Past Events & Videos

Karl Polanyi Exhibition: The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi

The exhibition showed Karl Polanyi's life and work in detail as well as his relevance for the analysis of current economic, social, and political developments.  

US Politics. "Take 2.” A conversation with Fred Block, University of California, Davis; Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor of The American Prospect; and Margaret R. Somers, University of Michigan.

Moderated by Daniel Salée, Concordia University

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Oleksandr Svitych, Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India

The Political Economy of "Populism": Perspectives from Karl Polanyi

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Book Launch: The Forgotten Revolution: The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils, Edited by András B. Göllner, Emeritus Associate Professor, Political Science, Concordia University.

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Power and Productivity from the Black Death to the Rise of Neoliberalism: Extending the Polanyian Framework

Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.

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Seminar: Le terrain de la décroissance

Bengi Akbulut,Geography, Planning, Environment, Concordia University

In collaboration with CRISES-Concordia Project.

Book Launch: Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis by Peadar Kirby

Speakers:

• Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Lucy Russell, Editor, Bloomsbury Publishing
• Attila Melegh, Director, Karl Polanyi Center for Global Studies, Budapest, Hungary

A Message from Michael Higgins, President of Ireland, who wrote the preface to the book, was read at the event.

Moderator: Margie Mendell, Concordia University

The event was organized in collaboration with Bloomsbury Publishing, London, U.K.

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Brexit, Trump, Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time: A Round Table

Participants:

• Stefan Berger, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
• James Rhodes, University of Manchester, UK
• Petra Dolata, University of Calgary)
• Lachlan MacKinnon, Cape Breton University

Chairperson: Steven High, Concordia University

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Democratizing Work: A Conversation on the Lessons of the Current Pandemic for the World of Work. Dialogue about the Democratizing Work Manifesto

Speakers:

• Julie Battilana, Harvard University
• Isabelle Ferreras, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Discussants:

• Lana Payne, UNIFOR
• Andrew Jackson, Broadbent Institute
• Esteban Kelly, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperative
• Jim Stanford, Centre for Future Work

Moderators:

• Marguerite Mendell, Concordia University
• Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal

This event was organized in collaboration with CRIMT (Interuniversity Research Center on Globalization and Work, Université de Montréal) and  l’Industrie 4.0, travail et emploi de l’Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique (Université Laval).

Démocratiser le travail: Une conversation sur les leçons de la pandémie

Conférencies:

• Adelle Blackett, Université McGill
• Isabelle Ferreras, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgaum
• Dominique Méda, Université Paris Dauphine, France

conférence discutant:

• Nil Ataogul, TUAC Québec
• Pierre-Antoine Harvey, CSQ)
• Josée Lamoureux, CSN
• Jonathan Vallée-Payette, FTQ

Modérateurs:

• Marguerite Mendell, Concordia University
• Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal

This event was organized in collaboration with CRIMT (Interuniversity Research Center on Globalization and Work, Université de Montréal) and  l’Industrie 4.0, travail et emploi de l’Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique (Université Laval).

Can Trump Win the Upcoming November Election?

Speakers:

• Fred Block, University of California, Davis
• Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor, The American Prospect
• Margaret R. Somers, University of Michigan

Moderator: Daniel Salée, Concordia University

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Symposium: Revisiting the 1919 Hungarian Commune

Speakers:

• Donald Cuccioletta, History, UQAM, The Global Environment: WW I and the Russian Revolution.
• Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Professor Emerita, McGill University, 1919 Vienna and Budapest - a Tale of Two Cities.
• Judit Szapor, History, McGill University, Women’s Activism, Gender Politics, and the 1919 Hungarian Commune.
• András B. Göllner, Political Science, Concordia University, A Policy Assessment of the 1919 Hungarian Commune.
• Christopher Adam, History, Carleton University, Hungarian Communists in Canada after the Collapse of the 1919 Hungarian Commune.

Organized by the Professor Andrew Gollner and the Karl Polanyi Institute.

Workshop: The City as a Commons

Speakers:

• Sheila Foster, Georgetown University, USA
• Christian Iaione, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy

Organized by CRISES-Concordia in collaboration with the Karl Polanyi Institute, the School of Community and Public Affairs, and the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment.

