<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:45 AM<br>Subject: Leuven, 22-23 February 2016 : "Global Public Goods, Global Commons and Democracy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><br></font><div><font size="2"><br><a href="https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/events/2016/international-conference-global-commons-global-public-goods-and-global-democracy-leuven" target="_blank">https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/events/2016/international-conference-global-commons-global-public-goods-and-global-democracy-leuven</a><br><br></font><i></i><font size="2"><i>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.</i><br><br><br><a href="https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/events/2016/programme-final.pdf" target="_blank">https://ghum.kuleuven.be/ggs/events/2016/programme-final.pdf</a><br><br></font><div style="font-family:serif"><i><font size="2">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 to</font><font size="2">turn the proceedings of this conference into a flagship publication</font></i><br></div></div></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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