Open Lecture - The Modern Corporation: The Problem of Purpose

The EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community “Social Power & Social Change” is organising an online lecture and a discussion session.


 

Lecture Title: The Modern Corporation: The Problem of Purpose

Who: Professor Andrej RUS, University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia
When: Wednesday, March 27th, 16h15 to 17h45 (Central European Time)
Content: Corporations are fantastic beasts. They exist only on paper and yet they employ hundreds of thousands of people, they build factories, skyscrapers, and business campuses. They produce goods and services, market and sell them, make money and use it to expand and buy other companies. They own diverse assets from land, buildings, machinery to art. They can borrow huge amounts of money, own any number of other companies, get sued and go bankrupt. They are everywhere on the streets, shopping centers, homes and in human neural systems where corporate brands can induce pleasure comparable to satisfaction of basic human needs.

--> To Participate: Contact Prof. SCHMITT (brian.schmitt@cyu.fr) for the Zoom link.


 

Discussion: The Modern Corporation: Hope for the Future ?

Who: Associate professor Calin GOINA, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, Andrej RUS, University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and associate professor Brian T. SCHMITT, CY Cergy Paris University, Cergy-Pontoise
When: Wednesday, March 27th, 17h45 to 18h15 (Central European Time)
Content: A discussion and Q&A on the power of corporations to make social change, either positive or negative. What makes corporations so powerful? How effective can governments – national, regional, and municipal – be at reigning in corporations? Are new legal structure needed to counter-balance corporate power? What might they look like?

--> To Participate: Contact Prof. SCHMITT (brian.schmitt@cyu.fr) for the Zoom link.