Debating Austerity

As Vice-Chair of the RIA Committee for Social Sciences, HERC director Professor Maria Slowey is pleased to announce the 'Debating Austerity in Ireland' conference on Friday 30 October from 09:30-16:30. The conference is organised by the Royal Irish Academy’s Social Sciences Committee in association with UCD College of Social Sciences and Law.

The conference shall comprise four sessions:

• Framing austerity: Ireland in a European context

• Challenging austerity: power, responsibility and impact

• Austerity and the Irish social landscape

• Austerity to recovery: where do we go from here?

Papers will be delivered by economists, sociologists, political scientists and geographers from Irish universities. Contributions will also be made from the Economic and Social Research Institute and Social Justice Ireland. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers at the end of each session, with a final discussion at the end of the conference which is to be chaired by Karl Whelan, MRIA.

List of speakers:

John McHale, Dept of Economics, NUIG

Kieran Allen, School of Sociology, UCD

Niamh Hardiman, School of Politics and International Relations, UCD

Julien Mercille, School of Geography, UCD

Niamh Hourigan, Department of Sociology, UCC

Chris Whelan MRIA, Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology andGeary Institute for Public Policy, UCD

Dorothy Watson, Economic and Social Research Institute

Ronan Lyons, Department of Economics, TCD

Seamus Coffey, Department of Economics, UCC

Sean O’Riain, Department of Sociology, MU

Sean Healy, Social Justice Ireland