Visions for the Future

Past Events

02 Feb

Speaker Series with Dr. Alyssa Battistoni

02/02/26    
15:00 - 16:30
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature If you would like to receive calendar invites with the links to all our speaker series events [...]
19 Jan

Speaker Series with Dr. Aaron Benanav

19/01/26    
15:30 - 17:00
Beyond Capitalism: Framework for a Multidimensional Economics If you would like to receive calendar invites with the links to all our speaker series events and [...]
03 Dec

Public Lecture – Isabelle Ferreras: From Shareholder Capitalism to Economic Democracy

03/12/25    
20:00 - 21:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7wAMRAIpl8 Why is it time to make companies more democratic? Since neoliberalism took hold of the world in the 1970s, shareholder power has increased significantly. [...]
01 Dec

Speaker Series with Dr. Barry Maguire

01/12/25    
15:30 - 17:00
Socialism and the Collective Ownership of the Means of Production (joint work with Jan Kandiyali) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXRN4NJyB_Y About the session: Historically, socialism has been identified with [...]
20 Nov

Speaker Series with Dr. Lisa Herzog

20/11/25    
14:00 - 16:00
Online workshop on Lisa Herzog's 'The Democratic Marketplace. How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals' (Harvard University Press, 2025). With a presentation [...]
17 Oct

Speaker Series with Christine Berry

17/10/25    
14:00 - 15:30
Ours: Reclaiming ownership of what matters. 17 October, 14.00-15.30 (CEST) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdD_qwf2xc About the session: Join Christine Berry and Caleb Althorpe for a conversation about what a [...]
23 Sep

Can there be prosperity without growth? What does a post-growth society look like? With a.o. economist Tim Jackson.

23/09/25    
20:00 - 21:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oys3ZLAb3g Under capitalism, we have learned that more is always better: more innovation, more consumption, more wealth. But we can't keep growing forever, according to [...]
23 Sep

Tim Jackson on The Care Economy - a meeting for policy advisors, professionals in the public domain, and academics

23/09/25    
10:00 - 12:00
Utrecht (Universiteitsmuseum), Tuesday 23 September, 10.00-12.00 Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. In our hearts [...]
19 Sep

Speaker Series with Dr. Elizabeth Anderson

19/09/25    
16:00 - 17:30
From Limitarianism to a Better World, September 19 at 4pm (CEST) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqzyWDekPCQ About the session: After offering additional reasons for setting limits on individual wealth [...]
03 Sep

Philosophy of Degrowth Panel at 2025 MANCEPT Workshops

03/09/25 - 05/09/25    
All Day
University of Manchester, Sep 3-5. Call for papers below. Event program Convenors: Caleb Althorpe (Utrecht University) and Catarina Neves (Utrecht University) The concept of ‘degrowth’ and [...]