Full Program - IASC 2023 - XIX Biennial IASC Conference - The Commons We Want

Full Program

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Day 1 — Monday, June 19, 2023

Time	Room 1: MLT 401	Room 2: MLT 403	Room 3: Ninth Floor - 901	Room 4: Ninth Floor - 902	Room 5: MLT 404	Room 6: Press Room	Room 7: MLT 405	Room 8: Tenth Floor - 1001	Room 9: Tenth Floor - 1002
8:30	8:30 am - 10:30 am \| Chandharia Hall Welcome Open Ceremony Keynote 1 “Whose Commons?” Speaker: Mordecai Ogada VIEW DETAILED SCHEDULE
10:30	10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.1. A Challenges and opportunities of the SDGs for the Commons: Sanctioning Grabs or Grabbing Opportunities for Collective Action from Below? Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller, Peter Larsen, and Ilkhom Soliev	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 5.4. A Experimental studies of inequality and inequity in the governance of common-pool resources and local public goods Co-Chairs: Nathan Cook and Tara Grillos	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 11.5. A Seeing commons as a process: The Commonisation-decommonisation perspective Chair: Prateep Nayak	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.11. A The Water Commons We Want: Local Action for a Better Future Co-Chairs: Dona Geagea, Gina Gilson, and Radhika Singh	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 2.1. Shaping Africa’s Urban Futures: Planning and Governance Dilemmas Chair: Geoffrey Nwaka	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Press Room Panel 4.10. Reclaiming commons under or against international investment law? Crossing perspectives from outside, within, and along environment related international arbitration Co-Chairs: Mathieu Bolay and Paule Pastré	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 6.12. Managing the commons in a highly dynamic highland-lowland system: Why harmony in institutional arrangements for water Governance across scale matter. Co-Chairs: Boniface Kiteme, John Mwangi, and Emma Odera	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.1. An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Institutions Governing and Managing the Social-Ecological Systems in Murehwa District, Zimbabwe Chair: Prosper Tonderai Mataruse	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Workshop 1 (Part 1) Engine Change at 80MPH: Transitioning Communities from Benevolent Dictatorship to Community Ownership Instructor: Seth Frey Moved to Wednesday 9 am Room 5: MLT 404
12:30	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
13:30	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.1. B Challenges and opportunities of the SDGs for the Commons: Sanctioning Grabs or Grabbing Opportunities for Collective Action from Below? Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller, Peter Larsen, and Ilkhom Soliev	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 5.4. B Experimental studies of inequality and inequity in the governance of common-pool resources and local public goods Co-Chairs: Nathan Cook and Tara Grillos	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 11.5. B Seeing commons as a process: The Commonisation-decommonisation perspective Chair: Prateep Nayak	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.11. B The Water Commons We Want: Local Action for a Better Future Co-Chairs: Dona Geagea, Gina Gilson, and Radhika Singh	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 2.3. Commons Towards Urban Transformation of Open Space and Informal Economy Co-Chairs: Timothy Adams, Philipa Birago Akuoko, and Deniz Ay	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 4.11. Clear as mud: the blurred influence of history on contemporary governance of natural resources in southern Africa Chair: Witness Kozanayi	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 8.1. Commoning our Education: Possibilities and Pathways towards an Education for All Chair: Nele Van Doninck	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.12. Other effective area-based conservation measures and commons Co-Chairs: Olivier Hymas and Jennifer Kelleher	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Workshop 1 (Part 2) Engine Change at 80MPH: Transitioning Communities from Benevolent Dictatorship to Community Ownership Instructor: Seth Frey Moved to Wednesday 9 am Room 5: MLT 404
15:00	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
