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World Commons Week 2018 is now finished!

A huge *THANKS* to the hundreds of people who participated in IASC's 2018 World Commons Week events, celebrating commons research and practice, whether it be in the kickoff conferences in Washington D.C., one of the local events that took place throughout the world, or the closing 24 hours of noon-time webinars on October 12th in every time zone across the globe!

Recorded webinar presentations are now available on this website for those who may have missed the live presentations.

View a creative video mash-up of some of the webinar speakers here!

And keep the commons dialog going! Participate in IASC's global conference in Lima, Peru in July 2019.

-- The IASC WCW organizing team

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

Local events: