EoF School 2024
The global economy is in constant transformation. The same applies to the language we employ to categorize and understand economic, social, and environmental issues. The meaning that concepts such as inequality, poverty, capital, sustainability, and others have today is not the same as twenty years ago.
As Pope Francis stated many times, reality always exceeds ideas. One of the worldwide central elements of transformation is the digital revolution. Human and non-human experiences have been significantly impacted by the advent of the internet and, more recently, of AI systems. The 4th edition of the EoF School focuses on this change, inquiring about one topic that, in the previous year, has been at the core of EoF community reflections: the various forms of capital (spiritual, relational, social, economic, environmental, and so on) and, as a complement, the notion of capabilities (basic human functionings). In his last address to the EoF community, the Pope invited to find the ‘unity of the opposites’ of the contemporary global economy. The opposition between real and digital life, online and offline, does not capture people’s experience worldwide. Today, we live in the on-life era, where the digital and the real reciprocally affect each other. Therefore, the 4th EoF school will address the following question: what capitals do we need to address the problems of the on-life era? What are the on-life capabilities that are constitutive of human experience? Through the inquiry into the new-old forms of capitals and capabilities, we aim to understand how to address global problems such as inequalities, discrimination, misery, exclusion, and many others.
EoF young people’s vocation to fight manifested injustices and give a soul to the world economy has not changed. Therefore, it is urgent to understand how to decline it in the on-life era.
>>> READ THE ARTICLE BY PAOLO SANTORI
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SCIENTIFIC COORDINATORS: Valentina Rotondi (SUPSI & University of Oxford), Paolo Santori (Tilburg University)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Tracey Freiberg (The New School), Plinio Limata (LUMSA University), Caren Rodrigues (St. Joseph Institute of Management), Tatiana Vasconcelos Fleming (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT: Valentina Erasmo (University of Turin)
CALENDAR
> March 4 | 6 PM CET | LUIGINO BRUNI (LUMSA University): Back to the Future: the New Era of Capitals
> April 8 | 6 PM CET | JOANNA BRYSON (Hertie School): Digital Governance and the Economics of Human Cooperation
> May 6 | 6 PM CET | ROOS SLEGERS (Tilburg University): Attention, scarcity, and love
> June 17 (new date) | 6 PM CET | FLAVIO COMIM (Ramon Llull University): Inequalities and injustices in the On-life era: a capability perspective
> July 8 | 6 PM CET | Sir ANGUS DEATON (Princeton University): Rethinking Capitalism
> September 9 | 7 PM CET | MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM (University of Chicago): Justice for Animals: Practical Progress through Philosophical Theory
INFO
- WHEN: One lecture per Month, usually Monday from 6 PM to 7 PM (CET)
- WHERE: Zoom. Lectures will be later uploaded on YouTube
- LANGUAGE: English
- STRUCTURE OF LECTURE: Keynote’s talk + two young EoF discussant + Q&A
- CERTIFICATE AND HANDOUTS: If available, handouts will be shared with the course participants. A certificate of attendance will be released at the end of the course, on request. Attendance is recommended but not mandatory. You must attend at least 70% of the course to receive the certificate
- Free online course open to everyone, promoted by EoF ACADEMY
- Deadline for registration: MARCH 1, 2024
CONTACT: [email protected]
March 4 | LUIGINO BRUNI
(LUMSA University)
Back to the Future:
the New Era of Capitals
April 8 | JOANNA BRYSON
(HERTIE School)
Digital Governance and the Economics of Human Cooperation
May 6 | ROOS SLEGERS
(TILBURG University)
Attention, Scarcity,
and Love
June 17 | FLAVIO COMIM
(IQS, RAMON LLULL University)
Inequalites and Injustices in the On-Life Era: a Capability Perspective
July 8 | SIR ANGUS DEATON
NOBEL Laureate in ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Rethinking Capitalism
(non-public video)
Sept. 9 | MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
(University of Chicago)
Justice for Animals: Practical Progress through Philosophical Theory