15:30	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.2. A “The food systems we want”: Justice in food systems transformations Co-Chairs: Sabin Bieri and Theresa Tribaldos	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 5.5. A Different perceptions on commons theory and modelling Chair: Etienne Delay	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.5. A Contesting Human-wildlife interactions in the context of the commons Co-Chairs: Lisa Alvarado, George Iordachescu, Jyothy Karat, Samuel Weissman, and Ariane Zangger	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.17. A Crafting futures in irrigation commons Co-Chairs: Bryan Bruns and Anahí Ocampo Melgar	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 2.4. Urban Commons in Drylands Co-Chairs: Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 6.1. Infrastructures of inequality in the transformation of forest commons for large-scale commodity production Co-Chairs: Maria Brockhaus, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, and Grace Wong	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 8.3. Re-imagining Digital Commons – Making Commons Visible and Accessible Chair: Subrata Singh	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.11. Commons in the face of 30x30: bottom up and top-down responses Co-Chairs: Alex Ebang Mbélé, Graden Froese, and Gretchen Walters	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Workshop 2 Special Practitioner Event - short documentary films on land grabbing and live discussions with Massai leaders and filmmakers
17:00
17:15	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.2. B “The food systems we want”: Justice in food systems transformations Co-Chairs: Sabin Bieri and Theresa Tribaldos	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 5.5. B Different perceptions on commons theory and modelling Chair: Etienne Delay	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.5. B Contesting Human-wildlife interactions in the context of the commons Co-Chairs: Lisa Alvarado, George Iordachescu, Jyothy Karat, Samuel Weissman, and Ariane Zangger	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.17. B Crafting futures in irrigation commons Co-Chairs: Bryan Bruns and Anahí Ocampo Melgar	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 2.6. Green cover, urban development, waste management Chair: Keshav Lahoti	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Press Room Panel 6.3. Shrinking Land Commons: Processes of Land Alienation and Reconfiguration in Rural Africa Co-Chairs: Laura German and Howard Stein	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 8.5. Digital Commons and Social Movements: Understandings from the feminism Chair: Esther Bravo-Govea	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.4. Understanding the contribution of commons institutions to decommodification and postgrowth Co-Chairs: Deniz Ay, Jean-David Gerber, and Stephanie Moser	5:15 pm - 6:45 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Panel 11.11. The Vulnerability To Viability Approach: Understanding the processes of building strong small-scale fishery commons Chair: Prateep Nayak
18:45
19:00	7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Networking Reception and Apéro Organized by the Swiss Embassy and open to all IASC conference participants VIEW DETAILED SCHEDULE
21:00

Day 2 — Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Time	Room 1: MLT 401	Room 2: MLT 403	Room 3: Ninth Floor - 901	Room 4: Ninth Floor - 902	Room 5: MLT 404	Room 6: Press Room	Room 7: MLT 405	Room 8: Tenth Floor - 1001	Room 9: Tenth Floor - 1002
9:00	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.3. A “Territories of commons in Europe”: a European research network to unveil the “invisible reality” of the European commons Co-Chairs: Nevenka Bogataj, Cristina Dalla Torre, Pablo Dominguez, Mateja Smid Hribar, Yanka Kazakova-Mateva, Antonio Manzoni, Marianne Penker, Chris Short11, and Mimi Urbanc	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.4. A Grabbing Coastal and Marine Commons Co-Chairs: Andreas Neef and Achim Schlüter	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.8. A Adaptive Collaborative Management: From research to action for just and sustainable commons Co-Chairs: Anne Larson and Linda Yuliani	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.12. A From the governance of the commons to a wider commons-inspired governance: obstacles and institutional changes inside the State and the Market Co-Chairs: Margherita D’Andrea and Giuseppe Micciarelli	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 404 Panel 3.2. Self-recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Self-government for Responsible Territorial Management Chair: Gaélane Wolff	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Press Room Panel 5.1. Computational Social Science and the study of the commons Co-Chairs: Fijnanda van Klingeren and Amineh Ghorbani	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 405 Panel 8.7. New approaches to commons governance from the blockchain ecosystem Co-Chairs: Seth Frey and Andy Tudhope	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.7. Common-ing regulatory institutions for Environmental Justice Chair: Vidya Visvanathan	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Workshop 3 Challenges and opportunities for governing viable global commons: The Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Instructors: Gabriela Lichtenstein and Prateep Nayak
