Op 21 januari 2026 neemt Ingrid Robeyns deel aan een gesprek in De Balie over de aannames binnen ons economische systeem.”

On January 7 2026, Ingrid Robeyns will give a public lecture at the Max Plank Institute in Cologne. Title TBC.

Catarina Neves will give a talk on Degrowth and Global Justice in the upcoming 2026 BIAPT Conference, taking place in the University of Edinburgh (January 7th-9th). Neves’ talk with discuss the implications of degrowth to middle, and low income countries, particularly those in the Global South. Her talk is part of a panel on Climate…

On December 10 2025, Ingrid Robeyns will be in conversation with Anton Jäger to explore the ethics of extreme wealth concentration and to imagine alternative ways of organising our society. Happening at BOZAR in Brussels.

On December 2 2025, Ingrid Robeyns present at the Political Theory Seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Topic TBC.

Friday, 28 November 2025, Catarina Neves will participate in the the tenth edition of the BPS Festival, the conference for gifted secondary school students. The BPS conference has a broad and in-depth program, focused on personal development and bridging higher education, science, and business. Catarina Neves will give an interactive talk, introducing the Visions for…

On November 20, UNESCO celebrates World Philosophy Day in Paris with a keynote by Ingrid Robeyns on the ethics of inequality and values shaping future societies. In her keynote lecture, Ingrid Robeyns will reflect on the urgent need to rethink the moral and institutional foundations of our societies in the face of deepening inequality, democratic…

On November 5th, 2025, Ingrid Robeyns will deliver the 2025 Sir Thomas Gresham lecture in London. The topic of her lecture will be ‘Limitarianism and Capitalism’. The lecture is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is needed. For more information, visit this page.

October 30-31 2025, Caleb Althorpe will present his paper “Economic Democracy: Workplace and Otherwise” at the Work and Democracy conference being held at the University of Groningen.

28 October, the Visions for the Future Team hosted a Philosophical Cafe with the community of Utrecht University. The team started the evening off by asking the audience to reflect on and write down what comes to mind when they think of a vision for the future, before talking about Degrowth and Economic Democracy as…

18 Outubro, 2025. A Associação de Professores de Filosofia (APF) e a Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia (SPF) organizam o Encontro Nacional de Professores de Filosofia (edição de 2025) na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. O encontro está subordinado ao tema “Espaço público em crise. Filosofia e pensamento crítico”, focando-se numa tripla crise: a…

Tijdens het Springtijd Forum zal Ingrid Robeyns op donderdag 25 september als inspirator optreden tijdens de sessie ‘Schuld opbiechten. Leiderschap in het licht van ecologische waarheid’.

On September 4 2025, Caleb Althorpe will present his paper “Degrowth and the Values of Democracy” at the MANCEPT Workshops, as part of the panel Philosophy of Degrowth.

Plenary Session 1 – Basic Income and the ‘Solidarity Economy’: New Horizons for Social Protection This opening session will explore how universal basic income (UBI) intersects with the global solidarity economy movement to reimagine social protection in the 21st century. Panelists will discuss UBI not just as a policy tool, but as a catalyst for systemic…

July 18 2025, Caleb Althorpe will present his paper “Economic Democracy: Workplace and Otherwise” at the PPE Society London’s First Annual Meeting, being held at King’s College London.

On July 16 2025, Ingrid Robeyns will present at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University on the panel “On Engaged Philosophy” as part of the Public Philosopher event, a day being held in honour of Jo Wolff’s career.

July 15-16 2025, Caleb Althorpe will present his paper “Economic Democracy: Workplace and Otherwise” at the Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference being held at the University of Glasgow.

On July 15 2025, Ingrid Robeyns will discuss her book Limitarianism alongside Jo Wolff at Blackwell’s Books, Oxford. Info and tickets here.

June 25-27 2025, Caleb Althorpe will present his paper “Economic Democracy: Workplace and Otherwise” as part of the panel ‘Justice in the Workplace: Labor, Exploitation, and the Future of Work’ at the Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy.

25-27 June, 2025. Catarina Neves presents her paper ‘Reciprocity and Structural Injustice at the The Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, an organized by the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) at the University of Minho in Braga. The abstract of the paper is as follows: It is difficult to find anyone who has never heard…

5-6 June 2025 – Catarina Neves presented her paper ‘Reciprocity and Structural Injustice’ at the Festival of Ideas, in Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona.

