Stefan Schwarzkopf – March 9th – 10:00 GMT Abstract: Contemporary ideas about society have a profound and lengthy history – connected in a genealogy to theological ideas. For instance, the market is often considered as a space of choice which reveals true value, outside of… Read More »Economic Theology: Markets & Marketisation
Elizabeth Anderson – March 4th 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: Elizabeth Anderson – John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Drawing from my book manuscript on the history of the Protestant work ethic from its… Read More »The Great Reversal: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers
Lynne Layton and Nidesh Lawtoo – February 23rd 2021 – 16:00 GMT Abstract: Theme 1: Ideas Lying Around Date: February 23rd Presented in collaboration with Deep Institutional Innovation for Sustainability (DIIS). “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs,… Read More »E&S 2021 Kickoff and Follow-up
As of last Wednesday (13/01/21) the Economy & Society Summer School (E&S) has opened for applications with a new and improved website. We have previously written about the E&S and how it impacted on the creation of the HECAT project. We are proud to say… Read More »The Economy & Society Summer School 2021
Today we’re brushing the cobwebs off by having our monthly WP lead meeting to keep ourselves updated on what everyone in the project is up to. Our agenda is relatively simple today, mostly focusing on updating one another on where each work package is in… Read More »Work Package Lead Meeting – January 12
We’re excited to announce the finalization of a significant deliverable. You can find it on our deliverables page https://hecat.eu/deliverables/ or download it through this link. The document itself is quite long and we will be writing several blog posts in the near future about it.… Read More »New Deliverable: An Ethical Review of Algorithms
This past Friday (September 25th) we had our first consortium meeting with all of our partners present since our project first launched in February – which feels like it was a lifetime ago now! Originally our entire consortium was to meet in person once each… Read More »Our First Consortium Meeting – Profiling or Visualising?
Good morning all, today our project has reached another milestone by sending another deliverable to the EU. As Hecat intends to build a more ethical algorithm, it is essential that we understand and critique what already exists. This report exists to inform us of the… Read More »New Deliverable: Report on Commonly Used Algorithms and their Performance
This has been a very productive week for the HECAT project, with several important deadlines hit. We wanted to take a moment and update all of you. We would like to thank our partners in Sciences Po (France) for submitting their deliverable on the User… Read More »This Week in HECAT
Job Overview: We are currently seeking a FULL TIME or PART TIME EU PROJECT MANAGER to join the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology. WIT is currently coordinating the EU funded H2020 project, HECAT, in association with nine other consortium members from Denmark,… Read More »Job Announcement: Project Manager Role