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12th BIEN CONGRESS, June 2008, Dublin (Ireland)
The 12th International Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) will be held on 20-21 June 2008 in Dublin, Ireland. The theme of this World Congress is: Inequality and Development in a Globalised Economy - The Basic Income Option. This two-day event involving participants from all the continents of the world will be preceded by a one-day event (June 19, 2008) which will focus on Basic Income in Ireland and will be open to all participants in the World Congress.
This Congress will combine plenary sessions featuring invited speakers and parallel workshops with volunteered papers. Major themes to be addressed include:
- Why Basic Income provides a key part of the answer to the challenges posed on issues such as inequality and development in the emerging globalised world.
- How a Basic Income system can be operationalised and achieved - politically, institutionally and technically.
- The way forward if Basic Income approaches and systems are to become a reality in the foreseeable future.
Call for papers and panel coordinators. A Call for Papers has been issued on September 1st 2007. There will be capacity for a large number of parallel sessions each lasting 90 minutes and with a maximum of three presentations per session. To create more coherence, a substantial proportion of the sessions will take the form of panels, i.e. pre-organised workshops on a common issue.
The Organising Committee for Congress 2008 would welcome proposals from panel coordinators. Proposals for workshops are also welcome. The Organising Committee would also welcome proposals from individuals independent of the panels. Civil society organisations are also encouraged to participate.
The topics on which individual papers and/or panel proposals would be welcome include
Basic Income and:
- Work
- Environment
- Poverty
- Justice
- Progress
- Development
- Inequality
- Globalisation
- Compassion
- Social Sustainability
- Gender
- Pensions
- Children
- Marginalised groups
- People with Disabilities
- People of employment age
- Business
- Economic Growth
- Consumption
- Costings (of various approaches to introducing Basic Income)
- Pathways to Basic Income
- Africa
- South and Central America
- USA
- Europe
- Asia/Pacific
- Particular countries
- Population
- Happiness
- Citizenship
- Social Capital
- Civil Society
- Wellbeing
- Caring
- Participation
- Economic sustainability
- Culture
Individual papers and/or panel proposals could also look at issues such as
- Justification(s) for Basic Income
- Basic Income and current welfare arrangements
- Political strategies in moving towards the introduction of a Basic Income system
- Technical issues to be addressed in moving towards a Basic Income system.
Papers may be written in any language but the abstract must be submitted in English and the working language of the Congress will be English.
Full details are available in the Call for Papers. The organizing team looks forward to receiving proposals as soon as possible after that date. Full details will be available on the Congress website via www.basicincome.org
Proposals should reach the organising committee of the Congress as soon as possible and no later than February 1st, 2008. Acceptance of panel and workshop proposals will be confirmed by the Organising Committee by March 1st, 2008 at the latest. [This confirmation of acceptance will be provided earlier to those who submit proposals earlier.]
Proposals for papers, presentations or contributions (by individuals or as part of a panel or workshop) should include the following information:
1. Name
2. Affiliation (if applicable) including job title and organisation
3. Address
4. Telephone number (including international access code)
5. email address
6. Title of the presentation/contribution
7. Abstract (summary of 50 to 150 words)
These should be emailed to papers@basicincomeireland.com
Details concerning registration for the conference, accommodation, etc. will be available on the Congress website www.basicincomeireland.com and will be emailed in due course to all those whose papers are accepted for presentation at the Congress.