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Public
Lectures
Fall 2010
Gareth Dale
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations,
Brunel University, London, UK
On
Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market |
| Date: |
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 |
| Time: |
5:00 pm |
| Venue: |
Concordia University, Samuel Bronfman Building, Room 301
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-neiges) |
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Professor Gareth Dale is the author of the recently published the volume Karl Polanyi: the Limits of the Market (Polity Press 2010), the first comprehensive introduction to Polanyi's ideas and legacy. |
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| Date: |
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 |
| Time: |
5:00 pm |
| Venue: |
Concordia University, Samuel Bronfman Building, Atrium
1590 Dr. Penfield Ave. (corner of Côte-des-neiges) |
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Award-winning journalist and bestselling author will present an eye-opening and provocative discussion on the damage that extreme wealth does to equality and to a healthy, functioning society. |
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Winter 2009
Bruce Campbell
Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
On
From Despair to Hope?
How the Economic Crisis in the US will Affect Canada:
Priorities for Canada-US Relations in the Obama Era.
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| Date: |
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 |
| Time: |
17:00 – 19:00 |
| Place: |
Samuel Bronfman Building, Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Côte-des-Neiges) |
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| Bruce Campbell is Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, one of Canada’s leading think tanks. He is a frequent media commentator and has written widely on economic and social policy issues. His most recent publication is Living with Uncle: Canada-US Relations in an Age of Empire (Lorimer and CCPA, 2006). |
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Fall 2007
The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy
Lecture Series on Sustainable Livelihood
Professor Jean-Louis Laville
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM, Paris)
Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique
On
Avec Karl Polanyi
vers une Theorie d’économie plurielle |
| Date: |
Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| Time: |
17:00 – 19:00 |
| Place: |
Samuel Bronfman Building, Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Côte-des-Neiges)
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Dr. Jean-Louis Laville is Professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM, Paris), Co-Director of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire pour la sociologie économique and Member of the Karl Polanyi Institute Executive Board of Directors. He has written extensively on the work of Karl Polanyi and on the social and solidarity economy and the third sector. His publications include Dictionnaire de l'autre économie, Paris : Desclée de Brouwer (Paris : Desclée de Brouwer, 2005. With A.D. Cattani); Action publique et économie solidaire (Toulouse : Erès, 2005. With J.P. Magnen, G.C. de França Filho, & A. Médeiros); The Third Sector in Europe (Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2001. With A. Evers) and Sociologie de l’association (Paris : Desclée de Brouwer, 2004. With R. Sainsaulieu), among others.
Dr. Nicholas Spencer
Professor Emeritus of Child Health, University of Warwick
On
Social determinants of child health:
controversies, mechanisms and policy implications |
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| Date: |
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| Time: |
17:00 – 19:00 |
| Place: |
Samuel Bronfman Building, Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Côte-des-Neiges) |
Professor Spencer is President, European Society for Social Pediatrics and former Honorary Consultant Community Pediatrician, Coventry PCT (1990-2003). He has written extensively on poverty and child health and care. His latest publication is Challenging Health Inequalities. From Acheson to Choosing Health. Policy Press, 2007 (With Elizabeth Dowler). Other publications include “Maternal education, lone parenthood, material hardship, maternal smoking and longstanding respiratory problems in childhood: testing a hierarchical conceptual framework”. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:842-6, and “Does material disadvantage explain the increased risk of adverse health, educational and behavioural outcomes among children in lone parent households in Britain? A cross-sectional study”. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:152-7, among others.
Professor Spencer is currently Invited Researcher at the Léa Roback Research Centre.
The event is co-organized with the School of Community and Public Affairs and the
Centre de recherche Léa-Roback sur les inégalités sociales de santé de Montréal.
Winter 2007
Elizabeth May
Leader, The Green Party of Canada
Former Director, Sierra Club of Canada
Discussant: Dimitri Roussopoulos
Founding President, Urban Ecology Centre
Publisher, Black Rose Books
On
EVERYONE IS TALKING GREEN!
But what does this mean?
A DISCUSSION OF ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN CANADA
| Chair: |
Daniel Salée
Principal, School of Community and Public Affairs
Member, Executive Board of Directors, Karl Polanyi Institute |
| Date: |
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| Time: |
18:00 – 20:00 |
| Place: |
St. James United Church
1435 City Councilors, (Corner St. Catherine West)
(Metro Place des Arts. Bus No.15) |
This event is organized in collaboration with The Urban Ecology Centre
and The Council of Canadians.
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Fall 2006
JAI SEN
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, and Director, CACIM - India Institute for Critical Action, New Delhi
Discussant: Professor Georges Lebel
Member of the Quebec Bar and Professor of International Economic Law and Criminal International Law, Département des sciences juridiques, UQAM
On
The Origins and the Dynamics of the World Social Forum
| Date: |
Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| Time: |
18:00 to 20:00 |
| Place: |
School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University |
Professor Sen proposes to explore the significance and meaning of the World Social Forum as a public space where large numbers of people can meet as relatively autonomous and anonymous persons to exchange ideas and experiences. Some may be ‘activists’ or ‘academics’ but all who gather at the world social forums at it various locations are conscious participants in the struggle for the survival of the human race. Professor Sen is Co-editor, World Social Forum. Challenging Empires, New Delhi: Viveka, 2004.
