NEWS & EVENTS

BIENN Project News and Events

November 18-19, 2024. II BIENN International Workshop (Granada 2024).

September 12, 2024. ESG Spain 25 Aniversario de Forética. Pedro Francés-Gómez invitado a la sesión de celebración de los 25 años de Forética. https://foretica.org/esgspain/

June 18-20 2024. ISUS Conference 2024 Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics. R. Cejudo: The Utility of Arts and Culture.

November 30- December 1, 2023. I BIENN International Workshop (Granada 2023) Papers by members of project:

    • L. Marcon: Entitlements in the Multilevel Public Goods Game.
    • Klasser, K., Marcon, L. & Sanjaume, L.:  Climate change and climate ethics: a Kantian solution to compliance to Rawls’s just saving principle.
    • Cecchini-Manara, E. Ciscato, P Guarnieri & L. Spadoni: An Experiment on Ecological Restoration.
    • Faillo, M., DegliAntoni, G. & Cecchini-Manara, V.:  What do consumers want to know? An experimental study on consumers’ preferences over labels content for food products and its effect on purchasing behavior.
    • Sacconi: Proposal for a New Social Contract Theory.
    • Heyd: The Natural Contract. The Social Contract and the Protection of Nature

September 21-23, 2023.  5th WINIR (World Interdisciplinary Network of Institutional Research) Annual Conference, University of Catania, Italy.

    • Pedro Francés Gómez: “Prospects of a liberal-egalitarian principle for institutional design”
    • Marcon: Chaired the symposium: “Topics in Sustainability Research I”
    • Virginia Cecchini (and co-authors): “Ecological Restoration, Institutional Design and Governance”
    • Marcon, V. Cecchini (and co-authors): “Efficiency and Equity in the Management of Scarce Water Supply: Investigating Norm Perception and Behavioral Change in the Face of the Italian Water Crisis.”

April 27, 2023. Giuseppe Danese (Post-Doc Fellow University of Pennsylvania / University of Padova). TECNEX Workshop Series Talk: The Symbolic Dimension of Corporate Practice. Pierre Bourdieu and the rise of corporate wokeness. Doctoral Program in Economics (UGR) Talk: Changing behavior in organizations.  Theoretical models and applicable lessons.

March 15-16, 2023. International online Workshop of the SIEU (Ibero-American Society for Utilitarian Studies) Organized by the University of La Coruña (Spain). P. Francés-Gómez presented: “BIENN Project. Cambio climático y crisis existencial” http://genredpur2023.sieu.es/index2.html

February 2-4, 2023. Int. Conference of the Spanish Association for Ethics and Political Philosophy (AEEFP), Univ. Jaume I Castellón. Papers by R. Cejudo: “Deepfakes and artistic fakes. El cuestionamiento del contrato entre autores, públicos y gestores culturales mediante los deepfakes”; P. Francés-Gómez: “Cambio climático y mejora moral a través de la IA. ¿Sócrates o Aristóteles?” https://xxisemanaaeefp.wixsite.com/congreso2023

May 23-24, 2022. Annual Conference EBEN Spain. Papers by R. Cejudo (“La Deontología Profesional en las Empresas y Organizaciones Éticas”) and P. Francés-Gómez (“Deontología profesional como micro-contrato social: “concepto moral denso y asociación»). R. Cejudo: Plenary session invited speaker on “Teaching business ethics.” https://eben.esic.edu/

 
Some past events (BENEB I – III projects)

November 20-21 2021. International Workshop “Heterodox Economics for Sustainability” Roskilde University (Denmark). P. Francés Gómez Invited. Paper: A Liberal Egalitarian Principle for Corporate Justice.

June 10-12, 2021. XXVIII Congreso de EBEN España: “Economía Social y Ética: Un nuevo pacto Empresa-Sociedad” Córdoba 10-12 de junio de 2021. Hybrid National Conference.  R. Cejudo Córdoba, Chair, organizing committee; P. Francés Gómez, L. Marcon, F. Díaz-Bretones, J.M. González, chairs of sessions (plenary and parallel); Hagen Henry (Univ. of Helsinki), Keynote guest speaker.

May 7, 2021. EBEN online Workshops Series:  Workshop 2: Shared Responsibilities for a New Social Contract. Date: May 7th, 2021 Hour: 11,00 – 14,00 Europe Central Time. Convener: Pedro Francés-Gómez; participants L. Sacconi, M. Faillo, G. DegliAntoni.

