ANSER  held its  annual conference as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at  Concordia University, June 2 to 4, 2010. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University was the keynote speaker on Wednesday, June 2nd.
 
The  conference involved panels of about 200 leading researchers on such themes as: 

• The social economy: differing perspectives; civil society and its challenges 

• Nonprofits and charities in a changing world

• Social enterprises and social entrepreneurship 

• Co-operatives and their challenges 

• Community organizing and community economic development 

• Volunteering and citizenship engagement 

• Changing conceptions of financing 

• Governance and management 

• Public policy and government relations 

• Communication, networking and social marketing 

• Community/university research partnerships 

 
CLICK HERE FOR THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM.

Visit the ANSER site for POSTED PAPERS.

Staff from CSHub presented at the conference; see below for a few PPTs:

• Building a People-Centred Economy. By Rupert Downing, CSEHub Co-director. PPT. English. 
• Governance and Movement Building. By Rupert Downing, CSEHub Co-director. PPT. English.
• Governance within the Social Economy Movement: the cases of Quebec and Manitoba. By Alexandre Charron. PPT
• The Social Economy and Social and Economic Integration for Immigrant, Refugee, and Cultural Communities: An Introduction. By Brianne Fester, Annie McKitrick and Sarah Amyot, Canadian Social Economy Hub. PDF