Past Events
Please find links to all our past events stretching right back to 2005.

Side Event at UN Women 2025 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development & FfD4 Conference
The Levy Economics Institute is proud to co-sponsor the side event, “Engendering Fiscal Space: The Role of Macro-Level Economic Policies, External Debt, Concessional Finance, Special Drawing Rights, and Economic Modelling,” during the 2025 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development & 4th PrepCom for the Fourth Financing for Development Conference). Join April 30–May 1, 2025, at […]

The Hindu Home Kitchen and the Internet of Landlords
An installment in the Levy Institute Gender Equality and the Economy: Interdisciplinary Approaches Speaker Series. Tuesday, April 8, 5pm Blithewood Conference Room or on Zoom Join us for the fourth session of the 2025 Spring Semester, with Sucharita Kanjilal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bard, on Tuesday, April 8th, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference […]

Info Session: Levy Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
This special information session and application workshop provides an overview of the Levy academic programs, student life, admission requirements, enrollment steps, financial aid procedures, and immigration requirements for international students. Applicants who attend a virtual information session will have their application fees waived.
Macroeconomic Policies and Care: Exploring Intersections
Join us for our third session of the 2025 Spring Semester, with Raquel Coello Cremades, UN Women Policy Advisor on Macroeconomics and Global Care Economy Officer, on Tuesday, March 4th, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room at Blithewood, or on Zoom. Dr. Coello-Cremades’ presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask questions.
Towards a European Job Guarantee
An installment in the Levy Institute Gender Equality and the Economy Speaker Series. Join us for this session of the 2025 Spring Semester, with Rania Antonopoulos, Senior Scholar and Program Director at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, on Wednesday, February 19, 5-6pm in the Levy Conference Room at Blithewood, or on Zoom. […]
Discussing Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought
An installment in the Levy Institute Gender Equality and the Economy Speaker Series. Monday, February 3rd, 5pm Blithewood Conference Room or on Zoom Join us for our first session of the 2025 Spring Semester, with Susanna Ferguson, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Smith College, on Monday, February 3rd, from 5pm to 6pm in […]

The Machine Age and the Human Condition: Possible Futures
The Economics Democracy Initiative presents its Fall ’24 keynote, co-sponsored by the Levy Economics institute. Lord Robert Skidelsky is giving a talk centered on his new book, The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning on November 19, 5 PM EST. Nearly a century ago, in the essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” (1930), John […]
[CANCELED] Racial, Ethnic, and Sex/Gender Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
[UPDATE: EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED] CO-SPONSORED BY THE BARD COLLEGE PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM Join us for the next session of the Gender Equality and the Economy Speaker Series, with A. Zarina Kraal, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain & Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Despartment of Neurology, on Tuesday, November 19th, […]

A Path to Inclusive Development: Unpacking Gender Inequalities in Economic Theory and Policies
A workshop organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with the generous support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. VIEW WORKSHOP PROGRAM HERE The workshop is organized in loving memory of Professor Nilüfer Çağatay (1955-2022). Professor Çağatay was […]
Free to Choose? The Gendered Impacts of Flexible Working Hours in Brazil
Join us for our sixth session with Lygia Sabbag Fares, Economics Professor at John Jay College (City University of New York – CUNY), on Monday, April 29, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom.
Racial, Gender, and Regional Inequalities in Brazil’s Care Provision and the Evolving Role of the State
Join us for our first session of the 2024 Fall Semester, with Luiza Nassif Pires, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics at Unicamp and the Director of the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequalities (MADE) at FEA/USP, on Monday, September 9th, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room at Blithewood, or on […]

31st Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference
The 31st Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference was a one-day, virtual event organized around the topics of Economic Prospects for the US Economy, The Revival of Industrial Policy, Causes and Measurement of Inequality, and Aging and Public Policy: Debunking Myths, Providing Solutions.