---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:45 AM Subject: Leuven, 22-23 February 2016 : "Global Public Goods, Global Commons and Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/events/2016/international-conference-global-com... *Both concepts of “global public goods” and “global commons” are increasingly being used, both as powerful rhetorical devices in the policy discourse of international organizations and the debates of civil society, and as analytical and normative frameworks in international legal scholarship, economics and political theory. What difference does it make to express and frame global challenges according to one concept or the other? What kind of international cooperation and governance schemes do these concepts imply? Which democratic qualities and shortcomings in global decision-making processes do they reveal? Adopting a comparative approach and an interdisciplinary perspective, this two-day conference, hosting Prof. Dr. Inge Kaul and Prof. Dr. Pierre Dardot as keynote speakers, aims to highlight the epistemic networks and legal and political underpinnings behind each discourse.* https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/events/2016/programme-final.pdf *The present two-dayinternational conference will explore the economic, legal andpolitical underpinnings, premises and implications of global public goods and global commons for global governance institutions and international organizations, especially in relationship with the debate on their (non)-democratic nature. The conference aims to assess, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how the respective discourses surrounding global public goods and global commons diverge in their relation to global democracy, and in particular, to the advancement of democracy in global governance and international organizations. The aimis toturn the proceedings of this conference into a flagship publication* -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/