From Cooperativism to Commoning. Historical and Contemporary Forms of the Institutions of the Common

RHN 141/2020 | Event

Organisers: Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw & Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Science

19–20 November 2020, Online Event

 

International Conference
From Cooperativism to Commoning.
Historical and Contemporary Forms of the Institutions of the Common

 

The conference will be held on the Zoom platform. Please register on common.isns.uw.edu.pl. After registering, you will receive a link to reach the event. 

 

Programme

Day 1

9.009.30 Introduction

Dr. Aleksandra Bilewicz (Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Dr. Bartłomiej Błesznowski (Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw)

 

9.30–11.00 Main Session

Towards the Regime of the Common

Chair: Dr. Mikołaj Ratajczak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Dr. Michał Pospiszyl (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Symbiosis or Cooperation? On the Origin of Communism

Dr. Łukasz Moll (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Commoning as the New Philosophy of Praxis. Between Flâneurs and Glaneuse

Dr. Cezary Rudnicki (Independent Scholar)
The Cooperative Theory of Alliance

 

11.00–11.15 BREAK

 

11.15–12.45 Parallel Sessions

Cooperation and the Birth of Social Sciences

Chair: Dr. Bartłomiej Błesznowski

Prof. Dr. Dieter Haselbach (Zentrum für Kulturforschung, Germany)
Is there anything to learn from sociologist’s engagement for the co-operative movement of the interwar period in Germany?

Prof. Anne Kwaschik (Universitaet Konstanz,Germany)
Society as Experiment: Social Epistemology, Cooperative and Communal Practices in the Early 19th Century

Shaun Pitt (Northumbria University, Great Britain)
Anarcho-communism, New Liberalism and British Social Science networks

 

Historical and Contemporary Forms of Cooperation on Rural Areas

Chair: Dr. Aleksandra Bilewicz

Dr. Heiner Grunert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Collective rural ideas for future societies. Examples from Poland and Yugoslavia in interwar Europe

Dr. Ilona Matysiak (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland)
Elderly people as organizers of care provision in rural areas: examples of care cooperatives in the Netherlands and the Village Movement in the U.S.

Dr. Ruta Śpiewak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Alternative Food Networks as a Space of Food Citizenship

 

12:45–14.15 Lunch and Networking Break

 

14:15–15.15 Keynote Speech

Dr. Marcelo Vieta (Ontario Institute for Studies on Education, Canada)
Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina. Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión

 

15.15–15.30 BREAK

 

15.30–17.00 Parallel Sessions

The Commons in the Face of Ecological Crisis

Chair: Aleksandra Gołdys (KIC-Climate, Poland)

Eduardo Erazo Acosta (Universidad de Nariño, Colombia)
The power of the ancestral philosophy of Alli kawsay (Buen Vivir) in the indigenous movements of Colombia

Jakub Crcha (Slovakia)
A return to the Commons: a potential critique from planetary perspective

Shachi Mokashi (Central European University, Austria)
Commoning and the Protection of Nature: A Critical Intervention

 

Social History of Cooperative Institutions (I)

Chair: Filip Leszczyński (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

Samuel Boscarello (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
Entrepreneurs of social conflict: cooperators and revolt leaders in the Italian crisis (1893-1894)

Prof. Zofia Chyra-Rolicz (Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
The role of co-operative leaders in establishing social community

Leo Marić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Between Autonomy and State Control: Cooperative Ideas in Croatia in Interwar Period and the Second World War

 

Day 2

9.00–10.30 Parallel Sessions

The Commons in the Face of COVID 19 Pandemia

Chair: Dr. Bartłomiej Błesznowski

Dr. Claudia Firth (Birkbeck, University of London, Great Britain)
Covid-19 Mutual Aid and the Contribution Economy

Dr. Dionysios Skliris (National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
The struggle between eco-fascism and ecommunism in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. Doron Timor (Tel Aviv University and "Yad Tabenkin" Institute, Israel)
"Community? Now, more than ever" – Intentional communities and the challenge of corona virus

 

Social History of Cooperative Institutions (II)

Chair: Dr. Aleksandra Bilewicz

Prof. Patrizia Batillani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Commons and commoning: the experience of the Italian cooperative enterprises at the turn of the millennium

Dr. Torsten Lorenz (Free University Berlin, Germany)
Cooperatives and civil society. Historical evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (ca. 1850-1940)

Prof. Sorin Radu (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)
Cooperatives in Interwar Romania. Agrarianism and Cooperative Economic Models

 

10.30–10.45 BREAK

 

10.45–12.45 Parallel Sessions

 

Feminist Institutions of the Commons

Chair: Dr. Ewa Alicja Majewska (Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland)

Dr. Zofia Łapniewska (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Prof. Monika Kostera (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
The Visible Hand and women's involvement in managing for the common good

Tereza Stejskalowa (Prague Film Institute, Czech Republic), Anna Remesova (Artalk.cz, Czech Republic)
Feminist Museum in 21st Century

Dr. Paweł Sztabrowski (Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, and Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Poland)
Theatre as a Parallel Polis

 

The Variety of the Contemporary Cooperative Institutions

Chair: Wojciech Mejor (“Dobrze” Cooperative)

Sarah Holzgreve (Independent Scholar and GETIDOS Fellow, Germany)
Commoning and utopia in the intentional community of Alt Ungnade. Germany, and their meaning for socio-ecological transformation

Dr. Andrzej Klimczuk (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland)
Creative Ageing Policy and Future-Oriented Institutions: Combining Silver, Creative, and Social Economies

Magdalena Kondas (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Cooperatives in the development aid discourse

Maria-Daniela Pomohaci (University of Goettingen, Germany), Praveen Verma (Department of History, University of Delhi)
Workers’ Initiative: From Community Kitchen to Workers’ Cooperative

 

12:45–14.15 Lunch and Networking Break

 

14:15–15.45 Main Session

Economy, Technology, Mutual Aid

Chair: Dr. Cezary Rudnicki (Independent Scholar)

Dr. Marco Migliorelli (Sorbonne Business Schools, France)
From Cooperativism to Commoning? Some reflections on the case of European Cooperative Banks

Prof. Aleksandra Przegalińska and Prof. Dariusz Jemielniak (Koźminski University, Poland)
The incoming collaborative society

Jan Zygmuntowski (Koźminski University, Poland)
Data commons stewardship: Embedding common good in data governance

 

15.45–16.00 BREAK

 

16.00–17.00 Concluding Remarks – Panel Discussion

Aleksandra Gołdys, Prof. Dr. Dieter Haselbach, Prof. Dr. Anne Kwaschik

 

Source: https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/310433