Please see the end of this programme for a glossary of acronyms.
Day 1: Tuesday 25th June
Registration
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Dargan Auditorium
(Trinity Business School)
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Nuala McKeever (comedian and playwright, conference MC)
Caroline Whyte (Feasta)
Dr. Peter Doran (QUB)
Prof. Jane Stout (TCD)
Musical performance from Liam Ó Maonlaí
Plenary 1: Why do we need to rethink growth?
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Facilitated by Prof. Mary Murphy (MU)
Prof. Julia Steinberger (University of Lausanne, online)
Dr. Seán Fearon (CUSP)
Prof. Eloi Laurent (Sciences Po, online)
Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé (Emergence Network, online)
Poetry reading by Philip McDonagh
Break
2:50 pm – 3:00 pm
Plenary 2: What is the role of universities in rethinking growth, promoting a just transition and advancing climate justice?
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Facilitated by Prof. Hannah E. Daly (UCC)
Dr. Linda Doyle (Provost, TCD)
Dr. Clare Kelly (TCD)
Prof. Anna Davies (TCD)
Dr. Sinead Sheehan (UoG)
Dr. Orla Kelly (UCD)
Break, coffee and tea
3:50 pm – 4:10 pm
Plenary 3: Where are there tensions and where is there convergence on rethinking growth?
Responding to President Michael D Higgins’ reflections on economic goals
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Facilitated by Dr .Tadhg O’Mahony (UCD)
Dr. Shana Cohen (TASC)
Dr. Michael Mulreany (IPA)
Dr. Darren Clarke (MU)
Paul Murphy TD (PBP)
David Bollier (Schumacher Center, online)
Plenary 4: What steps are required to ensure that housing policy and financial flows support a wellbeing economy in Ireland?
5:10 pm – 6:00 pm
Facilitated by Nuala McKeever
Dr. Rory Hearne (MU)
Rosie Lynch (Workhouse Union)
Barbara McCarthy (Journalist and researcher)
Hugh Brennan (Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance)
Ann Pettifor (PRIME, online)
Evening event organised by Oxfam Ireland:
Climate Action Workshop – 7% campaign
Oxfam Ireland is organising a grassroots campaign, linking with people across Ireland – students, protestors and ordinary citizens – with one simple aim: to make sure the government reaches its climate targets. This interactive workshop will allow you to learn more about the 7% Campaign, network with other like-minded people, and strategise on what action we can take.
Note: this event will take place at Teachers’ Club, which is a 20-minute walk or 10-minute Luas ride from the Rethinking Growth conference venue. It takes place from 6-8pm and will begin with a networking session, so attendees can arrive later than 6pm if they wish. Refreshments will be offered.
Further information and registration link
If you would prefer to remain at the conference venue, light refreshments will also be available there from 6:30-7:30pm.
Day 2: Wednesday 26th June
Registration
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Dargan Auditorium
(Trinity Business School)
Plenary 5: What does a wellbeing economy within planetary boundaries look like from students’ perspectives? How can we get there?
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Facilitated by Nathan Hutchinson Edgar
Plenary 6: Decolonizing the Social Imaginary: how can we ‘do’ economics in the Fifth Province?
9:40 am – 10:30 am
Facilitated by Prof. John Barry (QUB) and Dr. Sharae Deckard (UCD)
Dr. Mark Garavan (ATU)
Dr. Sinead Mercier (UCD)
Dr. Amy Strecker (UCD)
Break, coffee and tea
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Parallel Breakout sessions
11:00 am – 12 pm
Breakout 1A:
How can food, agriculture, forestry and land use contribute optimally to a wellbeing economy, and what is needed to bring this about?
Niamh Garvey (NESC, facilitator)
Ruth Hegarty (Food Policy and Sustainable Food Systems Consultant)
Dr. Denyse Julien (Climate KIC)
Prof. Alan Matthews (TCD Professor Emeritus, online)
Prof. Patrick Brereton (DCU Professor Emeritus)
Breakout 1B:
What changes in economics education would help with rethinking growth and achieving a wellbeing economy?
Paddy Nelson (facilitator)
Other speakers tba
Breakout 1C:
How and in what ways is rethinking growth connected to reducing inequality and poverty?
Prof. John Barry (facilitator)
Prof. John Baker (UCD Professor Emeritus)
Mary McManus (Living Wage NI)
Sean Healy (SJI)
Breakout 1D:
What transformations are needed in enterprise to support a wellbeing economy?
