ABOUT THE NENA 2023 CONFERENCE
Today’s climate change, environmental decline and social justice challenges are forcing societies to rethink our economic systems and social governance.
It’s been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Capitalism – the system that enables a small group of people to accumulate wealth by extracting and controlling resources, at the expense of the majority of people and our planet – hasn’t always been the dominant human governance system and will not be in place forever.
So what could life be like after capitalism?
What might our society and economy look like?
These are the questions NENA invites you to address in our 2023 conference.
For more information about the NENA Conference please visit the main conference page.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR CONFERENCE PROPOSAL
The call for conference proposals has now closed
NENA’s conferences are an opportunity for NENA members and friends to meet, connect, share ideas and share updates about their work. Conference proposals are invited from people who would like to present panel discussions, present papers, host workshops and more.
Here are the details you’ll be asked to fill out in the electronic submission form:
1. NAME & CONTACT DETAILS
2. PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
- Presentations – practitioner or academic paper
- 15 minutes
- Panel discussions (multiple speakers)
- 20 to 50 minutes
- Workshops (to provide training/professional development opportunities and interactive activities for conference attendees)
- up to 50 minutes
- New Economy Lab or problem solving discussions
- propose an experiment to conduct with willing participants before, during, or after the conference, and use a 50 min conference session to review it or start it
- New Economy Change Projects
- 50 minute sessions for those who want to propose specific social change projects and who intend to continue these projects after the conference
- Discussion groups, arts projects, debates, working group meetings, kitchen table conversations, facilitated game, “open space” sessions
- 30 to 50 minutes
- Other ideas are welcome – just tell us what you’d like to do!
3. WHICH THEMES DOES YOUR PROPOSAL FOCUS ON?
Proposals should be focused on systems change towards “Life After Capitalism”.
As a guide, they should address ONE OR MORE of the following:
- Ecological economics, degrowth, sustainability and the natural world
- Indigenous economics
and decolonising our society - Land and property, housing, ownership,
food systems and agriculture - Energy, transport and waste management
- Social justice, economic democracy
and collaborative governance - Law, regulation and policy
- Money and finance
- Technology and platform co-operativism
- Work, employment and enterprise
including cooperatives - Work, employment and enterprise
including cooperatives - Sharing the commons
- Advocacy, movement building and creating systems change
- Power, gender, culture
- Just transitions and localisation
- Communications, media and journalism
- Inner dimensions of creating change – mindfulness, spiritual practice, cultures of collaboration