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Events

EDI events include Democratizing Work Conference Fall 2021, OSUN Faculty Workshop on Pedagogy of the Right to Employment and Economic Perspectives for Policy Making, Research-to-Action and Economic Democracy Lecture Series, and the OSUN EDI 2022 Summer Workshop on Public Finance and Economic Policy.
The Job Guarantee as a Tool in the Fight Against Poverty

The Job Guarantee as a Tool in the Fight Against Poverty

United Nations Human Rights Council Event

Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, experts on poverty and employment policy, as well as leading job guarantee advocates and practitioners unpack the role of the job guarantee in the fight against poverty and the conditions under which it can be successful.

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Assessing Global Progress in Advancing the Job Guarantee

Assessing Global Progress in Advancing the Job Guarantee

#DemocratizingWork Global Workshop Series

This panel brings experts and policymakers who are developing or already managing large-scale national employment policies informed by the principles of the job guarantee. There are multi-pronged strategies for securing the right to decent work to all and developing employment-centered economic policies. 

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When Jobs Return: Results from Marienthal's Fight against Unemployment with Lukas Lehner

When Jobs Return: Results from Marienthal's Fight against Unemployment with Lukas Lehner

Research-to-Action Lecture Series


Lukas Lehner, of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford Martin School, presented the results from a study that evaluates a one-of-a-kind job creation program in Marienthal, Austria. The pilot aims to eliminate long-term unemployment in the municipality and improve participants’ economic and social situation. The program was recently discussed in the New Yorker.
 

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EDI Panels at the 2022 Difference & Justice Conference

EDI Panels at the 2022 Difference & Justice Conference

Bard College | Sponsored by Open Society University Foundation

"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

The mutating virus of global inequality

The mutating virus of global inequality

Jayati Ghosh

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.

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Global Forum on Democratizing Work

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.

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William "Sandy" Darity Awarded with Honorary Doctorate

William "Sandy" Darity Awarded with Honorary Doctorate

Bard College 2021

Faculty Sponsor OSUN-EDI Director, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Bard College has awarded William "Sandy" Darity with an Honorary Doctorate (Spring 2021).

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Upcoming Events

  • 10/11
    Wednesday
    Wednesday, October 11, 2023

    Mark Paul: "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Case for Economic Rights in the US"

    EDI Fall 2023 Keynote Lecture
    Campus Center, Weis Cinema 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Mark Paul is an Assistant Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and former fellow of the Roosevelt Institute and Data for Progress. His research and writing have appeared in the New York Times, The Economist, Washington Post, The Financial Times, among other publications. He has testified to Congress on numerous occasions, including most recently in March 2023 to House Oversight on President Biden's energy policies and inflation. The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights (University of Chicago Press) is his first book. 

    Watch livestream here: bit.ly/edi_markpaul

    For more information, email [email protected]

    12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Campus Center, Weis Cinema

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