Fwd: [degrowth] Zagreb Degrowth Conference: Extended deadline for proposals - Masterclass on Degrowth in Vienna - Save the date "Beyond Growth Conference" at EU Parliament (15-17 May).

[Ashish Kothari]

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Subject:	[degrowth] Zagreb Degrowth Conference: Extended deadline for proposals - Masterclass on Degrowth in Vienna - Save the date "Beyond Growth Conference" at EU Parliament (15-17 May).
Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:22:58 +0100
From:	Vincent Liegey (via degrowth Mailing List) <degr...@ml.projet-decroissance.net>
Reply-To:	degr...@ml.projet-decroissance.net
To:	in...@odrast.hr

Dear All,

First at all, happy new year!

Zagreb Degrowth Conference: Extended deadline for proposals

Due to multiple requests to extended the deadline for submissions, we announce that the deadline for submissions for the 9th International Degrowth Conference will be extended until 29th January 2023.

Please tell your friends and use this opportunity to encourage anyone else who wished to apply to do so! An honest ‘Thank you’ to all those who submitted their proposal by the original deadline, your applications are readily received and processed, but you can edit them by the new deadline if you wish.

No further extensions of the deadline will be provided and we still aim to notify all sessions authors of outcome of review by the Early Bird Registration period. More information about the Call for proposals can be found HERE.

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SAVE THE DATE: The “Beyond Growth 2023 Conference” will take place on 15-17 May 2023 at the EU Parliament in Brussels on the initiative of twenty-one members of the European Parliament from five different political groups and supported by more than forty partner organisations. Programmes, registrations, more information will be published soon.

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Afternoon Masterclass on Degrowth Visions and Critiques, qt CEU in Vienna, on the 26th of January at 14h30

SEMINAR

Thursday, January 26, 2023, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Afternoon masterclass on degrowth visions and critiques: an escape hatch from the quarter or mid-life crisis you never wanted

This masterclass is planned as an in-person event.

We encourage CEU community members to register for the event to estimate attendance and registration is required for external guests.

Please check the COVID safety rules here for entering the building.

We used to say that degrowth provided a sober vision of reaching mid-century with everyone alive and seas not rising over our ankles. But then “sobriety” was hijacked by the maniacs to describe anything that doesn’t rock the boat for them - keep the economy ticking and hope for the best. So let’s lose our inhibitions towards plans for survival for all, on trusting our own devices, on radically loving thy neighbors  - on intellectually engaging with local justice and global sustainability beyond recycling labels. Let’s learn about degrowth and strategies for an off your face, eyes wide open plunge into a meaningful and free midcentury! 

Sustainable CEU invites you to this masterclass (a way to avoid saying workshop or inviting you to a lecture on what is wrong with today) where Vincent Liegey and Mladen Domazet will offer their unique introductions to degrowth theory and practice. Following short and peculiar openings inviting you at first to be serious about de-growth (odrast in Slavic rendering, postwachstum in German, nemnövekedés in Hungarian), they will take you through a series of steps illustrating how degrowth research today speaks to most of the obstacles you at first imagine. They’ll show you how to think without fear about frugal abundance and conviviality, and how to celebrate growing without metastasizing. And finally how to quantify, deliberate and strategize through degrowth doughnut visualizations - connecting what’s good today with the great transformations of tomorrow. If you’re serious about mid-century climate stabilization, biodiversity preservation and social justice, you’ll have to consider degrowth in your research work. This crash course will help you avoid pitfalls that Noam Chomsky stumbled into without having to imbibe even a sip of Milton Friedman’s poison. 

About our guest moderators:

Dr Mladen Domazet is a research director at the Institute for Political Ecology in Zagreb, and currently a Senior Research Fellow at Corvinus University in Budapest. He has been part of the European degrowth movement for almost a decade now, and is one of the organizers of the forthcoming 9th International Degrowth Conference in Zagreb. His research publications present degrowth as a combination of philosophy, science and a meaningful educational curriculum; with a healthy dose of public support for degrowth ideology. Today he works on the doughnuts. 

Vincent Liegey is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher and one of the coordinators of the international degrowth conferences and the Observatoire de la Décroissance. He is the co-author of several books on Degrowth including Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (Plutot Press, 2020) and Décroissance, Fake or Not (Tana Editions, 2022), Sobriété (la vraie) Mode d’emploi (Tana Edition, 2023). 
He is also a coordinator of Cargonomia — a center for research and experimentation on degrowth, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest.

Best,

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Vincent Liegey
Auteur de Décroissance, Fake or Not (Tana Edition, 2021).
Ingénieur, chercheur interdisciplinaire, essayiste et conférencier autour de la Décroissance - Co-coordinateur de la coopérative sociale Cargonomia.
Co-author of Exploring Degrowth (Pluto Press, 2020). Interdisciplinary researcher, lecturer and freelance writer on Degrowth, coordinator of Cargonomia, Degrowth research and experimentation center.