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.

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.

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

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

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

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

6/12
Monday

Monday, June 12, 2023 – Sunday, June 18, 2023
OSUN Summer Workshop in Public Finance and Economic Policy
2nd Annual Workshop
Bard College Campus; Other OSUN-EDI Summer Workshop
Public Finance and Economic Policy
June 12–18, 2023
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

***The 2023 application period is closed. We plan to announce the call for applications for the 2024 workshop in September 2023.***

The Open Society University Network (OSUN) welcomes undergraduate applications for its summer workshop in Public Finance and Economic Policy. Organized and hosted by the OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI), this eight-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.

Learn more: https://edi.bard.edu/teaching/osun-summer-workshop/

Bard College Campus; Other