Conference: Local Resistance, Global Crisis: developing communities of solidarity and Left Politics for the 21st Century

 Friday June 13^th
 
Renehan Hall, South Campus Maynooth University
9-9.30am
Registration & Tea/Coffee
 
9.30-11
Austerity & Resistance

• Neoliberal hegemony and socialist renewal in global society, Owen Worth (University of Limerick)
•  Gender & Crisis  Claire McGing (Department of Geography, Maynooth University)
•  Crisis? What Crisis? Neighborhood strategies of survival in the Spanish Context Rosa Cerarols and Toni Luna, Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona
• The politics of resistance & transformation: Is Another Ireland/Another World Possible? Rory Hearne, Department of Geography, Maynooth University

11-11.15
Tea/Coffee
 
11.15 -1.15
State funding, partnership and democracy 

• State Funding and Dissent, Brian Harvey (independent social researcher)
• Human Rights in Practice in Dolphin House, Debbie Mulhall (Rialto Rights InAction)
• The Experience of the Irish Traveller Movement, Brigid Quilligan (Director, ITM)
• Dissent or delusion: does state funding of Civil Society Organisation (CSO) advocacy enhance or undermine democracy? Anna Visser, Equality Studies Centre, UCD
• Searching for the “crack  that lets the light in’ 25 years of community empowerment, Cecilia Forrestal, Community Action Network)
• The Men’s shed Movement in Ireland, John Evoy, Irish Men’s shed Association

1.15pm-2.15
Lunch Provided
 
2.15-4.15
Crafting a politics of hope: New Left Parties, new politics 

•  Does Ireland Need A New Left Party Helena Sheehan (DCU),  Kathleen Lynch (UCD), Tom O Connor (CIT)
• A Review of the Left Wing Vote in the European and Local Elections 2014  Adrian Kavanagh (Maynooth University)
• Post-politics and Neoliberalism in Ireland, Cian O Callaghan, Maynooth University

 
4.15-4.30
Coffee
 
4.30-6pm
Key note presentations:
 

• Solidarities in pursuit of Social and Climate Justice 
• David Featherstone, Department of Geography, Glasgow
• Crisis regimes, resistance and solidarity in Greece Costis Hadjimichalis> > , Department of Geography, Harokopio University, Athens

 
7.30 pm
Screening of PERIPHERAL VISION 

• This documentary created by Donnacha Ó Briain, the award winning director of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", chronicles the experiences of attempts by small groups to mobilize the public against the bank bailouts and austerity. Donnacha will give an introduction to the documentary and there will be a short discussion afterwards.

Saturday June 14^th
9.30-10.45am
 
International perspectives and experiences

• Organising the anti-eviction movement in Spain: Michael Byrne (the Provisional University)
• Collective responses in Ireland to neoliberalization in a time of crisis: Learning from Latin America?  Barry Cannon and Mary P. Murphy, Dept. of Sociology, National University of
• Exploring the Potentiality of Anti-Austerity Resistance in the UK, Department of Geography and Planning, Unviersity of Liverpool

 
10.45-11.15 Tea/Coffee
 
11.15-1.30
Activist Reflections on strategies for future local and global resistance & solidarity in Ireland

• Shell to Sea (Maura Harrington)
• Spectacle of Defiance/Housing Action Now (John Bissett)
• SIPTU (Miriam Hamilton, Lead Organiser)
• We’re Not Leaving (Shane Fitzgerald)
• Claiming Our Future (Maureen Bassett)
• Migrants’ Rights Centre Ireland (Anatoliy Prymakov)

 
Please register to attend by email: rory.hearne@mu.ie
 
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With the kind support of Department of Geography, Maynooth University, NIRSA and Network of Politics, Power and Society Maynooth University

 Directions to Maynooth:
 
Maynooth campus map: http://www.nuim.ie/> > campus-life/campus-map
 
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