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SASE Meeting 2008
University of Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa Rica
July 21-23, 2008


“Economic Flexibility and Social Stability in the Age of Globalization”

The theme of the SASE 2008 meeting is suggested by Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation. Polanyi interprets the history of industrial society in the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of a pendulum-like “double movement”. Call for Papers.


One-day conference on Karl Polanyi


The Université populaire et citoyenne de Paris hosted a two day international conference on “Innovations socio-économiques. Le débat contemporain” organized by Institute Board Member, Jean Louis Laville. The conference included a one-day session on “Revisiter Polanyi”. The event was held at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), Paris. June 25-26, 2007. Program.


Continental Network for the Co-Production of Knowledge
2006-2007

The Karl Polanyi Institute is hosting a project on A Continental Network for the Co-Production of Knowledge, Research and Training. One of the activities organized by this project is a conference and an international training seminar on “The Processes of Co-Construction of Social Policy. Social Economy, Poverty Reduction and Labour market access”, held at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 11-15, 2006.
Program


International Videoconference
November 9th, 2005


Professors Luis Blaum and Saúl Keifman, Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Economía para el Desarrollo (CIDED), Universidad de Tres de Febrero organized a videoconference on November 9, 2005. Professor Kari Polanyi Levitt gave a lecture on “Karl Polanyi’s Ideas on Globalization and Development”. The participants included professors and researchers from universities in Argentina and France: Alejandro Onofri, CIDED-Universidad de Tres de Febrero and Universidad de La Plata; Daniel Heymann, María Luján Leiva, Alberto Mulller, Guillermo Quirós, and Julio Ruiz from Universidad de Buenos Aires; Fernando Lagrave from Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto; Alexandre Roig from Universidad del Salvador; Carlos Carballo from Universidad Católica Argentina, and Jorge Gaggero, Centro de Economía y Finanzas para el Desarrollo de la Argentina, Argentina, Bruno Theret from Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris and the Université Paris Dauphine; Jaime Marques-Pereira, Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble.





Public Forum

Manfred Bienefeld on China's Role(s) in the Current Financial Crisis: Cause, Facilitator and / or Solution?Thursday, March 19th, 2009


11th International Karl Polanyi Conference

Conference Program
Int. Karl Polanyi Conference
“The Relevance of Karl Polanyi for the 21st Century”,
Concordia University, December 9-11, 2008.


Request for Research Collaboration

Request for Research Collaboration on Karl Polanyi and Edward Palmer Thompson.


New Publication
Essais de Karl Polanyi. Introduction par Michele Cangiani et Jérôme Maucourant.

Institute News
SASE Meeting San Jose, Costa Rica July 21-23, 2008. The theme of the SASE meeting is suggested by Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.
Professor Jean-Louis Laville Coordinator of European activities of the Karl Polanyi Institute

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