11.05am−12.25pm Session 1: ‘Metaphor & Sustainable Transition’

1. Gerard Mullally, Reflexive Sustainability:Metaphor as Transdisciplinary Method in the Anthropocene
2. Niamh Sheridan, Dead Metaphors and What They Tell Us and Why We Should Listen
3. Jools Gilson, The Rain Box: Raining on the Radio & Other Stories
4. Kieran Keohane, Portals of Transition: from Joyce’s Arc(h/k)s to Facebook.
5. Evan James Boyle, Myth beyond Metaphor-Mythopoeia in Transition
6. James Glynn, Greenhouse Carbon Budgets:Household Metaphors Bridging the Science-Policy Interface on Climate Change

Discussant: Dr Ian Hughes

12.30pm−1.40pm Session 2: ‘Paradigmatic Change’

1. Maureen O’Connor,A Different Difference
2. Paul Bolger, Metaphors for Sustainability- Catalysts for change or business as usual?
3. Fionn Rogan, Transformative Metaphors to Overcome Technological Determinism
4. Ian Hughes, Metaphors of Change in Physics and Psychoanalysis
5. Edmond Byrne, Complimentary dualism as a metaphor for Sustainability, Progress and Reality
6. Lidia Guzy, The Dream as a Metaphor of Transformative Change

Discussant: Dr Kieran Keohane

2.20pm−3.30pm Session 3: ‘Living Metaphors: Narratives around Food, Health, Consumption & Education’

1. Colin Sage, The metabolic rift as metaphor in the context of Irish agri-food
2. Shane V. Crowley, Defamiliarisation of Food- This Time it’s Personal(ised)l
3. Cormac Sheehan, Care is Art -How do you care for a person with dementia?
4. Brendan Richardson, No Road to Damascus: The Glass Floor as metaphorical barrier to post-epiphany adoption of sustainable consumption
5. Maria Kirrane, Gerard Mullally, John O’ Halloran, Alice D’Arcy, Edmond Byrne, Aine Ryall, Niall Dunphy, Fostering Sustainability Citizenship?Transdisciplinary Transitions in an Irish Third Level Institution

Discussant: Dr Ger Mullally

3.30pm−4pm Session 4: Open Discussion and Next Steps

• Synopsis of Sessions by Discussants
• Proposed Next Steps (Dr Ian Hughes & Dr Colin Sage) 
  
• Open Discussion and Feedback