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
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