Video recordings of past events
Our panelists and moderator discussed the current situation in President Donald Trump’s America and its impact at home and abroad.
Speakers:
Fred Block, Research Professor of Sociology, University of California,Davis.
Margaret R. Somers, Professor of Sociology and History, University of Michigan.
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect, and Professor, Heller School, Brandeis University.
Moderator:
Duncan Cameron, President Emeritus, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, President Emeritus, rabble.ca
The event was organized by the Karl Polanyi Institute in collaboration with the International Karl Polanyi Society, Vienna, Austria.
Date of event: March 10, 2026
The Karl Polanyi Institute launched the Bibliographic Database of International Scholarship - a dynamic, open-access database (2000-2021) of global research influenced by the ideas of Karl Polanyi.
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Date of event: October 23, 2025
A celebration of a new edition of The Great Transformation (Penguin Classics, 2024)
Guest Speaker: Professor Gareth Dale (Brunel University). Author of the Introduction to this new edition
Date of event: October 16, 2024
- Opening Remarks and Session 1: Kari Polanyi Levitt’s contributions to Canadian political economy and to Caribbean political economy. Watch video
- 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
- Session 3: Kari’s Ilona project. Watch video
- Session 4: Round table on the two Polanyis: Kari and Karl. Watch video
Date of event: June 14, 2023
| Date of event: April 21-24, 2021 | ||
| Opening remarks. Watch video | ||
| KEYNOTE ADDRESSES | ||
| Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College, USA. The Market Golem: Polanyi, Schmitt, Anti-Globalism. Watch video | ||
| Ann Pettifor, Prime. Policy Research in Macroeconomics, UK. Can Societies Challenge and Transform the State's Role in Creating, Resourcing and Protecting Today's Global Capital Markets? Watch video | ||
| Sheila Foster, Georgetown University Law Center, USA. The New Era of GlocalismSheila Foster, Georgetown University Law Center, USA. The New Era of Glocalism. Watch video | ||
| Robert Kuttner, Brandeis University and Co-Editor, The American Prospect. The Crisis and the Opportunity. Watch video | ||
| PLENARY SESSIONS | ||
| Plenary # 1: The State as Actor of Transformation - Coping with a Crisis. Lessons from the Past for the Present: New Deal and U.S. War Economy. Watch video | ||
| Plenary # 2: From the Globalization Trilemma to the Political Trilemma of a Social-Ecological Transformation. Watch video | ||
| Plenary # 3: Global-National Responses to COVID-19. Watch video | ||
| Plenary # 4: The Changing Role of the State: What Does it Mean for Europe? Watch video | ||
| Plenary #5: Roundtable on The COVID-19 Pandemic: Putting the Economy in its Place or Putting Democracy at Risk? Watch video | ||
| Plenary # 6: Book Presentation - “Karl Polanyi – The works and life of an epochal thinker” and “Karl Polanyi – Von der entfesselten Wirtschaft zur solidarischen Gesellschaft.“ Watch video | ||
| Plenary # 7: The Shadow Pandemics of Covid-19: Gender-Based Violence, Crippling Debt and Attacks on Civic Space. A Civil-Society. Watch video | ||
| Plenary # 8: Care and Care Work: The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Limits of the Market and the Question of Social Responsibility. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 9: Climate Emergency in the Post-Pandemic Era. Watch video | ||
| PANEL DISCUSSIONS | ||
| Panel # 1: Presentation - Reading Polanyi: Fascism, Culture, Guild Socialism and the State. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 2: State, Market and Migration from a Polanyian Perspective (Part I). Watch video | ||
| Panel # 3: Fictitious Commodities and COVID-19: Culture, Labor and Decommodification. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 4: The Intellectual Journeys of Ilona Duczynska and Karl Polanyi. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 5: Risk Governance and the State in the Post-COVID 21st Century. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 6: Digital Capitalism and the Pandemic. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 7: Roundtable on Market/Place: Exploring Spaces of Exchange. Watch viideo | ||
| Panel # 8: Basic Income, Livelihood, and Democracy in the Post-Pandemic Era. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 9: Neoliberalism, Emancipation and the Pandemic in Latin America. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 10: State, Market and Migration from a Polanyian Perspective (Part II). Watch video | ||
| Panel # 11: Civil Society and the State before and after Covid. Opposition or Collaboration?. Watch video | ||
| Panel # 12: Debt, Precarity, Financialization. Watch video | ||
| CLOSING REMARKS. Watch video |
Speakers: Fred Block, University of California, Davis, US; Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor of The American Prospect, US; and Margaret R. Somers, University of Michigan, US Moderator: Daniel Salée, Concordia University Date of event: October 27, 2020 |
Modérateurs: Marguerite Mendell (Université Concordia) et Gregor Murray (Université de Montréal) Auteures du manifeste: Adelle Blackett (Université McGill), Isabelle Ferreras (UCLouvain), et Dominique Méda (Université Paris Dauphine) Commentaires: Nil Ataogul (TUAC), Pierre-Antoine Harvey (CSQ), Josée Lamoureux (CSN), Jonathan Vallée-Payette (FTQ) In collaboration with Partenariat du CRIMT sur l'expérimentation institutionnelle et l'amélioration du travail and de l’Industrie 4.0, travail et emploi de l’Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique. Date of event: Novembre 17, 2020 |
| Moderators: Marguerite Mendell, Concordia University and Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal | ||
| Authors of the Democratizing Work Manifesto: Julie Battilana, Harvard University and Isabelle Ferreras, Université catholique de Louvain | ||
| Discussants: Lana Payne, UNIFOR; Andrew Jackson, Broadbent Institute; Esteban Kelly, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives; and Jim Stanford, Centre for Future Work | ||
In collaboration with CRIMT Partnership on Institutional Experimentation for Better Work and Industry 4.0, Work and Employment of the International Observatory of the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technology Date of event: November 18, 2020 |
| Participants: Stefan Berger, Ruhr University – Bochum, Germany; James Rhodes, University of Manchester, U.K.; Petra Dolata, University of Calgary, Canada; and Lachlan MacKinnon, Cape Breton University, Canada | ||
Chairperson: Steven High, Concordia University Date of event: November 27, 2020 |
Speakers: Lucy Russell, Editor, Bloomsbury Publishing; Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick, Ireland; and Attila Melegh, Director, Karl Polanyi Center for Global Studies, Budapest, Hungary Moderator: Marguerite Mendell, Concordia University Read the statement from Michael Higgins, President of Ireland, marking the Launch of the Book |
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In collaboration with Bloomsbury Publishing, London, U.K. Date of the event: December 9, 2020 |
Ceremony of the unveiling of a plaque noting the former residence of Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska in Vienna, Austria. The plaque reads: “In this house lived from 1924 to 1933 the economic historian and social anthropologist Karl Polanyi with his wife, historian, Ilona Duczynska, and their daughter Kari” Date of event: September 29, 2015 |
| Date of event: November 6-8, 2014 | ||
| Plenary 1: The Enduring Legacy of Karl Polanyi. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 2: Polanyi and Contemporary Social Thought. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 3: Geopolitics of Financialized Capitalism and Contemporary Debt Bondage. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 4: Towards a New Paradigm. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 5: Freedom in a Complex Society. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 6: Globalization and Development. Watch video | ||
| Plenary 7: Towards a New Paradigm (2). Watch video | ||
| Plenary 8: The Power of Ideas in Karl Polanyi's World of Thought. Watch video | ||
| Special Session: Roundtable on the Power of Market Fundamentalism. Watch video |