Dear colleagues,

The program for the fifth subsistence marketplaces conference is now available at

http://www.business.illinois.edu/subsistence/events/SubMarkConfProgram_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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