School of Social and Political Science

Viral debt: understanding debt, austerity, and precarity of place

Category
Seminar Series
23 January 2026
13:00 - 15:00

Venue

Old Medical School, Doorway 3
Teaching Room 09 (1.416)

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Poster

Description

This talk develops the concept of viral debt to highlight the relational nature of financial obligations and to pinpoint the conditions that amplify the speed at which those debts spread. The research explores how debt spreads between individuals and communities – and in so doing depends on existing vulnerabilities, even as it creates new ones.

Key speakers

  • Dr Mia Gray - University of Cambridge

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