Creating Spaces for Shared Inquiry
We design conferences as living laboratories for collaboration—spaces where researchers, practitioners, and educators exchange ideas, form partnerships, and engage across boundaries of discipline, language, and geography.
Each conference is hosted by, or co-programmed in collaboration with, centers of excellence—universities and research institutes recognized for intellectual leadership and engagement with critical global challenges. These partnerships ensure both academic depth and local relevance.
Our conferences create opportunities for dialogue between scholarship and public life. We work with policymakers, cultural organizations, and NGOs to connect the world of ideas with the realities of governance, education, and community practice.
We situate our conferences in conversation with significant global developments—inviting participants to reflect critically on the social, technological, and cultural transformations shaping our shared future.
From early experiments in desktop publishing to today’s CGScholar Knowledge Experience platform, we have consistently built our own tools and technologies to support scholarly communication. CGScholar extends every conference beyond its physical moment—transforming it into an evolving digital archive of ideas, discussions, and collaborations.
Reflecting our global membership, many Common Ground conferences are bilingual in English and Spanish, supporting accessibility, cultural exchange, and broader participation in the dialogue of ideas.