December 19-22, 2019. 15th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics. Milán. P. Francés Gómez & L. Marcon; M. Faillo, G. DegliAntoni, present papers.

August 8-11, 2019. Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Boston, MA US.

    • César González Cantón: Conference Welcome & Plenary:  «Gender Equity and Intersectionality» as Invited speaker.
    • César González Cantón: Breakfast Workshop: «Gender Equity and Intersectionality»: Organizer and Discussant.
    • Pedro Francés Gómez convenor and chair of special session: The Social Contract Tradition in Business Ethics. Ties that Bind twenty years on. Session included L. Sacconi, C. Lütge, S. Blanc and T. Donaldson.  

June 20-21,2019. International Association for Business in Society (IABS) Business & Society Paper Development Workshop Barcelona 20-21 Junio 2019. Pedro Francés Gómez and G. Granda. Paper “From Euro to Brexit. The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility in the European Union (1999-2019)”

June 11-14, 2019. XXXII EBEN Annual Conference and XXVII Congreso anual de EBEN España. Valencia (España).

    • L. Marcon: Doctoral Workshop (“Psychological realism within a normative theory”).
    • Cejudo and César G. Cantón: Special track on BENEB Project.
    • Pedro Francés Gómez Organizing committee; invited talk: “The role of business from the perspective of a contractarían approach to ethics.”

October 3-6, 2018. XIX Semana de ética de la AEEFP. Ferrol (Universidad de Coruña). Pedro Francés Gómez “Veil of ignorance, Hypothetical agreement and the sense of justice: An experimental design.” R. Cejudo Córdoba- Simposio Homenaje a Esperanza Guisán.

September 6-9, 2018.  EBEN Research Conference “Corruption and Beyond – Fraudulent Behavior in and of Corporations” Vienna (Austria). Pedro Francés Gómez: “A liberal-egalitarian social-contract of the firm. Contractarianism and corruption.”

August 9-12 2028. Society for Business Ethics Meeting 2018 Chicago. Pedro Frances Gómez & L. Sacconi: “A Liberal-egalitarian social contract of the firm.”

June 27-29 2018. BUIRA Annual Conference, London. González-Martínez, R., González-González, J.M., Ozarow, D. & Francés, P. (2018). The submissive worker: The ideological function of labour market discourse in Spain. BUIRA 2018 “The return of Politics to Employment Relations”.

January-June 2018. P.. Francés-Gómez appointed Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Harvard University. Project Economic Justice.

June 16-18 2017. European Business Ethics Network Annual Conference “The Future of Worklife.” Paper presented by González-Martínez, R.; Francés Gómez, P. & González-González, J. M.

November 25, 2016. Conference and Seminar by Prof. Dr. Heidi Von Weltzien Høivik (Norwegian Business School). 

October 1-3 2015. Special Track on The Social Contract as Philosophical Foundation of Business Ethics. EBEN RC 2015 (Copenhagen Business School) Special Track BENEB2.

October 23-25 2014: “55 Riunione Scientifica Annuale” of the Italian Economic Association. Member Marco Faillo Presented the paper “The Social Contract of the Firm and conceptions of justice: an experimental approach” (Co-authored with G. Degli Antoni, P. Francés-Gómez and L. Sacconi), showing partial results of experiments on the influence of agreement behinds a veil of ignorance on individuals making distributive decisions in a context of a-symmetric joint production.

May 21-23 2014: “1st International Conference ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Sports Management” Members Pedro Francés Gómez and Francisco Díaz Bretones participated in the organizing committee of the Event. Pedro Francés and José María Gonzalez gave papers in a Special table on the BENEB Project in the Scientific Track of the event.

May 21-23 2014: “1st International Conference ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Sports Management”. José Luis Pérez Triviño (Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona), the leading scholar in Philosophy of Sports and Ethics in Sports in Spain, was invited by BENEB to deliver a key speech in the Conference. He also held a round table with members of the project.

April 11 2014: ”II Seminario de la Red Andaluza de Filosofía Moral y Política”.

    • Pedro Francés will talk about “Four -or five- principles of distributive justice in a context of joint production”, a preliminary presentation of the experimental design about the impact of agreement on the choice of rules of distribution.

Wednesday 14 April 2013: Marco Faillo talk: “Rawls’s Theory of Justice: Empirical Evidence“.