The International Communal Studies Association is a multidisciplinary organization providing a common framework for scholarly exchange regarding communes, intentional communities, collective settlements and kibbutz throughout the world. The ICSA functions as a clearinghouse for research projects, encourages comparative studies, and maintains a list of communal organizations and individuals active in communal and kibbutz research. The Association holds international and local conferences and publishes a biannual bulletin. The Association stemmed from an initiative to combine scholars of communal studies with colleagues specializing in kibbutz studies. The dialogue began with the first International Conference held at Yad Tabenkin in May 1985. Since that time International Conferences have been held in New Lanark and Edinburgh, Scotland (1988), Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA., USA (1991), New Harmony, Indiana, USA (1993), and Ramat Efal, Israel (1995) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1998)

The last ICSA Conference is in June 2001 by ZEGG (Germany), the next will be in 2004 (date, theme and place will be announced)

Theme:

Communal Living on the Threshold of a New Millennium: Lessons and Perspectives

• Christa Falkenstein
• Robert Heess
• Christiane Mrozek

c/o ZEGG, Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 89, D-14806 Belzig, Deutschland

email: icsa@zegg.de

The ICSA board

For information about ICSA 1998 "Contemporary Utopian Struggles: Communities between modernism and post-modernism" or ordening the book with lectures please mail to Saskia Poldervaart

Photo's at the ICSA 2001 conference by Graham Meltzer

Conference Proceedings

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Links on Internet to ICSA and the ICSA conferences

ICSA 2001 is sponsored by

• Synanon foundation, Berlin, Germany
• Peter Bakker Informatisering, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Stichting Onderzoek en Advies Groepshuisvesting (STOA), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Stiftung Mitarbeit, Bonn, Germany

Septermber 24, 2001. Contributes and suggestions to the ICSA Conference website to Peter Bakker