February 19-20th, 2027 - Workshop: Economic and Philosophical Perspectives on Meritocracy 

Speakers:

  • Philippe Van Parijs — UCLouvain
  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen — Aarhus University
  • Debopam Bhattacharya — University of Cambridge
  • Aaron Reeves — London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • Felix Elwert — University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Michelle Jackson — Stanford University
  • Rajiv Sethi — Barnard College, Columbia University
  • Jahel Queralt — Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Coorganiser
  • Steven N. Durlauf — University of Chicago — Coorganiser

 

November 5-6th , 2026 - Workshop: Meritocracy; prospects and retrospectives. 

Speakers:

  • David Miller — University of Oxford
  • Andreas Bengtson — Aarhus University
  • Gloria Mähringer — Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
  • Rayan Semery-Palumbo — University of Oxford
  • Pascal Mowla — University of Oxford
  • Marius Baumann — Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
  • Ryan Cox — University of Sydney (participación en línea)
  • Thomas Mulligan — Georgetown University
  • Huub Brouwer — Tilburg University — Coorganiser
  • Jahel Queralt — Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Coorganiser

Web:  https://link.springer.com/collections/jfijcibdhg

 

May 29th, 2026 - Workshop: Work and Social Justice (Universitat de Barcelona)

Speakers:

  • Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain): "Basic income and the importance of work"
  • Kate Vredenburgh (LSE): "Autonomy and AI agents"
  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus): "Two discrimination distinctions"

 

May 20th, 2026 - Chris Zhang's PhD thesis defense 

Committee:

  • Anca Gheaus (CEU)
  • Tom Parr (Warwick)
  • Pablo Scotto (UB)

 

January 27th, 2026 - Workshop on Iñigo González-Ricoy's book manuscript Labor in the Boardroom

Workshop at LMU Munich.

 

December 19th, 2025 - Colloquium with Jean-Philippe Deranty

Law and Philosophy Colloquium with Jean-Philippe Deranty (Macquarie University).

 

October 24th, 2025 - Workshop on The Right to Work 

Workshop at the University of Barcelona's Law School.  

 

October 17th, 2025 - Colloquium with Grant Rozeboom 

Law and Philosophy Colloquium with Grant Rozeboom (Saint Mary's College of California): "When Morality Issues Social Imperatives: Toward a Normenlehre."

 

October 15th, 2025 - PhD Workshop with Grant Rozeboom (Saint Mary's College of California)

 

 

October 14th, 2025 - Workshop on Grant Rozeboom's book manuscript The Character of Equality at Work

With Serena Olsaretti (UPF), Iñigo González Ricoy (UB), and Andrew Williams (UPF).

 

June 13th, 2025 - Colloquium with Rutger Claassen

Law and Philosophy Colloquium with Rutger Claassen (Utrecht University): "Neither property-owning democracy nor market socialism: Towards social ownership." 

 

April 3rd and 4th, 2025 - Workshop: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN A CHANGING WORLD OF WORK
Speakers:

  • Michal Masny (MIT) Work and the Good of Everyday Detachment; 
  • Zöe Clark (Brown) Deus Ex Machina?: Freedom and the Machine Question in the 21st Century; 
  • Alexander Bryan (Cambridge) When jobs become (more) hazardous; 
  • Huub Brouwer and Willem van der Deijl (Tilburg) Tax cuts for socially valuable work; 
  • Tobias Jaeger (Freiburg) Basic Income Exit as a Social Good; 
  • Xiyue Yang (CEU) A Progressive Approach to Sharing Necessary Burdensome Work; and
  • Victor Chung (Toronto) The Efficiency Objection to Workplace Democracy: A Paretian Approach. 

Keynotes delivered by Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) Working from Home: Socialising at Work, and Julie Rose (Dartmouth) The Social Costs of the Elite's Work Culture: An Egalitarian Case for Universal Work Time Regulations.

Book of abstracts here.

 

March 7th, 2025 - Colloquium with Ugur Aytaç

Law and Philosophy Colloquium with Ugur Aytaç (Utrecht University): "Justifying a labor right to counterpublics." 

 

October/November, 2024 - Seminars on Political Philosophy and Work (Adrián Herranz and Iñigo González Ricoy)

  • October 23rd, 2024 - Aïda Palacios: "Arendt y el trabajo."
  • October 30th, 2024 - José Luis Moreno-Pestaña: "Cuerpo y trabajo: explotación económica y explotación cultural."
  • November 5th, 2024 - Maria Medina-Vicent: "La infuencia del discurso gerencial en el movimiento feminista hoy."
  • November 14th, 2024 - César Rendueles: "El trabajo como mercancía ficticia. Karl Polanyi y la crítica antropolótica del mercado laboral."
  • November 20th, 2024 - Nuria Sánchez Madrid: "Filosofía del trabajo y teoría republicana en Kant. Una lectura en clave interseccional."

 

October 11th, 2024 - Colloquium with Daniel Halliday

Law and Philosophy Colloquium with Daniel Halliday (University of Melbourne): "A theory of when free riding is wrong."