Past events

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.  

A celebratory conference in honour of Kari Polanyi Levitt's 100^th birthday

Conference program

Watch video of session 1: Kari Polanyi Levitt’s Contributions to Canadian Political Economy and to Caribbean Political Economy

Watch video of session 2: Kari Polanyi Levitt’s Contributions to Political Economy, Economic Development Theory, the History of Economic Thought and to Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Society

Watch video of session 3: Kari’s Ilona Project

Watch video of session 4: Round Table: The Two Polanyis: Kari and Karl

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

Moderator: Daniel Salée, Concordia University

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

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

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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

Speaker: 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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Le terrain de la décroissance

Speaker: 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

Read the message from Michael Higgins, President of Ireland, who wrote the Preface to the book

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

Speakers: 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, and Isabelle Ferreras, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

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

Moderators: Marguerite Mendell, Concordia University, and 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; and Dominique Méda, Université Paris Dauphine, France

Conférence discutant: Nil Ataogul, TUAC Québec; Pierre-Antoine Harvey, CSQ; Josée Lamoureux, CSN; and Jonathan Vallée-Payette, FTQ

Modérateurs: Marguerite Mendell, Concordia University, and 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; and 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 and 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

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

Book Launch: Karl Polanyi’s Vision of a Socialist Transformation, Black Rose Books

Editors: Michael Brie, Institute for Critical Social Analysis, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany and Claus Thomasberger, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

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

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

Film and Discussion: The Borneo Case

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

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

Speaker: Mathieu Charbonneau, Post-Doctoral Student, Karl Polanyi Institute

Conference: Globalization, Financialization and Development

Event to celebrate the Reconocimiento Ifigenia Martínez awarded to Professor Kari Polanyi Levitt by the Center for Research and Studies in Financial Economics, 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, Black Rose Books

Speaker and Editor: Michael Brie, Institute for Critical Social Analysis, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany

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

The Jack Nissensen Public Dialogue on Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate

Spaeker: Clive HamiltonC, harles Sturt University, Australia

Commentators: Jim Thomas, ETC Group and Hannah McKinnon, Environmental Defence 

Moderator: Diana Bronson, Food Secure Canada

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

Speaker: Steve Dubb, Research Director, Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland

Transition Towards An Ecological And Social Economy

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

Organized by the David O’Brien Centre For Sustainable Enterprise, 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

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

Speaker: Pat Mooney, ETC Group

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; and Patrick Bonin (Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique - AQLPA)

Moderator: Diana Bronson (Programme Manager, ETC Group)

Democratic Equality – What Went Wrong

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

Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market

Speaker: Gareth Dale, Politics and International Relations, Brunel University, UK

The Trouble with Billionaires

Speaker: Linda McQuaig, Journalist and Author

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

Speaker: Bruce Campbell, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Avec Karl Polanyi vers une Theorie d’économie plurielle

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

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

Speaker: Elizabeth May, Leader, The Green Party of Canada

The Origins and the Dynamics of the World Social Forum

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

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

Speaker: Marcus Taylor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

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

Speaker: Bob Jessop, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK

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

Speaker: Bruce Campbell, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Dilemmas of Deliberative Democracy

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

Regulating Economic Globalization

Speaker: Ash Amin, Geography, University of Durham, UK