With the exception of the social events on the evenings of Thursday 11 and Friday 12, the Critical Economics Conference will take place entirely at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of the Basque Country, in Sarriko (Lehendakari Aguirre 83, Bilbao).
| 09:30 – 13:30 | Early-career researchers session |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Lunch (early-career researchers session) |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | JEC2026 OPENING (Main Auditorium) Welcome and first roundtable: ‘Capital against life: social Reproduction at the Crossroads’ |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Break (Hall of the Main Auditorium) |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Parallel sessions I |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Second roundtable: ‘Climate crisis and transitions in dispute’ (Main auditorium) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break (Campus cafeteria) |
| 11:30 – 13:15 | Parallel sessions II |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Lunch (Campus cafeteria) |
| 14:45 – 16:30 | Parallel sessions III |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Rest |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Parallel sessions IV |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | AEC General Assembly |
| 21:00 | Dinner (Hotel NH Villa de Bilbao, Gran Vía 87, Bilbao) Presentation of the AEC Honorary Distinction to Miren Etxezarreta and Angel Martinez Gonzalez-Tablas |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Parallel sessions V |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Coffee break (Campus cafeteria) |
| 11:45 – 13:30 | Parallel sessions VI |
| 13:30 – 14:45 | Lunch (Campus cafeteria) |
| 14:45 – 17:00 | Third roundtable: ‘Authoritarian Turn and the Reconfiguration of Global Capitalism’ (Main Auditorium) Prize award and closing of JEC2026 |
| 21:00 | Closing party (HIKA Ateneo, Eskola Zumarkalea 1, Bilbao) |
Click here to download the full program, including the schedule of presentations in parallel sessions