The 19th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress will be held virtually June 17-19, 2021. CALL FOR PROPOSALS Theme: Basic Income: Knowledge, Activism, Policy The program committee is now accepting proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, organizing meetings,...
BIEN 2021 Congress: Call for papers
The local organising committee for the 2021 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress in Glasgow are very excited to announce our call for papers for this virtual, online event.We are inviting you to submit papers and pitches for talks, workshops and other activities...
BIEN Congress 2021 – Call for papers
The local organising committee for the 2021 Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress in Glasgow are very excited to announce our call for papers for this virtual, online event.We are inviting you to submit papers and pitches for talks, workshops and other activities...
Congress papers
BIEN | Congress Papers BIEN 2019, Hyderabad Videos of all the plenary sessions are available on youtube. Abstracts of all the concurrent sessions are available here. Full papers and slides of some presentations are available below. Joffre BalceFrom Austerity to...
The North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress has been cancelled because of Covid-19
The North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress has been cancelled because of the Covid-19 virus. The organizers have released the following announcement: With great dismay, we must announce that the NABIG 2020 Congress in Hamilton, Ontario in May will no longer be...
19th BIEN Congress: Videos from plenary sessions
The Basic Income Earth Network's latest Congress has taken place at Hyderabad, India, on the 22-26th August 2019. Now, the videos of all the plenary sessions are online and available for viewing. More information at: BIEN CONGRESS 2019 webpage ...
An outsider’s view of the Basic Income Congress
After a week of conversation at the 2019 BIEN Congress as an outsider to the movement, I want to record some thoughts.
Portugal: Essay prize and congress in political science
The UBIEXP research group and the journal Ethics, Politics & Society (EPS), from the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society, together with the Portuguese Basic Income association, invite submissions for a international essay prize competition on the following...
United States: Interview with Jonathan Herzog, Democratic Candidate for Congress in New York’s 10th District
Jonathan Herzog is a Democratic candidate currently running for US Congress in New York’s 10th District on a platform of Universal Basic Income.
United States: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib backs up basic income bill for the United States
Rashida Tlaib. Picture credit to: HuffPost. On the 30th of May, 2019, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib hosted the 13th Congressional District Women and Families Roundtable with community members and advocates from across the Redford district (Michigan) (1). The...
United States and Canada: North American BIG Congress proposal deadline extended.
The North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress will take place in New York, June 15-16, 2019. The deadline for presentation proposals has been extended to March 1. Asked about the Congress, former coordinator Karl Widerquist said, "I'm going for the 18th...
India: Congress party gets serious about basic income and reaches out to Thomas Piketty for policy design support
Thomas Piketty. Picture credit to: Books Live (Sunday Times) Details are being fed into Rahul Gandhi’s promise of a minimum income guarantee to poor Indians, an announcement made earlier this month. Thomas Piketty, an authority in economics, and particularly in...
United States: 18th USBIG Annual Congress
The 18th annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress will be held next June 15-16th, 2019, at the Silberman School of Social Work of the Hunter College in New York City. The Congress Major Theme is: Basic Income on the Policy Agenda, and the call is...
VIDEO: Release of the BIEN Congress 2018 plenary sessions video recordings
The plenary sessions of the BIEN Congress 2018 are now available to view, here (all). Individually, the recordings can also be watched in the following embedded links. Philip Alston, "Should We Frame Basic Income as a Human Right?" Louise Haagh, "The...
Finland / International: BIEN Congress 2018 (part 2)
After reporting on the two first days of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress in Tampere, Finland, 24th and 25th of August, a second and final part is here lay forth, covering for the event on the last day (26th). (Note 1) Jamie Cooke, Sarath Davala,...
BIEN Congress 2018: release of a revised conference program
The 2018 BIEN Congress, held in Tampere on 24-26 August, has released its revised conference program. In addition to a wide variety of panels and papers covering recent academic and policy discussions on basic income, the program features a series of exciting plenary...
CANADA: NABIG Congress 2018 in Hamilton, Ontario
The 2018 NABIG (North American Basic Income Guarantee) Congress happened in Hamilton, Ontario, from May 24th to May 27th at McMaster University. There were around 120 people presenting and attendance between 270-280 people. The conference was notably diverse, with...
United States: North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress
This is the preliminary program for the North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) Congress, which will happen at the Michael DeGroote Center for Learning and Discovery, in the McMaster University, city of Hamilton, in Ontario, Canada. Registrations can still be...
BIEN Congress 2018: Last days to submit your paper proposals
The 18th BIEN Congress takes place in Tampere (Finland) on 23-26 August on the theme of "Basic Income and the New Universalism: Rethinking the Welfare State in the 21st Century”. We have already received many excellent proposals. For those of you who haven’t this...
LITHUANIA: ESPANet 2018 Congress in Vilnius features Stream on the Political Economy of Basic Income
ESPAnet is the leading comparative social policy conference in Europe. Jurgen De Wispelaere (Bath University) and Heikki Hiilamo (Helsinki University) are coordinating a stream on "The Political Economy of Basic Income: Opportunities, Constraints, Trajectories” for...