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The schedule for INDEP’s first conference is out

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INDEP’s first conference will be held during SASE 2025: online on July 3rd and in person in Montréal, Québec, from July 9th to July 12th. The conference will feature 17 panels and 48 presenters. INDEP’s first conference is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Below is the schedule of INDEP’s conference; a PDF version is available at the end of the page. If you want to see the full SASE schedule, please visit this site.

Location of the event

Palais des congrès de Montréal
1001 Pl. Jean-Paul-Riopelle,
Montréal, QC
H2Y 0A3

Schedule

Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 – Virtual session

10 AM to 11:30 AM – Online
Three visions of democratic economic planning

  • Stefan Meretz – Dimension of Planning in Commonism
  • Raphael Arar – How to Plan an Economy: Speculative Tools for Democratic Economic Planning
  • Antoine Jourdan: Democratic Economic Planning: Lessons form the French Post-War Experience

Moderator: Simon Tremblay-Pepin

Wednesday, July 9th, 2025

10:30 AM to 12 PM – Room 521B
Conceptualizing planning: Discovering language and tools for the problem

  • Dennis Yao – Memory Evolutive Systems and Social Reproduction
  • Mitchelle Szczepanczyk and Jason Chrysostomou – Annual Participatory Planning: An interactive prototype
  • Jan Groos – Playing Postcapitalism

Moderator: Robin Hahnel

1:15 PM to 2:45 PM – Room 521B
Commons and Incentives: mediating between micro and macro scales

  • Dominique Arsenault – Making Plans and Planning Making: Industrial Commons and Democratic Economic Planning
  • Ferdia O’Driscoll – Understanding Rewards in Socialism using Self-Determination Theory

Moderator: Tom O’Brien

1:15 PM to 2:45 PM – Hybrid Room
Roundtable: Mapping the Democratic Economic Planning Ecosystem – Actors, Knowledge, Blindspots, Possibilities

Moderators: Eric Meier and Roland Kulke

3 PM – 4:30 PM – Room 521B
Data, math, and their applications in planning

  • Fernando Stroppa – Mathematical Optimization for a Post-Capitalist Society: A Framework for Sustainable Economic Planning
  • Joseph Vadella – The Problem of Allocating Scarce Resources in a Zero Cost Environment
  • Gabriel Wainio – The Hungriest Thing In The World: Materializing Information Sovereignty Between Earth and Cloud

Moderator: Leone Castar

Thursday, July 10th, 2025

8:30 AM – 10 AM – Room 521B
Framing socialism: the place of planning in postcapitalism

  • Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg – Creative Construction
  • Thomas O’Brien – Planning vs Political Economy
  • Ferdia O’Driscoll – Beyond the Misconception of Socialism as a “Planned” Economy

Moderator: Nicolas Villarreal

10:30 AM – 12 PM – Room 521B
How to get there: advances towards the democratization of the economy

  • Kyle Thompson and Joost Vervoort – Planning With the Trouble: X-Curved Chthonic Conjurations of Resonant Discomfort for Democratic Economic Planning
  • Colleen Schneider and Charles Stevenson – Fiscal and Monetary Coordination for a European Degrowth Transition
  • Justus Henze and Samia Zahra Mohammed – Planning a Solidaric Future: Socialization and Economic Planning as Pathways to an Ecological and Post-Capitalist Future – Connecting Theory and Practice in Dialogue

Moderator: Aaron Benanav

1:15 AM – 2:45 PM – Room 521B
Information, Informatics, and Measurements: Things and their representations in postcapitalist information systems

  • Alejandro Ruiz and Julia Zimmerman – Information System Boundaries in Democratic Economic Planning
  • Alex Creiner – Problems With the Money Signal and the Necessity for Planning in Kind
  • Leone Castar – Social Eyes and Observables: Learning to See and Meet Human Needs in a Postcapitalist World

