Workshop on "Geopolitical and Geo-economic Challenges of International Financial Relations"

4 June 2024
Department of Policial Science, University of Vienna
Organized by Tobias Boos and Sebastian Heidebrecht (University of Vienna) following the IPW Lecture by Carola Westermeier on June 3, 2024.

The workshop featured Carola Westermeier from Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, who presented on "Monetary Sovereignty and Digital Autonomy." Discussions included insights from Jenny Simon (University of Hamburg) and Beat Weber (ÖNB), focusing on recent changes in international financial relations, their geopolitical and geo-economic impacts, and the role of digital technologies. The event facilitated interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in this field.

3 June 2024
Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
Speaker: Carola Westermeier (Justus-Liebig-University Gießen)
Moderators: Sebastian Heidebrecht and Tobias Boos (University of Vienna)

The lecture discussed the evolving role of financial institutions and technologies, especially Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), in international financial relations, highlighting how CBDCs, unlike cryptocurrencies, are integrated within traditional financial systems and developed by central banks. It examined the geopolitical implications of CBDCs, their potential to reshape global finance, and the contrasting development approaches by various nations, including China’s digital yuan. The talk addressed the impact of CBDCs on international cooperation, fragmentation, and governance.

Interview with Tobias Boos on the BITELSA research project funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB).

Circle-U Workshop "Grounding Crypto" on Digital Infrastructures

1-3 November 2023
Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin

Researchers, including Tobias Boos, Ia Eradze, Juan Grigera, Alexander Harder, and Bernd Kasparek, gathered to discuss themes related to digital infrastructures, sovereignty, and cryptocurrency. The workshop included a public roundtable on ephemeral tokens and digital sovereignty, alongside internal sessions on blockchain, digital ethnographies, and big data, aimed at fostering collaboration among European academics.

19 October 2023
Radio Ö1, Punkt Eins

Tobias Boos discussed the economic crisis in Argentina, touching on dollarization, hyperinflation, and the country’s political economy. The discussion examined Argentina's economic policies and their interaction with its political environment.