10:30	10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.3. B “Territories of commons in Europe”: a European research network to unveil the “invisible reality” of the European commons Co-Chairs: Nevenka Bogataj, Cristina Dalla Torre, Pablo Dominguez, Mateja Smid Hribar, Yanka Kazakova-Mateva, Antonio Manzoni, Marianne Penker, Chris Short11, and Mimi Urbanc	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.4. B Grabbing Coastal and Marine Commons Co-Chairs: Andreas Neef and Achim Schlüter	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.8. B Adaptive Collaborative Management: From research to action for just and sustainable commons Co-Chairs: Anne Larson and Linda Yuliani	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.12. B From the governance of the commons to a wider commons-inspired governance: obstacles and institutional changes inside the State and the Market Co-Chairs: Margherita D’Andrea and Giuseppe Micciarelli	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 3.4. The Arctic – commons and the diversity of (de-)colonial configurations Chairs: Gertrude Saxinger and Jana Lamatsch	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Press Room Panel 5.2. The role of information in constructing collaborative approaches for commons governance Co-Chairs: Tom Koontz, John Powell, and Kiran Singh	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 8.8. New digital tools and data sciences for managing the commons Chair: Derek Kauneckis	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.15. Saving the Commons in the Mongolian Steppes: Environmental Hazards, Economic Disincentives, and Global Development Discourses Chair: Peter Finke	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Workshop 4 (Part 1) Introduction to the Institutional Grammar 2.0 Instructors: Saba Siddiki, Christopher Frantz, and Ute Brady Registration required by Friday, June 9th
12:30	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
13:30	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.4. A Cultural Heritage as a Commons: Governance Challenges through the lens of UNESCO Heritage Conventions and the Sustainable Development Goals Co-Chairs: Peter Gould and Hanna Schreiber	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.7. Energy in Common? Challenges and Reactions to Energy Infrastructure Projects Co-Chairs: Sean Field, Jessica Hogan, and Lorenzo Sapochetti	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.9. A Transformative interventions to strengthen biodiversity commons Chair: Ilkhom Soliev and Co-Chairs: Alex Franklin and Agnes Zolyomi	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room 4 Panel 10.12. C From the governance of the commons to a wider commons-inspired governance: obstacles and institutional changes inside the State and the Market Co-Chairs: Margherita D’Andrea and Giuseppe Micciarelli	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 3.3 Commons beyond resources: Indigeneity, Sovereignty and Ecological Care Chair: Lara Giordana	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 5.6. Combi-Panel: Migration and Education Chair: Antony Osome	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 11.3. Conceptualizing Commons and the Community Economy for Economists Co-Chairs: Tine de Moor and Irene van Staveren	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.3. Fisheries Co-management approaches: Theory, Practice and Applications Chair: Andrea Mjuma	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Workshop 4 (Part 2) Introduction to the Institutional Grammar 2.0 Instructors: Saba Siddiki, Christopher Frantz, and Ute Brady Registration required by Friday, June 9th
15:00	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
15:30	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.4. B Cultural Heritage as a Commons: Governance Challenges through the lens of UNESCO Heritage Conventions and the Sustainable Development Goals Co-Chairs: Peter Gould and Hanna Schreiber	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 3.7. Indigenous autonomy and the global commons: pathways for appropriate recognition and support Co-Chairs: Thomas Niederberger and George Smith	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.9. B Transformative interventions to strengthen biodiversity commons Chair: Ilkhom Soliev and Co-Chairs: Alex Franklin and Agnes Zolyomi	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.10. Institutions and Power Relations in Urban and Peri-Urban Commons Management Chair: Augustine Fosu	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 3.6. Pastoralist communities in the glocal world; Towards protecting the historical legacy of common resources conservation in the Anthropocene Co-Chairs: Daniele Brombal and Ali Razmkhah	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 10.9. A Collaborative Care in Commons Governance: Advancing Environmental Caretaking, Collaborative Management, and Sustainable Livelihoods Co-Chairs: Mez Baker-Médard, Sibyl Diver, and Mehana Vaughan	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 11.4. Which political constellations are conducive to commons formation? Chair: Maïka De Keyzer	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.5. Traditional irrigation as a way to address global challenges such as climate change, food security or threats to biodiversity? Co-Chairs: Gibson Kiragu, Boniface Kiteme, Karina Liechti, Caroline Ouko, and Theresa Tribaldos	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Early Careers Network
17:00
17:15	5:15 pm - 5:45 pm \| Chandharia Hall Keynote 2 The contribution of Indigenous People to globalisation despite our exclusion in the same Speaker: Milka Chepkorir