Moderator: Jan Groos

3 PM – 4:30 PM – Room 521B
Investment, provisioning systems, and their role in planning

  • Solveig Degen – Planning for Social-Ecological Provisioning: The Case for Socialisation to Advance Democratic Economic Planning in the Foundational Economy
  • Nils Rochowicz – The short and long horizon of investment planning
  • Aaron Benanav – Constructing a Socialist Investment Function

Moderator: Christoph Sorg

5 PM – 6:30 PM – Room 521B
Participatory economics in the real world

  • Mitchell Szczepanczyk – Computer Simulations of Participatory Planning: New Evidence for Environmental Protection
  • Anders Sandström – Adding realism to the Participatory Economy Model
  • Robin Hahnel – A Participatory Economy in brief

Moderator: Ferdia O’Driscol

Friday, July 11th, 2025

8:30 AM – 10 AM – Room 521B
Planning and spontaneity in social reproduction: what can and cannot be planned?

  • Nicolas Villarreal – Taxes on Bartering as a Barrier to Coordinating Non-Remunerated Labor
  • Sam Bliss and Adam Wilson- The unplanned magic of actually existing non-market economies
  • Heide Lutosch – Why Care Work Can and Must Be Planned—and Lessons for Democratic Planning as a Whole

Moderator: Audrey Laurin-Lamothe

10:30 AM – 12 PM – Room 521B
Planning from the kitchen: Social reproduction, provisioning and economic democracy

  • Audrey Laurin-Lamothe – Planning from care: How the current democratic planning debate limitates the possibilities to plan from a social reproduction perspective
  • Bengi Akbulut – Organizing the field of needs: Planning for Social Reproduction
  • Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault – Bringing social reproduction in: informality, care work and provisioning systems

Moderator: Simon Tremblay-Pepin

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM – Room 521B
Planning history: what we can learn from past and current practice

  • Pablo Parellada – Insights from supply chain management in socialist planning
  • Jean-François Colomban – The Science Called Forth By Socialist Planning: The Case of K. Polanyi
  • Simon Sutterlütti – Economic Planning: Learnings from the GDR

Moderator: Fikret Adaman

3 PM – 4:30 PM – Room 521B
Planning within planetary boundaries: economic democracy and the environment

  • Andrew Reeves – Lessons for Democratic Economic Planning from Ecological Macroeconomics
  • Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine – Social Participatory Planning on the Question of Climate Crisis
  • Johannnes Buchner – The Strategic Triangle of AI for Ecological Economic Planning in a Circular Economy

Moderator: Bengi Akbulut

5 PM – 6:30 PM – Room 521B
Planning in times of digitalization and climate crisis: On the return of economic planning in capitalism

  • Christoph Sorg – Planning in the longue durée: Why capitalist markets precipitate planning
  • Cecilia Rikap – From corporate and military planning to democratic planning for people and the planet: AI as a testbed
  • Georg Rilinger – How the experimental hand errs: Data politics and the problems of platform design 

Moderators: Jan Groos and Alejandro Ruiz

Saturday, July 12th, 2025

8:30 AM – 10 AM – Room 521B
Prefigurative postcapitalism: real-life cases of economic democratization

  • Azize Aslan – Democratization of the Economy. Social Economy and Cooperatives in Rojava and Northern Syria
  • Shubha Kant Tiwari – Integrating Local and Global Perspectives in Democratic Economic Planning: Insights from Nepal’s Community-Based Models
  • Louis-Maxime Joly – Local currencies and inter-community monetary federalism as experimental spaces for decentralized democratic economic planning

Moderator: Cecilia Rikap

10:30 AM – 12 PM – Room 521B
Towards a practical application of democratic economic planning: the question of operationalization and data

  • Iacob Gagné-Montcalm – A conceptual framework for understanding industrial sectors in Québec
  • Walther Zeugand Jakob Heyer – Holistic economic accounting for a cybernetic planned economy A Conceptual model for a democratic planned economy to satisfy societal needs within planetary boundaries
  • Simon Tremblay-Pepin – Meet me in the middle? Democratic economic planning from macro to micro and back

Moderator: Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault

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