Articles by Martin Blanchard

“Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability?”, 15-16 April 2010, Université de Montréal.  

Dear Colleagues,

You might be interested in participating in an upcoming conference on ”Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability?”, to be held on 15-16 April 2010 at the Université de Montréal. Jointly organized by CRÉUM, BIEN Canada and USBIG, this conference will examine the role of the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) as a radical new approach to rethink the economic fabric of our society in the current economic turmoil.

The conference includes keynote addresses from Dr. Louise Haagh (University of York), Prof. Guy Standing (University of Bath), and Senator Eduardo Suplicy (São Paulo,Brasil), and a roundtable discussion featuring Senators Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal, Amélie Châteauneuf (FCPASQ), Rob Rainer (Canada Without Poverty), Sheila Regehr (National Council of Welfare) and Allan Sheahen (USBIG).

We invite panel presentations from academic scholars, practitioners and policy advocates on a wide variety of topics dealing with the challenges of designing, promoting or instituting a BIG in the current economic climate.Everyone is welcome to attend. For further information please visit the conference website at: http://bigmontreal.wordpress.com/

best wishes,

Jurgen De Wispelaere

BIG Montreal conference organizer

The University of Montreal’s Centre de recherche en éthique (CREUM) is proud to announce its senior fellowship grant. We are inviting applications of professor-researchers for residential fellowships which can vary in length according to individual circumstances. Fellowships up to 40 000 $ will be awarded for the academic year 2009-2010.

CREUM’s mission is to contribute to interdisciplinary research and graduate training in the areas of fundamental and applied ethics.

We encourage applications from researchers working in the principal research domains of CRÉUM : fundamental ethics, ethics and politics, ethics and health, ethics and economy, ethics and the environment. We also accept applications from different domains, inasmuch as their research has a direct link with ethics.

The University of Montreal is a francophone institution. Applicants are expected to have at least a working knowledge of French.

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Montreal, May 1-3 2008

In collaboration with McGill University, The Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM) is proud to invite everyone to attend its international conference on “Liberal Neutrality : A Re-evaluation”. The conference is open to the general public and no registration is required.

You will find here a Poster and a Programme.

Invited speakers:

Anthony Appiah; Richard Arneson; Arash Abizadeh; George Crowder; Charles Larmore; Jacob Levy; Stephen Macedo; Peter de Marneffe; Ruwen Ogien; Alan Patten; George Sher; Christine Sypnowich; Steven Wall and Daniel Weinstock.

+ Student session on Saturday.

Where and when ?

May 1 - 3, 2008
McGill University
Leacock Building
Room 232
855 Sherbrooke Street West

See http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/spip.php?article765 for details.