About IASC Europe & CIS
The IASC was founded on May 27, 1989 and its legal address has been at Indiana University since then. Various global, regional and topical conferences have been organized in Europe over the years. Since 2018 we started to decentralize our coordination, particularly to facilitate understanding and practice of commons on more regional and local levels. We would like to support communication among the members as well as potential members of the association within the region/country/thematic areas, and reach out to broader external audiences.
Latest News
September 6-7, 2019: Workshop for PhDs and PostDocs “Die Frage nach dem Eigentum” in Oldenburg (with post-workshop summary)
An interdisciplinary workshop was held in Oldenburg to discuss some key questions related to property.
September 30, 2019: IASC Workshop “Advancing the SES-Framework – from Theory-Building to Hands-On Feedback” in Berlin (application period closed)
The Berlin workshop will be hosted by IRI THESys (Humboldt University Berlin), and co-organized by Beril Ocakli, Insa Theesfeld and Achim Schlüter.
Theesfeld moderates a Book Presentation on Commons by Silke Helfrich (Video)
On May 15, 2019 Insa Theesfeld moderated a presentation of a book entitled "Free, fair and vital | The Power of the Commons" by Silke ...
Call for Applications: Two PhD positions on sustainable water governance in India based at MLU Halle, Germany, apply by September 15, 2019
MLU Halle is accepting applications for 2 PhD positions to be filled through DAAD's Research Grants for Doctoral Programmes in Germany.
Kick-off Workshop held on commons and collective action in socio-ecological production landscapes/cultural landscapes, comparing experiences in Slovenia and Japan
IASC-Member Mateja Šmid reports on successful kick-off workshop of bilateral Slovenian-Japanese Commons project held in Ljubljana.
November 22-23, 2019: Workshop on “Historical Forms of Sustainability – Models for the Future?” in Bern (Call for Papers closed)
Organizers of the workshop at the Institute of History, University of Bern are accepting papers by Aug 30, 2019.
Vacancy Announcement: PhD scholarship on vulnerability to climate and agrarian change in rural Spain
The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is offering a PhD scholarship, apply by Sep 1, 2019.
Vacancy Announcement: Research Associate (50%) in agri-environmental policy and resource governance
The Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy (Prof. Dr. Insa Theesfeld) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg announces a vacancy of a Research Associate ...
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Regional Coordination Team
Tobias Haller
Extraordinary Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Tobias Haller is Extraordinary Professor in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Zurich social anthropology, geography and sociology and made his PhD and his habilitation at the University of Zurich. After being project leader in the NCCCR North-South, he was appointed as Director of the Swiss Network for International Studies in Geneva in 2008. In 2009 he became Associate professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Bern until 2014 when he received an extraordinary professorship at the same institute.
Ilkhom Soliev
Professor of Environmental Sociology and Director of the Social Learning and Environmental Governance Lab, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Ilkhom Soliev is an institutional economist and interdisciplinary social-environmental researcher with focus on governance of common pool resources. He studies behavioral and institutional change for equitable and sustainable environmental governance. He examines societal transformations and path dependence across natural resource domains of water, land, forests, biodiversity, and climate, as well as in various cultural and political contexts. Currently he is leading the Horizon Europe Project PLANET4B. His most recent interests include experiential learning, survey experiments, power of discourse and social movements in the context of environmental governance, as well as transdisciplinary approaches to values and rights of nature.