7th Biennial RAMICS International Congress in Italy
“The Future of Money: Democracy, Localism and Inclusion”
Rome, Italy, Nov. 6-9, 2024
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Important dates: November 6 (afternoon) – November 9 (morning) 2024
| Activity | Date |
| Submitting abstracts | |
| Notification of acceptance | May 31st 2024 (Friday) |
| Registration deadline | August 1st 2024 (Thursday) |
| Submitting full papers | (download template here) |
| Conference | 6-9 November |
Update (1) September 2024. We are pleased to announce that on Saturday 9 November from 10am to 6pm the activists’ day will be held at Millepiani Coworking (Via Nicolo Odero, 13, 00154 Rome RM). In the registration form (and payment) for the conference you will be able to indicate if you want to participate in the activists’ day. Participation is free of charge. Those who have already completed the registration form for the conference will receive an email to confirm their participation in the day. On the final day we shall attempt to put theory into practice: If money a tool for collaboration should not money experts be the best collaborators on the planet? Matthew Slater, who has designed some recent ‘Collaborative Finance’ events, will design this final day for:
• spending some time socialising (creating conditions for collaboration),
• helping each other, in the room, on othe spot, there and then,
• Imagining forms of longer term cooperation.
Before you arrive, have a think about how your colleagues might be able to help you. The activists’ day will therefore be coordinated by Matthew Slater, for any information please contact him directly via this email: matslats (at) fastmail.com.
Update (2) September 2024. We are pleased to announce that on Friday 8 November 2024 at 2 pm, Prof. Ester Barinaga will organise a workshop on ‘Collaborative Network for Rethinking Money in Society: An Educators’ Initiative‘. This workshop will introduce a new collaborative initiative designed for educators interested in rethinking how we teach the evolving concept of money. Based on the course “Re-Imagining Money for a Sustainable Future,” now part of the “Economy and Society” bachelor program at Lund University (Sweden) as well as of the “AI and Business Administration” at ESADE (Barcelona), the initiative invites participants to join a global network to share course content, adapt content to diverse contexts, co-develop teaching materials, and co-author teaching cases on various kinds of moneys. The workshop will explore how to organize such an educational collaboration. It invites workshop participants to an open dialogue with the goal of building a vibrant community of educators dedicated to transforming business and economics education on ‘money in society’.
Update (3) September 2024. Conference will be streamed: For those who cannot come to Rome to follow the conference, it will be possible to do so via streaming. People who want to follow the streaming will still have to register and pay the conference registration fee.
Update (4) October 2024. RAMICS Best Paper Award – ROME 2024: The Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems (RAMICS), in partnership with the International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR) and the Bibliography Databank of Community Currency Research (CC-literature), announces the launch of the new edition of the RAMICS’ Best Paper Award on monetary innovation and complementary currency systems. This initiative aims to promote research that improves the present understanding of the state, the development and the potentialities of monetary innovation, complementary currency systems and any case of money-based social exchange systems as well. It takes place in the framework of RAMICS biennial congresses. In addition, it seeks to facilitate and strengthen the relationships between those who act in the field of complementary currency research and the movements of activists on the subject, articulating research and practice, rigorous academic reflection and promotion of social change.
The selection will take place considering the papers accepted by the international scientific committee of the Congress, and presented during the Congress. The winner of the award will be announced during the Congress in attendance of the author or at least one author if the paper is co-authored. The jury may renounce to grant the award if it considers that the competing papers do not meet the expected quality and relevance requirements.
“International Journal of Community Currency Research” IJCCR : there is also the possibility of having your paper published in the International Journal of Community Currency Research IJCCR. The journal’s editorial board will select the papers deemed most scientifically valuable for publication.
All the researchers who send the full paper to the email address ramics2024 (at) issirfa.cnr.it will receive the form to participate in the RAMICS Paper Award will receive the form to participate in the RAMICS Paper Award and to submit the paper for publication in the IJCCR. The form must be completed no later than 21 October .
Update (1) November 2024 The program can be download at this link
City: Roma, Headquarters of the National Research Council (CNR) and Issirfa Headquarters (Via dei Taurini, Rome)
Organization of the Congress:
- ISSIRFA, National Research Council (CNR)
- Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems (RAMICS)
Title of the Conference:
- 7th Biennial RAMICS International Congress in Italy. The Future of Money: Democracy, Localism and Inclusion
Conference Presentation
The Ramics research association focuses on studying monetary innovation and community and complementary currency systems. Since 2011, the network has met every two years to share experiences, ideas, and practices on complementary currencies.
The 7th congress will be held in Rome, Italy, Nov. 6-9, 2024.
Against a backdrop of citizenry’s mistrust towards the governments of their own countries successive economic crises over the years have further widened the gap between the local and central institutions. In view of these challenges, complementary currencies may be able to reconnect the knots of the citizens with formal institutions (and vice versa).
Many experiences with complementary means of payment in recent years have resulted in systems of mutual exchange traceable to business communities, with the creation of closed circuits in which members voluntarily exchange goods and services, offsetting debts with credits. Or with initiatives characterized by solidarity and participatory systems aimed at strengthening community relations for development that aims at being financially and economically sustainable. One of the unknowns often encountered is the relationship with national and subnational institutions and in particular on the presence or absence of specific state regulatory references. In the case, in fact, of weakness of state norms, the production of goods and services has moved “regardless” of such references, eschewing the formal economy. The need to meet the motivations from below, born to avoid processes of impoverishment of communities, through the use of complementary monetary circulation systems, and the ability of regional and local institutions to transpose the pushes from below are at the basis of the possibility of creating social innovation or, in negative cases, an economic reality at the edge of the invisible. It is therefore on these issues that we invite researchers, activists and anyone interested in such processes to the conference entitled: “The Future of Money: Democracy, Localism and Inclusion.”
Themes for paper presentations are:
- Digitalization – Can CCS help bridge the distance between the technological and digital divides. Suggested key words: 4th industrial revolution, Digital currencies, Crypto currencies etc.
- Regional/Local – Communication between local/ regional administrations and communities through CCS. Suggested key words: Decentralization, Decommodification, (Re-)Distribution, Social cohesion, social innovation, Community resilience, Community development and Local development.
- Welfare state – how CCS can help the social system. Suggested key words: Debt crises, Poverty, Inequality, Liquidity, Inflation, Ethical finance, Social harmony, Social justice, etc.
- Enviroment – The role of the CCS in the field of sustainable and biodiversity. Suggested key words: Perpetual pandemics, Energy transition, Natural resources, Ecology, Green New Deal, Green investment.
- Historical – the different economic, social and cultural phases of the history of complementary currencies. Suggested key words: history, transition phases, civil society, currency.
- CCS – Review and renew. Case studies, concepts, experience reports.
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