Lukas Becht, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), Universität Wien
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