Economy and Society Summer School: 2014 May 12-16th, Blackwater Castle, Cork, Ireland

REPORT

Summary

The School brought 27 business and humanities students and 26 faculty together as part of the President of Ireland’s ethics initiative.

Ambition of the School was to broaden and round PhD researchers.

This residential school ran for six days at Blackwater Castle, and quickly created its own relaxed collegiate atmosphere.

The Summer School was designed around three different kinds of learning formats and interaction: By providing these three different formats we sought to enhance a structured, interactive but also informal way of discussing broader issues around each individual’s research.

(i) Key notes given by invited faculty followed by discussions(ii) Short dialogical presentations usually delivered in thematically selected pairs(iii) Small breakout reading groups based on selected key readings, functioning as small tutorial sessions on the

talks and their relevance to student’s work

20 Keynote talks from : Tom Boland (WIT) | Ed Byrne & Ger Mullally (UCC) | James Fairhead (UCC) | William Forbes (WIT / Loughborough) | Ray Griffin (WIT) | Niamh Hourigan (UCC) | Kieran Keohane (UCC) | Carmen Kuhling (UL) | Tristan Laing (York, Canada) | Niamh Maguire & John O’Brien (WIT) | Rowena Pecchenino (NUIM) | Tom O’Connor (CIT) | Anders Petersen (Aalborg) | Neil Robinson (UL) | Colin Sage (UCC) | Jackie Sheehan (UCC) | Arpad Szakolczai (UCC) | Manusos Marangudakis (Aegean) | Peter McMylor (Manchester) | Sheila O’ Donohoe (WIT)

Organisers

Dr Tom Boland (WIT), Dr Lorcan Byrne (UCC), Dr John O’Brien (WIT)& Dr Ray Griffin

Schedule

Early 9-11am Mid-morning 11.30-1pm

Lunchsittingat1pm

Early afternoon 2-3.45pm

Midafternoonbreak

Late afternoon 4.15-6pm

Dinnersittingat7pm

Evening time

Parallel sessions Plenary Session Plenary Session

Mon 12th Arrival, registration& welcome

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Opening Round Table Prof. William Forbes (WIT / Loughborough) “The abuses of reason in finance research”

Peter McMylor (Manchester University) “The moral self in market culture.”

Bonfire gathering

Tues 13th

Reading Groups

Prof Neil Robinson (UL): “Oil, Democracy & Autocracy”

Prof. Arpad Szakolczai (UCC) “On the Genealogyof Fairground Capitalism ”

Prof. Rowena Pecchenino (NUIM) “Hope, Despair and the Design of Socio-Economic Policy”

Live music inthe bar

James Fairhead (UCC): “Voegelin and Neo-liberalism.”

Wed 14th Reading John O’Brien & Niamh Niamh Hourigan (UCC) Carmen Kuhling (UL) Piano bar

Groups

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Maguire (WIT): “The Night-time economy.”

“Everyday Morality and Work in Austerity Ireland”

“Zombies and the Post-crisis Political Imaginary”

Tristan Laing (York, Canada) “Neoliberalism Externalised”

Hill-walk

Thurs15th

Reading Groups

Tom O’Connor, (CIT)Austerity in Ireland, State Spin & Societal Indifference to Social Destruction

Prof. Manusos Marangudakis: [University of the Aegean] “Religion and Economic Ethic”

Tom Boland (WIT) “Job-seeking: Making a self forthe labour market.”

Movie Night

Sheila O’ Donohoe (WIT) “In Praise of Finance”

Fri 16th Collaborative writing exercises within reading groups

Ray Griffin (WIT) “We have never been liberal and there are no free markets.”

Ed Byrne, Ger Mullally, Colin Sage, (UCC) John Barry, (QUB)“Alternative Economies and Societal Innovation.”

Closing Round-Table

Mervyn Horgan, (York) “The aesthetics of the economy"

School Closes: 5pm

Reading Groups

List of participants

Name Stay typeInstitution Participation

Aidan Michael Flanagan Withdrawn UCC StudentÁine Murphy 6 days WIT StudentAisling Tuite 6 days WIT StudentAmy Clare Buck 6 days UCC StudentArpad Szakolczai 3 days UCC Visiting lecturerBeatrice Nabajja 6 days UCC StudentBlazej Kaucz 6 days UCC StudentBrendan Martin Molloy 6 days UCC StudentCarmen Kuhling 3 days UL Visiting lecturerCatherine Kelleher 6 days UCC StudentCiara Walsh 6 days UCC StudentClare Watson 6 days UCC StudentColin Sage Day Visitor UCC Visiting lecturerDonie Fell 6 days NUIM StudentEd Byrne 2 days UCC Visiting lecturerElaine Desmond 6 days UCC StudentGer Mulally 2 days UCC Visiting lecturerHelen O'Keeffe Withdrawn WIT StudentJames Cuffe 4 days UCC OrganiserJames Fairhead 6 days UCC LeadJill O'Mahony 2 days WIT StudentJohn O'Brien 6 days WIT Organiser

Katie Harris WithdrawnDalhousie Student

Kieran Keohane 6 days UCC Organiser

Kimberly Murray 6 days Oklahoma StudentKirsty Doyle 6 days WIT StudentLorcan Byrne 6 days UCC OrganiserManusos Mangudarakis 6 days Aegean Visiting lecturerMark Leonard Withdrawn UL StudentMark Timoney Withdrawn Sligo IT StudentMonkia Kadam 6 days WIT StudentNeil Robinson 2 days UL Visiting lecturerNiamh Hourigan Day Visitor UCC Visiting lecturerNiamh Maguire Day Visitor WIT Visiting lecturerOskana Doherty 6 days WIT StudentPatricia Kettle Withdrawn NUIM Student

Peter McMylor 3 daysManchester Visiting lecturer

Ray Griffin 6 days WIT OrganiserRowena Pechenino Day Visitor NUIM Visiting lecturerShamiso Chigorimbo 6 days UCD StudentShane Tobin 6 days UCC StudentSheila O'Donohoe 6 days WIT LeadStephan Maier 6 days Graz StudentTina Kinsella 6 days Trinity StudentTom Boland 6 days WIT OrganiserTom O'Connor Day Visitor CIT Visiting lecturerTriona Cohen 6 days NUIM StudentTríona Ní Shíocháin Day Visitor UL Visiting lecturerTrish McGrath 6 days UCC StudentTristan Lang 6 days York LeadWilliam Forbes 6 days WIT LeadZach Roche 6 days UL Student