ISSP-08 Conference

ISSP-08 Conference, 11-12 Sept. 2008: PROGRAMME OUTLINE

DAY/TIME	Session Type and/or theme	Plenary Session	Balanced Development (B-D) ROOM: Q120	Sustaining Communities (S-C) ROOM: Q217	Knowledge Society – Stream A ROOM: Q220	Knowledge Society –Stream B ROOM : Q218
Thursday, 11 Sep.
8.45 ~ 9.15	Registration /Tea ~ Ground Floor
9.15 – 11.00	SESSION-1 Opening Plenary	Opening Plenary Room QG13	Chair: Rob Kitchin, NUIM 9.15 - 9.20 : Welcome: Paschal Preston, DCU 9.20 - 10.00: Peadar Kirby, UL : ‘Raising the Larger Questions: Challenges for the social sciences in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland ‘ 10.00 – 10.20: Responses: Kieran Bonner & Mary Hickman [ISSP Advisory Board ] 10.20 -- 11.00 : Contributions from the floor.
11.00 ~11.15	Coffee/Tea ~ Ground Floor
11.15 ~13.00	SESSION-2 Theme Panels		B-D Panel 1 : Spatial Trends and Dynamics - Regional, Urban & Rural	S-C Panel 1: Changing Modes of Citizenship and Participation	K-S Panel A1: New Information Systems: Techno-Structures for the Knowledge Society	K-S Panel B1: Innovation, Industrial Linkages/Networking in the Knowledge Economy
13.00 ~14.15	Lunch: Cafeteria
14.15 ~16.00	SESSION-3 Theme Panels		B-D Panel 2 : Re-Visioning the Rural : Community, Development and Social Capital	S-C Panel 2: Re-interrogating the Irish Social Model	K-S Panel A2: Creating and Communicating Knowledge and Technology Transfer	K-S Panel B2: The KbE as Elastic Concept – from Policies to K-I Firms, Citizen-ship and Culture
16.00—16.15	Coffee/Tea : 2nd Floor restaurant
16.15 ~18.00	SESSION-4 Theme Panels		ISSP B-D Theme Meeting	ISSP S-C Theme Meeting	ISSP Knowledge Society Theme Meeting
19.00~21.00	ISSP Dinner [ 1838 Club]		ISSP Dinner	ISSP Dinner	ISSP Dinner	ISSP Dinner

DAY/TIME	Session Type and/or theme	Plenary Session	Balanced Development (B-D) ROOM: Q219	Sustaining Communities (S-C) ROOM: Q217	Knowledge Society – Stream A ROOM: Q220	Knowledge Society –Stream B ROOM : Q218
Friday, 12 Sep.
9.00 ~11.00	SESSION-5 Theme Panels		B-D Panel 3 : Ireland's Develop-ment Model in/and the Wider World: Post-Celtic Tiger Perspectives’.	S-C Panel 3: Post-Pub and/or Public Cultures? : Reshaping Politics and Everyday Life’	K-S Panel A3: Beyond the Spreadsheet: New Visualisation Tools for Decision-Making and Learning	K-S Panel B3: Nomadic work/lives in the knowledge economy
11.00 ~11.15	Coffee/Tea 2nd Floor restaurant
11.15—13.00	SESSION-6 Theme Panels		S-C Panel 5: Dealing with Diversity and Disability	S-C Panel 4: Gendered Negotia-tions : Reshaping Identities in (post-) Celtic Tiger Era	K-S Panel A4: Localising the Triple Helix Model: Universities and Technology Transfer	K-S Panel B4: Beyond Technology: Trust, Teamwork and the Subtleties of Socio-Technical Change
13.00 ~14.00	Lunch
14.00 ~15.00	SESSION-7 Closing Plenary	Closing Plenary Room QG13	Closing Plenary : Short presentations by Rob Kitchin, Linda Connolly, Kathy Monks, Paschal Preston. Followed by general discussion on .a) key points arising from the conference and .b) how we move forward in terms of developing the ISSP research agenda. Chair: Rob Kitchin, NUIM.

SUMMARY: Location of Parallel Sessions	DAY	Balanced Development (B-D)	Sustaining Communities (S-C)	Knowledge Society – Stream A	Knowledge Society –Stream B
	Thurs., 11 Sept.	ROOM: Q120	ROOM: Q217	ROOM: Q220	ROOM : Q218
	Friday, 12 Sept.	ROOM: Q219	ROOM: Q217	ROOM: Q220	ROOM : Q218