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Date: Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:21 PM
Subject: Call for papers: Degrowth conference at the EU Parliament + Updates about 2018 Degrowth events
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Find here all the details about the
degrowth conference at the EU Parliament (18-19 September, programme
here), plus the
Call for papers for the preparatory seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (17 September).
If you plan to attend any of the three international degrowth conferences, please register asap, since places are limited:
Malmo (21-25 August),
Mexico city (4-6 September) and
EU Parliament.
If you want to organize a picnic 4 degrowth (3rd June), please fill in
this form and find
here a toolkit for organizers.
Last, if you go to the the Malmo conference, you might want to attend the meetings taking place one day before at Christiania on the 20th of August: 'Organizign the degrowth movement', and 'Feminisms
and Degrowth Alliance' (FaDA). More details below!
This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (18-19 April, 2008). For a short report of this last decade, please see this article on "The
rise - and future- of the degrowth movement".
Find here below more info on:
II) Pre Malmo Conference Event: Organizing the Degrowth Movement (20th August 2018 – Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen)
III) Building the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance, call for activists and scholars: Pre Malmo Conference Event (20th August 2018 – Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen)
I) Call for Papers : "The Institutionalisation of Degrowth & Post-growth: the European level" - Brussels, September 17th, 2018
II) Organizing the Degrowth Movement: Pre Malmo Conference Event (20th August 2018 – Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen)Université Libre de Bruxelles and Research&Degrowth are cordially inviting you to a seminar day.Context :A major degrowth & post-growth conference (http://www.postgrowth2018.eu) convened by European-level stakeholders (Members of the European Parliament from different political groups, academics, NGOs and unions) will take place in the premises of the European Parliament on September 18 and 19 (2018). At the heart of the European Union decision-making, the 2018 conference will offer a unique opportunity for the EU civil society and the degrowth and post-growth communities to exchange their views with those of EU officials and staff who define the core of the European economy. The aim of these 2 days – about one year before the next European elections and the nomination of a new Commission – will be to support a wide cultural contagion effect within the EU-institutions by which the thinking of policy makers could tilt towards genuine sustainability. These 2 days at the EU-Parliament will be preceded by a preparatory and learning seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.Objectives :On September 17th, we invite and convene around a 100 heads and souls from within the active forces of the degrowth and post-growth communities for a 1 day seminar with a double objective:1° learning from experiences: there are numerous accounts of cultural and scientific contagion which have taken place at the EU-levels since the existence of the European institutions. We convene a set of friendly analysts and activists who lived – in the near and far past – such institutionalisations from within different EU-institutions; the aim is to debate with them in a plenary session on the mechanisms that prevail within the institutions, on the inertias, on accelerators and things to avoid, buttons to push, issues to raise repetitively.2° crowding together on the most pressing policy agendas: scientific and activist communities are extremely lively and many things happen on specific agendas without everybody being updated. In fields in constitution like ours, we move also in different directions, explore adjacent but diverging hypothesis and questions. It seems important in terms of collective preparation to walk into the EU-institutions with a common understanding where our fields are in terms of their factual state-of-art, as well as in terms of deriving policy questions.The seminar will organize, in the morning, around a plenary session on past and on-going experiences of institutionalising ideas, concepts, questions… into institutions, and in particular at the EU-level, and in the afternoon, around a series of thematic parallel sessions with a limited set of themes (typically 4 to 6 working groups and bring us collectively and content-wise into gear for the 2 days at the EU-Parliament.The present is the call for papers and participation to these thematic panel sessions of the seminar. You are interested in participating actively to this collective challenge? Send us a mark of interest (+/- 500 words) by June 3rd, 2018 to Julien Vastenaekels (jvastena [at] ulb.ac.be), Grégoire Wallenborn (gwallenb [at] ulb.ac.be) and to Tom Bauler (tbauler [at] ulb.ac.be).See here for more detailed information on background, organisation and practicalities.Hope to see you joining in for this!
Background: the survey, the map and the movement
In early 2018 the Support Group has launched an international survey in order to bring groups and individuals together for academic, political and practical actions on degrowth that go beyond the biennial conferences.
The pre-conference event that will take place in Freetown Christiania (Copenhagen) the 20th August. The place is just an hour by public transport from Malmo where will be held the next 6th international degrowth conference (21-25th August 2018).
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If your organisation would like to participate, please fill the international survey and you will be contacted soon.
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The deadline is May 15th (recommended) and not later than May 30th.
About the meeting
The objectives of the meeting are:
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To get to know each other and to build more effective networks and collaborations (both for activists and academics, practitioners, artist, etc.) among degrowth realties in the world;
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To organize/structure ourselves (even informally) as a movement in order to be more effective, democratic, inclusive and powerful (e.g. working groups)
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To plan some collective actions.
