In 2024 WINIR will sponsor a second international conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought on the theme of “Institutions & Survival”. This event will be held at the University of Bialystok in Bialystok, Poland, with the aim of showcasing the latest developments in institutional economics to an audience of research and teaching staff, PhD students, politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs from Poland and abroad.
In 2023 WINIR sponsored the Fifth London Workshop on Institutional Issues organised by the Friday Association for Institutional Studies – a collective including members of the Birkbeck Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS), the Centre for New Economic Transitions at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (CNET) and the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London.
In 2020 WINIR sponsored the a mini-series of online workshops jointly organized by the Institute for International Management (Loughborough University London), the Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (Birkbeck University of London), and the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (University College London).
In 2019 WINIR sponsored the Second Conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought held at the Pedagogical University of Kraków in Poland. Speakers discussed the economic, legal and philosophical challenges and threats associated with the design and implementation of institutional solutions aimed at achieving better life standards in the 21st century.
In 2019 WINIR sponsored an international conference on law and development jointly organised by the São Paolo Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paolo (USP) in Brazil. Legal, economic, and political aspects of the topic were addressed.
In 2019 WINIR sponsored the Sixth Conference on Applied Economics organised by the Postgraduate Program of the Department of Economics at the University of Thessaly in Greece. Papers dealing with the economic, business, cultural, social and institutional structures underpinning the knowledge economy were welcome.
In 2019 WINIR sponsored the Fifth Witten Conference on Institutional Change organised by the Witten Institute for Institutional Change (WIWa) at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. Papers from economics, politics, ethics, psychology, philosophy, and other relevant social sciences that deal with artificial intelligence and big data were welcome.
In 2018 WINIR sponsored the Fourth Witten Conference on Institutional Change organised by the Witten Institute for Institutional Change (WIWa) at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. Papers from any relevant discipline conceptualizing and dealing with institutional pathologies were welcome.
In 2016 WINIR sponsored the First Annual Symposium on Neo-Institutional Law & Economics held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Submissions from law, political science, sociology, and economics scholars on any topic regarding the neo-institutional economic analysis of law were welcome.
WINIR is pleased to sponsor a session on what institutional theory can teach us about the connections between inequalities and Liberties at the 21st Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica, STOREP), to be held at the University of Milan, Milan, Italy, on 27-29 June 2024.