Fair Trade International Symposium 2023: Fair Trade Connections
We are pleased to announce that the next Fair Trade International Symposium will take place between 19 and 21 June 2023.
The Fair Trade International Symposium (FTIS) is the leading global gathering for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working on Fair Trade. The next FTIS event will be hosted by the University of Leeds in the UK, with workshops and panels taking place in person, complemented by some online and hybrid sessions to enable maximum participation. We plan for the event to be a mix of fully online and face-to-face panels and to also have face-to-face workshops, with the idea that some workshops would be aimed at activists and campaigners.
Our broad theme is ‘Fair Trade Connections’.
The Fair Trade movement aims to transform both production and consumption and contribute to wider systemic change that supports sustainable livelihoods, through its emphasis on producer empowerment, living wages, fair pricing and long-term partnerships, sustainability and social justice. However, the movement is not alone in attempts to reshape the discourse on sustainability and social justice through socially responsible business, social enterprise and supply chains.
How does Fair Trade influence and support other complementary movements, organisations and activities? How can Fair Trade thinking and practice benefit from complementary movements and activities, both in the South and the North? How can we establish new connections and what are the opportunities to extend and reimagine existing connections?
We invite contributions from all academic disciplines, or across disciplines, and from campaigners and activists working on fair trade and related fields.
Proposals for papers, panel discussions and workshops are invited to explore the connections Fair Trade has established or should forge, particularly, but not exclusively, around these subjects:
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Localising the economy
- The environment and climate change
- Decolonisation and Southern voices
- The social economy and social enterprise
- Business engagement with human rights and climate regulations
We are also open to including new topic areas and we would welcome your input.
More details on how to get involved will be available shortly. In the meantime, send enquiries to Anne Tallontire a.m.tallontire@leeds.ac.uk
Call for Papers, Posters and Workshops now open - see this link