Tentative schedule
9.15 Presentation of the project by the Support Group
9.30-13.00: each organization/group presents itself [please prepare a 3 minutes speech]
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 World café with 6 table on objectives developed by the Group Assembly Process “Organizing collective actions” at Leipzig 2014: 1.Who we are, 2. Who we are not, 3. What to do; 4. How to do it, 5. Our (re)sources, 6. Alliances
16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-17.00 Feedback from discussion groups
17.00-18.30 General discussion on how to organize ourselves (Fishball facilitation technique)
18.30-19.00 Creation of working groups (e.g. activists, practitioners, researchers, politics, artists, collective actions, education, IT group and other optional/free group if needed)
During the Malmo conference everyday each working group will meet for one hour (other people in addition to the representatives can participate) and the results will be presented in a plenary session in the last day of the conference, on the 25th of August.
Contact person of the support group responsible for the event: Jean-Louis Aillon
Organized by the Support Group (SG) of the International Degrowth Conferences.
III) Building the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance, call for activists and scholars: Pre Malmo Conference Event (20th August 2018 – Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen)
Invitation to the FaDA participatory meeting at 6th International Degrowth Conference in Malmö, Sweden, held on Tuesday, 21 August 2018 (in the morning).
The Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDA) was initiated during the Degrowth Conference in Budapest 2016. This 4-hours open participatory session in Malmö 2018 aims at fostering this alliance.
New and old members are invited to get to know each other and so to ease the continuing collaboration after the conference.
By joining the perspectives from activists, artists and scholars willing to forge ahead FaDA’s network further and by including already made proposals (resulting from a survey made), this session aims to exchange experiences and ideas and to agree on FaDA’s logistics and some future projects.
Furthermore, the purpose is to better define what are the objectives of FaDA, agreeing on the concepts and values it wishes to promote, taking also into consideration the possible issues and challenges that might arise.
The registration for the conference is now open (https://malmo.degrowth.org/registration/), so please feel welcome to join and push forward FaDA in Malmö!
Please also share and invite other interested people!
For further information to this conference session, feel free to contact Jolanda Iserlohn (jolanda.iserlohn [at] gmail.com) and Camila Rolando Mazzuca (camila.rolando [at] sciencespo.fr).
If you would like to be part of the FaDA mailing list, you can easily subscribe by sending an email to fada-subscribe [at] lists.riseup.net.
More info at: https://www.degrowth.info/en/2017/02/feminisms-and-degrowth-alliance-fada-newly-launched/
IV) Degrowth events in 2018: Updates!
Where: Malmo (Sweden)
When: 21-25 August 2018
The call for papers, artists and activits are closed.
Register to the conference here
NB: If you want to take part in the networking meeting on the 26th of August, please fill in the survey by the 15th of May, and confirm your participation by the 15 of June. Contact: supportgroup [at] degrowth.org
Where: Mexico City (Mexico)
When: 4-6 September 2018
Call for papers and special sessions is still open.
More info at https://degrowth.descrecimiento.org
Where: European parliament, Brussels (Belgium)
When: 18-19 September 2018
More info here.
When: July 28-August 5
https://www.degrowth.info/en/summer-school-2018/
5) Mapping degrowth worldwide
More more info, see below.
Please fill in and share the Mapping degrowth worldwide questionnaire:
V) SURVEY: Mapping degrowth groups and organizations worldwide
We invite you to fill in this survey aimed at mapping degrowth activities worldwide.
This survey is an initiative of individuals involved in the coordination and organization of the international conferences on degrowth (the so called Support Group). It represents an attempt to bring groups and individuals together for political and practical
actions on degrowth that go beyond the biennial conferences. In order to organize ousrselves and build synergies for joint action on degrowth we need to know who we are and what are your/our thoughts/ideas.
To this aim we suggest:
To start a map and then, if there is sufficient impetus, to evolve into a (loose) network. The map will aim to facilitate those interested in degrowth to join a nearby group and work together on the territory, while connecting already existing groups.
Through it, you can join a mailing list (with a contact person for each organization or group) for internal coordination. This will facilitate the creation of synergies among the different organizations: for instance, it will be easier to co-organize collective
actions.
If you wanna be part of this process, please fill in the Survey!
Please note that this proposal is not just about creating another online network, but rather to ease face to face meeting. For instance you are invited the day before the next International Conference on Degrowth in Malmo (at the same venue) – to share
ideas, experiences and expectations. Come if you want to get to know each other and think jointly how to bring about the change we wish to see.
Alone it is impossible, but together we can make it!
We hope you like the idea...
The
Degrowth International Support Group
supportgroup [at] degrowth.org
The
SG is the official promoter of the International Conferences. See: https://degrowth.org/conferences/
SURVEY
- English (if possible, please fill in the english form, helping yourself with the translation that you can find below. It will help people worldwide to understand better)
- Italian
- French
- Spanish
- Ger man
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Regular updates at degrowth.org, Twitter and Facebook.
Research & Degrowth
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