Occupy University at Occupy Dame Street
Autumn
2011
Tues 11 Oct James Redmond on rebellious media
Tues
11 Oct Harry Browne on the Shannon peace
camp
Tues
11 Oct Conor McCabe on the history of
IFSC as tax haven
Tues 11
Oct Michael Albert on the US occupy
movements
Wed
12 Oct Mick O'Reilly on progressive
solutions to the crisis
Wed 12 Oct Gavan
Titley on racism, neoliberalism & EU financial crisis
Thurs 13 Oct Helena
Sheehan on the new left: remembering & reflecting
Fri 14 Oct Richard
McAleavey on a brief history of the 15-M movement
Fri 14 Oct Dave Lordan et al poetry anti-slam
Sat 15 Oct Paul Murphy on the EU & alternatives
Mon 17 Oct Andy Storey on the IMF globally & locally
Mon 17 Oct Michael Taft on a short history of Irish
banking
Tues 18 Oct Anthony Coughlan on solutions to the euro
Wed 19 Oct Tom Stokes on media & propaganda v
democracy
Wed 19 Oct Eamonn Crudden on a brief history of Indymedia
Thurs 20 Oct Miles Link on television & the culture
industry
Thurs 20 Oct Mick O Broin on the crisis of the university
Thurs 20 Oct Andrew Flood on activist journalism
Fri 21 Oct Joan Murphy on energy & natural
resources
Fri 21 Oct Michael
Cronin on the politics of fear
Sun 23 Oct David Malone on debt or democracy
Mon 24 Oct Eugene McCartan on who owns the debt
Mon 24 Oct Mark O’Brien on subcultures & supercultures
Tues 25 Oct Andy Storey on the euro crisis
Tues 25 Oct Laurence Davis on what does real democracy
mean
Wed 26 Oct Patrick Bond on the IMF, Africa & Ireland:
3 decades of struggle
Thurs 27 Oct Aibhe Smyth on women, feminism &
recession
Thurs 27 Oct Sinead Kennedy on capitalism, crisis &
the new sexism
Fri 28 Oct Paula Geraghty & Eileen Leahy on community
filmmaking
Fri 28 Oct Donagh Brennan on how important is
12.5%
corporation tax to Irish
economy
Sun 30 Oct Mike Morris on an architect's
perspective on the bust
Tues 1 Nov Sheamus Sweeney on The Wire: class, power, money, politics
Wed 2 Nov Roddy
McDevitt on transmuting reality with theatre & stagecraft
Thurs 3 Nov Franc
Myles on Dame Street & Dublin: an archeological perspective
Thurs 3 Nov Farah Azadi on
women as leaders in leaderless movements: the
Arab-American-Iranian
spring
Fri 4th Nov Mick
O’Broin on NAMA
Fri 4th Nov Paul
Bowman on what is money? what is debt?
Fri 4th Nov Dave
Lordan on the burning word: a
workshop on poetry and performance
Sun 6 Nov Micheal O’Hurley-Pitts on
mediation with external
organisations
Mon 7 Nov Eugene McCartan
on 90 years of the Communist Party of Ireland
Mon 7 Nov Denis Parfenov on
active citizenship
Tues 8 Nov Eoin O Broin on eurozone
crisis
Tues 8 Nov Eamon Ryan on Ireland’s
energy future
Wed 9 Nov Patricia Wood on
ciitizenship
Wed 9 Nov Laurence Cox on global
movements and social change
Wed 9 Nov Marnie Holborow on
ideology, recession & resistance
Thurs 9 Nov Mark Malone on Rossport:
dealing with messiness
Thurs 10 Nov Sam Nolan on Dublin
Council of Trade Unions: past & present
Thurs 10 Nov
Ciaran Moore on Dublin
Community TV: guide to operating tv studio
Mon 14 Nov Brian Rooney on fracking
Mon 14 Nov Siobhan O’Donoghue on
taxing wealth: why the wealthy can afford to give more
Mon 14 Nov Cathleen O'Neill on
community activism, process & the spectacle of defiance
Tues 15 Nov Eyal Clyne on
Israeli camp movement
Tues 15 Nov Tom Boland on why don’t
Irish people protest: overcoming indifference
Wed 16 Nov Cieran Perry on community
activism & pushers-out campaign
Thurs 17 Nov Terrence McDonough on
the Irish depression & a big bang policy response
Thurs 17 Nov Deborah Frieze on
movements of resistance & necessary in-between space before new
creativity
Fri 18 Nov intan O’Toole on
democratic reform
Mon 21 Nov Cathleen O'Neill on direct
action ideas
Mon 21 Nov Jack Byrne on occupying
the electronic commons & noosphere
Tue 22 Nov Fintan
Lane on flotillas as an example of grassroots resistance
&
international solidarity
Tues 22 Nov Joe Mooney on East Wall residents and Spenser Dock development
Wed 23 Nov Richard McAleavey on
writing in the age of networked occupation
Wed 23 Nov Terry McDermot on
fracking
Thurs 24 Nov Ruaidhri of UISCE on
drug
users
&
human
rights
Thurs 24 Nov Conor McGarrigle on crowsourcing
NAMA
locations
for
a
NAMAland database
Thurs 24 Nov Leslie of LGBT Noise on
power
&
privilege
in
the context of LGBT rights
Fri 25 Nov Eoghan O’Shea on
(re)constructing
a
socially equitable built environment
Fri 25 Nov Vanessa Andreotti on occupying our
global imagination: ethical relationships with the other
Wed 30 Nov Harry Browne on crisisjam
& the real state of the nation
Wed 30 Nov Abie Philbin Bowman on how
many comedians does it take to change a government?
Thurs 1 Dec Andy Storey
on accumulation &
dispossession at Corrib
Thurs 1 Dec William Hederman on the
oil & gas giveaway
Mon 5 Dec Barbara O’Shea on peace
journalism & its relevance for the occupy movement
Tues 6 Dec Luke Bukha & Joe Moore
on the asylum system & institutional racism
Wed 7 Dec Nico Brown music workshop
with bamboo tuned rattles from Java called angklung
Thurs 8 Dec Roger Cole on war,
Ireland & the EU/US/NATO axis
Fri 9 Dec OU
working group evaluation
& planning
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E-mail: helena.sheehan@dcu.ie
Home page: http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/