2. Summary
The School brought 27 business and humanities students and 26 faculty together as part of the President of Ireland‟s ethics initiative. This residential
school ran for six days at Blackwater Castle, and quickly created its own relaxed collegiate atmosphere. The ambition of the School was to broaden and
round PhD researchers. Given the School‟s success, we aspire to run the 2nd
E+S Summer School 11-15 May 2015.
The Summer School was designed around three different kinds of learning formats and interaction: By providing these three different formats we sought to
enhance a structured, interactive but also informal way of discussing broader issues around each individual‟s research.
(i) Key notes given by invited faculty followed by discussions
(ii) Short dialogical presentations usually delivered in thematically selected pairs
(iii) Small breakout reading groups based on selected key readings, functioning as small tutorial sessions on the talks and their relevance to
student‟s work
18 Keynote talks from : Tom Boland (WIT) | Ed Byrne & Ger Mullally (UCC) | James Fairhead (UCC) | William Forbes (WIT / Loughborough) | Ray Griffin
(WIT) | Niamh Hourigan (UCC) | Kieran Keohane (UCC) | Carmen Kuhling (UL) | Tristan Laing (York, Canada) | Niamh Maguire & John O‟Brien (WIT) |
Rowena Pecchenino (NUIM) | Tom O‟Connor (CIT) | Neil Robinson (UL) | Colin Sage (UCC) | Jackie Sheehan (UCC) | Arpad Szakolczai (UCC) | Manusos
Marangudakis (Aegean) | Peter McMylor (Manchester) | Sheila O‟ Donohoe (WIT)
Organisers
Dr Tom Boland (WIT), Dr Lorcan Byrne (UCC), Dr John O‟Brien (WIT) &
Dr Ray Griffin (WIT)
Founder
Dr Kieran Keohane (UCC)
3. Schedule
Early 9-11am Mid-morning 11.30-1pm
Lunchsittingat1pm
Early afternoon 2-3.45pm
Midafternoonbreak
Late afternoon 4.15-6pm
Dinnersittingat7pm
Evening time
Parallel sessions Plenary Session Plenary Session
Mon 12th
Arrival,
registration
& welcome
Midmorningbreak
Opening Round Table Prof. William Forbes (WIT /
Loughborough) “The abuses
of reason in finance
research”
Peter McMylor (Manchester
University) “The moral self in
market culture”
Bonfire
gathering with
party pieces
Tues 13th
Reading
Groups
Prof Neil Robinson (UL): “Oil,
Democracy & Autocracy”
Prof. Arpad Szakolczai (UCC)
“On the Genealogy of
Fairground Capitalism ”
Prof. Rowena Pecchenino (NUIM)
“Hope, Despair and the Design of
Socio-Economic Policy”
Live music in the
bar
James Fairhead (UCC): “Voegelin
and Neo-liberalism”
Wed 14th
Reading
Groups
John O’Brien & Niamh Maguire
(WIT): “The Night-time
economy”
Niamh Hourigan (UCC)
“Everyday Morality and
Work in Austerity Ireland”
Carmen Kuhling (UL) “Zombies
and the Post-crisis Political
Imaginary”
Piano bar
Hill-walk
Tristan Laing (York, Canada)
“Neoliberalism Externalised”
Thurs15th
Reading
Groups
Tom O‟Connor, (CIT) “Austerity in
Ireland, State Spin & Societal
Indifference to Social
Destruction”
Prof. Manusos Marangudakis:
[University of the Aegean]
“Religion and Economic Ethic”
Tom Boland (WIT) “Job-seeking:
Making a self for the labour
market”
Movie Night
Sheila O‟ Donohoe (WIT) “In
Praise of Finance”
Fri 16th
Collaborative
writing
exercises
within
reading
groups
Ray Griffin (WIT) “We have
never been liberal and there
are no free markets”
Ed Byrne, Ger Mullally,
Colin Sage, (UCC) John
Barry, (QUB) “Alternative
Economies and Societal
Innovation”
Closing Round-Table
School Closes: 5pm
4. The School was a response to The President of Ireland‟s Ethics Initiative, a project to stimulate discussion across all sectors of society on the challenge of
living together ethically.