Professor Lebel will discuss the origins of the World Social Forum from 1994 to 2001, the United Nations World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen 1995), the efforts to hold an alternative to the Davos Economic Forum, and the central role of Quebec on the development of the World Social Forum. Professor Lebel is also involved with Alternatives, a Montreal NGO represented on the International Committee of the World Social Forum, and the forthcoming Quebec Social Forum.
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Winter 2006
MARCUS TAYLOR
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Concordia University
On
After Pinochet:
The Promises and Contradictions of 'Third Way' Neoliberalism in Chile
| Date: |
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 |
| Time: |
12:00 - 14:00 |
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Samuel Bronfman Building - Room 301
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-Neiges) |
The
recent electoral triumph of Michelle Bachelet in Chile marked
the fourth consecutive victory of the Concertación, a centre-left
coalition of parties that has held power since the end of
the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990. Espousing a revised form
of neoliberalism that promises to combine economic dynamism
and growth with a concern for social equity, the Concertación
has attempted to fashion a Third Way approach that stands
between and Washington Consensus-style neoliberalism and
the more radical leftism of new Latin American leaders such
as Hugo Chavez. Through an analysis of economic, social
and labour policies and their outcomes, the talk explores
both the successes and limitations of the Concertación's
model of socio-economic development. What potential lessons
does the recent Chilean experience offer to the rest of
Latin America at a time of notable political and social
turmoil?
The talk introduces themes addressed in Dr. Taylor's forthcoming
book: From Pinochet to the 'Third Way'' - Neoliberalism
and Social Transformation in Chile (Pluto Press, June
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PROFESSOR BOB JESSOP
Professor, Department of Sociology
and
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies
Lancaster University
On
Knowledge as a Fictitious Commodity: Insights and Limits
of a Polanyian Analysis
| Date: |
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 |
| Time: |
5 pm - 7 pm |
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Samuel Bronfman Building - Atrium
Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-neiges) |
This
public lecture, organized in collaboration with the Centre
de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES), opened
the 8th Colloque annuel des étudiants-es de cycles supérieurs
du Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES)
L'innovation sociale: acteurs, organisations et institutions,
Concordia University, Montréal March 9-10, 2006. |
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Winter
2005
BRUCE CAMPBELL
Executive Director
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
On
“Of Independence and Faustian Bargains:
Going Down the Deep Integration Road with Uncle Sam”
| Date: |
Wednesday,
April 6th , 2005 |
| Time: |
5:00
pm – 7:00 pm |
| Place:
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Atrium
- Samuel Bronfman Building,
Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-Neiges) |
Bruce
Campbell is Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives, one of Canada’s leading think
tanks. He has written widely on economic and social policy
issues and is co-author of three books including Straight
Through the Heart: How the Liberals Abandoned the Just Society,
published by Harper Collins. Mr. Campbell has, for many
years, coordinated the Centre’s Alternative Federal
Budget - a broad-based civil society initiative of policy
development and contributor to national policy debates.
He is a frequent media commentator and speaker on public
policy issues and is currently writing a book on Canada-US
relations.
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PROFESSOR
ERIK OLIN WRIGHT
Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison
and
PROFESSOR ARCHON FUNG
On
“Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy”
| Date: |
Thursday, February 17th, 2005 |
| Time: |
5:00
pm – 7:00 pm |
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Atrium
- Samuel Bronfman Building,
Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-Neiges) |
Professors
Olin Wright and Fung are editors of Deepening Democracy.
Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance.
The Real Utopias Project IV. (London: Verso, 2003).
Professor Erik Olen Wright’s publications include
Class Counts: Student Edition (Cambridge University
Press, 2000); Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class
Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Interrogating
Inequality (London: Verso, 1994); and, Reconstructing
Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History
(with Elliott Sober and Andrew Levine), (Verso, 1992), among
others.
Professor Archon Fung’s publications include Empowered
Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton
University Press, 2004); Can We Put an End to Workshops?
(with D. O’Rourke and C. Sabel), (Beacon Press, 2001);
Working Capital: The Power of Labor's Pensions
(Edited, with Tessa Hebb and Joel Rogers), (Cornell University
Press, 2001); and Beyond Backward Environmentalism.
(with B. Karkkainen and C. Sabel), (Beacon Press, 2000),
among others.
This
lecture is presented by The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political
Economy, The School of Community and Public Affairs and
CRISES – Concordia University
in collaboration with The Visiting Lecturer’s Committee,
Concordia University.
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Fall 2004
PROFESSOR
ASH AMIN
Department of Geography, University of Durham
On
“Regulating Economic Globalization”
| Date: |
Wednesday,
November 10, 2004 |
| Time: |
4:00
pm – 6:00 pm |
| Place:
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Samuel
Bronfman Building – Room 301
Concordia University
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Cote-des-Neiges) |
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