The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex, Globalizing EconomiesInterdisciplinary PhD school with the Ostroms in April 2007

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

The school will be organised with some initial lectures, followed byindividual paper presentations (presentation and discussion ofindividual works of participants). Therefore, we strongly invitescientists, who are closely referring to or are applying the works ofeither Elinor or Vincent Ostrom. The scientific contributions of theOstroms have been truly interdisciplinary. Therefore, we would alsoappreciate 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 thecourse will be English. There is no school fee, but travelling andsubsistence costs are paid individually. However, a certain number ofgrants for covering subsistence costs in Freiburg are available.

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

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