{"title": "Panel Discussion: Finance and the Sacred", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rites-to-the-city-violence-finance-and-the-sacred-tickets-2002995355026?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/finance"], "description": "A panel discussion titled Finance and the Sacred, exploring the systems at play between the debt regime and speculative imagination. It is convened by The Otolith Collective and brings together artist Bahar Noorizadeh, Adam HajYahia, Max Haiven and Lama El Khatib. The conversation acts as a live meditation on Noorizadeh's research, examining gamification as a mechanism of control, information as an urban medium, sacrifice as the social form of finance, and conspiracy as a mode of navigating this terrain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-discussion-finance-and-the-sacred-39707/", "official_url": "https://theshowroom.org/events/rites-to-the-city-violence-finance-and-the-sacred", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e53158629982927ae9789dec56fa781d2bd788ffa1524afd5aa24ea628559879-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "People's Justice: Towards an Understanding of Art Solidarity", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ibraaz.org/events/ibraaz/2491764/select-date?ref=website_widget", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "A panel talk bringing together Alexander Supartono, Marco Baravalle, and Rehana Zaman to discuss art as a means of building solidarity. It forms the final chapter of Rakyat Pasti Menang, where Taring Padi presents works from People's Justice, a series rooted in the collective's commitment to art as a tool for political change and social transformation across borders. Drawing on the speakers' personal and collective experiences of constructing progressive alliances, the conversation examines solidarity as the formation of common practices against the co-optation, disciplining, and censorship of the global art-industrial complex.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/peoples-justice-towards-an-understanding-of-art-solidarity-49152/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/peoples-justice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4530f2b39e1c23d2c1a92b6c63f8994b8f6e3866b93f14940dffa9122f30497f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "State of the sovereign transition 2026: from national targets to sector signals", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/finance"], "description": "A public panel discussion on the state of national climate transition planning in 2026, held in the week before COP31. It is hosted by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre, an academic research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and forms part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026. Drawing on data from the ASCOR tool and the Centre's State of the Sovereign Transition 2026 report, panellists from investor and government perspectives will discuss sectoral transition planning and the financial instruments sovereigns use to raise transition finance. The chair is Professor Carmen Nuzzo of the TPI Centre, with speakers including Marjan Divjak of Slovenia's Ministry of Finance, Jana Harvey of RBC BlueBay, Maya Hennerkes of the EBRD and Setenay Hizliok of the TPI Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/state-of-the-sovereign-transition-2026-from-national-targets-63367/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/sovereign-transition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf12df2256ca374a678f8e339f440b3f1b2ddebfb4b0a9d8ef0916f6b7aaad7d-1200.webp"}]}