17:45
18:00	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Regional Chapter Meeting: Asia	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Regional Chapter Meeting: Latin America						6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Book Launch/Cocktail Hour Stéphanie Leyronas: The Commons: Drivers of Change and Opportunities for Africa Laura German: Power / Knowledge / Land: Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa	6:00 pm - 7:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Book Launch/Cocktail Hour Haller & Weissmann: Disenchanted Modernities (Mega-Infrastructure and Commons Grabbing) Kronenburg et al.: Drylands Facing Change (of the Commons) Andreas Neef et al. : Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
19:00

Day 3 — Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Time	Room 1: MLT 401	Room 2: MLT 403	Room 3: Ninth Floor - 901	Room 4: Ninth Floor - 902	Room 5: MLT 404	Room 6: Press Room	Room 7: MLT 405	Room 8: Tenth Floor - 1001	Room 9: Tenth Floor - 1002
9:00	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.5. A Energy as a commons Co-Chairs: Thomas Bauwens and Tine De Moor	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.13. A Authoritarian development and commons grabbing in Indonesia Co-Chairs: Heinzpeter Znoj and Yudi Bakhrioktora	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.10. A Restoring commons: opportunities and threats for inclusive restoration from global agreements to local collective action Co-Chairs: Ida Djenontin and Forrest Fleischmann	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.19. A Reconstituting institutions and norms for forest commons in contexts of multiple transitions Co-Chairs: Francis E. Bisong and Chinwe Ifejika Speranza	9:00 am - 10:30 pm \| Room MLT 404 Workshop 1 Engine Change at 80MPH: Transitioning Communities from Benevolent Dictatorship to Community Ownership Instructor: Seth Frey	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Press Room Panel 7.2. Open Source Hardware in the medical field Co-Chairs: Fabio Balli and Pascal Carpentier	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 405 Panel 11.6. Value chain coordination and dialogue for sustainable agri-food systems transformation: novel institutional approaches unlocking cooperative potential Co-Chairs: Jos Bijman, Véronique De Herde, and Aicha Mechri	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.6. Local institutions for global commons: redefining governance through conflict Chair: Sara Lorenzini	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Special Event Decolonizing development journals: Perspectives from International Journal of the Commons Organizers: Sergio Villamayor Tomas and Ruth Meinzen-Dick
10:30	10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 1.5. B Energy as a commons Co-Chairs: Thomas Bauwens and Tine De Moor	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.13. B Authoritarian development and commons grabbing in Indonesia Co-Chairs: Heinzpeter Znoj and Yudi Bakhrioktora	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 9.10. B Restoring commons: opportunities and threats for inclusive restoration from global agreements to local collective action Co-Chairs: Ida Djenontin and Forrest Fleischmann	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.19. B Reconstituting institutions and norms for forest commons in contexts of multiple transitions Co-Chairs: Francis E. Bisong and Chinwe Ifejika Speranza	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 3.8. Pastoralists beyond the cross-roads in the Horn of Africa: what are the new promising coping strategies to restore hope? Co-Chairs: R. Ngugi Kinuthia and Boniface Kiteme	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Press Room Panel 7.3. The commons of ‘wild’ edible and medicinal plants under threat Co-Chairs: Sonja Merten and Babatunde Owolodun	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 11.7. Towards standardizing case studies in commons scholarship: a collective deliberation Co-Chairs: Maria Gerullis and Hita Unnikrishnan	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.8. Crossed perspective of donors, NGOs and committed researchers on their conception and practices of common based approaches of territorial development Chair: Aurélie Botta	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Special Event How to get your paper on the commons published: A training session with the journal Mountain Research and Development Organizers: Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel and Theresa Tribaldos
12:30	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch IASC General Membership meeting – bring your lunch to MLT 401
