2012 – 2013 / Celebrating the International Year of Co-operatives
“Balancing Growth and Sustainability” / Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO, the Co-operators Group / Thursday, October 4, 2012
2011 – 2012 / Celebrating the International Year of Co-operatives
“The Boomerang Effect: How Quebec’s School Co-ops Are Training the Next Generation of Co-operators” / Jean-Emmanuel Bouchard / Wednesday, January 25, 2012
“Making the Invisible Count: Gender Equity in a Fair Trade Coffee Co-operative in Nicaragua” / Jannie Wing-Sea Leung / Thursday, February 16, 2012 (Fredeen Seminar
“Co-operative Solutions: How the Fair Trade and Organic Coffee Markets Support Forested Ecosystems on Nicaraguan Coffee Farms” / Michael Zelmer / Thursday, March 22, 2012
“Forestry Co-operatives: A Community-Based Approach to an Emerging Bio-Economy” / Hayley Hesseln / Thursday, April 26, 2012
2010 – 2011
“The Performance of Financial Co-operatives in the Financial Crisis: The European Experience” / Panu Kalmi
“Building Respectful Relations: Community-University Research Partnerships in the Social Economy” / Gayle Broad
“Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital” / John Restakis
2009 – 2010
“Agricultural Co-operatives in the Philippines and Canada: Opportunities and Challenges” / Rico Geron
“Empowerment Through Co-operation: Disability Solidarity in the Social Economy” / Kama Soles (Fredeen Seminar)
Can Worker Co-operatives Reduce Recidivism? Italian Worker Co-operatives and Offender Rehabilitation / Ann Hoyt
2008 – 2009
“Outcomes and Organizational Form in the Child Care Sector: How Do Co-ops Compare?” / Catherine Leviten-Reid
“Adult Education and the Social Economy: Rethinking the Communitarian Pedagogy of Watson Thomson” / Michael Chartier (Fredeen Seminar)
“Social Innovation: What is it? Where is it? Why does it matter?” / Marie Bouchard
“People before Profits: Enriching the Social Economy of Rural Saskatchewan” / Jonathan Anuik and Heather Williamson
“Banking on the Difference: Credit Unions as Community Assets” / Jessica Gordon Nembhard
“Engaging Communities: Working with Aboriginal Co-operatives in Saskatchewan” / Isobel Findlay and Maria Basualdo
2007 – 2008
“Building a Database of Social Economy Organizations: Definition and Qualification Criteria” / Marie Bouchard
“Towards a Mixed Co-operative Model: The Agricultural Transformation Societies in Spain” / Cándido Cervantes
“New Farmers’ C0-operative Law: A Window of Opportunity for Chinese Small Farmers’ Group Action” / Zhao Jun (Fredeen Seminar)
“A Rose by Any Name: The Thorny Question of Social Economy Discourse in Canada” / Brett Fairbairn
“Post-Co-operative Fever: The Future of New Generation Co-operatives in North Dakota” / Curtis Stofferahn
“Measuring Co-operative Performance” / Anne Hoyt
“CCA’s Youth Experience International: Two Internships in Africa” / Kim Brown and Angie Wagner
“Co-operative and Sustainable Development: Case Studies from Manitoba and Saskatchewan” / Tsevelmaa Chuluunbaatar, Karlah
Rudolph, Kama Soles, and Tim Zagozewski
2006 – 2007
“Investigating Community Development and Change through Narrative and Film: The Case of the Atkinson Housing Co-operative” / Jorge Sousa
“Co-operative Law for Farmers in China: A Review of the Legislative Process” / Men Wei
“Co-ops, Fair Trade, and Communities: Opportunities for International Co-operation” / Nancy Allan (Fredeen Seminar)
“Declining Economic Linkage: The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Share Conversion Story” / Murray Fulton and Kathy Lang
“Imagination and Cohesion: Co-operative Renewal in Canadian Communities” / Brett Fairbairn
“Measuring the Brand Equity of the Co-operative Sector: The Credit Union Case” / François Coderre
“Social Economy and the Co-operative University in the Age of Outreach and Engagement” / Len Findlay
2005 – 2006
“Co-operation and Community: Fair Trade and Co-operative Enterprise” / Nancy Allan (Fredeen Seminar)
Co-operatives and Sustainable Development: Comparisons between Canada and Mongolia” / Monica Juarez Adeler, Rob Dobrohoczki, Jason Heit, Dwayne Pattison, Zhao Jun, Mitch Diamantopoulos, Warren Weir, Bianca Rolle, and Rebecca Hatten
“The Evaluation of the Social Economy” / Marie Bouchard
2004 – 2005
“Crown Corporations and Co-operatives as Coping Mechanisms in Regional Economic Development” / Murray Rice
