---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM Subject: [commoning] CfP: Workshop "The Law of the Commons" with Ugo Mattei To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Dear members of the Commons-Institut mailing lists (sorry for x-posting) I would like to inform you about an *academic workshop* that I am organizing at the University of Zürich in November 2016 on *“The Law of the Commons” with Prof. Ugo Mattei*. You can find more information on the workshop below, in the attachment or on this website <http://www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/doktorat/zdw/lawcommons.html>. Because I am new to the Commons-Institut group, I was asked to shortly introduce myself. So here I go: I am momentarily writing a dissertation in political philosophy on the topic “Markets, Democracy and the Commons” at the University of Zurich. One central aim of the thesis is to analyze whether the concept of the commons actually fulfills the postulate that they can overcome or countervail the inequalities and ecological destruction brought about by capitalist economies. Besides analyzing the concept of the commons, I argue, on the one hand, that in order to deal with (and transform) these problematic and complex market mechanisms, one must further the commons approach with concepts of economic democracy, social and solidarity economy and alternative modes of finance, possibly understanding the market also as a commons. On the other hand, I argue that the state is required to support and ensure (commons) property rights, yet must be democratized through diverse forms of participation and co-production on diverse scales, also possibly conceptualizing the state as a commons. Besides working on my dissertation, I am active in a few “prosumer” cooperatives mostly revolving around food and farming, including comedor <http://foodcoop-comedor.ch>, ortoloco <http://www.ortoloco.ch> and especially the dairy co-op basimilch <http://basimil.ch>. Finally, I have two children who are 3,5 and 1 year(s) old. Well I think that’s enough about me. Please feel free to forward the call for papers to everyone you know, who might be interested in the workshop (maybe without my personal, biographical note, however). It would be great to meet some of you at the workshop! All the best, Lukas ******************************************************************** Call for Papers: *Workshop “The Law of the Commons”* *With Prof. Ugo Mattei *(University of California, Hastings College of the Law) Where: University of Zurich, Switzerland When: 24th November 2016 In the workshop we will discuss the work of Ugo Mattei, with a focus on his newest book *The Ecology of Law: Towards a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community*(2015). The workshop will also provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present and discuss their work on the commons from diverse perspectives, yet with a focus on political and legal philosophy. A more detailed description of the workshop can be found here: http://www.philosophie.uzh.ch/de/doktorat/zdw/lawcommons.html Abstracts of 300 to 500 words should be submitted to [email protected] by the 15th of September 2016. Accepted participants will be notified by the 30 th of September 2016. There is no participation fee. A few travel bursaries for Swiss graduate students are available. If you wish to be considered please submit a travel budget in addition to your abstract. The workshop is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation and supported by DemocracyNet.eu and NCCR Democracy. Contact: Lukas Peter ([email protected]) ********************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. Germany [email protected] https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/commoning -- 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/