As financial instruments and metrics are increasingly leveraged to govern biodiversity\, urgent questions arise regarding their legitimacy\, efficacy\, and justice. This NWO sponsored workshop aims to bring together researchers from philosophy\, finance\, economics\, law\, and environmental governance to discuss the emerging field of biodiversity finance. We are particularly interested in questions such as: How can biodiversity impacts be measured and incorporated into financial decision-making? What role should banks\, investors\, and public institutions play in biodiversity conservation? What governance structures are needed to ensure effective biodiversity finance? And how to ensure a just biodiversity finance\, for both human and non-human communities involved?
\nWe are delighted to welcome as keynote speakers: \;dr. Helen Kopnina (Northumbria University) and \;dr. Helen Toxopeus (Utrecht University).
\nKey Themes
\nWe welcome submissions addressing\, but not limited to\, the following areas:
\nAbstract submission Guidelines
\nThe workshop will take place in the historic city of Groningen. While there is no registration fee\, participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation.
If you have any questions\, please feel free to email: j.a.m.de.grefte@rug.nl
Recent changes in the world of work &ndash\; \;changes such as growing precarity in people&rsquo\;s access to the goods of work\, the rise of platform work\, the resurgent popularity of the ideal of productive self-sufficiency\, and the unequal impact of automation and AI &ndash\; have renewed interest in how work might be valued\, compensated\, and organized differently. The moral issues raised by these changes are not new\, however\, and we would benefit from revisiting the long history of thinking about ideals of work and its place in the good life. This conference turns to the history of philosophy and political economy for utopian and radical perspectives on work. We will explore how philosophers and political economists from Plato to Gandhi saw the rational or democratic organization of firms\, unions\, and labor markets as means of advancing justice\, freedom\, and virtue at work. In particular\, we are interested in insights from these figures that might help to address today&rsquo\;s injustices surrounding work. The conference will conclude with a panel on the overall relevance of returning to utopian and revolutionary thinkers from our past. What (if anything) can we learn from them for the 21st century? \;
\nThe conference will focus on three major themes: \;
\nWorker rights and worker control \;
\nWe welcome submissions on any utopian or radical historical figure or movement that addresses one or more of these themes. That could include:
\nLabor\, the good life\, and the just society in ancient philosophy\, for example: the division of labor in Plato&rsquo\;s Republic\; Aristotle on work\, politics\, and leisure\; Aristophanes&rsquo\; Assemblywomen \;
\nUtopian socialism in the 19th century\, including Babeuf\, Saint Simon\, Owen\, Fourier\, etc. \;
\nFeminist proposals for rethinking domestic labor\, or the place of social reproduction in the rational society more generally\, such as in Kollontai and Tristan \;
\nRussian radicals and utopians\, such as: Nikolay Chernyshevsky\, Peter Kropotkin\, Alexander Bogdanov \;
\nLabor utopias in literature\, for instance those of Le Guin and Callenbach
\nLabor utopias in Anarchist thought \;
\nThis event is part of the Ammodo project "The political philosophy of work - expanding our vision" and is organized by Lisa M. Herzog (l.m.herzog@rug.nl) and Tyler C. Re (t.c.re@rug.nl) at the University of Groningen\, Philosophy Faculty. For more information about the project\, please visit \;https://www.rug.nl/staff/l.m.herzog/project-description.pdf. \;
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