26 May, 2025. Catarina Neves presented her paper ‘Navigating Degrowth: Unpacking Three Challenges’ at the Utrecht University Seminar ‘Exploring Post-Growth across Disciplines’. The abstract of the paper is as follows: Abstract: We are currently living in a context of ecological breakdown, having already exceeded six of the nine planetary boundaries due to anthropogenic activity (Richardson…

22 – 25 May 2025 – Hannah McHugh presents her paper ‘Just States and Markets’ at the Utrecht University Conference ‘The Business Corporation as a Political Actor‘. The abstract of the paper is as follows: We live in a political era defined by sentiments that the globalised economy is working for the benefit of some…

6-7 May 2025 – Hannah McHugh will be a discussant at a workshop launching Lasse Nielson’s new book “A New Theory of Sufficientarian Justice” (Cambridge University Press) at Manchester University.

16 April 2025 – Hannah McHugh, together with her co-author James Hickson (University of Liverpool), will present their paper ‘Republican citizenship in an era of economic globalisation’ at the Political Studies Association Conference in Birmingham. The abstract of the paper is as follows: Dissatisfaction with economic globalisation is insufficiently explained by a focus on distributive…

Op woensdag 16 april geeft Ingrid Robeyns een lezing aan de Universiteit Maastricht, over de vraag of er morele grenzen zouden moeten zijn aan persoonlijke rijkdom. De lezing wordt georganiseerd door Studium Generale, en is na aanmelding hier vrij toegankelijk voor het publiek.

11 – 14 April 2025 – Hannah McHugh will be a discussant at the PhilMod organised First International Conference on the Philosophy of Content Moderation held in Monterrey, California.

March 6 2025 – Hannah McHugh will present at Oxfam Novib’s Philosophical Café in the Hague on the topic of “Individual vs Collective Responsibility.”

On 25 February 2025 Hannah McHugh presented her paper “Empire for Rent: Diagnosing Domination on Social Media” at the Department of Government speaker series at the University of Essex.

On February 19th, Ingrid Robeyns gave a book talk at the Stone center at the University of Chicago. She joined a conversation with professor Steven Durlauf on economic inequality and limitarianism. The event was open to the public. More info at this page.

On February 11, from 12:00 to 13:30, Ingrid Robeyns gave a talk on her book Limitarianism. The Case Against Extreme Wealth at the Stone Inequality Center at Harvard University. The event was open to the public, and more info on the event page here.

February 6-7, 2025 – Catarina Neves together with her co-author Elena Icardi (CEPS – University of Minho), presented their paper ‘Algorithmic and worker domination: what is specific about it?’ at the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Workshop ‘A grim future for workers? Technological developments and work-related domination’ in University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. The paper discusses…

December 17 2024 – Catarina Neves deu uma palestra intitulada “Desafios do futuro: desigualdade e alterações climaticas”, para estudantes do secundário do Colégio Julio Dinis, no Porto, Portugal.

December 13 2024 – Catarina Neves gave a lecture in the Colloquium ‘Basic Income, Workplace Democracy, and Future of Work’ at University of Barcelona.

December 12 2024 – Ingrid Robeyns geeft een lezing over limitarisme en klimaatverandering tijdens het Festival van de Gelijkheid, Gent, 12 december 2024. Info: https://curieus.be/events/limitarisme

December 5-7 2024 – Catarina Neves discussed the recent book The Semi-Future Democracy. A Liberal Theory of the Long-term View (André Santos Campos, 2024) in the International Conference ‘Present Democracy for Future Generations — Results’ at IFILNOVA, Lisbon.

November 28 2024 – Catarina Neves presented her paper “To Work or not to Work? In Favour of a Different View of Economic reciprocity” at the Workshop New Directions in Meaningful Work at Trinity College Dublin.

October 30 2024 – Hannah McHugh presented her paper “Empire for Rent: Diagnosing Domination on Social Media” at the University of Amsterdam Philosophy and Public Affairs Colloquium.

October 15 2024 – Hannah McHugh hosted a Q&A session with London primary school students in Islington on the topic of democracy.