---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Conway, Ryan Timothy <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:44 PM Subject: FRIDAY: Food Commons Panel talk at the Ostrom Workshop _ Amy Roche, James Farmer, and Richard Wilk; Noon-1:30pm To: "Conway, Ryan Timothy" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Good Afternoon! I'm writing to announce the Community Commons Colloquia for Friday October 11th, Noon-1:30pm. Please distribute this announcement and Flyer to your colleagues, coworkers, departmental listservs, friends, family, and anyone else you think might be interested in learning about the concept of the commons and how academic scholarship, community practice, and social engagement can combine to create both social arrangements and resource-pools with the power to sustain real communities, when faced with failures of the market and the state. Please feel free to attend or to tune-in to the LiveStream to explore, with us, what Lin Ostrom saw as a world "Beyond Market and States" *Community Commons Colloquia* *Amy Roche, James Farmer, and Richard Wilk* * * Present * * *"Food Commons: A Rhetorical Flourish or a Flourishing Practice?"* Date: Friday, October 25th, 2013 Time: Noon-1:30pm Location: The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 513 N. Park Avenue Live Stream URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/liveflash.html?filename=Colloquia Archive Stream URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?folder=video&filename=... *Food Commons: A Rhetorical Flourish or a Flourishing Practice?*: The popularization and colloquial use of the term “commons” has been both encouraging and frustrating. From a pedagogical standpoint, the spread of the concept in popular discourse – largely instigated by Elinor Ostrom’s 2009 Nobel Prize award – is encouraging, as the concept can be a stepping-stone into new ways of practicing and thinking about community, economy, and self-governance. However, from an analytical standpoint, this popular diffusion has promoted conceptual confusion: research on “the commons” has a substantial history of academic inquiry, in which many useful clarifications have evolved to inform technical practices of common-pool-resource and common-property governance, legal applications of property rights and dispute resolution, as well as further theoretical development that helps to enhance our understanding of complex problems of resource use and the development of expectation-stabilizing social arrangements. The purpose of this panel is to invite critical reflection on the value of both colloquial and technical concepts of “commons,” specifically as they relate to different aspects of food systems. Our three panelists were invited for the diversity of their expertise: as practitioners, scholars, & IU community members with differing levels of involvement with the Ostrom Workshop. *Amy Roche*<http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/about/about-the-board/>is Early Childhood educator at Indiana University and is both the Outreach Team Leader and the Chair of the Board of Directors at the Bloomington Community Orchard. She’s a life-long fruit lover and can’t think of much more inspiring than growing and sharing fruit. Amy says she’s here to learn how to do just that, and share what she learns. *James Farmer*<http://info.publichealth.indiana.edu/faculty/current/farmer-james-r.shtml>is an Assistant Professor in the IU School of Public Health. His research focuses on the motivations and barriers to sustainable behavior. I most commonly utilize mixed-methods research designs to examine behavior variables in private land conservation, land trust activities, participation in local food systems, and the human dimensions of sustainable agriculture and rural living. *Richard Wilk* <http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/wilkr.shtml>is passionately interested in social theory as a means of making connections between fields and problems at different scales, making sense of applied problems and public issues, and informing research design and methodology. Theory is the thread that ties together work which might otherwise seem an odd juxtaposition; modern beauty pageants and the spread of ancient Olmec society, the shortcomings of rational choice theory and the history of Belizean cuisine, or moral talk about television and the global branding of bottled water. His work relates to and connects with topics like Development, Political Economy, and Globalization; History, Narrative, and Power; Gender and Sexuality. *This talk will be followed, in the evening, with a Commons Conversations Potluck at The Banneker Center <http://bloomington.in.gov/banneker>(930 W. 7th St., Bloomington IN) from 6:30pm-9pm. Bring your favorite snack,dish, drink, or dessert and enjoy conversation with old friends and new connections!* In Commons Camaraderie, Ryan T. Conway PhD Student Indiana University Department of Political Science GPSO Representative (2013-2014) CITL Service-Learning Fellow (2013-2014) Community Commons Colloquium Series Coordinator Health Commons Working Group member "New Commons" Working Group Coordinator The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Rm. 100 505 N. 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