The registration is open for the North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress, May 9 – 11th, 2013, in New York City.
This event is co-organized by the Basic Income Canada Network and the United States Basic Income Guarantee Network.
Featured speakers for this year’s NABIG Congress include:
Sheri Berman, Barnard College, author of The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century Jurgen De Wispelaere, McGill University, co-editor of The Ethics of Stakeholding. Carole Pateman, UCLA and Cardiff University, co-author of Basic Income Worldwide: Horizons of Reform David Casassas, University of Barcelona, co-editor of Basic Income in the Age of Great Inequalities James Riccio, MDRC, co-author of “Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations: Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program” Darrick Hamilton, The New School, co-author of “Can ‘Baby Bonds’ Eliminate the Racial Wealth Gap in Putative Post-Racial America?”
Registration for the congress through our host the Eastern Economics Association is now open at https://eeaorg.myshopify.com/
Scroll down to the bottom of the registration options for the USBIG rates, which are US$155 for those employed by an academic institution, and US$95 for all others. The registration deadline is March 15th, 2013.
Registration for hotel rooms at the congress venue, the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Avenue (at 53rd Street), is now open at
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1206292897&key=31548
The EEA negotiated group rate is available through April 7th, 2013, but is subject to availability, so early booking is advised.
Further information on the Congress can be found at
https://www.usbig.net/index.php
(Please note that the deadline for paper proposals has passed.)
