Past Events
02
Feb
Speaker Series with Dr. Alyssa Battistoni
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 [...]