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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Everyday creativity, counter cultures and social change:  </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>an activist research symposium on how we can transform this society</i> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Saturday, October 13th (9.30 - 5) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Auxilia Hall 2, North Campus, NUI Maynooth </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">(see </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/north.shtml</u></span></font><font
face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> for location and
</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>http://www.nuim.ie/location/index.shtml</u></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">
for transport details) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">All welcome; admission and tea / coffee free </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">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: </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">- how human needs are frustrated in this society;  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">- the creative ways in which ordinary people respond and resist;  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">- the everyday forms of culture that people develop in order to meet
these needs and support each other;  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">- and the processes of political organisation and social change that
sometimes develop out of this.  </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">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. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">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.  </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Programme:</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>9.30     Welcome and coffee</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>10.00   The idea of counter culture in Ireland</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Donagh Davis: Everyday creativity,
counter culture and the
movement of movements </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Laurence Cox: Counter culture and social
change since the
70s </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Discussion </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>11.30   "The" counter culture and other oppositional cultures</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Jean Bridgeman: The hidden people,
working-class cultures
and resistance </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Ciara O'Connor: Resisting Catholicism:
is women's spirituality
feminist? </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Asia Rutkowska: Counter culture in
Poland </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Discussion </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>1.00     Lunch</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>2.00     Getting beyond the activist ghetto</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Margaret Gillan: Constructing the community
TV space </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Terry Dunne: Agency and strategy in
radical ecological thinking </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Hilary Darcy: Police repression - how
activists understand the
limits </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">            Discussion </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>3.30     Coffee</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>4.00     Plenary discussion</b> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>5.00     Ends </b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dept. of Sociology, St. Anne's building,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/</span></font></div>
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