*Apologies for cross-posting*
Dear colleagues,
We are sending you the call for contributions for the second edition of the international conference "Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons", which will take place from the 6th to the 8th of November 2019 at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. The general theme of this year's edition is "Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy". Please submit proposals by email to
ssecommons.cei@iscte-iul.pt . The submission deadline is May 31st 2019.
Confirmed keynote presenters:
Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy)
Jean-Louis Laville (CNAM/EHESS, Paris)
Philippe Eynaud (Univeristé Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris)
Sophie Bloemen (Co-diretor of "The Commons Network", Amsterdam)
Boris Marañón Pimentel (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico / Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciências Sociales - Ciudad de Mexico)
Robert Hall - Former president of ECOLISE (
https://www.ecolise.eu/council/ ), member of the regional parliament of Gotland, Sweden. Co-founder of Suderbyn Ecovillage. Consultant to the European Union, OSCE and the United Nations
Ethan Earle, political consultant (Paris), North American liaison of the "Rethinking Cross-border Organising Project" of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, board chair of "The Working World (New York)
Cristina Amaro da Costa, researcher on Sustainable Agriculture, Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Portugal
Ana Huertas, project coordinator (Spain), Municipalities in Transition
Ruby van der Wekken, coordinator, Oma Maa cooperative, Hensinki, Finland
Felipe Addor, Nides/UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro)
On behalf of the organising committee,
Ana Margarida Esteves and Leonardo Leal