In/Equality Platform Workshop: Challenging the Open in Open Societies
Challenging the Open in Open Societies
In 2025, the IOS program team published the position paper ‘Transforming Open Societies,' which has since been discussed on different occasions within the IOS community. The In/Equality Platform aims to take this discussion forward and invites you to a workshop on 7 November in Carlton President Hotel, in which we question and problematize what ‘openness’ means and its effects in the context of open societies. In rapidly changing social and political times, we believe this is the moment to challenge our priors and question whether societies are ‘open’ and whether the societies we perceive as such are inherently 'good'.
The Program
To explore this, the workshop will feature several speakers, each bringing their own disciplinary perspective to the theme of open societies. After a welcome and introductions over lunch, the presentations will discuss the challenges open societies face today and how their institutions and systems are changing. Speakers will also reflect on the potential role of technocracy in polarised times, openness in transnational labor circuits and digital economies, and the links between inequality, sustainability, and openness. To round off the day, there will be a plenary discussion followed by a borrel. The full program, including speakers, can be found
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