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Elinor Ostrom, holder of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics, is visiting Montpellier
23/05/2011 - Press release
Elinor Ostrom, Professor of Political Science at the University of Indiana (Bloomington - USA) and founder member of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity (Arizona State University - USA) has been invited to France for a tribute to her work, and will be in Montpellier on 20 and 21 June.
The scientific community in Montpellier took the initiative of inviting Ms Elinor Ostrom as soon as it found out this exceptional woman had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. This will be her first official trip to France since then. Elinor Ostrom will be giving a lecture at Montpellier's Corum Centre (Pasteur Room) at 2 pm on 20 June , and will then be receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier 1, on its Richter campus. She will then be in Paris, notably at UNESCO, from 22 to 24 June 2011.
It was on 12 October 2009 that the Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Elinor Ostrom, the first female winner. Most of this great scientist's work has centred on the notion of common pool resources, a scientific expression of the notion of collective governance of natural resources, in both North and South, in response to major issues such as global change, sustainable development and knowledge economics.
Ms Ostrom's work sees collective action and auto-organization as a third alternative, between privatization and State control.
It is this topic that will be covered in her lecture, open to the general public, on
Monday
20 June 2011, at 2 pm, at Montpellier's Corum Centre,
entitled Neither State Nor Market: Community Organization of Resources.
At 5:30 pm, there is to be a ceremony for teacher-researchers and scientists at the Maison des Etudiants, Richter campus - UM1, at which Ms Ostrom will receive her honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier 1.
On Tuesday 21 June, Elinor Ostrom will be visiting Agropolis International to talk to scientists at a researcher school, and to French and foreign PhD students at a master class.
A press conference is scheduled for 10:30 am on Monday 20 June 2011, at the Hôtel de Région (Regional Council Building), 201 avenue de la Pompignane, Montpellier, in the presence of Elinor Ostrom (who will not be giving any individual interviews) and representatives of the scientific community working in this field.
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