Conferences and Meetings
— IASC 2013: The 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons will be held in Mt. Fuji, Japan, June 3–7, 2013. The theme for the conference is “Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihood, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge.”
— American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL, August 29 – September 1, 2013.
— The Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW5) conference will be held at Indiana University Bloomington, June 18–21, 2014. Working groups wishing to reserve meeting rooms for speaker panels should be self-organizing and making contact with Gayle Higgins (ghiggins@indiana.edu) to get on the WOW5 draft agenda.
Past Conferences and Meetings
- Conference on Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action, "A Tribute to Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012)" (archived broadcast), Utrecht University, November 29, 2012 (program)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: New Perspectives on His Works. A one-day international conference held at Indiana University, Bloomington, March 5, 2010. Organized by The Tocqueville Program at Indiana University, in collaboration with the Workshop, the Department of Political Science, and the Liberty Fund, Inc.
- Workshop on the Workshop (WOW 4) conference, held at Indiana University, Bloomington, June 3–6, 2009. {LINK TO WOW PAPERS}
- A conference sponsored by the Gruter Institute was hosted by the Workshop on April 30–May 3, 2009.
- Conference on "Building Sustainable Democracies," Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 29–31, 2009.
- "Vincent Ostrom: The Quest to Understand Human Affairs", held at Indiana University, Bloomington, May 31–June 3, 2006. Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~voconf
- Working Conference on "Designing Constitutional Arrangements for Democratic Governance in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities," cosponsored by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, African Studies Program, and Office of International Programs, March 30–31, 2006 (prospectus, agenda, abstracts and papers)
- Festschrift for Elinor Ostrom, November 22–23, 2005 (agenda) (abstracts and papers)
- Conference on "Problems of Polycentric Governance in the Growing EU," Berlin, Germany, June 15-18, 2005
- Conference "Celebrating the Bicentenary of Tocqueville's Birth (1805–2005)," April 8, 2005