“Cognitive Processes and Co-operative Business Strategy” / Murray Fulton
“E-Commerce and Community: Dispatches from the Research Front” / Rob Dobrohoczki, Jason Heit, and Monica Juarez-Adeler
“A Century of Saskatchewan Co-operatives” / Brett Fairbairn
“Globalization, Indigenous Peoples, and Development” / Tirso Gonzales
2003 – 2004
“Anand Pattern Co-operatives: A Role Model for Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries” / Gade Reddy
“Social Auditing, Indigenous Knowledge, and Aboriginal Community Economic Development in Canada: Implications for Aboriginal Co-operatives” / Warren Weir
“Innovation Activity in A Mixed Oligopoly: The Role of Co-operatives” / Murray Fulton
“Can Strategic Co-operatives Pave the Way for Tomorrow’s Environmental Management?” / Josef Schmutz
“Marketing and Social Cohesion in the Co-operative Retailing System” / Brett Fairbairn
“A Proposal to Create a National Co-operative Data Centre at the University of Saskatchewan” / Cris de Clercy and Carol Shepstone
2002 – 2003
“An Examination of the Financial Return to Education for Aboriginal People in Canada” / Eric Howe
“Research Partnerships between Universities and Communities: A Question of Trust?” / Jim Randall
“Issues and Research in the New Rural Co-operatives in China” / Zhu Shufang
“The Future of Co-operatives: Failures, Transformations, and Adaptations” / Murray Fulton
“Mondragon: From Humble Beginnings to Industrial Giant: Can They Remain True to Their Roots?” / Lou Hammond Ketilson
“Building Mondragon in Saskatoon? The Community First Development Fund of Saskatoon—Fostering Co-operative and Business
Development with Community Partners” / Martin Chicilo
“Linkage, Transparency, and Cognition: Three Strategic Concepts for Co-ops” / Brett Fairbairn
“Winning Ways: How Can Work Organization and Employment Relations Contribute to the Success of Co-operatives?” / Louise Clarke
“The Potential for Nonagricultural Co-operatives in Rural Communities” / Kim Zeuli
“Recent Developments with the Ontario Co-operative Association” / Denyse Guy
“The Co-operative College of Canada: The Opportunities and Challenges of Partnership Arrangements” / Andy Rathbone
“Using ‘Diffusion of Innovation’ and ‘Path Dependency’ Theories to Understand and Predict the Co-operative Experience” / Roger Herman
2001 – 2002
“Leadership in Democratic and Participatory Organizations” / Murray Fulton
“Premier Walter Scott: The Beginnings of a Co-operative Tradition” / Gordon Barnhart
“Conflict, Co-operation, and Culture” / Marj Benson
“A Marxist Political Economy Approach to the Atlantic Canadian Consumer Co-operative” / Jason Doherty
“The University as Co-operative” / Len Findlay
“Genetically Modified Foods and the Interests of Co-operatives” / Cris de Clercy
“Remapping Economy, Society, Culture, and the Implications of the Postmodern and Postcolonial for Co-operative Organizations” / Isobel Findlay
“The Nature of Co-op Studies” / Ian MacPherson
“Rethinking Saskatchewan Co-operative History: Insights from Postcolonialism” / Brett Fairbairn
2000 – 2001
“Adaptation in Agricultural Co-operatives” / Murray Fulton
“Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada” / Lou Hammond Ketilson
“Co-operatives in Costa Rica and the Challenge of Sustainable Rural Development” / Michael Gertler
1999 – 2000
“Interdisciplinarity and a Problem-Based Approach to Economic and Social Development” / Murray Fulton
“Successful Community Networking Projects: The Hidden Formula” / Steve Cisler
Reasons behind Gender Gaps: Women’s Participation in Credit Co-operative Leadership” / Sama Kiriwandeniya
1998 – 1999
“Co-operation under Communism? The Authenticity of Co-operatives in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1949-1990″ / Brett Fairbairn
“Ideology and Economics in Co-operative Theory” / Murray Fulton
“Co-operatives and the Social Ecology of Sustainable Development” / Michael Gertler
“Community Economic Development and the Inner City” / Len Usiskin
“Co-operatives and International Development” / Patricia Paton
1991 – 1992
“Co-operatives: Ideals Meeting Reality” / George Melnyk and Patrick Develtere.
1990 – 1991
“The Economics of Co-operatives and Communities” / Murray Fulton
“Innovation and Co-operation in Sustaining Communities” / Lou Hammond Ketilson
“Why Co-operate? Historical Patters of Co-operative Development” / Brett Fairbairn
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