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Green Academy Winter Seminar – Degrowth Kaleidoscope: Real-Existing Utopia(s) (Plitvička Jezera)
Join us in Croatia for our Green Academy Winter Seminar exploring how degrowth concepts could contribute to a radical just and sustainable societal transition.
About the Event
The Green European Foundation, in cooperation with the Institute for Political Ecology, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Prague office, is organising the 3rd edition of the Green Academy Winter Seminar.
The seminar will focus on the ongoing debates around the Green New Deal and degrowth concepts and practices in the context of the climate emergency. Deeper avenues to be explored will look at the theoretical, political and practical level and identify convergencies and conflicts. The seminar will allow for exchanges to develop strategies for concrete change and policies.
Participants will be introduced to “degrowth doughnut” visualisations, underlining the cultural excesses and shortfalls in a democratic construction of a degrowth transition.
A “kaleidoscopic” perspective of the movement and various interconnections and differences will explore specific sectors where degrowth can make a fundamental difference, while also considering the significance of the emerging Green New Deal policies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Demands for a socially just and planned transition need to be articulated precisely in order to head off reactionary responses to the climate emergency. And this we shall redesign as we go, for the further Europeans slide into climate chaos without establishing a convivial sociality, the more likely we are to contend with authoritarian and inegalitarian powers to which emergency conditions often give rise.
The politics of this historical dynamic – the actors, alliances, institutions and social processes creating degrowth transitions is the subject of lively debate in Europe and beyond, shaping up right before our eyes. Given the fact that in 2020 Croatia will take over the EU Presidency, we will aim to explore ways how our thinking and actions can become turning points for Europe to be able to take another course.
Programme
FRIDAY 8th OF NOVEMBER
15:00 DEPARTURE FROM ZAGREB (ORGANISED BUS TRANSPORT – PARKING NEXT TO MAIN TRAIN STATION (ACCROSS IMPORTANE CENTRE ENTRANCE)
17:15 ARRIVAL TO HOTEL – CHECK-IN AND REGISTRATION
18:00 WELCOME NOTE AND INTRODUCTION
Vedran Horvat, IPE Zagreb, Head/Board of Directors, GEF
Nino Lejava, HBS, Head of Prague office
Jagoda Munić, FoEE, Director, Bruxelles/GA program council
Danijela Dolenec, Faculty of Political Sciences, Associate Professor,Zagreb/GA program council
Presentation of working groups: Clara Dellaire-Fortier, Nikolina Rajković, Andro Rilović, Ajda Pistotnik
EVENING CONVERSATION: ”DEGROWTH MOVEMENT, THOUGHT AND ACTION IN THE MIDST OF CLIMATE COLLAPS”
Evening conversation with Vincent Liegey, Cargonomia, Hungary/France
20:00 DINNER
SATURDAY 9TH OF NOVEMBER
09:00 MORNING LECTURE – Tiziano Distefano
”Social cohesion in the ecological transition”
10:00 MORNING PANEL
GREEN NEW DEAL AND DEGROWTH – REAL-EXISTING UTOPIAS IN ACTION
With: Sean Sweney (TUED), Pawel Wargan (DiEM25), Marija Bartl (UA), Jagoda Munić (FoEE)
Moderated by: Danijela Dolenec and Vedran Horvat
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 WORKING GROUPS 1
- LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire-Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
- DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
- DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)
13:30 LUNCH BREAK & WALK
17:30 WORKING GROUPS 2
- LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
- DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
- DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)
19:30 DINNER
21:00 DONUTS AND WINE EVENING TALK ON SUSTAINABILITY ON EUROPEAN (SEMI)PERIPHERY –
- Mladen Domazet
- Clara Dallaire-Forter
- Jenny Ufer
- Branko Ančić
SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER
09:00 MORNING LECTURE
Petr Jiehlička, Open University, UK
Degrowth lessons from the European East: self-provisioning, sharing and the resilient food system
10:00 WORKING GROUPS 3
- LABOR, DEMOCRACY AND DEGROWTH (Clara Dallaire Fortier & Nina Rajković with Dario Farcy, Sean Sweney and Marija Bartl)
- DEGROWTH AND DEBT (Ajda Pistotnik with Mark Perreira and Tilman Hartley)
- DEGROWTH (&) MUNICIPALISM (Andro Rilović with Eugen Vuković, Eleanor Finley, Vincent Liegey)
11:30 BREAK
12:00 REPORTS FROM WORKING GROUPS
12:30 Post-growth awakening for EU: positioning degrowth agenda and international cooperation on climate action within the context of EU Croatian Presidency
Moderation: Dražen Šimleša
13:15 Closing
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Departure to Zagreb
17:00 estimated arrival
This event is a cooperation between the Institute for Political Ecology, the Green European Foundation, the Open Society Initiative for Europe and the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Prague office, with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.