13:30	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 2.2. A Collective property and urbanisation: challenges and opportunities Co-Chairs: Barbara Lipietz, Alexandra Panman, and Michael Walls	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.14. A Renewable Resource Energy Projects and the Drama of the Grabbed Commons Co-Chairs: Suraj Baht, Marco Nilgen and Tobias Haller	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.2. A From vision to execution: Why do participation processes go wrong and under which conditions do they promote environmental justice in practice? Co-Chairs: Annabelle Houdret and Mirja Schoderer	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.20. A Diverse Perspectives on Forestry Commons in a ´Glocal´ World Chair: Catherine Tucker	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.2. An African Anthropocene? Co-Chairs: Rony Emmenegger and Federico Luisetti	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 1.6. Role of informal property rights and community relations in sustaining global food, land, and ecosystem commons Co-Chairs: Yugank Goyal, Pranab Ranjan Chaudhury, and Ranjan Kumar Ghosh	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 11.9. Boundary objects for moving beyond panaceas: Engaging with diverse perspectives influencing social ecological systems research Co-Chairs: Dustin Garrick and Hita Unnikrishnan	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.13. Exploring the potential of indigenous and community-led innovative governance schemes towards a more just conservation Co-Chairs: Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Margaret Owuor and Julie G. Zaehringer	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Roundtable 1 Territories of life Chair: Ali Razmkhah
15:00	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
15:30	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 2.2. B Collective property and urbanisation: challenges and opportunities Co-Chairs: Barbara Lipietz, Alexandra Panman, and Michael Walls	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 6.14. B Renewable Resource Energy Projects and the Drama of the Grabbed Commons Co-Chair: Suraj Baht, Marco Nilgen and Tobias Haller	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.2. B From vision to execution: Why do participation processes go wrong and under which conditions do they promote environmental justice in practice? Co-Chairs: Annabelle Houdret and Mirja Schoderer	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 10.20. B Diverse Perspectives on Forestry Commons in a ´Glocal´ World Chair: Catherine Tucker	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.3. The colonial enterprise and the commons: conflict or congruence over ideas and institutions for colonial productivity and today’s development Co-Chairs: Samuel Assembe-Mvond, Patrice Bigombe, and Moira Moelino	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 1.8. Sustainability: People, Power and Planet Nexus Chair: Parita Sureshchandra Shah	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 11.10. Exploring the Philanthropy Commons Co-Chairs: Brenda Bushouse, Robert Christensen, and Brent Never	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.14. Inclusive Conservation, WWF experiences from the field Co-Chairs: Cristina Eghenter, Cheryl Margoulis, and Lilian Marquez	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Panel 8.2. World Librarians: A Knowledge Commons supporting offline rural, offline schools in Malawi and Kenya Chair: Charles Schweik
17:00
17:15	5:15 pm - 5:45 pm \| Chandharia Hall Keynote 3 Wallowing in adaptation while neck deep in vulnerability: Toward structural climate responses Speaker: Jesse Ribot
17:45
18:00	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Regional Chapter Meeting: Africa	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Regional Chapter Meeting: China	6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Regional Chapter Meeting: Oceania					6:00 pm - 7:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Book Launch/Cocktail Hour Prateep Nayak: Making Commons Dynamic: Understanding Change Through Commonisation and Decommonisation

Day 4 — Thursday, June 22, 2023

Time	Room 1: MLT 401	Room 2: MLT 403	Room 3: Ninth Floor - 901	Room 4: Ninth Floor - 902	Room 5: MLT 404	Room 6: Press Room	Room 7: MLT 405	Room 8: Tenth Floor - 1001	Room 9: Tenth Floor - 1002
8:00	8:00 am - 8:00 pm All Day Excursions
20:00

Day 5 — Friday, June 23, 2023

Time	Room 1: MLT 401	Room 2: MLT 403	Room 3: Ninth Floor - 901	Room 4: Ninth Floor - 902	Room 5: MLT 404	Room 6: Press Room	Room 7: MLT 405	Room 8: Tenth Floor - 1001	Room 9: Tenth Floor - 1002
9:00	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 401 Panel 2.5. A Advocating for Policy Change in Urban Commons Co-Chairs: Forrest Flesichman and Meghan Klasic	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 403 Panel 7.1. A Towards a game theory of integrated approaches to health Chair: Jakob Zinsstag	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.7. A Sustaining collaborative governance: how can collaborative governance be more effective and sustained over time? Co-Chairs: Mafaniso Hara, Judith Kamoto, and Fiona Nunan	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 11.2. A Long-term evolution and institutional change in sustainable polycentric governance: connecting theory and normative conditions with empirical analysis Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Baldwin, Michael McGinnis, Mark Stephan, and Andreas Thiel	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.1. Cross-border livestock Trade and Small Arms and Conflict