| ABOUT ISCA
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, Israel 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), Yad Tabenkin, Ramat Efal, Israel (1995), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1998), ZEGG, Belzig, Germany (2001), The Amana Colonies, Iowa, USA
(2004), Damanhur, Italy (2007).
The next conference will be held in Israel in the summer of 2010.
Board of Directors
Dr. Deborah Altus, USA
Eli Avrahami, Israel
Jan Bang, Norway
Dr. Pearl Bartelt, USA
Dr. Albert Bates, USA
Chris Coates, UK
Professor Yuval Dror, Israel
Dr. Peter Michael Forster, United Kingdom
Dr. Daniel Greenberg, USA
Professor Dennis Hardy, United Kingdom
Dr. Graham Meltzer, Australia
Dr. Bill Metcalf, Australia
Professor Tim Miller (President), USA
Professor Yaacov Oved (Executive Director), Israel
Dr. Michal Palgi, Israel
Professor Don Pitzer, USA
Professor Menachem Rosner, Israel
Professor Max Stanton, Hawai'i, USA
Mrs Ruth Sobol, Israel
Dr. Menachem Topel, Israel
Lepre Viola, Damanhur, Italy
Staff
Administration: Ruth Sobol, Yad Tabenkin
Israeli Steering Committee
Prof. Yaacov Oved, Yad Tabenkin
Itzchak Gershon, Yad Tabenkin
Dr. Shlomo Getz, Kibbutz Research Institute, Haifa University
Dr. Arza Avrahami, Seminar Oranim, Haifa University
Dr. Michal Palgi, ICSA President
Anton Marks, International Communes Desk
Dr. Ehud Satt, Ruppin Institute
Dr. Shlomo Shaltiel, Yad Yaari, Givat Haviva Institute
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