October 5, 2006

The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex, Globalizing Economies

Interdisciplinary PhD school with the Ostroms in April 2007

The Institute of Forestry Economics of the Albert-Ludwigs-University and the Walter-Eucken-Institute Freiburg are organising an interdisciplinary PhD school with Elinor and Vincent Ostrom from the 17th to the 26th of April 2007 in Freiburg and are inviting PhD students or other advanced scholars to submit applications. The title of the seminar will
be: The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex, Globalizing Economies: Responding to Walter Eucken's Challenge.

The school will be organised with some initial lectures, followed by individual paper presentations (presentation and discussion of individual works of participants). Therefore, we strongly invite scientists, who are closely referring to or are applying the works of either Elinor or Vincent Ostrom. The scientific contributions of the Ostroms have been truly interdisciplinary. Therefore, we would also appreciate applications from diverse fields of social sciences (economics, forestry, political science, social anthropology, geography).

We invite students from all over Europe (or beyond). The language of the course will be English. There is no school fee, but travelling and subsistence costs are paid individually. However, a certain number of grants for covering subsistence costs in Freiburg are available.

There will be around 15 participants in the seminar. We invite scholars to apply by the 30th of November 2006. Please send us a letter, which shows the link between your and the Ostroms' work, your CV, an abstract of the paper you would like to discuss in the seminar and the proposal for your PhD, if applicable. For further details about the school (location, time schedule, finances, people, etc.), please see our web site (http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/ife/conferences/PhDS_org/). For an initial working plan of the lecture part of the course please see (http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/ife/conferences/PhDS_cont/) For questions please contact a.schlueter@ife.uni-freiburg.de.

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