The Comparative Politics Conference: Capitalism

What challenges and possibilities does the capitalist system create, and is there no way to escape economic inequality? The role of capitalism in modern democracies is up for debate and through two days of lectures and discussions, academics, politicians and intellectuals will shed light on questions related to the growing inequality in the western world.

Exciting list of participants
A wide selection of national and international researchers, academics, intellectuals and politicians from the Norwegian right and left are joining in on the conference. The Comparative Politics Conference invites us to engage in a broad scholarly and political debate concerning how we, as a society, ought to face this potentially growing economic inequality.

The entire list of participants can be found on the Comparative Politics Conference’s web pages.

This year’s programme
Rector at the University of Bergen, Dag Rune Olsen will open the conference on Tuesday 29 September, commencing two days of an exciting and varied mix of lectures, conversations and discussions.

The entire programme can be found on the Comparative Politics Conference’s web pages

History of the Comparative Politics Conference
The Comparative Politics Conference is an independent academic conference organised by master’s degree students at the Department of Comparative Politics (SAMPOL) at the University of Bergen. Since the first conference in 1985, the Comparative Politics Conference has been an important stage for debates on important contemporary social issues.

Through 30 years, the conference has developed into a recognised arena for debates on important questions in the political sciences, regularly gathering an interdisciplinary crowd of students as well as representatives from private enterprises, voluntary organisations and the public sector.