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Conferences in Montreal: “Hegel After Spinoza” and “Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval”

Sunday, 4 April 2010 in Notices by Jacob Levy | No comments

Two conferences coming up in Montreal:

April 9-10, 2010
Hegel After Spinoza: A Symposium
Friday - 4:00 pm
Keynote Address
John McCumber
Nature vs. Spirit: Hegel’s Reconciliation with Spinoza

Saturday - 10:00 am

Jason Read
“Desire is Man’s Very Essence”: Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality

Caroline Williams
Thinking the Subject between Hegel and Spinoza

1:30 pm
Vittorio Morfino
Spinoza in the Science of Logic

Vance Maxwell
Hegel’s Treatment of Spinoza: Its Scope and Limits

4:00 pm
Keynote Address
Warren Montag
Hegel, sive Spinoza: Towards a History of the Problem

This event is sponsored by:The Beatty Memorial Lectures Committee, Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP), the Department of Philosophy, and the Research Group on Constitutional Studies.

April 15-16, 2010
Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability?

“Times of economic turmoil raise difficult questions but also offer radical new opportunities to rethink and perhaps even rebuild the economic fabric of our society. The prospects and challenges of a BIG policy at a time of economic upheaval is the topic of a 2 day conference held on 15-16 April 2010 at the University of Montréal, hosted by the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM), BIEN Canada and the US Basic Income Guarantee network (USBIG).This first collaboration between the US and Canadian chapters of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) includes keynote addresses from Dr. Louise Haagh (University of York), Prof. Guy Standing (University of Bath), and Senator Eduardo Suplicy (São Paulo, Brasil), as well as a contributions by Senators Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal, Tony Martin MP, Amélie Châteauneuf (spokesperson of FCPASQ), Rob Rainer (Executive Director of Canada Without Poverty), Al Sheahen (Executive Committee Member of USBIG), and Sheila Regehr (Director of National Council of Welfare), and many others.

The program is now available on the conference website at http://bigmontreal.wordpress.com/program/
The conference takes place at:
McGill Faculty Club, Ole’s
3450 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X9

Everyone is welcome to attend and participation is free. To register for the conference please email Jurgen De Wispelaere at BIGMontreal2010@gmail.com with your name and institutional affiliation.

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