Dear colleagues,
The program for the fifth subsistence marketplaces conference is now available at http://www.business.illinois.edu/subsistence/events/SubMarkConfProgram_HTML/index.html
Among the many exciting aspects are the following:
- Close to 50 presentations in discussion-oriented sessions (short presentations with few slides and at least half of each session devoted to group discussion, breakout work and summary later presented to larger group)
- Practitioners from three continents as keynote speakers
- Community workers and social entrepreneurs from India, Tanzania, and Uganda who grew up in subsistence contexts (as presenters and resource persons for workshop sessions)
- Junior scholar mentoring workshop on (please contact Srini (Junior) at srinivas.venugopal@gmail.com)
- Poverty simulation exercise conducted by a superb team of U of Illinois Extension specialists
- Movie showing about a woman in a subsistence context who empowers herself through the marketplace (Shakti Rising - a movie that won honorary mention at an LA film festival)
- Interactive, immersive workshops on research, curricular innovations, and social innovations
- Panel on commercial innovations
- Round Table UnSession (Participants' choice of topics)
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Madhu Viswanathan for the team
Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative:
http://www.business.illinois.edu/subsistence/
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Madhu Viswanathan
Diane and Steven N. Miller Professor in Business
183 Wohlers Hall, 1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217-333-4550; Fax: 217-244-7969; email: mviswana@illinois.edu
Homepage: http://www.business.uiuc.edu/~madhuv/homepage.html
Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative:
http://www.business.uiuc.edu/subsistence
Non-profit website: www.marketplaceliteracy.org
Oana Branzei, PhD
Associate Professor, Strategy
Director, Sustainability Certificate Program
Richard Ivey School of Business, Office 2683
1255 Western Road, London, Canada N6G 0N1
Tel: 519 661 4114 / Cell: 734 834 4025
Email: obranzei@ivey.uwo.ca
Web: http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty/directory/oana-branzei/
Visiting Professor
Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship
Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Office R4462
701 Tappan St., AA MI 48109-1234
Tel: 734 763 8636 / Cell: 734-834-4025
Email: obranzei@umich.edu
Web: http://www.centerforpos.org/2012/08/a-passion-for-hope-%e2%80%93-visiting-scholar-oana-branzei/
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