Facilitated by Andrew Thornton (HiB)
JP Donnelly (WPP)
Roisin Markham (IDEN)
Caroline Whyte (Feasta)
Breakout 1E:
What role can the arts play in bringing about a wellbeing economy?
This session will include a screening of the 10-minute film ‘Seeding the Future’ by Dónal Ó Céilleachair
Facilitated by Kevin Murphy (Playhouse Theatre)
Dónal Ó Céilleachair (ANU Pictures)
Lunch
12:00 pm – 1 pm
Parallel Breakout sessions
1 pm – 1:55 pm
Breakout 2A:
How important is peace for a wellbeing economy?
How can a ‘wellbeing/post-growth economy’ perspective help us to address the interlinked challenges of extractive capitalism, international political economy, the military-industrial complex, (un)economic growth, war, genocide and ecocide?
How can we build an economy that supports human rights, gender equality, climate justice and peace?
Facilitated by Prof. Helena Sheehan (DCU)
Dr. Louise Fitzgerald (DCU)
Dr. Rory Rowan (TCD)
Jess Spear (People Before Profit)
Dr. Mark Walsh (MU)
Breakout 2B:
What configuration might health take on, in a wellbeing economy?
Dr. David Somekh (facilitator)
Dr. Mark Garavan (ATU)
Dr. Tony Holohan (UCD)
Suzanne Costello (IPH)
Breakout 2C:
What role can faith/ethics groups play in articulating a new, inclusive wellbeing economy?
Where are the signs of hope for an inclusive, wellbeing economy in Ireland?
Facilitated by Philip Mac Donagh (DCU)
Dr Damian Jackson (ICC)
Dónal Ó Céilleachair (ANU Pictures)
Breakout 2D:
Beyond extractivism: how can rethinking growth help us to end destructive resource, energy and financial extraction in Ireland and globally? How can ‘sufficiency’-based consumption be achieved in high-income countries?
Facilitated by Emilie Tricarico (EEB)
Conor O’Neill (Christian Aid)
David Rossiter (FOEI)
Prof. Valeria Andreoni (UCC)
Anita Vollmer (ESRI)
Breakout 2E:
Space for open discussion
Faciliated by Davie Philip (Cultivate)
Plenary 7: Conversation on rethinking growth with Minister Paschal Donohoe (FG)
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Facilitated by Nuala McKeever
Dr. Peter Doran (QUB)
Caroline Whyte (Feasta)
Break, coffee and tea
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm
Poetry performance by Mel White
Plenary 8: Measuring progress: what is the potential and what are the limits of national wellbeing frameworks? How should we consider competitiveness, and define economic progress?
2:50 pm – 3:40 pm
Facilitated by Dr. Jeanne Moore (NESC)
Nigel Clarke (Department of the Taoiseach)
Caroline Whyte (Feasta)
Dr. Frances Ruane (NCPC)
Michael McCarthy Flynn (Oxfam Ireland)
Plenary 9: Is There A Distinctive island of Ireland Response To Wellbeing Economics: culture and the social imaginary
3:40 pm – 4:25 pm
Facilitated by Dr. Patrick Bresnihan (MU)
Prof. Michael Cronin (TCD, online)
Annie Fletcher (IMMA)
Saoirse Exton (UN YAG)
Roisin Markham (IDEN)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh TD (Green Party)
Seán Ó Conláin (Feasta/EHFF)
4:25pm – 500pm
Acronyms used in the programme:
ATU = Atlantic Technological University
CUSP = Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
DCU = Dublin City University
EEB = European Environmental Bureau
ESRI = Economic and Social Research Institute
FEASTA = Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
FG = Fine Gael
FOEI – Friends of the Earth Ireland
HiB = Heart in Business
IDEN = Irish Doughnut Economics Network
IMMA = Irish Museum of Modern Art
IFIT = Institute for Integrated Transitions
IPA = Institute of Public Administration
IPH – Institute of Public Health
MU = Maynooth University
NCC = National Competitiveness and Productivity Council
NESC = National Economic and Social Council
PBP = People Before Profit
PRIME = Policy Research in Macroeconomics
QUB = Queens’ University Belfast
SF = Sinn Féin
TASC = Think-Tank for Action on Social Change
TCD = Trinity College Dublin
UCC = University College Cork
UCD = University College Dublin
UoG = University of Galway
UN YAG = United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
WEAll = Wellbeing Economy Alliance
Caroline Whyte