[P2P-F] Fwd: FRIDAY: Food Commons Panel talk at the Ostrom Workshop _ Amy Roche, James Farmer, and Richard Wilk; Noon-1:30pm

Tue Oct 22 10:04:58 CEST 2013

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From: Conway, Ryan Timothy <rtconway at indiana.edu>
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" <rtconway at indiana.edu>
Cc: "communitycommonsproject at gmail.com" <communitycommonsproject at gmail.com>

 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=Colloquia_20131025.mp4
 *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. Park Ave
Bloomington, IN 47408

Office: 812-855-9512
Cell: 314-520-1176
Fax: 812-855-3150
rtconway at indiana.edu

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