THURSDAY 15 APRIL
9.00: coffee & registration
9.45: welcome: Jurgen De Wispelaere, CRÉUM
10.00 – 11.00: Opening Lecture
Louise Haagh, University of York & BIEN
“Basic Income and Public Finance”
Chair: Jurgen De Wispelaere, CRÉUM
11.00 – 12.45: Panel A – Basic Income Models in Canada and the US
Sally Lerner, University of Waterloo
“Education for a Canadian BIG Society”
Jim Mulvale, University of Regina
Rob Rainer, Canada Without Poverty
“Mapping out a Pragmatic Guaranteed Income Architecture for Canada”
Karl Widerquist, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Qatar
“Exporting the Alaska Model: A Model for Reform Around the World”
Chair: Peter Dietsch, CRÉUM
12.45 – 14.00: lunch
14.00 – 15.45: Panel B – Basic Income at the Margins of Employment
Andrea Vick, University of Toronto
Ernie Lightman, University of Toronto
“Precarious Jobs, Precarious Workers: Income Security for Canadians with Episodic Disabilities”
Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario
“Copyright, Creative Work and the Basic Income Grant”
William DiFazio, St. John’s University
Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York
“The Jobless Future and Democracy: Wither Agency?”
Chair: John Rook, National Council for Welfare
15.45 – 16.00: coffee
16.00 – 17.45: Panel C – The Ecological Imperative
Anita Vaillancourt, University of Toronto
“Reconnecting Basic Income in Canada with Indigenous and Ecological Roots”
Michael Howard, University of Maine
“A Cap on Carbon and a Floor on Income: A Defensible Combination in the US?”
Gianne Broughton, Canadian Friends Service Committee
“Outline of an Ecological Argument for BIG”
Chair: Pat Evans, University of Carleton & BIEN Canada
17.45 – 18.45: Keynote
Guy Standing, University of Bath & BIEN
“Basic Income for the Precariat”
Chair: Jim Mulvale, University of Regina & BIEN Canada
FRIDAY 16 APRIL
9.00 – 10.45: Panel D – Economic Crisis and Income Security
Chandra Pasma, Citizens for Public Justice
“The Great Recession: What Happened to Economic Security in 2009?”
James Bryan, Manhattanville College
“The Basic Income Guarantee as an Automatic Stabilizer”
Philip Harvey, Rutgers University
“Learning from the New Deal”
Chair: Pierre-Yves Néron, CRÉUM
10.45 – 11.00: coffee
11.00 – 12.45: Panel E – Funding a Basic Income
Gary Flomenhoft, University of Vermont
“Progress on Basic Income from Common Assets In Vermont”
André Presse, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Götz Werner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
“Stimulating the Economy: Basic Income and the Consumption Tax”
Jeffrey Smith, Forum on Genomics
“Are Geonomies Both Imperturbable and Bountiful”
Chair: David Casassas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & BIEN
12.45 – 14.00: lunch
14.00 – 15.45: Political Forum “The Politics of a Universal Basic Income Grant”
Amélie Chateauneuf, spokesperson FCPASQ
Tony Martin MP
Rob Rainer, Executive Director Canada Without Poverty
Al Sheahen, Committee Member USBIG
Senator Hugh Segal, Deputy Chair of the Subcommittee on Cities
Chair: Sheila Regehr, Director National Council for Welfare
15.45 – 16.30: Closing Lecture
Senator Eduardo Suplicy, São Paulo, Brazil & BIEN
“Steps Towards a Citizen’s Basic Income”
Chair: Almaz Zelleke, The New School & USBIG
16.30: Basic Income Studies: Jurgen De Wispelaere & Karl Widerquist, co-editors BIS
16.35: Closing & Thanks: Mike Howard, USBIG & Jim Mulvale, BIEN Canada
Basic Income Conference in Montréal, 15-16 April 2010 