EDI Panels at the 2022 Difference & Justice Conference
"Basic Human Rights: What Does an Equitable Future Look Like?"
11:00 - 11:50 AM The Right to a Home: The Intersections of Housing and Racial Justice
1:30 - 2:20 PM Economic Rights and Economic Security
Bard Alumni/ae Taking Action
Ben Baum is the Deputy Chief of Staff and Member Services Director for Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18). He has worked for the Congressman since 2017 when he was a junior at Bard College.
The mutating virus of global inequality
Join us for our second Economic Democracy Keynote with scholar Jayati Ghosh, Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Massachusetts- Amherst and Advisor to the United Nations HLAB on Economic and Social Affairs.
Global Forum on Democratizing Work
WORK: DEMOCRATIZE, DECOMMODIFY, REMEDIATE
5–7 October 2021 / Online
Registration opens June 1st
You’re invited to the first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work co-sponsored by the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative.
William "Sandy" Darity Awarded with Honorary Doctorate
Faculty Sponsor OSUN-EDI Director, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College has awarded William "Sandy" Darity with an Honorary Doctorate (Spring 2021).
Economic Rights and Racial Justice
April 27, 2021
With an introduction by EDI Founding Director Pavlina Tcherneva.
Featured Past Events
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Good Jobs for All: A Plan for Kingston & NewburghBringing the Green New Deal and the Job Guarantee to Kingston and Newburgh. A Bard College student proposal for people powered public service employment.
Kingston, NY and Newburgh, NY (Spring 2021) -
Research-to-Action Speaker SeriesSpecial guest, Rohan Grey, in conversation with EDI Director Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Each discussed their respective experiences working with legislators on various policy documents: the Job Guarantee Resolution, ABC Act, WPA Act, and other policy work in the US and abroad.
Upcoming Events
- 6/06MondayMonday, June 6, 2022 – Friday, June 10, 2022
Summer Workshop in Public Finance and Economic Policy
OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative
The Open Society University Network welcomes undergraduate applications for its summer workshop in Public Finance and Economic Policy. Organized and hosted by the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative, this five-day workshop is for undergraduate students interested in public policy to tackle economic instability and insecurity, and in understanding the financing capacity and policy space available to governments to pursue these aims.
The workshop provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to learn about the latest research on modern money, public finance, and public policies that tackle economic instability and insecurity.
June 6-10, 2022
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
All undergraduate students, regardless of whether they attend an OSUN institution or not, are welcome. Applicants from partner OSUN institutions are eligible for financial assistance and are especially encouraged to apply.
COVID and the climate crisis have taught us that governments must act decisively to tackle the most pressing challenges before us, and not leave solutions exclusively to private actors. These developments have led to a rethinking of the role of the state on a global scale. How shall we think about the policy options before different governments? What are their abilities to achieve them? What kind of real or financial constraints do they face? This workshop will provide students with a new framework for thinking about these questions and with concrete tools and techniques to explore these policy-relevant concerns.