NYC: Conference “The Privatization of Public Space? Resisting Enclosure”
Markus Euskirchen | 19. April 2010 | Filed under: Allmende • Commons • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Public Goods • Public Space • Practical Struggles • Dates/Events | Leave a comment
Neoliberalism continues to transform public space in geographically uneven and variegated ways, with far reaching and profound consequences. On the first day, the conference will provide context for various means of privatization and elaborate on language and visions for discussing this issue. On the second day, workshops will bring together students, activists, artists, and organizations Continue reading →
Conference: Surviving in the »Creative Industries«
Markus Euskirchen | 6. November 2009 | Filed under: Intellectual Property • Upcoming Events • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Culture • Practical Struggles • Dates/Events | Leave a comment
The »Creative Industries« are considered key to the city development in the 21st Century. Cities such as Berlin put them at the center of image and location policy. The debates are mainly of benefit to the economy and capital development at the forefront – the changed living and working conditions of creative people are in Continue reading →
Anual ppg-network conference in London
Markus Euskirchen | 4. November 2009 | Filed under: Climate • Krise • Nationalization • Upcoming Events • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Dates/Events | Leave a comment
State projects between neoliberal restauration and ‘postneoliberalism’ (ppg-network and RLS in cooperation with the University of Vienna and Historical Materialism) at Historical Materialism in London, 27.-29.11.09, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H OXG.
Call for papers: What is the common?
Markus Euskirchen | 30. March 2009 | Filed under: Commons • Global Public Goods • Open Access • Open Source • Open Source Ecology • Public Goods • Upcoming Events • Public Goods • Dates/Events | Leave a comment
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is calling – submission deadline: September 5th, 2009: In the shadow of the global crisis of capitalism, the common, somehow obliterated in the recent past, has emerged as an indispensable and central notion. The conference addresses this notion both as a real movement and as an already present horizon, a dynamic Continue reading →
PRESOM final conference
Markus Euskirchen | 4. March 2009 | Filed under: Network • Upcoming Events • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Dates/Events | Leave a comment
Berlin: Forth and final international PRESOM conference. See Programme and Flyer
Annual ppg-conference “Crisis of Privatisation”
Markus Euskirchen | 14. December 2007 | Filed under: Annual Meeting • Privatization's Consequences • Privatization's Crisis • Inside the Network • Privatization | 1 Comment
The 5th annual conference of the ppg network (Privatisation/Public Goods) worked around the topic of the “Crisis of Privatisation”.