Conference on Time

[Lucie Stephens]

ABOUT TIME: Examining the case for a shorter working week
 LSE Public Lecture & drinks reception
11 January 2012, 6.00-7.30 pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 2AE
and

Expert Colloquium (invitation-only)
12 January, 9.30 am - 3.30 pm
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD
 

 
Given your interest in co-production I hope you will be interested in this event.  It is an open conference, followed by an expert colloquium, which will examine the case for moving towards much shorter, more flexible paid working hours – sharing out paid and unpaid time more evenly across the population - to address a range of urgent social, economic and environmental problems. It builds on arguments set out in 21 Hours, which was published by nef last year.

The event is organised by the new economics foundation (nef), in partnership with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics.  At the evening conference on 11th January there will be presentations from leading experts in the field:

• Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, and author of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth, and The Overworked American;
• Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick and biographer of J. M. Keynes, and Dr Edward Skidelsky, University of Exeter, and co-authors of the forthcoming book, How Much is Enough? Economics and the Good Life.
• Tim Jackson  (discussant), Professor of Sustainable Development at Surrey University, and author of Prosperity without Growth.

The conference will be followed by a drinks reception with the speakers. Please note that the conference is an open public lecture without tickets, so you will need to arrive early for a place in the main theatre.

The following day, we are hosting an invitation-only expert colloquium with up to 40 participants, including leading researchers and analysts, on the effects of changing time use and its implications for sustainable development and social justice. The colloquium will:
 
- consider a series of essays prepared for the event by selected contributors;
- exchange evidence and analysis about the impact of much shorter, more flexible paid working hours and what it would take to realise this in practice;
- identify barriers and opportunities, areas of agreement and disagreement among participants and potential allies and other interested parties;
- draw up proposals for further research, policy development and practical action.

The colloquium is for invited experts only and room is limited, but we would like to invite co-production network members to signal your interest if you would like to be invited and we will include as many of you as we can.

Please contact Anna Coote(nef Head of Social Policy) as soon as possible if you would like to join the colloquium.