in Pastoral Areas of the Horn of Africa: Case Study from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya Chair: Ame Abdurahman	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Press Room Panel 6.5. Grabbing the Freshwater Commons: Mechanisms, Discourses, Resistance Co-Chairs: Andreas Neef and Achim Schlüter	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 405 Panel 9.1. Climate and Land Use Changes in Murehwa District: Trends and Implications for Forests Ecosystems Chair: Prosper Tonderai Mataruse	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.16. Are the Benefits of Community Wildlife Conservancies Significant Enough to Compensate for the “Lost” Critical Pastoral Grazing Areas? Co-Chairs: Staline Kibet and Oliver Vivain Wasonga	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Roundtable 2 Ruptures in the Digital Commons Chair: Angie Raymond
10:30	10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 2.5. B Advocating for Policy Change in Urban Commons Co-Chairs: Forrest Flesichman and Meghan Klasic	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 7.1. B Towards a game theory of integrated approaches to health Chair: Jakob Zinsstag	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.7. B Sustaining collaborative governance: how can collaborative governance be more effective and sustained over time? Co-Chairs: Mafaniso Hara, Judith Kamoto, and Fiona Nunan	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 11.2. B Long-term evolution and institutional change in sustainable polycentric governance: connecting theory and normative conditions with empirical analysis Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Baldwin, Michael McGinnis, Mark Stephan, and Andreas Thiel	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.4. Honour the heritage – Historical commons as binding legacies Chair: Daniel Schläppi	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Press Room Panel 6.6. Impact of Commons Grabbing on Long-Standing Food Coping Strategies – Local Responses and Agency Co-Chairs: Selina Felber and Désirée Gmür	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 9.2. Conservation, Environmental Justice to Re-imagine the Commons in Africa Co-Chairs: Alpha Ba and Williams Daré	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.17. Convivial Marine Conservation in, for or with a Convivial Blue Economy Chair: Louis Carver	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Roundtable 3 Looking Back, Looking Ahead Chair: Scott Schackleford
12:30	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
13:30	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 3.1. A Towards Decolonizing Africa's Development Futures: The Place of Local Knowledge and Institutions Chair: Geoffrey Nwaka	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 7.4. A Public health services as a common good in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals Co-Chairs: Stephen Okumu Ombere	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.7. C Sustaining collaborative governance: how can collaborative governance be more effective and sustained over time? Co-Chairs: Mafaniso Hara, Judith Kamoto, and Fiona Nunan	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 11.8. A Harnessing the Institutional Grammar to investigate collective action dilemmas in the commons Co-Chairs: Ute Brady and Saba Siddiki	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.5. Rebuilding the commons instead of selling them. How research can help restore landscapes through understanding of the colonial legacy and the critique of the neo-colonial development complex Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller and Samuel Weissman	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Press Room Panel 6.8. Community-based collective action and sustainable development around infrastructure mega-projects Co-Chairs: Kaspar Hurni, Norman Kearney, Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, and Christoph Oberlack	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 10.15. Incubating Global-to-Local Commons Co-Chairs: Sarah Hutton and Charles Schweik	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.14. How Does Institutional Empowerment Affect Public Participation in Water Governance Chair: Yifei Ma	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Panel 1.7. The Alaska Model: a practical framework for natural resource governance in the developing world Co-Chairs: Ian Laing, Dr. Jack Hickel, and Governor Bill Walker
15:00	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break
