On Friday 18th February UCD IBIS hosted a one-day 'hybrid' workshop exploring the critical debates shaping the constitutional future of 'these islands' after Brexit.
Date: 18th Feb 2022
Time: 10:45 - 17:00
Watch the recorded event (opens in a new window)here.
As part of IBIS' ongoing Constitutional Futures after Brexit (CFaB) project, this workshop will bring together academics and practitioners to explore the concepts and issues at stake in discussing the constitutional futures of 'these islands', and explore different ways of thinking and talking about these futures. It will look at key constitutional principles, and at Unionism and Nationalism as ways of both thinking about and doing politics.
The Constitutional Futures after Brexit project is supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund.
**You can register via this Eventbrite page to attend the event virtually. There are a small number of tickets available to attend the event 'in person' at UCD. Please email jonathan.evershed@ucdconnect.ie for further information if you would like to do so.**
SCHEDULE:
10:45 - 11:00
Opening remarks
Dr Jonathan Evershed, University College Dublin
11:00 - 12:30
Roundtable 1
What do we talk about when we talk about constitutional futures?
This roundtable will address what constitutions are (and what they aren't), what principles are at stake in processes of constitutional change, and what these processes can and should seek to achieve.
Chair: Dr Paul Gillespie, University College Dublin
Prof Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin
Dr Dawn Walsh, University College Dublin
Prof Aoife O'Donoghue, Durham University
Prof Eoin Carolan, University College Dublin
12:30 - 13:30
LUNCH
13:30 - 15:00
Roundtable 2
Unionism(s) and/as constitutional future(s)
In this roundtable, participants will discuss Unionism as a way of thinking about the constitutional future, and the different ways that 'Union' is conceived of and experienced across the islands.
Chair: Dr Dawn Walsh, University College Dublin
Prof Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen
Sarah Creighton, Writer, Lawyer and Political Commentator
Prof Rt. Hon Carwyn Jones, Aberystwyth University
Dr Coree Brown Swan, Queen's University Belfast
15:00 - 15:15
BREAK
15:15 - 16:45
Roundtable 3
Nationalism(s) and/as constitutional future(s)
This final roundtable will examine Nationalism as a way of doing politics in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and how different Nationalist visions of the post-Brexit political and constitutional future interact.
Chair: Dr Jonathan Evershed, University College Dublin
John Osmond, Author and Political Advisor, Plaid Cymru
Dr Judith Sijstermans, Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee
Seanadóir Lynn Boylan, Sinn Féin Senator for the Agricultural Panel, Seanad Éireann
Prof Michael Russell, President, Scottish National Party (SNP); University of Glasgow
16:45 - 17:00
Closing remarks
Dr Jonathan Evershed, University College Dublin