Sheila Foster, Georgetown University, USA and Christian Iaione, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy

Ostrom in the City: from the Urban Commons to the Co-City

Organized by CRISES-Concordia in collaboration with the Karl Polanyi Institute, the School of Community and Public Affairs, and the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment.

Informal Student Gathering to Meet with Christian Iaione, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy

Organized by CRISES-Concordia and the Karl Polanyi Institute.

Dan Cohen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University

Market-Making on Contested Terrain: Struggles over Charter School Markets in the United States

Film and Discussion: The Borneo Case

In collaboration with First Voices, DIALOG, Bruno Manser Fonds, and the Loyola Sustainability Research Center.

Mathieu Charbonneau, Post-Doctoral Student, Karl Polanyi Institute

Brown Bag Discussion: Cyber Risks as Fictitious Commodities: The Ongoing Construction of the Cyber Insurance Market in North America

Conference on “Globalization, Financialization and Development” to celebrate the “Reconocimiento Ifigenia Martínez” awarded to Professor Kari Polanyi Levitt by the Center for Research and Studies in Financial Economics of the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico.

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Public Lecture and Book Launch

Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker for Our Times. Editor: Michael Brie (Institute for Critical Social Analysis, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany). Published by Black Rose Books, Montreal.

Research Meetings on Comparative Welfare Models and the Quebec Experience with Social Enterprises and the Social Economy.

Participants: Nine FAMNA representatives. FAMNA an umbrella organization whose mission is to improve the conditions to develop and grow social enterprise and not-for-profit provision in Sweden. Key policy areas include enterprise policy, financing, public contracts and quality work.

Clive Hamilton
Charles Sturt University, Australia

The Jack Nissensen Public Dialogue on Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate
Commentators: Jim Thomas (ETC Group), Hannah McKinnon (Environmental Defence)
Moderator: Diana Bronson (Food Secure Canada)

Steve Dubb
Research Director of the Democracy Collaborative
University of Maryland

Paths to a Social Economy in the United States: Cleveland and Beyond

Laure Waridel
Co-founder of Équiterre, eco-sociologist, author, and columnist

Transition Towards An Ecological And Social Economy
Organized by David O’Brien Centre For Sustainable Enterprise at The John Molson School Of Business, in collaboration with The School Of Community and Public Affairs, The Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Create, and the Karl Polanyi Institute.

Jim Standford
Canadian Auto Workers
Founder, The Progressive Economics Forum

Can economists even explain the crisis, let alone solve it?

In collaboration with the School of Community and Public Affairs.

Pat Mooney
ETC Group

The Jack Nissenson Dialogue on The Politics of Climate Change:
Climate Technofixes: Rio +20 or Silent Spring -50

Commentators:

• Desirée McGraw (Co-founder, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project in Canada and Canadian delegate to the Rio Earth Summit)
• William Marsden (Author of Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change)
• Patrick Bonin (Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique - AQLPA)

Moderator: Diana Bronson (Programme Manager, ETC Group)

Ed Broadbent
Former Leader, the New Democratic Party of Canada
Former President, Rights and Democracy

Democratic Equality – What Went Wrong

Gareth Dale
Politics and International Relations
Brunel University, UK

Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market

Linda McQuaig
Journalist and Author

The Trouble with Billionaires

Bruce Campbell
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

From Despair to Hope? How the Economic Crisis in the US will affect Canada:
Priorities for Canada-US Relations in the Obama Era

Jean-Louis Laville
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM, Paris)
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique, France

Avec Karl Polanyi vers une Theorie d’économie plurielle

Elizabeth May
Leader, The Green Party of Canada

Everyone is Talking Green! But what does this mean?
A Discussion of Environmental Policies and Practices In Canada

Jai Sen
CACIM - India Institute for Critical Action, New Delhi

The Origins and the Dynamics of the World Social Forum

Marcus Taylor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

After Pinochet: The Promises and Contradictions of 'Third Way' Neoliberalism in Chile

Bob Jessop
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK

Knowledge as a Fictitious Commodity: Insights and Limits of a Polanyian Analysis

Bruce Campbell
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Of Independence and Faustian Bargains:
Going Down the Deep Integration Road with Uncle Sam

Erik Olin Wright and Archon Fung
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy

Ash Amin
Geography, University of Durham, UK

Regulating Economic Globalization