WINIR 2026 Conference on "Private & Public Institutions for Good Governance", Rome, Italy, 22-24 July 2026

The Eleventh WINIR Conference is organized in collaboration with the Department of Social and Economic Sciences (DiSSE) at Sapienza University of Rome. The city of Rome’s long history of governance, from ancient times to the present, makes it a fitting venue for our inquiry into private and public institutions.

The conference will open in the afternoon of Wednesday 22 July and end with a dinner on Friday 24 July, during which the 2026 Elinor Ostrom Prize and the JOIE Reviewer of the Year Award will be announced. There will be an optional tour on Saturday 25 July.

The conference will be preceded by a WINIR Young Scholars Workshop on Tuesday 21 July.

Keynotes lectures will be given by:

Paul Dragos Aligica (University of Bucharest, Romania & George Mason University, USA)
Julia Black (Oxford University, UK)

Individual abstracts and 3- or 4-paper session proposals related to the conference theme or any other aspect of institutional research in line with WINIR’s aimsand research priorities are welcome. All submissions are evaluated by the WINIR Scientific Quality Committee.

Important dates:

19 February 2026 – Abstract and session submission deadline
1 March 2026 – Notifications of acceptance
3 March 2026 – Registration opens
1 May 2026 – Early registration deadline (standard fees apply from 2 May)
20 June 2026 – Registration deadline for accepted authors
21 June 2026 – Non-registered authors removed from programme
30 June 2026 – Full paper submission deadline

Organizing committee:

Emma Galli (emma.galli@uniroma1.it), Giampaolo Garzarelli (giampaolo.garzarelli@uniroma1.it), Lyndal Keeton (lyndal.keeton@wits.ac.za), Richard Langlois (richard.langlois@uconn.edu), and Paolo Silvestri (paolo.silvestri@unict.it)

Local Event Manager: Gaia Vallerini (gaia.vallerini@uniroma1.it)