All are welcome to attend an event highlighting the dialogue on the relationship between the occupy movement and economics on Friday (February 24) from 2:30–5 p.m. in Regis South. Four Canisius professors from the Wehle School of Business and the Department of Philosophy, as well as activists from Occupy Buffalo, will take part. The schedule includes:
2:30-2:45 p.m. – Heron Simmonds-Price; “Growing the Commonwealth: John Locke’s Understanding of Genesis 1:28—GDP or Gift Economies?”
2:45-3 p.m. – Craig Rogers, PhD; “The Audacity of Opportunity in the Face of Occupational Segregation and Tokenism”
3-3:15 p.m. – Michael Gent, PhD; “Neoliberalism and the Great Recession”
3:15-3:45 p.m. – Tanya Loughead, PhD, leads a roundtable discussion
3:45-4 p.m. – Break
4-4:15 p.m. – Henry James and Clinton Parker, “Cooperatives: a Working Model Now and For the Future”
4:15-4:30 p.m. – Albert Brown, “Resource Based Economies: an Emerging Model”
4:30-5 p.m. – Tanya Loughead, PhD, leads a roundtable discussion
Submitted by: Tanya Loughead, PhD, associate professor, philosophy
