---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: collective-action <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:34 PM Subject: News about survey on commons-education and new calls IASC-conferences on commons To: Dear colleague, Given your interest in commons and related issues, we would like to inform you personally about a number of activities organised by the *International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).* If you want to know more about these or other related issues, do not hesitate to get in touch (for contact details in the footer of this e-mail)! *Tell us what you teach: survey on commons-education * To strengthen scholarship and the sharing of scientific information on commons among peers and with students, the IASC wants to create an overview of courses and trainings given across the globe on commons. We are conducting a survey together with colleagues from the LandAcademy <http://www.landgovernance.org/>, who focus in particular on land governance. As many commons are dealing with issues of land governance, there might be some overlap with commons-issues, but we also intend to include commons which are not dealing with land or any other natural resources in our overview. A more detailed explanation is provided on the first page of the survey itself, see https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/DTYK9ZG Your response to this survey would be most appreciated! The results will be presented at the next European IASC conference in Bern (May, 2016) <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016> (see underneath). Afterwards the results will also be shared via the IASC-website. Please send us your response before the 31st of March 2016! *Call for Contributions to Practitioners’ Labs for the European IASC-meeting in Bern (May 2016) * To promote the exchange of experience and ideas between academic scholars and expert practitioners, the IASC now issues a call directed specifically at practitioners working on commons. In the past, practitioners’ meetings have been organized at several IASC-conferences, offering an excellent opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise between practitioners and academic scholars interested in commons. The IASC hopes scholars and practitioners will also use this opportunity at the European IASC-Conference in Bern <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016> (10-13 May 2016) to mutually benefit from each other’s expertise and experience throughout all future IASC-meetings. The IASC calls on commons-practitioners to present their initiative at the conference as well as to formulate topics and questions they would like to see addressed at one of the practitioners’ labs. The labs offer the opportunity to engage in discussions between other practitioners and scholars on specific topics. In order to prepare and facilitate this process, practitioners are asked to provide the organizers with a description of their initiative/organization and/or a number of questions they would like to see addressed in the discussions. You can find the call <http://www.collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/Call%20for%20practitioners%20labs_Bern.pdf> here and also as attachment to this e-mail. Questions and/or descriptions should be received before 1 April 2016 via the IASC-Conference Module <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016>. *Please note that IASC-members can register at a substantially lower conference fee*. Not a member yet? Go to https://membership.iasc-commons.org and join the IASC! *Registration 4th European Meeting IASC open now* Europe has been a major driver of “glocal” processes. Therefore, the 4th Regional European Meeting of the IASC is devoted to global connections and local responses. It provides a space to advance our understanding of ongoing “glocal” processes and to analyse historically how commons in Europe have evolved and adapted to “glocal” changes. By integrating political ecology with approaches of New Institutionalism and Critical Theory in Anthropology, Human Geography, Political Science and History, we propose to investigate the impacts of external changes on the perception and evaluation of resources by actors related to the commons. This raises the question of local bargaining power, ideologies and discourses, and of the selection and crafting of institutional designs, which in turn affect the access to common‐pool resources, as well as the distribution of benefits related to the management of these resources. Registration for this conference is open now via the Conference Module; Early Bird rates apply until the 1st of April 2016. For registration, please go to http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016. *Please note that IASC-members can register at a substantially lower conference fee*. Not a member yet? Go to https://membership.iasc-commons.org and join the IASC! *Call for Papers 3rd Thematic IASC-Conference on Commons (Paris, 20-21 October 2016) – deadline 15 April 2016* On 20 and 21 October 2016, SciencesPo Paris will be hosting the 3rd Thematic IASC-Conference on Knowledge Commons. Building upon the successful 2012 <http://www.iasc-commons.org/conferences/thematic/2012-knowledge-commons> and 2014 <http://www.iasc-commons.org/conferences/thematic/2014-2nd-thematic-conference-knowledge-commons> thematic IASC conferences on knowledge commons, this third conference aims to look at the normative effects and institutionalization of the many initiatives based on knowledge commons and how commons provide new legal tools, public policy choices, and forms of social, economic and governance innovations. To this purpose the conference aims to take stock of the latest developments in public policies and legal initiatives around knowledge commons, as well as how the attempts to give a proper legal definition of commons in different countries bring changes in law and property regimes. The key questions that this conference will cover are the sustainability of knowledge commons that could be achieved by giving normative effects to the relationships and collectiveness they create, the possible articulation between grassroots commons movements and public policy, To such end, examples of governance models or legal revisions organizing commons in diverse countries will be studied, particularly as far as knowledge commons are concerned. Abstracts should be submitted ultimately by 15 April 2016 via the IASC Conference Module <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/3rdKnowledgeCommonsConference> . *Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons – Nominations deadline 31 March 2016* The Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons is the IASC-award aiming to honor and develop the legacy of Elinor Ostrom, and to acknowledge and promote the work of practitioners, young scholars, and senior scholars involved in the field of the commons by biennially awarding nominees from each category. In line with Ostrom’s large legacy the scope of the Award aims to be broad, including academic and applied work on traditional commons (forests, water bodies, pasture lands, fisheries, etc.), local commons, interlinked commons (forests and watersheds, fisheries and coastlines, etc), global commons, knowledge, cultural and virtual commons. Nominations can be submitted until the 31st of March 2016. More info and the nomination requirements are to be found on the website of the Elinor Ostrom Award: http://elinorostromaward.org/. *In short…* *Survey on education on commons <https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/DTYK9ZG>* <https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/DTYK9ZG> *31 March 2016* *Nominations deadline Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons <http://elinorostromaward.org/>* <http://elinorostromaward.org/> *31 March 2016* *Call for Contributions to Practitioners’ Labs, 4th European IASC-Conference (Bern, 10-13 May 2016) <http://www.collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/Call%20for%20practitioners%20labs_Bern.pdf>* <http://www.collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/Call%20for%20practitioners%20labs_Bern.pdf> *1 April 2016* *Registration (Early Bird) 4th European IASC-Conference (Bern, 10-13 May 2016) <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016>* <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016> *1 April 2016* *Call for Papers 3rd Thematic IASC-Conference (Paris, 20-21 October 2016) <http://collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/Call%20for%20abstracts%20_%20Paris.pdf>* <http://collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/Call%20for%20abstracts%20_%20Paris.pdf> *15 April 2016* *4th European IASC-Conference <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016>* <http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016> *Bern, 10-13 May 2016* *Call for Papers XVI Biennial Conference (Utrecht, 10-14 July 2017)* *1 June 2016* *3rd Thematic IASC-Conference on Knowledge Commons* *Paris, 20-21 October 2016* *Please also note …* Later on this year the IASC will also be issuing a call for the biennial IASC-conference (to be held in 2019) and Regional and Thematic conferences (to be held in fall 2017 and 2018). Kind regards, René van Weeren, Executive Director IASC Tine De Moor, President IASC P.S. Our apologies for eventual cross-posting *Contact details* *IASC Secretariat* *att. René van Weeren, Executive Director* *Drift 6* *3512 BS Utrecht* *Netherlands* *+31 30 253 63 28* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> -- 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/