Call for abstracts: “Our Commons Future” (XVIIIth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons)

The organizers of the XVIIIth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons welcome abstracts for contributions to the conference to be held online during various weeks in 2021. With the theme of the conference, “Our Commons Future”, we intend to bring together commons scholars from a diverse set of application domains to address future governance challenges from the local to global scale. This conference will provide opportunities to connect academic research with practitioners’ experience and vice versa.

Due to the consequences of COVID-19 we are not able to organize an in-person international conference in 2021, but we are offering a series of virtual events to bring people together. We are organizing 9 short topical conferences between February and September where you can present individual talks, special sessions, webinar panels and more. Our original IASC 2021 dates October 11-15, 2021 are reserved for a virtual conference focused on membership meetings, workshops and webinar panels on cross-cutting topics.

Important dates:

• Commons in Space: February 24-26 (submit abstracts by January 15)

• Fisheries and Aquaculture Commons: March 9-11 (submit abstracts by Jan 26)

• Commoning the Anthropocene: April 21-23 (submit abstracts by February 26)

• Urban Commons: May 6-8, (submit abstracts by March 27)

• Polycentric Governance: May 17-19 (submit abstracts by March 3)

• Water Commons: May 19-21 (submit abstracts by March 5)

• Knowledge Commons: June 9-11 (submit abstracts by May 1)

• Forest Commons: September 13-17 (submit abstracts early August)

• Land Commons: September 13-17 (submit abstracts early August)

• General meeting: October 11-15 (submit abstracts by September 1)

We invite you to visit the conference website at 2021.iasc-commons.org where you can learn about the details of the various conferences in 2021.

Questions? Get in touch with the conference organizers: iasc@asu.edu.