Globally distributed, locally organized events

October 4–12, 2018

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.​

Country Event title Organizer(s) / organization(s) Location Day & time
United States
Sheila Foster (Georgetown Law) & Brigham Daniels (Brigham Young University)
Washington, D.C.
Oct. 5–6, 2018
Bulgaria & Germany
Insa Theesfield, Ivan Penov & Violeta Dimiranova
Agricultural University Plovdiv & Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Oct. 8th, 2018
Germany
Ilkhom Soliev
Freiraumgalerie Halle, Germany (meeting point: Corner of Landsberger Str. / Reideburger Str. Halle (Saale)
Oct. 6, 2018 (11 am)
Brazil
Procomum Institute
ESC Research and Training Center, S ão Paulo
Oct. 25–26, 2018
South Korea
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
David Bollier, Charlie Schweik & Marilyn Billings
Amherst Media, 246 College Street
Oct. 8, 2018 (6:30 to 8:30pm)
Brazil
Carlos A. M. Gonzaga
UNICENTRO - Campus Irati, PR - Brazil
Oct. 4, 2018 (2pm to 10pm)
United States
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
Nicole Rogge
Campusgarten Gr üneBeete, Leonardo-Campus 18 (behind the building), Münster
Oct. 5, 2018 (3pm)
Switzerland
Tobias Haller
niversity of Bern, Institute of Social Anthropology
Oct. 4–12, 2018
Netherlands
Socrates Schouten, Waag
Amsterdam
Oct. 11, 2018
Germany
Susann Oezueyaman
Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Emile-Abderhalden- Straße, Lecture Room 11
Oct. 11, 2018 (9am to 3pm)
Germany
Kim Anna Jurashek

Jonathan Everts
Halle
Oct. 8, 2018 (5pm)
United States
Anne McKinnon
Moab, Utah
Oct. 2–4, 2018
Austria
Michael Klingler, Kulturverein Vogelweide
Innsbruck
Oct. 10, 2018 (7:00pm)
India
Sonali Mohapatra, Foundation for Ecological Security
Bhubaneswar and Mandla
Oct. 6–12, 2018
Netherlands
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
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