Past Events — Events

An international conference to commemorate the anarchist thinker and geographer Peter Kropotkin, a century since his death.

The 1919 rebellion by the Habsburg Empire’s Hungarian subjects—millions of working men and women—has not been treated kindly by historians over the past century for fear that full disclosure of its true dimensions may spark a repeat performance on a global scale, bringing both capitalism and socialism as we know them to their knees.

In this talk, we discuss why the international community should not reward bad behaviour, and should oppose Canada’s bid for a seat on the UN Security Council. 

A  discussion on urban planning and radical alternatives to neoliberal urbanism.

Across the world, a new wave of urban social movements are arising: movements building economic, social, and political alternatives based on solidarity, equality, and participation. At the forefront of these, social ecology is emerging as a rich body of ideas spanning disciplines as diverse as democracy, economics, and urbanism to technology, philosophy, and social development.