AHE 2025 Conference Programme

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27th Annual Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)

18-20 June 2025 at King’s College London (Waterloo Campus)

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The 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics will take place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London. 

The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome participants that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.

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Sponsors

The 2025 AHE conference has received support from:

• Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust
• Department of International Development at King’s College London
• Young Scholars Initiative at the Institute for New Economic Thinking

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Registration

Registration for presenters has closed on 16th May. Tickets for non-presenting participants (starting from £60 per day) can be purchased in person at the registration desk during the conference. The 2025 AHE conference will be in-person only.

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Programme

The latest version of the conference programme and complete list of presenters in each stream is available here.

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Speakers

Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies) in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. Rafeef’s research centers on the production of interdisciplinary scholarship that falls into three thematic areas: infrastructures and logistics, gender and feminism, race and racialisation. Her recent research is broadly concerned with the political economy of maritime infrastructures and logistics, with a particular focus on the Middle East and East Africa.

Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Adam’s current research focuses on oil and capitalism, energy transitions, and the political economy of the Middle East.

Robert Knox, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. Robert’s research interests broadly encompass the relationship between law and the political-economic structures of capitalism. He has specific expertise on public international law, particularly on its relationship to race and empire; public law, with a focus on its relationship to neoliberalism, and legal theory, especially critical and Marxist approaches to the law.

Lucy van de Wiel, Lecturer and Postgraduate Research Director in Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She has founded and is chair of the Reproduction Research Cluster at King’s. Her research focuses on the introduction of new reproductive technologies such as egg freezing, IVF, and embryo selection. She explores how these technologies give insight into broader developments within the sector, including the datafication of reproduction and the financialisation of fertility. She also researches telemedical abortion in the post-Roe landscape.

Rebecca Carson, theorist working in Marxism and philosophy and the author of ‘Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital’. Rebecca is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art. She completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston School of Art and publishes regularly on Social Reproduction Theory.

Alex Colas, Professor of International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck College, University of London. Alex has published on subjects ranging from piracy, food politics, Spanish responses to terrorism, imperialism, internationalism and global governance. Alex directs the MSc in International Security and Global Governance and the MSc in Food, Politics and Society. He teaches courses on Global Politics, Governance and Security; Food, Politics and Society, and How the West Was Made: Transformations in Global Politics. 

Ramaa Vasudevan, Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, USA. Ramaa’s main research interests are in international finance , open economy macroeconomics, the political economy of development and finance, and Marxian and Classical Political Economy. Her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York, focused on the political economy of international trade and finance, while her M.Phil at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, was a study about the evolution of labor markets in colonial India.

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Dinner

The conference dinner will be on Thursday 19th June at the Mamuska restaurant in Southbank Waterloo. The address is 9 Addington St, London SE1 7RY. We will start gathering at 18:30 and food will be served at around 19:15.

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Conference venue and arrival

The conference will be held at King’s College London, Waterloo Campus, Franklin-Wilkins Building.

The address is: 150 Stamford St, London SE1 9NH

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Signs for the AHE conference registration desk will be on the Franklin-Wilkins Building entrance.

The conference will begin on Wednesday 18th June 2025. The registration desk will open at 9:30am (Franklin-Wilkins Building, ground floor), followed by the Opening Ceremony at 10:15am in the Auditorium.

All sessions will take place in the Franklin-Wilkins Building, across rooms on the ground and first floors. The rooms are G54, G56, G75, G72, G80, 50A, 50B, G7, and the FWB Auditorium.

For 2-hour sessions with four presentations, we recommend allocating 20 minutes per presentation, followed by Q&A. Please ensure your slides are ready to upload before your session begins. You can bring a USB stick or plug in your own laptop using the HDMI cable in the room. 

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How to get to Waterloo Campus:

By underground

Waterloo (Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Waterloo & City lines): 4 minute walk, Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern lines): 9 minute walk, Embankment (District, Circle and Bakerloo lines): 13 minute walk, Temple (District and Circle lines): 20 minute walk.

By train

Charing Cross: 9 minute walk. Waterloo: 4 minute walk. Waterloo East: 5 minute walk. Blackfriars: 17 minute walk.

By bus

Buses stopping outside the university: 381, RV1. Buses stopping near the university: 1, 4, 26, 59, 68, 76, X68, 77, 139, 168, 171, 172, 188, 211, 243 (24 hour), 341 (24 hour), 507 and 521.

A shuttle bus service is available for staff and students (carrying their college ID) wishing to travel between the Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital sites, the latter also being within walking distance of Waterloo and the Strand. The pick-up and drop-off points are:

at St Thomas’, the lower-ground car park opposite the Florence Nightingale Museum

at Guy’s Campus, on Great Maze Pond on the lay-by to the Bloomfield Clinic.

By car

There is no car parking available on this campus. There is an APCOA car park on Cornwall Road. Stamford Street is a red route.

By bike

Lambeth Council cycle racks are available in front of the Franklin-Wilkins and James Clerk Maxwell Buildings. Bicycle parking is available in the bike shed at the back of the Franklin-Wilkins Building on a long term bookable basis. Please contact the ETDE helpdesk for details.

Parking

No public parking. Motorcycle bays are available in Cornwall Road.

Bicycle stands are outside the front entrances of Franklin-Wilkins and James Clerk Maxwell buildings.

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