Research Conferences & Workshops

Co-operative Membership and Globalizations: New Directions in Research and Business Strategies: A dialogue for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers

Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, October 24-25, 2002

Mapping Co-operative Studies in the New Millennium

This conference was a joint congress of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation and the International Research Committee of the International Co-operative Alliance and was hosted by the British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies (BCICS). This four day international event was held at the University of Victoria from May 28-31, 2003.

A complete conference program, including speaker biographies and selected conference papers, can be found at the British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies conference website. The following selection of papers and presentation slides highlights research related to, or coming out of, the research endeavours of the Co-operative Membership and Globalization: Creating Social Cohesion through Market Relations project.

Forestry cooperatives in Québec : the challenges of diversification and innovation. The case of Girardville forestry cooperative. (powerpoint slides) Mario Carrier, Département d’aménagement, Université Laval.

Co-ops in Space Enterprise and Community in the New Regional Economy. (powerpoint slides)
Michael Gertler, Department of Sociology, and Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan

Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada: Explorations of Identity and Membership (powerpoint slides)
Lou Hammond-Ketilson, College of Commerce, and Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan

Re-imagining Co-operative Research Futures: Co-operation as Decolonizing Theory and Practice (pdf)
(powerpoint slides)
Isobel Findlay, College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan

Communications, Culture, and Co-operatives: Liminal Organizations in a Liminal Age (pdf)
Brett Fairbairn, Department of History, and Centre for the Study of Co-operatives

 Photographs from the Waskesiu Writing Workshop, September 2005