Research on financial technologies and the politics of (data) infrastuctures | @c-westermeier.bsky.social

Darmstadt, Germany
Joined April 2011
Glad to see this article published in @RIPEJournal The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Pleased to share that I will be joining @MPIfG_Cologne as Lise-Meitner-Research-Group Leader from April onwards. Truly excited to be leading a group on Technology and Sovereignty in this exceptional academic environment. PhD call out—pls share! shorturl.at/0K7PW
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Very much looking forward to this webinar at the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida. I will talk about the Geoeconomics of the Digital Euro. Tomorrow, Dec 4, 12 pm EST, 6 pm CET Register here: ces.ufl.edu/calendar/
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The next highlight from the @FinandSoc 10th anniversary collection comes from the Volume 6.1 forum on critical macro-finance, in which Daniela Gabor outlines four propositions of the critical macro-finance approach. cup.org/3Utvgtu #TenYearsofFinSoc
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I shared a few thoughts on the new leadership at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and how it will have to navigate the fact that central banks are increasingly becoming geoeconomic actors in this article by @TheBanker
Pablo Hernández de Cos, former Bank of Spain governor, will lead the BIS from July 2025. As former BCBS chair, his role will be key amid shifting US banking regulations and EU calls for flexibility. on.ft.com/3AELWYg
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Can we predict the future? What are the politics of data-driven security models, scenarios and forecasts? @AnwarTasniem, Andreas Oberprantacher & I are proposing an EWIS workshop @europeanisa on that topic. 2-4 July, Krakow. Interested? Then drop me a pm or email until 14 Nov!
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Just ordered an Espresso in #Kyiv, the barista asked if I didn’t want something stronger. Asked how they’re doing this morning, his colleague says „bad“, tears in her eyes. 🇺🇦
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The @BIS_org has handed over the mBridge cross border #CBDC payment project to the central banks involved It follows discussion of a BRICS Bridge payment system The BIS will not engage in projects that are a conduit to violate sanctions ledgerinsights.com/bis-hands…
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This is quite remarkable. The BIS leaves the most advanced cross-border CBDC project. mBridge replaces correspondent banks and SWIFT with a corridor network (mBridge) for cross-border payments, establishing direct payment relations between China, UAE, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
mBridge - the most advanced wholesale CBDC project in the world- is being halted possibly over sanctions evasion concerns. But note that the BIS leaving the project doesn’t mean China can’t continue it in a new arrangement. The tech is built.
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This episode of The Daily is a great piece of political sociolgogy. Life stories, personal economics, gender roles and their link to political choices. Wondering how these narratives and experiences translate to other countries. The Gender Election. open.spotify.com/episode/6Cb…
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Three fully-funded PhD positions are available to join the new ERC Advanced Grant ‘Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning’ in Amsterdam. For further details and a link to apply, please visit: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Thr…
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Visiting Researchers #ECPRMemberJobs 🔎 Economic sociology and comparative and international political economy 🗓️ Two to twelve months 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies ⌛ Thursday 31 October ow.ly/eaVp50TyGvB
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🚨Only 3 days left to submit for this #CFP 🚨@FinandSoc: 'WHEN FINANCE BECOMES TECH' -- we welcome abstracts about embedded finance, the re-centralization of fintech, and what happens when financial and technological infrastructures dissolve into our daily lives!
When Finance becomes Tech.... then what? You tell us. New Call for Papers! financeandsocietynetwork.org…
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Research Associate #ECPRMemberJobs 🏦 Investigate the role of ministries of finance in social policy-making 📋 Conduct qualitative case studies 🇩🇪 Goethe University Frankfurt ⌛ Monday 30 September ow.ly/mASq50TjVBM
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From the Archive: Sven Opitz and Ute Tellmann, 'Future Emergencies: Temporal Politics in Law and Economy' - analyses the effects that imaginations of future emergencies have in the fields of law and economy. (2014) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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🚨 Join @cheimstaedt and me to discuss how sustainability is valued across various industries at the #STS Hub 2025 conference #cfp #valuationstudies More info below ⬇️
☝️ @taschn and I are co-hosting the panel "Valuing Sustainability in Technoscientific Capitalism" at STS Hub 2025 in Berlin (March 11-14). Submit your 200-word abstract + 75-word bio by Oct 31, 2024. More info: sts-hub.de/25/. Contact: [email protected]
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Heute vor einem Jahr folgten wir in Frankfurt bei einem Projekt performativer Wissensaneignung den Spuren des Geldes. Darauf lässt sich im Video zurückblicken: Es entsteht ein Eindruck vom Digitalgelddickicht, in dem wir uns als Individuen, aber auch als Gesellschaft bewegen.
"Follow the [New] Money: Auf den Spuren von Krypto, Karten, Coins und Cash" Der Kurzfilm mit Auszügen aus 1:1-Gesprächen mit Digitalgeld-Expert:innen beim "Markt für nützliches Wissen und Nicht-Wissen" ist hier in voller Länge und mit vielen Infos online: zevedi.de/film-follow-the-ne…
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"Die normativen Dimensionen des digitalen Euro" Mit diesem Thema beschäftigt sich am Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (#ZEVEDI) nun eine interdisziplinäre Projektgrupe mit WissenschaftlerInnen aus 6 hessischen Standorten. Teinehmende/Thema: zevedi.de/themen/dino/
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