Live Events Program

The Polycentricity Conference and Water Commons Conference overlap on Wednesday, May 19, and conference participants of the Polycentricity Conference can attend a number of live events of the Water Commons Conference. Furthermore, we have a special networking event where participants of both conferences can mingle.

All times are in Arizona time (UTC -7). Last program update 5/13/2021.

TIME (UTC-7) MONDAY, May 17 TUESDAY, May 18 WEDNESDAY, May 19
23:00 11:00 pm (May 18) - 12:00 am
Keynote Conversation 1 – Water Governance in Europe

Speakers: Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Moderator: Laura Herzog

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24:00 12:00 am - 2:00 am
Break
1:00 1:00 am - 2:00 am
Opening Roundtable – Polycentric and multi-level responses to crises

Moderators: Katherine Daniell and Josephine van Zeben
Panelists: Karen Hussey, Bruce Huber, and Garang Dut

2:00 2:00 am - 4:00 am
Break
2:00 am - 3:00 am
Panel Discussion – Rules, collaboration, and nested enterprises

Mderator: Wai-Fung (Danny) Lam
Panelists: Sadao Harada, Sharon Pollard, Jim Sinner, Sitti Rahma Ma'mun, and Everisto Mapedza

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3:00 3:00 am - 4:00 am
Break
4:00 4:00 am - 5:00 am
Panel 1 – Emergence and evolution of polycentric governance regimes

Mderator: Sergio Villamayor-Tomás
Panelists: Thomas Bolognesi, Rachanadevi Vaishnav, Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde, and Erwin Dekker

4:00 am - 5:00 am
Special Session – Exploring the Commons in Everyday Life – An Interactive Google Jamboard Session

Moderator: Dan Diojdescu

4:00 am - 5:00 am
Panel Discussion – Design principles and polycentricity

Mderator: Laura Herzog
Panelists: Nadine Jenny Shirin Schröder, Per Forsberg, Nora Schütze, Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri, and Ines Dombrowsky

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5:00 5:00 am - 6:00 am
Panel 2 – Equity and Inclusion in Polycentric Governance Regimes

Mderator: Praneeta Mudaliar
Panelists: Okechukwu Enechi, Naira Dehmel, Kimberlee Chang, Godfreyb Soekajia, and Leslie Acton

5:00 am - 6:00 am
Panel 6 – From Covid to the Moon (and back): New frontiers in polycentric governance

Moderator: Scott Shackleford
Panelists: Pablo Paniagua, Dennis O'Brien, Jean-Frédéric Morin, Eytan Tepper, Ndirangu Ngunjiri, Katja Biedenkopf

5:00 am - 6:00 am
Keynote Conversation 2 – Water Governance in Kenya

Speaker: Albert O. Mumma
Moderator: Elizabeth Baldwin

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6:00 6:00 am - 7:00 am
Panel 3 – Polycentricity in practice

Mderator: Elke Kellner
Panelists: Bryan Bruns, Fronika de Wit, Claire Dorville, Scott Hardy, Mangkholen Haokip, Tenzin Chorran, and Sayel Cortes

6:00 am - 7:00 am
Roundtable – What is the role of funders in polycentric governance systems?

Moderator: Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Panelists: Rebecca Gruby, Xavier Basurto, Daniel Miller, Dustin Garrick, and Jagdeesh Rao

6:00 am - 8:00 am
Break
7:00 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Panel 4 – Polycentricity in urban & climate governance

Moderator: Elizabeth Baldwin
Panelists: Daniel Petrovics, Matteo Roggero, Benjamin Leffel, Anna Melnyk, Anthony Li, and Noemi Florea

7:00 am - 8:00 am
Panel 7 – Markets, states, and borders: cross-border and cross-jurisdictional polycentric governance

Moderator: Mark Stephan
Panelists: Enrico Partiti, Stephanie Bijlmakers, Adriana Molina Garzon, Faruk Ulgen, Martin Spacek, and Ida Djenontin

8:00 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Panel 5 – Science, Deliberation, and Politics in Policy Decision Making

Moderator: Andreas Thiel
Panelists: Tanya Heikkila, Maria Milagros Cadillo La Torre, Matthew Nowlin, Jobst Heitzig, and Erin Kitchell

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Panel 8 – From fragmentation to coordination: dynamic interactions across governance levels

Moderator: Raul Pacheco-Vega
Panelists: Nathan Goodman, Tomas Koonz, Praneeta Mudaliar, Todd Eisenstadt, and Anna Zachrisson

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Lightning Talks 2

Moderator: Kimberlee Chang
Speakers: Hita Unnikrishnan, Maria Gerullis, Tejendra Paratap Gautum, Naira Dehmel, and Taufik Haryanto

9:00 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Lightning Talks 1

Moderator: Kimberlee Chang
Speakers: Nelson Jatel, Dane Whittaker, Adriana Molina Garzon, and Harrison Fried

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Panel 9 – Methods for understanding complex governance

Mderator: Tanya Heikkila
Panelists: Nusrat Molla, Tatyana Ruseva, Thomas Bolognesi, Amineh Ghorbani, Dan Diojdescu, and Aaron Lien

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Panel 10 – Polycentric water governance

Mderator: Christian Schleyer
Panelists: Elke Herrfahrdt-Pähle, Nadine Jenny Shirin Schröder, Anita Milman, Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri, Nelson Jatel, Brockton Feltman, and Sybil Diver

10:00 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Networking Time

Meet with other participants on our Wonder.me space

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Networking Time

Meet with other participants on our Wonder.me space. This event is combined with attendees of the IASC 2021 Water Commons Virtual Conference.

11:00
12:00 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Closing Roundtable

Moderator: Elizabeth Baldwin
Panelists: Bill Blomquist, Rebecca Gruby, & Mike McGinnis