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Program
(Follow the links to read the abstract of a specific presentation or workshop)
| Friday | August 28 | |
| 10:30 – 13:30 | Social Center | Registration and installation |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 15:00 | Opening of the Conference | |
| Welcome to the 3rd annual gathering of TRISE! (Dimitri Roussopoulos) | ||
| “The Power to Destroy, the Power to Create” – On the theme and program of the Conference (Svante Malmström and Ersilia Verlinghieri) | ||
| Welcome to Patras and the Social Center (George Poulados) | ||
| Round of presentation by participants | ||
| 16:00 | Break | |
| 17:00 – 19:30 | Social Center | The legacy of Murray Bookchin |
| Dan Chodorkoff (Marshfield): Social Ecology, and Utopia in a time of Crisis | ||
| Chaia Heller (Leverett Station): Enter the Alter-Left: Periodizing the Historical Moment of Democratic Confederalism (Skype presentation) | ||
| Discussion | ||
| Facilitator: Svante Malmström | ||
| 20:00 | Dinner | |
| Social Center | After dinner: Leisure time and workshop on “Songs of the Revolution” (Samuel Wade) | |
| Saturday | August 29 | |
| 10:00 | Agora Argyri | Social Ecology and the City |
| Federico Venturini (Udine): Introduction | ||
| Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Montreal): ‘The Right to the City’ Movement and its place on the radical municipalist agenda – A strategy perspective for social ecologists | ||
| Discussion | ||
| 11:00 | Agora Argyri | Seminar: The Democratic and Ecological City |
| Emet Değirmenci (Istanbul): Sovereign cities through food sovereignty | ||
| Sotiris Lycourghiotis (Patras): Social centers as alternative forms of organization: the example of the Social Centre Patras | ||
| Rowan Tallis Milligan (London): Recycling the city: Squatting as a critique of green (re)construction | ||
| Katerina Kassavou (Cambridge): Ethics in research and practice | ||
| Discussion | ||
| Facilitator: Federico Venturini | ||
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 15:00 | Social Center | Workshop: Social movements and radical democracy – how do we exchange experiences and practices of participatory democracy? International gathering 2016? |
| Facilitator: Malin Widehammar | ||
| 16:15 | Tea and Coffee | |
| 16.30 | Roundtable discussion: Social Ecology in Practice | |
| Joam Evans Pim (Lousame): A Libertarian Municipalist Agenda in Action: the Case of Lousame, Galiza (Skype presentation) | ||
| Dan Chodorkoff (Marshfield): Living in a Directly Democratic Community | ||
| Vilelmini Vilma Andrioti (Pireaus): The identity of a political choreographer as an activist | ||
| Discussion | ||
| Facilitator: Ersilia Verlinghieri | ||
| 17.45 | Break | |
| 18:00 | Summary Workshop: Lessons learned from the day and action points for TRISE’s future | |
| Facilitator: Malin Widehammar | ||
| 19.00 | Break | |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Agora Argyri | ‘This Changes Everything’ – Naomi Klein and the Politics for Climate Justice |
| Panel discussion with Dan Chodorkoff and Duncan Rayside | ||
| Facilitator: Dimitri Roussopoulos | ||
| 21:00 | Dinner | |
| Sunday | August 30 | ||
| 9.30 | Agora Argyri | Seminar: Europe in Crisis and Revolts | |
| Damian Gerber (Melbourne): Neoliberal Moralism vis-a-vis a Moral Economy (Skype presentation) | |||
| George Poulados (Patras): Understanding the Greek Crisis – is there a way 0ut? | |||
| Theodore Athanasopoulos (Patras): The Response of Greek Social Movements to the Capitalist Crisis | |||
| Theodoros Karyotis (Thessaloniki): Whats next for grassroots movements after Syrizas capitulation? | |||
| Discussion | |||
| Facilitator: Sotiris Lycourghiotis | |||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Social Center | Workshop: Social movements and research in action for social change | |
| Facilitator: Federico Venturini | |||
| 15:30 | Tea and Coffee | ||
| 15:45 | Roundtable discussion: Intersections of Resistance | ||
| Heathcote Ruthven and Bernard Oliver Sünderhauf: “No gold – No masters” – The transnational ‘Beyond Europe’ movement meeting the regional struggles in Chalkidiki, Greece | |||
| Samuel Wade (Vienna): Industrial Unionism: Firing the bosses and abolishing wages | |||
| Arnošt Novák (Prague): Klinika: Struggle for autonomous space in Prague | |||
| Discussion | |||
| Facilitator: Christos Kotakis | |||
| 17:15 | Break | ||
| 17:30 | Workshop: Social Ecology and the Kurdish Question – What can we learn and how can we support the Rojava revolution? | ||
| Facilitator: Federico Venturini | |||
| 18:30 | Break | ||
| 19:00 | Summary Workshop: Lessons learned from the day and action points for TRISE’s future | ||
| Facilitator: Ersilia Verlinghieri | |||
| 20.00 | Workshop: The identity of a political choreographer as an activist |
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| Facilitator: Vilelmini Vilma Andrioti | |||
| 21:00 | Dinner | ||
| August 31 | Monday | |
| 9:30 | Social Center | Closing session |
| Summary of the Conference | ||
| Conclusions and open debate | ||
| Evaluation of the conference | ||
| Proposals of themes for future conferences | ||
| Final Greetings | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Free time | |
| Field trip in Patras or other activities to be added | ||
| 20:00 | End party! Dinner and live music | |
Program