For the first time, the International Co-operative Alliance Asia-Pacific Research Conference will be held in Australia.
The University of Newcastle will play host - fitting given not just its important place in the history of the Australian consumer movement, but because it’s one of the leading research and teaching institutions in Australia regarding co-operatives. For instance, the Newcastle Business School currently offers Australia’s only post-graduate degree in Co-operative Management and Organisation.
The central theme for the 14th ICA CCR Asia-Pacific Research Conference is the contribution that co-operation and knowledge sharing among co-operatives and mutuals in the Asia-Pacific region can make towards a flourishing and sustainable future.
Keynote speakers at the conference include Melina Morrison, CEO of the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals; and Greg Patmore, Emeritus Professor of Business and Labour History, University of Sydney.
Both are eminent in the co-operative movement in Australia and delegates will be looking forward to their talks. Patmore’s talk, in particular, which will provide an update on the Visual Atlas of Australian Co-operative History, is keenly anticipated. The Atlas is a visual data tool being carefully populated with data from the history of Australian co-operatives from the 1820s to the present and is still under development, though Patmore is known to share glimpses of it from time to time.
The day before the conference a workshop for Young Scholars/RHD scholars has been organised. Young scholars will have the opportunity to present their research in a friendly environment and be provided constructive feedback and support from senior academics researchers in the field.
The conference will occur from the 12th to 14th December, 2019.
Duncan Wallace
New Economy Journal Managing Editor
Duncan is a PhD student at Monash Law School, where he researches the history and philosophy of corporate legal personality. He has graduate qualifications in economics and law, and his BA was in metaphysics. He has worked as a co-operative enterprise consultant and for the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, and has tutored in Trusts Law and Aboriginal Cultural Studies.
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