DIS Visiting Speaker Series | Talk by Economist Dr. Evelyn Forget
Thursday, July 5, 2018 | 6pm
Winnipeg-based economist and educator, Dr. Evelyn Forget will present a talk at Plug In ICA as part of Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network, Session I of Plug In ICA’s 2018 Summer Institute).* Dr. Forget will discuss basic income, her research related to the mincome experiment that took place in Dauphin, MB in the 1970s and an introduction to the experiments that are currently underway in Ontario and elsewhere.
Dr. Forget is an economist and professor from the Rady School of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Her research attempts to answer the question: “How can we best ensure that everyone has access to the tools and resources they need to live a full life?” She works in the areas of health economics and the history and philosophy of economics. Her public policy work examines the relationships between poverty, inequality, health and social outcomes, and quality of life. Most recently, she recovered and analyzed the data collected during a Guaranteed Annual Income experiment (called Mincome) that was conducted in Manitoba during the 1970s, and is currently involved in a similar experiment in Ontario this spring.
For a full list of the DIS: Session I, Visiting and Video Speakers: https://plugin.org/exhibitions/summer-institute-dis-edutainment-network/
* For Session I of our 2018 Summer Institute Program we are extremely pleased to have DIS collective member, Marco Roso as our lead faculty (June 25-July 7, 2018). Framed by our summer exhibition of the same name, DIS’s seminar Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network circles around a series of exhibitions organized by DIS and framed by dis.art, a new streaming edutainment platform. Through direct engagement with the artists of dis.art, the session will contemplate a series of linked concerns, including: the nature of belonging in a rootless-seeming, networked world; the changing relationship to the ways one owns, lends or gives time through occupations, bodies, or other forms of value-creation. Some of the topics DIS will cover: Money: what is it?; information consumption; the future of citizenship; reparations; love and humor.
Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our artists, generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle. You make a difference!
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. Plug ICA gratefully acknowledges the RBC
Foundation and the Johnston Group for their support of our 2018/2019 Summer Institute Program as well as the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain as cultural partners in the presentation of Session I of our Summer Institute.
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