PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: Guy Standing TEDx Talk (Oct 30)

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: Guy Standing TEDx Talk (Oct 30)

BIEN co-founder and honorary co-president Guy Standing will be among the speakers at a TEDx event in Prague on October 30.

This is Guy’s second lecture in Prague this year. In May, he spoke at the “Of Men and Money” conference at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art:

The overall theme of this year’s TEDxPrague event is “ours and theirs” or “ours and foreign”. In the words of organizer Matěj Novák:

Ours and Foreign comprises a wide range of topics, from current migration to national identity, from our relationship with our surroundings to immunity, nanotechnology or self-driving cars. Our aim for this year is to bring visitors the most interesting programme that TEDxPrague has ever offered.

For more information on TEDxPrague, including a list of other speakers, see the event webpage.

TED is a nonprofit foundation that aspires to “make great ideas accessible and spark conversation” through activities such as its TED Talks. The TEDx Program supports independent organizers who wish to convene events in their own communities.


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CZECH REPUBLIC: “Of Money and Men” Conference

 

Photo: An Exhibit at DOX Credit: Lux & Jourik (flickr)

An Exhibit at DOX CC Lux & Jourik (flickr)

A conference on economic alternatives, Of Money and Men, will be held in Prague on May 12, 2016, at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.

According to the event description, the conference will investigate universal basic income, as well as the notion of the shared economy and other alternatives to “an unsustainable economy based on constant growth.”

Speakers include Basic Income Earth Network co-founder Guy Standing in addition to other internationally known economists and authors–Robert Skidelsky, Lukáš Kovanda, and Tomáš Sedláček.

The conference will also feature a guided tour of the Soul of Money multimedia exhibition, which uses art to explore “the implications of the grand colonization of today‘s world through the current economic model,” and presentations by two featured artists, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson.

The event will be held in both Czech and English.

For more details, see the event page on the DOX website.


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