<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">collective-action</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:collective-action@uu.nl">collective-action@uu.nl</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:34 PM<br>Subject: News about survey on commons-education and new calls IASC-conferences on commons<br>To: <br><br><br>





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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Given your interest in commons and related issues, we would like to inform you personally about a number of activities organised by the
<b>International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).</b> 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)!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Tell us what you teach: survey on commons-education
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">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
</span><a href="http://www.landgovernance.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">LandAcademy</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">, 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 </span><a href="https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/DTYK9ZG" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">https://nl.surveymonkey.com/r/DTYK9ZG</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Your response to this survey would be most appreciated! The results will be presented at the next
</span><a href="http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">European IASC conference in Bern (May, 2016)</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
 (see underneath). Afterwards the results will also be shared via the IASC-website. Please send us your response before the 31st of March 2016!
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Call for Contributions to Practitioners’ Labs for the European IASC-meeting in Bern (May 2016)
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">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 </span><a href="http://conferences.iasc-commons.org/index.php/iasc/IASC_Europe_Bern2016" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">IASC-Conference in Bern</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
 (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.
</span><a href="http://www.collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/Call%20for%20practitioners%20labs_Bern.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">You can find the call</span></a><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
 here</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> and also as attachment to this e-mail. Questions and/or descriptions should be received before 1 April 2016
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Registration 4th European Meeting IASC open now<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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 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,
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Call for Papers 3rd Thematic IASC-Conference on Commons (Paris, 20-21 October 2016) – deadline 15 April 2016<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">On 20 and 21 October 2016, SciencesPo Paris will be hosting the 3rd Thematic IASC-Conference on Knowledge Commons. Building upon the successful
</span><a href="http://www.iasc-commons.org/conferences/thematic/2012-knowledge-commons" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">2012</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">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
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">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:
</span><a href="http://elinorostromaward.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">http://elinorostromaward.org/</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#333333">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 2016)</span></i></a></b><b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#333333"><u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#333333">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). <b><i><u></u><u></u></i></b></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#333333">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">René van Weeren, Executive Director IASC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Tine De Moor, President IASC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">P.S. Our apologies for eventual cross-posting<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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