Schools and Retreats
CEI Summer/Winter Schools
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2024
The third multi-nodal Summer/Winter School will be held Tuesday 18 June to Thursday 27 June 2024.
Confirmed nodes are face-to-face in Aotearoa New Zealand (University of Auckland); Norway (NTNU, Trondheim) and US (location to be advised); and online in Europe and some combination of Americas and Asia-Pacific (dependent on participant locations).
The School is run as a small group intensive, with numbers at each node capped at twelve.
The focus is community and diverse economies research and practice:
- The first part focuses on foundational texts and core concepts (such as antiessentialism, poststructuralism and performativity) and thinking techniques (such as reading for difference).
- The second part focuses on contemporary applications of diverse economies research and practice.
Face-to-face nodes operate from 9am to 5pm (with a midday start on the first day, and a 1pm finish on the last day). Online nodes cover the same content and operate from 10am to 4pm (with a midday start on the first day, and a 1pm finish on the last day). There is a two-day weekend break.
The main readings are circulated before the School. There are nine articles/book chapters that we highly recommend that participants read before the School starts. There are an additional five articles/book chapter that we recommend participants look over before the School starts. There is reading time during the School. There is also a small amount of 'homework.'
Confirmed facilitators are: Elizabeth Barron, Jenny Cameron, Ottavia Cima, Kelly Dombroski, Kevin St. Martin, Molly Mullen and Emma Sharp. There are opportunities to meet with other members of the Community Economies Institute (including Katherine Gibson) in the second part of the School.
For more information contact school at communityeconomies dot org.
2023
In 2023, the second multi-nodal Summer/Winter School Researching Postcapitalist Politics was held from 20 to 29 June. There were 42 participants across five nodes: face-to-face in Aotearoa New Zealand, Norway and the US; and online in Central European Time (with participants from Thailand, India and Europe) and in New Zealand Standard Time (with participants from Chile, Mexico, US and Australia).
2022
In 2022, we held the first multi-nodal Summer/Winter School, with three face-to-face schools (in Aotearoa New Zealand, Italy and the US) and two online schools (in Australian and European time zones). The theme was Researching Postcapitalist Politics and the school ran from 1 to 9 June with 37 participants.
To find out more about what happened there are recordings from the LIVIANA conference (in November 2022 and five months after the School) on:
- reflections on the 2022 Summer/Winter School by participants and facilitators
- revisiting ideas and concepts from the School by participants based in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
- blue economy presentations by participants from school
- a session on diverse economies of the state organised by three participants from the school
- a conversation on race based on a workshop from the school
- a session on diversifying the language of scale based on participant presentations given during the school
- two sessions on 'mushroom and mycelia' based on a workshop from the school (Session 1 and Session 2).
It's also worth reading the blog by one of the Australian online participants.
2020
The planned 2020 Summer School on the theme of Methods for a Postcapitalist Politics was cancelled because of COVID.
2019
In 2019, the Community Economies Institute held its first Summer School, Postcapitalist Politics in Practice, 1 to 6 June, in Bolsena (Italy).
Retreats
In 2023, the Community Economies Institute held its first Practice Retreat, Community Economies in Action, 12-19 July 2023, in the Italian Alps (in Rovereto, Vallagarina Valley, Italy).