WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016
ImPRovE Conference: Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3
Morning Program – Roundtable on Social Innovation
Launch of the Social Innovation Track of the ImPRovE conference
| 09:00 – 10:15 | Stijn Oosterlynck (University of Antwerp). A transversal analysis of 30 case studies in social innovation: Work in progress & General Discussion |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Roundtable: How to improve the participation of stakeholders in European poverty policies? |
| Presentation by Gert Verschraegen and Yuri Kazepov | |
| Reaction & pinpointing some main challenges, by Mikael Stigendal, Marjorie Jouen (Commissatiat général à l’égalité des territoires) and Frank Moulaert | |
| Group discussion |
Afternoon Program: 500 years of UTOPIA
In cooperation with Centre Pieter Gillis
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Date: 3 February 2016 |
Thomas More’s Utopia was first published in 1516 in Leuven. Five hundred years later, the book is still famous for its social criticism and for its intellectual experiment of imagining a ‘utopian society’ based on entirely different principles, such as the abolition of private property.
More’s introduction to the book is a letter addressed to his good friend Peter Giles (Pieter Gillis), Flemish humanist and town clerk of Antwerp at that time. More and Giles were also good friends to Erasmus. The narrative framework of Utopia is to be located in Antwerp, where the fictitious character Hythlodaeus supposedly engaged in conversation with More and Giles, and related about his adventures as a seaman on an island named ‘Utopia’, situated in the New World.
The Centre Pieter Gillis and the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy (University of Antwerp) want to celebrate this anniversary by organizing an academic event in Antwerp about Utopia and its meaning in past and present, and by framing the annual Pieter Gillis lecture around More’s Utopia.
This day on Utopia also constitutes the opening event of the final conference of ImPRovE, a research project about poverty reduction in Europe.
| Discussing Utopia Today | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Thomas More’s Utopia as a Dystopia in its Particular Place in Time Prof. dr. Guido Latré Professor of English Literature and Culture – Université Catholique de LouvainClick here to read the abstract of this lecture. |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 – 16:20 | Utopia and the elimination of poverty Prof. dr. Philippe Van Parijs, Utopia and Social Europe Click here to read the abstract of this lecture. |
| 16:20 – 17:00 | Panel exchange: Toon Vandevelde, Bea Cantillon and John Hills.Moderator: Tim Goedemé |
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Annual Pieter Gillis Lecture: Utopia a Republic of Letters |
| 19:30 – 19:40 | Introduction by prof. dr. Willem Lemmens, Chairman of the Centre Peter Giles (University of Antwerp) |
| 19:40 – 20:40 | Dr. Joanne Paul Lecturer in the History of Ideas, New College of the Humanities, United KingdomClick here to read the abstract of this lecture |
| 20:40 – 20:45 | Concluding remarks by prof. dr. Bea Cantillon, President of the Centre for Social Policy (University of Antwerp) |
| 20:45 – 22:00 | Welcome reception |