BIEN 2022 Conference, Brisbane 26-28 September
Hybrid event (mix of online and face-to-face).
Registration is open until Monday 19 September: https://www.bien2022.com/registration
A letter from Sarath Davala, Chair and Hilde Latour Vice-Chair:
Dear friends of BIEN,
The much-awaited BIEN Congress is here - 26th to 28th of September. This annual global event is the largest gathering of scholars, activists, and students studying basic income. BIEN has been organising international Congresses since 1986, and this one is the 21st BIEN Congress.
It is a hybrid Congress allowing people to participate both online and physically in Brisbane, Australia. It’s been three years since we’ve had a physical Congress. The last physical Congress was in 2019 in Hyderabad, India attended by over 350 delegates from over 45 countries.
The three-day action-packed Congress in Brisbane is a rare opportunity to listen to the cutting edge research on both theoretical and policy questions.
We are living in times of great crises and great opportunities. We are living in a century that makes us feel that the human civilization is on the brink of extinction. In the same breath, it also makes us feel that we are inaugurating a new era full of opportunity and the promise of abundance and prosperity. This unique moment is aptly expressed in the theme of this year’s Congress: Crisis and Transformation.
BIEN is proud to present its 21st Congress that has an impressive array of star speakers: Feminist Scholar Kathi Weeks, Belgian Philosopher Philippe van Parijs, the relentless crusader of basic income in the US and a prolific writer Scott Santens, the man who catapulted basic income discussion into mainstream electoral politics in the US Andrew Yang, and many more from all over the world.
Come, join us and listen to and interact with some of the finest minds working on Basic Income.
Highlights of the Congress
BIEN2022’s headline theme of Crisis & Transformation invites Congress participants to interrogate the role basic income can play in addressing the major ecological, health and economic crises we confront.
Australia is among the many countries to have experienced catastrophic bushfires, floods and droughts in recent years. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic ripped through our society, and economic inequality and insecurity continue to grow. Natural disasters and the pandemic forced national and state governments to introduce radical policy interventions, including in the area of income support. These interventions proved temporary. But could they hold important lessons for basic income researchers and advocates?
BIEN2022 comprises over 200 papers, panels and roundtables presented by leading thinkers, researchers, policymakers and activists from around the world. Highlights include: Kathi Weeks on Work Futures & Post-Productivism, Philippe van Parijs on Climate on Covid, Putin: Dawn or dusk for UBI?, and contributions from leading UBI advocate Scott Santens and artist and activist Jessie Golem.
Experts from the World Bank, ILO, CEPAL and ODI will examine the potential of Emergency Basic Income in light of the of the pandemic experience. Other international speakers include, Annie Miller, Almaz Zelleke, Yanu Prasetyo, Sarath Davala, Ugo Gentilini, Hyosang Ahn, Hilde Latour, Karl Widerquist, Toru Yamamori, Louise Haagh, Neil Howard and many more.
BIEN2022 includes sessions on basic income and health, analysis of experiments in South Korea, Brazil, North America and Europe, as well as film screenings.
The full conference programme is available here. https://www.bien2022.com/programme
For those traveling to Brisbane, location and accommodation information is available
at https://www.bien2022.com/location
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