Date: April 30, 2026. Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Mandeville T3-31 Join us for a one-day, interdisciplinary workshop on the challenges and possibilities that digitalisation presents for workers and organized labour.  The workshop will bring together perspectives from philosophy, economics, legal theory, and sociology, as well as expert insight from the Netherlands Organisation for Applied… Read More 30/04/26 Labour in the Time of Digitalisation

According to Kant, citizenship amounts to freedom (Freiheit), equality (Gleichheit), and civil self-sufficiency (Selbständigkeit). This Element provides a unifying interpretation of these three elements. Vrousalis argues that Kant affirms the idea of interdependent independence: in the just society, citizens have independent use of their interdependent rightful powers. Kant therefore thinks of the modern state as… Read More Open Access book: Kant on Citizenship and Poverty, by Nicholas Vrousalis

Date: September 25-26, 2025. Time: 10 am – 5.30 pm Location: Erasmus University College, PBL 19 The event is co-organized by Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Gabriel Wollner (University of Bremen) as part of the BreRoC (Bremen-Rotterdam) Colloquium. 25 September 10.00 – 11.00 Pascal Brixel (Northwestern) “Structural Unfreedom” Chair: Caleb Althorpe 11.15 – 12.15 Vivek Chibber… Read More 25-26/9/25 New Themes in Analytical Marxism

Date: May 9, 2025. Time: 9 am – 5 pm (US EST) Location: Polak building 3-20 The event is co-organized by Fiorella Tomassini (Groningen) and Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam). This workshop will explore recent scholarship on Kant’s theory of property, including his justification of property rights and its relationship to his theory of the state. 9.00 – 10.00… Read More 9/5/25 Kant and Private Property

Wat kunnen de vakbond en filosofen van elkaar leren? Grip op Werk: De Vakbond, Economische Macht & Democratie op de Werkvloer 29/09/23 09:30 – 17:00 (including drinks) De Burcht, Henri Polaklaan 9, Amsterdam Invitation: Wie bepaalt voor wie de economie werkt, en waarom?  De FNV organiseert samen met het Inequality against Freedom-project (InAF) van de… Read More 29/9/23 Democratisering van de economie

Date: 3-4 July, 2023. Time: 9 am – 5 pm (CET) Location: Erasmus School of Philosophy Join us on the 3rd and 4th of July for a conference on Kant & Marx at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Co-organized by Fiorella Tomassini (Groningen) and Nicholas Vrousalis (EUR) and hosted by the Erasmus School of Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam. This… Read More 3-4/7/23 Kant and Marx: Revisiting the Intersection

Date: 22-23 June, 2023. Time: 9 am – 18.30 pm (CET) Location: Erasmus School of Philosophy, Polak building 1.20 Join us on the 22nd and 23rd of June for a conference on Spatial Justice at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The event is organized by Elisabetta Gobbo (EUR) and Niklas Dummer (TU Dortmund) and sponsored by the Erasmus School of Philosophy and… Read More 22-23/6/23 Spatial Justice Conference

Date: March 4, 2023. Time: 10 am – 6 pm (CET) Location: Erasmus School of Philosophy, Polak building 1.17 Join us the 4th of March for a 1-day symposium in Erasmus University Rotterdam to discuss the new book of Nicholas Vrousalis Exploitation as Domination, with the help of an outstanding list of speakers. The event is sponsored by the Erasmus School… Read More 4/3/23 Book Symposium on Exploitation as Domination