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Conference: Changing Businesses for Good
Changing Businesses for Good: Activist interventions in the Age of Environmental Catastrophe International conference, 19-20 December 2022 Speakers: Ann Pettifor (Director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics) Frank Zelko (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Call for Papers Civic initiatives have challenged capitalism since the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. The ‘dark Satanic mills’ of Manchester … Continue reading Conference: Changing Businesses for Good →
Book Symposium: Exploitation as Domination
Erasmus Universiy, Polak Building 1.17 Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, Zuid-HollandExploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Temporary and sex workers, commercial surrogacy, precarious labour contracts, sweatshops, and markets in blood, vaccines or human organs, are some contemporary manifestations of exploitation. What makes these exploitative transactions unjust? And is capitalism inherently exploitative? In his new book, … Continue reading Book Symposium: Exploitation as Domination →
New Directions in Democratic Theory: OZSW Work in Progress Workshop in Political Philosophy
Utrecht University Drift 13, Room 205, Utrecht, NetherlandsNew Directions in Democratic Theory: OZSW Work in Progress Workshop in Political Philosophy June 8, 2023 Utrecht University Drift 13, Room 205 This workshop brings together political philosophers who focus on contemporary challenges faced by democratic regimes, including oligarchic capture and democratic backsliding. We will explore whether novel institutional mechanisms, such as tribunates, and … Continue reading New Directions in Democratic Theory: OZSW Work in Progress Workshop in Political Philosophy →
Justice in Space. The theory and practice of spatial justice.
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam RotterdamThe current housing crisis is shaping the lives of many people. Housing protests are unraveling in most big European cities at the beat of chants such as huizen voor mensen niet voor winst (houses for people not for profit) and Deutsche Wohnen Enteignen (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen). These slogans highlight that citizens perceive an injustice in … Continue reading Justice in Space. The theory and practice of spatial justice. →
Pre-read Workshop: The Many Faces of Philosophy of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Bayle building, 5th floor, Glasbak Bayle building, Burgemeester Oudlaan 342T, 3062 PA Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NetherlandsThe Many Faces of Philosophy of Economics This pre-read workshop collects four working papers in different areas of philosophy of economics for discussion. The topics range from Bayesianism in feedback systems, to bankruptcy problems, to modeling representation, to behavioural public policy. The aim is to provide a space for constructive feedback on advanced drafts. If … Continue reading Pre-read Workshop: The Many Faces of Philosophy of Economics →
Conference The Ethics of End-of-life Decisions
Dear all, You are all cordially invited to attend the conference The Ethics of End-of-life Decisions, which will be held on September 22, 2023 at the University of Amsterdam. The conference is organized in collaboration with the ASCA Philosophy and Public Affairs seminar and The Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence on the occasion of the … Continue reading Conference The Ethics of End-of-life Decisions →
Work-in-progress day – Study Group Philosophy of Responsibility
VU Amsterdam ,The study group Philosophy of Responsibility will host a work-in-progress day at VU Amsterdam. This provides study group members the possibility to come together and gather feedback on novel research in a friendly environment. Everyone is welcome! If you're interested in attending in person, please e-mail Dominik Boll (d.boll@vu.nl). Program: 13:00 – 13:15 arrival and … Continue reading Work-in-progress day – Study Group Philosophy of Responsibility →
OZSW Study Group in Political Philosophy ‘Work in Progress’ Workshop
Utrecht University, Drift 15, Room 003 Drift 15, Utrecht, NetherlandsThis workshop will give Netherlands-based political philosophers a chance to find out what topics colleagues across the country are working on, to strengthen their network within the Dutch political philosophy community, and to discuss some interesting pieces of work in progress. The titles of the papers that have been selected for this workshop are included … Continue reading OZSW Study Group in Political Philosophy ‘Work in Progress’ Workshop →
CfA: The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms
Workshop: The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Initiative Leiden University, The Netherlands 18-19 January 2024 (hybrid format) Call for Abstracts Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of digital platforms as the “core organisational form” of informational capitalism (Cohen, 2017). These algorithmically intermediated spaces constitute important … Continue reading CfA: The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms →
Book manuscript workshop on The Competitive Constraint by Lillian Cicerchia (Amsterdam)
Book manuscript workshop on The Competitive Constraint: The Philosophical Foundations of Class Solidarity Challenges to Democratic Representation and the OZSW study group in political philosophy are jointly organizing a book symposium on Lillian Cicerchia’s (Amsterdam) draft manuscript The Competitive Constraint: The Philosophical Foundations of Class Solidarity. Date: January 19, 2024 Location: REC Building, Roeterseiland Campus, University of Amsterdam. Registration: Due to limited space, … Continue reading Book manuscript workshop on The Competitive Constraint by Lillian Cicerchia (Amsterdam) →
About the OZSW event calendar
The OZSW event calendar lists academic philosophy events organized by/at Dutch universities, and is offered by the OZSW as a service to the research community. Please check the event in question – through their website or organizer – to find out if you could participate and whether registration is required. Obviously we carry no responsibility for non-OZSW events.