Chair :	Rob Kitchin, NUIM
09.15-09.20 :	Welcome: Paschal Preston, DCU
09.20-10.00 :	Peadar Kirby, UL : ‘Raising the Larger Questions: Challenges for the social sciences in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland’
10.00-10.20 :	Responses: Kieran Bonner & Mary Hickman [ISSP Advisory Board]
10.20-11.00 :	Contributions from the floor

11.00-11.15

Coffee/Tea : Ground Floor

11.15-13.00

SESSION-2
Theme Panels

B-D Panel #1:
Spatial Trends and Dynamics - Regional, Urban and Rural

S-C Panel #1:
Changing Modes of Citizenship and Participation

K-S Panel ~ A1:
New Information Systems: Techno-Structures for the Knowledge Society

K-S Panel ~ B1:
Innovation, Industrial Linkages/ Networking in the Knowledge Economy

13.00-14.15

Lunch : Cafeteria

14.15-16.00

SESSION-3
Theme Panels

B-D Panel #2:
Re-Visioning the Rural: Community, Development and Social Capital

S-C Panel #2:
Re-interrogating the Irish Social Model

K-S Panel ~ A2:
Creating and Communicating Knowledge and Technology Transfer

K-S Panel ~ B2:
The KbE as Elastic Concept – from Policies to K-I Firms, Citizenship and Culture

16.00-16.15

Coffee/Tea : 2^nd Floor restaurant

16.15-18.00

SESSION-4
Theme Panels

ISSP B-D Theme
Meeting

ISSP S-C Theme
Meeting

ISSP Knowledge Society Theme Meeting

19.00-21.00

ISSP Dinner [ 1838 Club ]

DAY/TIME	Session Type and/or theme	Plenary Session	Balanced Development Room Q219	Sustaining Communities Room Q217	Knowledge Society - Stream A Room Q220	Knowledge Society - Stream B Room Q218
Friday, 12 September	[ click "Theme Panel" to go to "Paper & Panel" page ] [ please use browser's "Back Button" to come back here ]
09.00-11.00	SESSION-5 Theme Panels		B-D Panel #3: Ireland's Develop-ment Model in/and the Wider World: Post-Celtic Tiger Perspectives	S-C Panel #3: Post-Pub and/or Public Cultures? : Reshaping Politics and Everyday Life	K-S Panel ~ A3: Beyond the Spreadsheet: New Visualisation Tools for Decision-Making and Learning	K-S Panel ~ B3: Nomadic work/lives in the knowledge economy
11.00-11.15	Coffee/Tea : 2^nd Floor restaurant
11.15-13.00	SESSION-6 Theme Panels		S-C Panel #5 : Dealing with Diversity and Disability - located in the B-D theme's room/slot for logistical reasons	S-C Panel #4: Gendered Negotia-tions: Reshaping Identities in (post-) Celtic Tiger Era	K-S Panel ~ A4: Localising the Triple Helix Model: Universities and Technology Transfer	K-S Panel ~ B4: Beyond Technology: Trust, Teamwork and the Subtleties of Socio-Technical Change
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	SESSION-7 Closing Plenary	Closing Plenary QG13	Short presentations by Rob Kitchin, Linda Connolly, Kathy Monks, Paschal Preston. Followed by general discussion on .a) key points arising from the conference and .b) how we move forward in terms of developing the ISSP research agenda. Chair: Willie Golden, NUI Galway.

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ISSP-08 Conference @ DCU, 11-12 September 2008