Announcing the Economy and Society Summer School 2023
The E+S team are very excited to announce our 2023 PhD Summer School will take place from April 11-13th 2023 in University College Cork, Ireland
E+S 2023 | Theorising at the Edges of the World.
E+S is a retreat from institutionalised academia, a fleeting time away to think anew. While our universities are still repositories of wisdom, spaces of freedom and plural conversation; increasingly the logics of neo-liberalism managerialism encroach upon our careers and lives. Research, teaching and thought itself become measured in outputs and metrics. The hectic pace of entrepreneurial productivity, or worse, the spectre of precarious work, harries our minds and disciplines, making us play peculiar and absurd games.
Against disciplinary over-specialisation, over the past decades the E+S endeavours to create a space of conversation which speaks across boundaries and difference. Theory flourishes at the margins.
Our ambition is to consider the foundations of Economy & Society, things that bring us together and provide the basis for rethinking our shared worlds, from the edges. Just for a moment, we hope to re-think and re-conceptualise our shared predicament: This entails going beyond stale polemics, unimaginative empiricism and the dead-ends of abstraction, and attempting to understand, reimagine and theorise anew. From the edges, another world is possible
Location
Our 2023 summer school will take place at University College Cork and the surrounding areas. Cork is a wonderfully lively city full of artistic wonder and charm. We are excited to once again return to such a location, bringing the opportunity to explore theory and thought through a return to traditional walks, talks and discussions.
Speakers
A full schedule and future details will be available in due course. We are very happy to announce our cohort of speakers for E+S 2023 below:
Reading Groups
In addition to lectures and walks, the Economy & Society Summer School offers Reading Groups. These are smaller groups of 4-7, led by a pair of experienced academics, for about one hour each day; you will be added to one of these groups based on your resume, a theme or a method. Two to four key readings in this area will be distributed to you ahead of time. You will be invited to discuss your own project and explore how the topic of the reading group might inform your thinking.
The current reading groups for our 2023 Summer School are as follows:
- Anthropology & Social Theory: Bjorn Thomassen & Chris Rojek
- Welfare and Work: Ray Griffin & Tracey Shildrick
- Interpretation & Creativity: Tríona Ní Shíocháin & Paul Clogher
- ‘Thinking ecology for the anthropocene’ : Damian O’Doherty & Mike Zundel
- Architectures of life: Des Fitzgerald & Adrian Favell.
- Understanding Critique: Tom Boland & Kate Kenny.
Note: These reading groups are mandatory for those taking the summer school as an accredited module. Participation comes highly recommended.
Rates
Rates are to be confirmed. Please check back soon for further updates.
Credits
The Economy & Society Summer School is oriented to the needs of doctoral students and advanced masters students interested in further research. It is can be taken as a 5 or 10 credit module; see PG7040 or PG7041 in the UCC book of modules.
If you are interested in taking these courses for credit, please email [email protected].
Further Details
Please check back soon for further details on this event.
Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
