Globally distributed, locally organized events

October 4–12, 2018

Organizer: Prof. Charles Schweik (UMass Amherst School of Public Policy and School of Earth and Sustainability)

We mobilized Commons scholars and practitioners all over the world to put on their own local events! These events varied in topic and function, driven by individual organizer interests and contexts, and took place during the period of October 4–12th, 2018.

Examples of local events included:

Teach-ins on commons-related subjects
Talks delivered by local scholars or commons practitioners on commons-related topics
Local mini-conferences, local workshops on commons practice or activism
Development of local events to produce, give, and record a talk that will be submitted to IASC’s Virtual Conference (November 12–30th)
Or simply sessions to participate collectively in one or more of the noon-time webinars

Country	Event title	Organizer(s) / organization(s)	Location	Day & time
United States	"Celebrating Commons Scholarship" Conference ➚	Sheila Foster (Georgetown Law) & Brigham Daniels (Brigham Young University)	Washington, D.C.	Oct. 5–6, 2018
Bulgaria & Germany	Pseudo-Commons in Post-Socialist Countries ➚	Insa Theesfield, Ivan Penov & Violeta Dimiranova	Agricultural University Plovdiv & Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg	Oct. 8th, 2018
Germany	Urban Commons: Revitalizing the Urban Common Space through Arts and Collaboration, Excursion through Freiraumgalerie, Halle (Saale) ➚	Ilkhom Soliev	Freiraumgalerie Halle, Germany (meeting point: Corner of Landsberger Str. / Reideburger Str. Halle (Saale)	Oct. 6, 2018 (11 am)
Brazil	The Lens of the Commons ➚	Procomum Institute	ESC Research and Training Center, S ão Paulo	Oct. 25–26, 2018
South Korea	New Agendas for the Sustainable Society: a Commons ➚	Jeju National Univ. Research Center on the Commons and Sustainable Society	Jeju-si, Jeju-do, South Korea	Oct. 4–11, 2018
South Korea	The Urban Commons Movements and Making a New Collaborative and Polycentric Governance: Some Cases in the Two Cities of Seoul and Inchon in South Korea	Seoungwon Lee	Center for Asian Cities, Seoul National University	Oct. 5, 2018
United States	Toward the establishment of a "Chamber" of Commoning in the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts ➚	David Bollier, Charlie Schweik & Marilyn Billings	Amherst Media, 246 College Street	Oct. 8, 2018 (6:30 to 8:30pm)
Brazil	The Brazil's Commons Seminar: the Faxinal Tradition ➚	Carlos A. M. Gonzaga	UNICENTRO – Campus Irati, PR – Brazil	Oct. 4, 2018 (2pm to 10pm)
United States	Commons @ ASU ➚	Marco Janssen	Arizona State University	Oct. 9, 2018
Germany	Urbanize! 2018 BER	Julian Zwicker	Berlin	Oct. 5–14, 2018
Colombia	Collective Titling of 6 Million Hectares to Afro-Colombian Communities	Juan-Camilo Cardenas	Bogotá	TBD
China	2018 Commons Workshop – Challenge and Response of Governing the Commons in China: the 50th Anniversary of “The Tragedy of the Commons”	Yahua Wang	Beijing	Oct. 13, 2018
Germany	Practicing the Urban Commons: Collective Action in Community Gardens - Open Garden Meeting and Guided Tour through Campusgarten GrüneBeete, Münster ➚	Nicole Rogge	Campusgarten Gr üneBeete, Leonardo-Campus 18 (behind the building), Münster	Oct. 5, 2018 (3pm)
Switzerland	Large Scale Land Acquisitions as Commons and Resilience grabbing in Africa ➚	Tobias Haller	niversity of Bern, Institute of Social Anthropology	Oct. 4–12, 2018
Netherlands	Experiencing the Politics of Nature: Managing Excess Rainfall ➚	Socrates Schouten, Waag	Amsterdam	Oct. 11, 2018
Germany	Open Science Workshop ➚	Susann Oezueyaman	Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Emile-Abderhalden- Straße, Lecture Room 11	Oct. 11, 2018 (9am to 3pm)
Germany	Back to the Roots: Discussing the Original Commons Debate in Light of Recent Struggles for Commons ➚	Kim Anna Jurashek Jonathan Everts	Halle	Oct. 8, 2018 (5pm)
United States	The River as Commons: Working to Keep a Hard-Working River Flowing (Colorado River Basin Water Transactions Workshop) ➚	Anne McKinnon	Moab, Utah	Oct. 2–4, 2018
Austria	Screening of Documentary Film “Das Gegenteil von Grau” (The opposite of grey) ➚	Michael Klingler, Kulturverein Vogelweide	Innsbruck	Oct. 10, 2018 (7:00pm)
India	Commoning the Commons ➚	Sonali Mohapatra, Foundation for Ecological Security	Bhubaneswar and Mandla	Oct. 6–12, 2018
Netherlands	Evolved in Shared Relationships & Erfgoed (Agricultural Heritage and Land Use) ➚	Rosa Paardenkooper, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons	Utrecht	Until Oct. 20th
United Kingdom	Constitutionality: Bottom-Up Institution Building Processes for the Management of the Commons	Iain MacKinnon, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University	Ryton Gardens in Coventry	Oct. 12, 2018
Belgium	The city of Antwerp (Belgium) as a commons – workshop and guided bike tour through different urban commons initiatives	Koen Wynants, Commons Lab Antwerpen	Antwerp	Oct. 6, 2018
Albania	Promoting the Commons in South East Europe ➚	Klodjan Rama, Agricultural University of Tirana	Mother Theresa Square, Tirana	Oct. 12, 2018 (10am to 9pm)

