This is two days of conversations on community, culture, and cooperation where we will discuss community practices and solutions, mutual aid, multiracial organizing and others that challenge our conventional understanding of economies and economic growth.
On Friday, March 8th, look forward to Plenary: Forced Migration to Kansas City: Survival Amidst Labor Exploitation, Panel 1: Places and Spaces of Resistance, Panel 2: Rethinking Pedagogies of Learning and Community, and Keynote talk: The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Social Finance.
On Saturday, March 9th, there will be Plenary: Organizing for Collective Solutions, Panel 3: Kansas City: Structures of Ruin and Repair, and Panel 4: Resisting Economic and Social Violence.
The symposium acknowledges economic violence as its point of departure, recognizing it as the encompassing notion of physical, mental, emotional, social, and environmental harms imposed on individuals and communities by economic factors such as poverty, racism, unemployment, discrimination, homelessness, patriarchy, homophobia, and economic inequality. These harms have brought us to a state of multiple crises as well as possibilities of ruptures with the current structures in place.
While in no way underestimating the severity of these problems, this symposium main focus is not criticism, but on creative problem-solving and alternatives to our present economic trajectory. The emphasis will be on community practices and solutions, including but not limited to cooperatives (worker, producer, consumer), ecologically sustainable practices, mutual aid, unpaid care work, multiracial organizing and others.
We invite you to participate in a conversation of scholars and activists; researchers and community organizations; educators and students; thinkers from across disciplines – social sciences, humanities, arts, sciences – to innovate solutions drawing on the resources of community, culture and cooperation that challenge our conventional understanding of economies and economic growth.
To learn more about this event and the panelists, go here.