The School commenced with a description of the President‟s call, and responses from the conveners. The question posed at the start of the School was –
do we, business and humanities scholars, have business together. As 'market' and 'society' have become separated as spheres of action and discourse,
the School‟s principal concern will be to re-articulate an ethical relationship between them. Framing this were early keynotes on Hayek/Keynes and
MacIntyre/Bauman; which rolled out thoughtfully nuanced academic histories of the territory. Balance was sought throughout the remainder of the
keynotes between business and the humanities, with each talk challenged to create a bridge between the two consanguine strangers. It clearly emerged,
that whilst our research tends to share the same methodological approaches, and traverse the same theoretical ground, the „othering‟ that arises between
the two is a more a thoughtless professional practice- unfamiliarity has bred contempt. The papers that attempted the bridge between the sociological
imagination and the market allowed things to move forward, papers without an inclination found the discussions challenging, assumptions unpicked.
Underpinning the series of keynotes were reading groups- small tutorial sessions that chewed over the talks, prescribed readings for the school and most
importantly researchers own work.
Without forcing a satisfying conclusion, for there was not one; those who took part in the school universally felt that its takes a good deal of effort to
bridge the disciplines. Bringing an unsympathetic, hackneyed view of the other discipline to our work limits the scope of impact; strictly discipline-based
inquiry can bring a formulated, scripted research performance; one that appeals to disciplinary, canonical and intellectual elites from our home turf; and
works to limit the conduct of inquiry; as well as the possibilities of reflection and change. In these times and because of the uses and abuses of the various
truths academic research produces, the unintended consequences of the commodificiation, essentialisation and bowdlerisation of academic ideas and
ideals; the academy should become much more critical about how we produce and use knowledge, and what we as academics are doing in society.
6. List of participants
Name
Stay
type Institution Participation
Áine Murphy 6 days WIT Student
Aisling Tuite 6 days WIT Student
Amy Clare Buck 6 days UCC Student
Arpad Szakolczai 3 days UCC Visiting lecturer
Beatrice Nabajja 6 days UCC Student
Blazej Kaucz 6 days UCC Student
Brendan Martin Molloy 6 days UCC Student
Carmen Kuhling 3 days UL Visiting lecturer
Catherine Kelleher 6 days UCC Student
Ciara Walsh 6 days UCC Student
Clare Watson 6 days UCC Student
Colin Sage
Day
Visitor UCC Visiting lecturer
Donie Fell 6 days NUIM Student
Ed Byrne 2 days UCC Visiting lecturer
Elaine Desmond 6 days UCC Student
Ger Mulally 2 days UCC Visiting lecturer
James Cuffe 4 days UCC Organiser
James Fairhead 6 days UCC Lead
Jill O'Mahony 2 days WIT Student
John O'Brien 6 days WIT Organiser
Kieran Keohane 6 days UCC Organiser
Kimberly Murray 6 days Oklahoma Student
Kirsty Doyle 6 days WIT Student
Lorcan Byrne 6 days UCC Organiser
Manusos Mangudarakis 6 days Aegean Visiting lecturer
Monkia Kadam 6 days WIT Student
Neil Robinson 2 days UL Visiting lecturer
Niamh Hourigan
Day
Visitor UCC Visiting lecturer
Niamh Maguire
Day
Visitor WIT Visiting lecturer
Oskana Doherty 6 days WIT Student
Peter McMylor 3 days Manchester Visiting lecturer
Ray Griffin 6 days WIT Organiser
Rowena Pechenino
Day
Visitor NUIM Visiting lecturer
Shamiso Chigorimbo 6 days UCD Student
Shane Tobin 6 days UCC Student
Sheila O'Donohoe 6 days WIT Lead
Stephan Maier 6 days Graz Student
Tina Kinsella 6 days Trinity Student
Tom Boland 6 days WIT Organiser
Tom O'Connor
Day
Visitor CIT Visiting lecturer
Triona Cohen 6 days NUIM Student
Tríona Ní Shíocháin
Day
Visitor UL Visiting lecturer
Trish McGrath 6 days UCC Student
Tristan Lang 6 days York Lead
William Forbes 6 days WIT Lead
Zach Roche 6 days UL Student
Total 52