15:30	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 3.1. B Towards Decolonizing Africa's Development Futures: The Place of Local Knowledge and Institutions Chair: Geoffrey Nwaka	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 7.4. B Public health services as a common good in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals Co-Chairs: Stephen Okumu Ombere	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.13. What to (re)produce? Local institutions and their (transformative) roles within social (re)-production systems Co-Chairs: Verena Hackmann, Grace Mudombi-Rusinamhodzi, and Prathiwi Putri	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Panel 11.8. B Harnessing the Institutional Grammar to investigate collective action dilemmas in the commons Co-Chairs: Ute Brady and Saba Siddiki	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.6. Lessons from the past: Organizations, Challenges, and Resilience in a historical perspective and the question of the sources Co-Chairs: Rahel Wunderli and Karina Liechti		3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Room MLT 405 Panel 9.4. Towards the transformation of semi-arid commons and pastoralist livelihoods in a complex world of competing claims Co-Chairs: Sheila Funnell, David Kimiti and Julie Zähringer	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 9.3. Reimagining ‘Commoning’ Processes in Biodiversity Governance Chair: Michael Schoon	3:30 pm - 5:00 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Special Event Satoyama Reconnections: Engaging communities in collective action for resilient, nature- and climate-positive land use futures Organizers: Janet Dwyer, Chris Short and Lois Mansfield
17:00
17:15	5:15 pm - 5:45 pm \| Chandharia Hall Keynote 4 Taking back the commons: Decommodification, Deconcentration and Democratisation Speakers: Ruth Hall and Moenieba Isaacs
17:45
18:00	6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Closing Event and Dinner Elinor Ostrom Award Concert

Day 6 — Saturday, June 24, 2023

Time	Room 1: MLT 401	Room 2: MLT 403	Room 3: Ninth Floor - 901	Room 4: Ninth Floor - 902	Room 5: MLT 404	Room 6: Press Room	Room 7: MLT 405	Room 8: Tenth Floor - 1001	Room 9: Tenth Floor - 1002
9:00	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 401 Panel 3.5. A What 'Territories of life' have in common: Exploring linkages between ICCAs and the commons under threat Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller, Everisto Mapedza, and Neema Pathak Broome	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 403 Panel 8.6. A Transitioning resource systems from benevolent dictatorship to community management Co-Chairs: Christina Bowen and Seth Frey		9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Ninth Floor - 902 Roundtable 4 Making Power Explicit in the IAD Framework Chair: Verena Hackmann	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.8. Time, commoning, colonial legacies & strategies for recovery Co-Chairs: Sophie Jerram and JC Niala	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Press Room Panel 6.9. What about revitalising African knowledge commons for/through education? Chair: Fabio Balli	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Room MLT 405 Panel 9.6. Promise of Commons - Community stewardship and Carbon Markets Chair: Subrat Singh	9:00 am - 10:30 am \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.16. The Open Source Hardware Commons: Exploring the environmental and socioeconomic benefits of OSH and the Right-to-Repair movement Co-Chairs: Sarah Hutton and Max Wardeh
10:30	10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 401 Panel 3.5. B What 'Territories of life' have in common: Exploring linkages between ICCAs and the commons under threat Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller, Everisto Mapedza, and Neema Pathak Broome	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 403 Panel 8.6. B Transitioning resource systems from benevolent dictatorship to community management Co-Chairs: Christina Bowen and Seth Frey	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 901 Panel 10.9. B Collaborative Care in Commons Governance: Advancing Environmental Caretaking, Collaborative Management, and Sustainable Livelihoods Co-Chairs: Mez Baker-Médard, Sibyl Diver, and Mehana Vaughan	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Ninth Floor - 902 Roundtable 5 The Drama of the New Commons in Rural and Urban Africa: What we learn from people-driven and state-driven land reforms Chair: Ruth Hall	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Room MLT 404 Panel 4.9. Notions and practices of community and commons in Latin America from colonial times to the present Chair: Christian Büschges	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Press Room Panel 6.11. Green-grabbing and dispossession of pastoralists’ livelihoods: does commodification of natural assets hold the answer to sustainable food security and nutrition? Co-Chairs: Boniface Kiteme, Emily Mutea, and Veronica Mwangi		11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1001 Panel 10.18. Strategic alliances in entanglements of commons and non-commons Co-Chairs: Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tosic	11:00 am - 12:30 pm \| Tenth Floor - 1002 Panel 5.3. Leveraging computational methods to decode institutions -- implementing computer science methods to study commons. Co-Chairs: Christopher Frantz and Bartosz Pieliński
12:30	12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
13:30	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 401 Regional Chapter Meeting: Europe & CIS	1:30 pm - 3:00 pm \| Room MLT 403 Regional Chapter Meeting: North America
15:00	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break

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