LIVIANA 2024 - Community Economies Online Conference
The fifth Community Economies Research Network (CERN) LIVIANA 2024 International Online Conference will be held Monday 4 November to Friday 22 November, with 28 sessions covering topics that range from diverse democracies and diverse economies, Indigenous-led co-design, diverse economies in more-than-human worlds, art-based practices and community economies practice, and decolonising economies.
Details about the sessions are available here. Some sessions are in Spanish.
For the first time, some sessions are running in a hybrid format (face-to-face and online) and these include:
- A hybrid Keynote taking place in Sydney and online
- A CERN Latin America session happening across multiple cities
- A walk and exploration of collective lands in the Italian Alps
- An experimental live community radio show in Norway and worldwide
- A session on community initiatives related to the New European Bauhaus in Italy and Slovenia.
There are two keynote presentations.
The first will be delivered by Professor Kathrin Böhm (Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences) and Dr Kuba Szreder (Academy of Fine Art in Warsaw) who will introduce research and methodologies used by the Centre for Plausible Economies (which they co-established in 2018) to identify and foster interdependent ways of making and sustaining artistic practice.
The second will be delivered by Bhavya Chitranshi who will reflect on 10 years of doing collaborative action research work with Eka Nari Sanghathan (ENS, the single women’s collective) in the village of Emaliguda in Odisha, India.
LIVIANA is a decentralised series of exchanges and symposia that runs for two weeks, providing an opportunity for CERN members to connect and share. All sessions are free.
The event is based on the sense of openness, free-floating train of thought, and cheerful spirit that the Spanish term liviana connotes.
Information about the previous LIVIANA conferences is available here.