The Communal Studies Association. This year’s conference is being hosted nearby Fairfield. Over at Bishop Hill, a historic village in Illinois, Oct 5 & 6.
An annual scholarly conference w/ academics who study groups like ours. Intentional communities past and present. Historic or contemporary. Typically the conference is two days of papers being delivered by social scientists, historians, historic preservationists. People can come and attend for one day as they may wish. There is a whole program but the sessions with the papers can be attended without doing the whole conference. There are categories for different level attendees. One day attendance is $65. Student and grad student rates too.. Link: http://www.communalstudies. org/registration-2018 http://www.communalstudies.org/registration-2018 Conference page: http://www.communalstudies. org/annualconference http://www.communalstudies.org/annualconference This is my tenth year attending. I find most any of the papers presented to be interesting. I put the CSA conference on my calendar every year now. Because this year’s conference is so near at hand I would urge any scholarly types to come over and sit in, even for a day. Kind Regards,
