Common Ground Research Networks​ Headquarters, University of Illinois Research Park, Champaign, USA
Opening Session, Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Imperial College London, London, UK
Sixth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, National Art Gallery Copenhagen, Denmark, 22-24 April 2013
Garden Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, First International Conference on New Directons in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
Plenary Session with Graça Machel, Fourteenth International Conference on Learning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Founded in 1984, Common Ground is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages.

About Common Ground Research Networks

Heritage knowledge systems are characterized by vertical separations--of discipline, professional association, institution, and country. Common Ground Research Networks takes some of the pivotal challenges of our time and curates research networks which cut horizontally across legacy knowledge structures. Sustainability, diversity, learning, the future of humanities, the nature of interdisciplinarity, the place of the arts in society, technology's connections with knowledge, the changing role of the university--these are deeply important questions of our time which require interdisciplinary thinking, global conversations, and cross-institutional intellectual collaborations.

Common Ground Research Networks are meeting places for people, ideas, and dialogue. However, the strength of ideas does not come from finding common denominators. Rather, the power and resilience of these ideas is that they are presented and tested in a shared space where differences can meet and safely connect--differences of perspective, experience, knowledge base, methodology, geographical or cultural origins, and institutional affiliation. These are the kinds of vigorous and sympathetic academic milieus in which the most productive deliberations about the future can be held. We strive to create places of intellectual interaction and imagination that our future deserves.


Common Ground Research Networks is not-for-profit corporation registered in the State of Illinois, USA, organized and operated pursuant to the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986, 805 ILCS 105/101.01, et seq., (the "Act") or the corresponding section of any future Act.

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