international conferenceGood Life Beyond Growth

May 21–23, 2015universitätshauptgebäudefürstengraben 1 in jena

The conference is organized by the DFG Research Group on Post-Growth Societies at the University of Jena and the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt.

More information can be found atwww.kolleg-postwachstum.de

H ow do the economic crisis and the vision of a post-growth society change the

debate about the good life ? Can we identify individual, social, and political conditions for a good life in a society that can no longer guarantee a rising income for everybody ? Under the premise of the recent economic and ecological crisis, the multifaceted debate about how to understand, frame, analyze, and operationalize issues concerning the good life, human flourishing, well-being, and happiness is taking on a momentous relevance. The conference »Good Life Beyond Growth« offers a unique platform for a fruitful interdiscipli-nary dialogue among different approaches and schools of thought about what a good human life is about, what its subjective and objective conditions are, and how it may be reframed for a post-growth society.

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Thursday, May 21

9:00 – 9:30 Registration 9:30 – 10:00 welcome adresses 10:00 – 10:45 introductory lecture Relating to The World. Two Subjective Imperatives for Growth – and One Alternative Hartmut Rosa

11:00 – 12:30 theoretical foundations i Prosperity and Sustainability – Foundations for a Post-growth Society Keynote: Tim Jackson Response: Christoph Henning 12:30 – 14:00 lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 theoretical foundations ii Du Bonheur au Buen vivir. Ou les mésaventures de la vie bonne entre modernité et décroissance Keynote: Serge Latouche Response: Stefanie Hürtgen

15:30 – 16:00 coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 sessions i (parallel) Concepts of the Good Life Michael J. Thompson and Dieter Thomä The Good Life at Work: (Care-)Work & Gender Frigga Haug and Sarah Schilliger

17:30 – 18:00 coffee break 18:00 – 19:30 panel discussion Politics of the Good Life Alberto Acosta, Ashish Kothari and Milena Büchs

Friday, May 22

9:00 – 10:30 social conditions A Philosophy of Ecological Economics Keynote: Manfred Max-Neef Response: Helge Peukert 10:30 – 11:00 coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 sessions ii (parallel) Human Flourishing and (In)Equality Andrew Sayer and John O’Neill Human Needs beyond Growth Monica Guillen-Royo, Manfred Max-Neef, Ines Omann and Felix Rauschmayer

12:30 – 14:00 lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 paper sessions i (parallel) Resonance Aaron Ben-Ze‘ev, Angelika Krebs and Gesine Schepers

How to work less ? Johannes Buhl, Katharina Bohnenberger and Ulrich Schachtschneider

Human Needs Salina Centgraf, Dagmar Comtesse and Svenja Meyerricks

Alternatives in Practices Frank Adloff, Gregor Betz and Carolina Vestena

15:30 – 16:00 coffee break

16:00 – 17:30 paper sessions ii (parallel) Growth in Context Stefan Drews, Eugen Pissarskoi and Tobias Vogel Critique of Economics Hans Diefenbacher/Dorothee Rodenhäuser, Max Koch/Martin Fritz and Alexandra Rau

Happiness Bettina Hollstein, Tobias Keiling and Johannes Klement

17:30 – 18:00 coffee break 18:00 – 19:30 panel discussion Good Work Klaus Dörre, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja and Hartmut Rosa

Saturday, May 23

9:00 – 10:30 sessions iii (parallel) Subjective Limits to Growth Stefanie Graefe and Dennis Eversberg

Good Life and the Welfare State Claus Offe and Philippe Van Parijs

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 subjective dimensions and experiences Is Love still a part of the Good Life ? Keynote: Eva Illouz Response: Elisabeth von Thadden