pm to 7:45 pm | Q & A |
| 7:45 pm to 8:30 pm | Refreshments, Book Sale & Signing |
BOOK SALE & SIGNING
*Special price of S$40.00 (RRP S$48.00) valid at the Book Launch only. Payment by PayNow, PayLah, and Cash. No Credit Cards.
ABOUT THE BOOK
| Atlas of Finance (Yale University Press, 2024)
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented. This volume, the first visually based book dedicated to finance, uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people—including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes—who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability. The Atlas of Finance, with word and image, will change the way you view both your money and your world. In future, the Atlas will be translated into ten additional languages, including Mandarin. Learn more about and order Atlas of Finance here at its official website, which includes an intricately animated and narrated book trailer! |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Professor Dariusz Wojcik is a financial and economic geographer. Before coming to NUS, he was awarded a full professorship at Oxford in 2014. Over 20 years he has been awarded 16 grants with a total value of over SGD 6.4 million, funded by organisations in the UK, EU, US, China, and Australia. In 2022 he completed a €2 million grant from the European Research Council on Cities in Global Financial Networks and in 2023 he was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident, finalising the first ever Atlas of Finance. In addition to being a Professor of Financial Geography at NUS, he is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography of Beijing Normal University, an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, and Associate Member of St. Peter’s College Oxford. In the past, he was also a visiting professor in Hong Kong and in Sydney. |
ABOUT THE DISCUSSANT
 Dr Patrick HoffmannBank for International Settlements Innovation Hub Singapore |
| Patrick is an Advisor at the Bank for International Settlement Innovation Hub (BISIH) Singapore leading the centre’s work on SupTech/RegTech and Green Finance. Before being seconded to the BISIH Singapore, Patrick worked for Deutsche Bundesbank for more than 15 years in various positions, most recently as a Head of Section in Banking Supervision. Together with his team, he was involved in supervising some of the largest banks in the euro area. Furthermore, Patrick spent three years with the German Federal Foreign Office to work as a Head of Section at the German Embassy in Singapore. Patrick has been a post-doctoral Associate at the Institute for Leadership and Organization at LMU Munich School of Management for more than ten years. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Patrick holds a Doctor in Business and Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, a Master’s degree (Dipl.-Kaufmann) from the University of Mannheim, and a Bachelor’s degree (BA in Business Management) from Napier University Edinburgh. |
WELCOME REMARKS
 Elaine Lynn-Ee HoNUS Department of Geography |
| Elaine Lynn-Ee HO is Professor at the Department of Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. She is currently Vice-Dean of the FASS Research Division. Her research focuses on two domains: first, transnational ageing and care in the Asia-Pacific; and second, diaspora engagement and diplomacy. Both topics address her overarching interest in citizenship geographies. She is author of Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China’s Borders (2019, Stanford University Press). |
