New York, NY, February 25 – 27, 2011
The Tenth Annual North American Basic Income Conference: Models for Social Transformation will take place in New York City on Friday, February 25 through Sunday February 27, 2011. This conference will be a joint event of the USBIG Network, and BI/RG Canada. It will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA). Attendees at the USBIG conference are welcome to attend any of the EEA’s events.
Featured speakers include Stanley Aronowitz, of the City University of New York, and Charles Murray, of the American Enterprise institute. Stanley Aronowitz is the author of several books including, The Jobless Future. Murray is also the author of several books including, In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. The two will address each other in session entitled, “Left and Right on Basic Income.”
The North American Basic Income Conference was originally “the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network Conference,” and was organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network. It expanded in 2010 to become a joint event of the USBIG Network and the Basic Income / Revenu Garanti Canada (BI/RG Canada). Since then, it has been a North American Conference held on alternate years in the United States and Canada.
Scholars, activists, and others are invited to propose papers, and organize panel discussions on BIG or topics related to poverty and the distribution of property. All points of view are welcome. Proposals from any discipline are welcomed. Anyone interested in making a presentation or organizing a panel should submit a proposal to the chair of the organizing committee: Karl Widerquist: Karl@Widerquist.com.
9th Basic Income Conference in Montréal, 15-16 April 2010, organized by CRÉUM Montréal, BIEN Canada and USBIG
Times of economic turmoil raise difficult questions but also offer radical new opportunities to rethink and perhaps even rebuild the economic fabric of our society. The current global economic recession is no exception. In recent months a growing number of activists and scholars have promoted the idea of a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) as a feasible and desirable policy instrument to help us out of the current economic crisis.
The prospects and challenges of a BIG policy at a time of economic upheaval is the topic of a 2 day conference held on 15-16 April 2010 at the University of Montréal, hosted by the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM), BIEN Canada and the US Basic Income Guarantee network (USBIG).
This first collaboration between the US and Canadian chapters of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) includes keynote addresses from Dr. Louise Haagh (University of York), Prof. Guy Standing (University of Bath), and Senator Eduardo Suplicy (São Paulo, Brasil), as well as a Political Forum on “The Politics of the Basic Income Guarantee” featuring Senators Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal, Tony Martin MP, Amélie Châteauneuf (spokesperson of FCPASQ), Rob Rainer (Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty), Al Sheahen (Executive Committee Member of USBIG), and Sheila Regehr (Director of National Council of Welfare). In addition there will be 5 panels with more than a dozen papers from scholars and practitioners discussing a variety of issues related to the prospects and challenges of introducing a BIG in Canada or the US.
The full program is now available on the conference website at http://bigmontreal.wordpress.com/
Everyone is welcome to attend and participation is free. To register for the conference please email Jurgen De Wispelaere at BIGMontreal2010@gmail.com with your name and institutional affiliation.
February 27 – March 1, 2009
Sheraton New York Hotel
811 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street., New York, NY
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The Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston,
MA, March 7-9, 2008
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Featured Speakers:
Philippe Van Parijs, Eduardo Suplicy, Guy Standing,
Yannick Vanderborght, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Sean Healy and Brigid Reynolds
New York, NY, February 23-25, 2007
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Philadelphia, PA February 24-26, 2006
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New York City, 4-6 March 2005
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Washington, DC, 20-22 February 2004
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New York City, 21-23 February 2003.
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New York City, 8-9March 2002.
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The USBIG Network held a seriers of seminars from January 2000 to July 2001. Information on them can be found here.