Thursday, November 4 (Central European Time)

18:00–20:00 Keynote Address

Philippe Van Parijs (UC Louvain): Basic Income: A Capitalist Road to Communism?

Friday, November 5

9:00–12:30 Session 1: Old Collectivism: Chapters from the History of Communist Economic Thought

Chair: Naomi Woltring (Utrecht University)

Roumen Avramov (Center for Advance Studies, Sofia): Proto-Collectivism in Bulgaria – „Communal Capitalism“ and Its Sequels

Péter Bodó (Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven): Do Recent Developments in Artifi-cial Intelligence Invalidate the Conclusions of the Socialist Calculation Debate?

Oleg Kharkhordin (European University St. Petersburg): Communism of Re-Formation of Everyday Practices on the Monastic Model? Collectives in Theory and Practice, Russia 1917–1957

Coffee Break

Chenggang Xu (Imperial College London): Collectivism, Confucianism, or Communism? The Case of China

Paul Dragos Aligica (George Mason University, Washington D.C.): Integral Collectivism: Mihail Man-oilescu’s System Revisited

14:00 – 17:30 Session 2: On the Political Economy of the „New New-Left“ in the West

Chair: Adela Hîncu (Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena)

Ulrich Brinkmann (Technical University Darmstadt): Is Populism the Core of a New Collectivism? Comments on Selected (Western) Cases

Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin): Collective Challenges Without Collective Responses. Notes Towards a Paper on Collectivism

Jedediah Britton-Purdy (Columbia University, New York): How to Be a Liberal-Conservative Socialist 2021

Coffee Break

Peter Boettke (George Mason University, Washington D.C.): Liberalism, Socialism and Our Future

Natan Sznaider (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo): The Asi: A River that Runs Through an Israeli Kibbutz. Property, Collective and Individual Rights in Israel

Naomi Woltring (Utrecht University): Collectivist Ideas and Practices in Post-1989 Dutch Social Democracy

18:00–20:00 Roundtable Talk: Bringing the State Back in Again? Views from Eastern Europe

Chair: János Mátyás Kovács (RECET/University of Vienna)

Marta Bucholc (University of Warsaw)

G. M. Tamás (Central European University, Vienna/Budapest)

Philipp Ther (RECET/ University of Vienna)

Saturday, November 6

9:00–13:00 Session 3: On the Political Economy of New Collectivism in the East

Chair: Lukas Becht (RECET/Vienna University)

Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University, Budapest/Vienna): Sleepwalking the Counter-Revolution? Interwar, State-Socialist, and Post-Communist Scripts of Collectivism in Hungary

Marta Bucholc (University of Warsaw): „Two Souls, Alas, Dwell in my Breast“. New Collectivism in Poland

Rebecca E. Karl (New York University): Marxism and Feminism in China's Current Era: Some Random Thoughts

Coffee Break

Adela Hîncu (Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena): Democracy, Collectivism, and Participatory Budgeting in 2010s Romania

Vítězslav Sommer (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): Searching for Political Relevance? The Economic Ideas of the Contemporary Czech Left from a Long-term Historical Perspective

13:00 End of Conference