University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
November 5-6th 2010
PRESENTATION
This Workshop on Workplace Democracy will discuss normative perspectives on workplace democracy from an interdisciplinary perspective, including a wide range of disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, politics or sociology. The workshop will take place at the University of Minho in November the 5th and 6th 2010 and will be be part of the more broad Conference on Democratic Theory Today--In Political Philosophy and Theory (November, 3-6th). The workshop is co-organized by the Universities of Minho (Portugal), Louvain (Belgium) and Barcelona (Spain). Convenors of the workshop are Axel Gosseries and Iñigo González Ricoy. See previous workshops here.
PROGRAM
Friday 5th: 2-6 p.m.
- Inigo Gonzalez (U of Barcelona)
The Republican Case for Workplace Democracy
- Geert Demuijnck (EDHEC, Lille)
TBA
- Daniel Attas (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)
Justice as Fairness and workplace democracy
Saturday 6th: 2-6 p.m.
- Jeffrey Moriarty (Bentley)
Why Normative Stakeholder Theorists Should Support Stakeholder Democracy
- Andres de Francisco (Complutense University of Madrid)
A Republican Approach to Industrial Democracy
- Axel Gosseries (FNRS & University of Louvain)
The Firm's Demos
DIRECTIONS
The nearest airport to Braga is the Sá Carneiro International Airport in Porto, around 50 Km away from Braga. Bus lines number 604 and 600 take you from the airport to Porto centre (every 20 minutes). You can also take the Subway. Line E connects the airport to one of Porto’s Train Stations (Campanhã) and/ or the bus station (Trindade). From the centre of Porto you may take a bus or the train to Braga. Check it out in google maps.
VENUE
Theater room B2
Gualtar Campus
Universidade do Minho
There will be signs on the campus
ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS
Chaire Hoover d'éthique economique et sociale, Université Catholique de Louvain
Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Universidade do Minho
Seminari de Filosofia Política, Universitat de Barcelona
