WICI Speaker Series & Social: Cooperative Economics and Management

Together We're Bitter Cooperative Brewing 300 Mill Street, Unit 1, Kitchener 

Sunday October 27, 2024 from 12 - 3 p.m.

Join WICI and our guest speaker Jerome Nikolai Warren, political economist and researcher at the Universities of Cologne and Goethe-University Frankfurt,  and lead editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management, for a talk about complex systems in cooperative economics. 

Attendees are welcome to bring guests along and all are welcome to stay after the talk for an informal social with the speaker and other WICI members. Please note the venue closes at 6 p.m. Food and drink will be available for purchase during the event.

About the speaker

Jerome Nikolai Warren is a German-American political economist and researcher, currently at the Universities of Cologne and Goethe-University Frankfurt, focused on the intersection between cooperation, sustainability and (business) networks. He is the lead editor of the forthcoming (Oct 2024) Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management as well as of the companion volume, Global Cooperative Economics and Movements, also forthcoming from Routledge.  He has conducted applied research on the cooperative economy of Italy, publishing on the evolution of Italian social and community cooperatives. Between 2022 and 2024, he was Chaire SFPI at the Belgian Royal Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters, advising the Belgian sovereign wealth fund on its strategies in helping make Belgian firms more sustainable. In addition, he is the founder and president of the Rudolf Rocker Institute and very active in various civil society groups. He is also an avid painter and photographer.

About the venue

From academics to welders, community advocates to graphic designers, the six founding members of Together We're Bitter Co-operative Brewing came together to build a worker-owned cooperative craft brewery from scratch, with the vision of making business ownership and craft brewery more accessible to the local community. Since opening in 2016, TWB focuses on building strong relationships with community partners, maintaining a well rounded lineup of high quality, approachable beers, and making our community a better place.