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Citizen's Income for All?
The
Citizen's Income Trust's seminar series
The
UK is today experiencing one of the worst economic crises
of the post-War era. The current economic downturn is likely
to affect the wellbeing and opportunities of British citizens
for years to come, and will be especially painful for those
vulnerable groups and individuals that were already struggling
when the economy was booming. In addition, the crisis seriously
impedes the capacity of the UK government to address these
problems, and many citizens aren't convinced that they're
going about it the right way. (Recent proposals for welfare
activation in particular are a major cause of concern amongst
policy analysts and advocates.) One policy instrument which
the Government ought to consider as part of the solution
to the crisis is a Citizen's Income, granted unconditionally
as a right of citizenship, and this seminar series examines
the prospects of instituting a Citizen's Income in the current
economic climate.
Speakers,
dates and venues
Tuesday
10 February, 2-4pm - University of Newport, Wales
Dr.
Tony Fitzpatrick, University of Nottingham
'Citizen's
Income and Paternalism'
Venue:
School of Health and Social Sciences, University of Wales,
Newport (Lodge Road, Caerleon)
Info
and RSVP: gideon.calder@newport.ac.uk
Wednesday
4 March, 1.15-3pm - University of York
Professor
Bill Jordan, University of Plymouth
'Citizen's
Income and the Crash: Credit, Debt and the Citizen's Income'
Venue:
Politics Department, Derwent College, Room D013, University
of York
Info
and RSVP: lh11@york.ac.uk
Tuesday
10 March, 5-7 p.m. - University of Nottingham
Dr.
Louise Haagh, University of York
'Citizen's
Income, Varieties of Capitalism and Occupational Freedom'
Venue:
Room B1, Law & Social Sciences Building, University
of Nottingham
Info
and RSVP: tony.fitzpatrick@nottingham.ac.uk
Friday
20 March, 3-5pm - Queen's University Belfast
Dr.
Stuart White, University of Oxford
'Basic
Income versus Basic Capital: Can We Resolve the Disagreement?'
Venue:
Conference Room (20.103), School of Politics, International
Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
Info
and RSVP: keith.breen@qub.ac.uk
This
seminar series is organised by the Citizen's Income
Trust, in collaboration with the Centre for Social Ethics,
University of Newport, Wales; the Department of Politics,
University of York; the International Centre for Public
and Social Policy, University of Nottingham; and the School
of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's
University Belfast.
For
general enuiries email seminars2009@citizensincome.org.
For information about specific seminars please contact the
respective coordinators.
Biographies
of Speakers
Tony
Fitzpatrick
is a Reader at the University of Nottingham. His recent
publications include New Theories of Welfare (2005) and
Applied Ethics and Social Problems (2008). He is the co-editor
of the journal Policy & Politics and was the principal
editor of the 3-volume International Encyclopaedia of Social
Policy (2006).
Louise
Haagh is Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Graduate
School at the University of York. She is a world poverty,
labour studies and social policy specialist working in the
field of comparative labour market institutions, welfare
regimes and the political economy of development. She is
the author of Citizenship, Labour Markets and Democratization
(2002) and co-editor of Social Policy Reform and Market
Governance in Latin America (2002). Louise Haagh is associate
editor of Basic Income Studies (www.bepress.com/bis) and
a member of the executive committee of the Basic Income
Earth Network (BIEN), an international network that fosters
informed discussion about basic income.
Bill
Jordan is Professor of Social Policy at Plymouth and
Huddersfield Universities. He studied Politics, Philosophy
and Economics at Oxford, and worked for 20 years in UK social
services, as well as teaching social work and social policy.
He is the author of 25 books, including most recently Welfare
and Well-being: Social Value in Public Policy' (2008) and
Social Policy for the 21st Century: New Perspectives, Big
Issues (2006), and has held visiting chairs in the Netherlands,
Germany, Denmark, Czech and Slovak Republics and Hungary.
Stuart
White is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and
International Relations, where he is also Director of the
Public Policy Unit, and a tutor at Jesus College, Oxford
University. His research focuses on egalitarianism in theory
and practice, with a particular interest in theoretical
traditions and policy ideas which are simultaneously anti-capitalist
and anti-statist. He is the author of The Civic Minimum
(2003) and Equality (2006).
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