[Knowledgelab-Ireland] reminder for symposium this Saturday

[Laurence Cox]

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Everyday creativity, counter cultures and social change:  
an activist research symposium on how we can transform this society 

Saturday, October 13th (9.30 - 5) 
Auxilia Hall 2, North Campus, NUI Maynooth 
(see http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/north.shtml for location and  
http://www.nuim.ie/location/index.shtml for transport details) 
All welcome; admission and tea / coffee free 

How can Irish society be changed? What political, social and cultural  
agents are working for real transformation, and how can we support  
their development? This symposium brings together activists,  
researchers, and people involved in alternative cultures in an open  
discussion around all these issues: 

- how human needs are frustrated in this society;  
- the creative ways in which ordinary people respond and resist;  
- the everyday forms of culture that people develop in order to meet  
these needs and support each other;  
- and the processes of political organisation and social change that  
sometimes develop out of this.  

The starting-point is Donagh Davis' recently completed research on  
counter culture, everyday creativity and political action in Dublin, and  
the common ground between his work and the contexts the other  
presenters are working in (earlier counter cultures, working-class drug  
users, feminist spirituality, Polish anti-capitalist activism, community  
media, environmental justice and popular education). We will be using  
these different examples to try to think more generally about the  
possibility of social transformation in Ireland. 

It will be a non-academic forum, with short (10 - 15 min.) presentations  
opening up space for discussion, but grounded in activist research,  
serious political thinking and real debate. All the presenters are  
involved in the movements and cultures they are talking about, and are  
carrying out research with a view to bringing about social change. The  
symposium draws on the work of the participatory action research  
programme on social movement practice at the Dept. of Sociology, NUI  
Maynooth.  

Programme: 

9.30	Welcome and coffee 

10.00	The idea of counter culture in Ireland 

	Donagh Davis: Everyday creativity, counter culture and the  
movement of movements 
	Laurence Cox: Counter culture and social change since the 
70s 
	Discussion 

11.30	"The" counter culture and other oppositional cultures 

	Jean Bridgeman: The hidden people, working-class cultures  
and resistance 
	Ciara O'Connor: Resisting Catholicism: is women's spirituality  
feminist? 
	Asia Rutkowska: Counter culture in Poland 
	Discussion 

1.00	Lunch 

2.00	Getting beyond the activist ghetto 

	Margaret Gillan: Constructing the community TV space 
	Terry Dunne: Agency and strategy in radical ecological thinking 
	Hilary Darcy: Police repression - how activists understand the  
limits 
	Discussion 

3.30	Coffee 

4.00	Plenary discussion 

5.00	Ends 



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Dept. of Sociology, St. Anne's building,
NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985
http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/
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