Conceptualizing the New Commons – The Examples of Knowledge Commons & Seed and Variety Commons: IASC Workshop connects the open access to knowledge with agricultural questions for the future

From June 6th to 8th 2018, thirty scholars and activists from more than ten countries met in Oldenburg, Northern Germany, to discuss the sustainable and viable management of New Commons. In four different sessions, the participants debated the challenges related to creation and management of the so-called New Commons. These Commons arise from social, political […]

Program Announced for IASC Workshop on Social Mobilization and the Commons

An opening event in the evening of June 20, 2018 kicks off the IASC workshop in Barcelona “Social Mobilization and the Commons: A Virtuous Cycle?” The event, organized in an informal round table format, discusses the practice and policy around commons movements featuring guest speakers Concha Salguero of Iniciativa Comunales, Massimo de Angelis of University […]

IASC Workshop Conceptualizing the New Commons is Under Way

An exciting lineup of keynote speakers and paper presenters has been secured by the organizers of the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons, Oldenburg, Germany, 6-8 June 2018. Jack Kloppenburg, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison kicks-off the workshop with the keynote on Global […]