Commons without Borders: Global Multiscale Ecosystem Framework

Led by Professor Tim Randhir, this is a coordinated conference with online interaction between
scholars from around the world.

Agenda information and how to join online is no longer available.

Coordinated events taking place on October 10th are as follows:

Country	Event title	Organizer(s) / organization(s)	Location
United States	Video Conference & Central Hub	Tim Randhir	Holdsworth Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
China	Workshop on Green Assets	Caiping Zhang	University of South China, No 28, Changsheng West Road, Hengyang City, Hunan
India	Information Commons Conference/Workshop	M. Thirunavukkarasu	Tamil Nadu Veterinary Animal and Sciences University, Madhavaram Milk Colony, Chennai – 600 051, Tamil Nadu, India
Uganda	Wildlife Conservation Workshop	Simon Nampindo	Wildlife Conservation Society, Plot 802, Kiwafu Rd, Kampala, Uganda
Turkey	Forest Commons	Ceyhun GÖL	Çankırı Karatekin University, Fatih Mahallesi, Uluyazı Kampüsü Ring Yolu,18100 Çankırı Merkez/Çankırı, Turkey
Uruguay	Water Quality Professionals Workshop	Macarena Mo	PFP, Innodriven, Colombes 1318 Office 101, Montevideo – CP 1400 – Uruguay
Mexico	Regional Watershed Sustainability Conference	Juan Carlos, CEO, Cecropia	Avenida Río, Pichucalco no. 126, High Albania Colony, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Peru	Suitability Workshop	Lucia Chuquillanqui	World Wildlife Fund, GEF Project Development, Trinidad Morán 853, Lima, Peru
Peru	Suitability Workshop	Mario Shimokawa, General Manager of FAIRTRASA PERU	Trujillo, Peru
United States	Renewable Energy Workshop [still being confirmed]	Reena Randhir	Springfield Technical Community College, One Armory Street, Springfield, MA, USA

Globally distributed, locally organized events

We mobilized Commons scholars and practitioners all over the world to put on their own local events! These events varied in topic and function, driven by individual organizer interests and contexts, and took place during the period of October 4–12th, 2018.​

Commons without Borders: Global Multiscale Ecosystem Framework

We mobilized Commons scholars and practitioners all over the world to put on their own local events! These events varied in topic and function, driven by individual organizer interests and contexts, and took place during the period of October 4–12th, 2018.