'Rethinking borders in the geographies of money and finance' - Professor Sarah Hall

Date: 4 March 2026
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker:  Professor Sarah Hall
Talk Title: “Rethinking borders in the geographies of money and finance'
Location: Ramsden room, St Catharine's College

The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Political Economy Society and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Talk Overview:
The growing protectionist trends in the contemporary world economy have placed a growing interest on borders in both the operation of the world economy and in several strands of geographical research. However, the process of making breaking and remaking borders that underpin the current geopolitical conjuncture has received comparatively little attention in contemporary research on the geographies of money and finance. I draw on work in other fields of geography, particularly political geographical work on borders to develop an agenda for a revitalised geography of global finance that takes serious the ways in which borders and practices of bordering are being redrawn in ways that have important implications for the geographies of money and finance and the ways in which they shape finance led capitalism

Speaker Overview:
Sarah Hall is the 1931 Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. She is also Deputy Director of the academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe and a Specialist Trade Advisor to the International Agreements Committee in the House of Lords. She is a public economic geographer whose work focuses on the uneven impacts of profound economic change including Brexit, the changing economic position of China internationally and the rise of finance led capitalism. She regularly uses her research findings to contribute to academic, public and policy debate. She is the author of Global Finance (2017) and Respatialising Finance (2021) and previously held a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship.