CJUU at SETU Carlow

A Climate Justice perspective on: GenAI and Big Tech — Critical Implications for Higher Education

Join us in Carlow on the 13th November for the Climate Justice Universities Union Autumn-Winter All-Ireland Meeting, hosted by SETU Carlow.

This gathering is an opportunity to connect in person and discuss how higher education institutions in Ireland can and should respond to our ecological and social crises.

Meeting agenda:

We meet in the Chamber Room, on the second floor of the Haughton Building.

• 9.30AM: Morning Tea & Coffee

• 10AM: Meeting welcome, union and working group updates: SETU event committee, Jennie C Stephens Professor of Climate Justice, Maynooth University, CJUU coordinator

• 11AM: Moderated discussion: "A Climate Justice perspective on GenAI, Big Tech and the critical implications for higher education"

  • Moderator: Niamh McCrea (SETU lecturer in Humanities, CJUU at SETU event committee)

  • Opening statements:

    • Rosi Leonard (Friends of the Earth, Data Centre Campaign coordinator),
    • Clare Kelly (TCD lecturer in Psychology, co-author of Irish Times Op-Ed "We are lecturers in TCD. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI"),
    • Colm O'Neill (SETU lecturer in Computing, CJUU at SETU event committee)

  • Moderated discussion with all attendees, taking note of primary concerns, and collective mapping of critical implications.

• 12.30: Lunch break

• 13.15 Collaborative strategic planning in working groups:

  • Scholar‑Activism
  • Education for Sustainable Development
  • Mobility and Transformation
  • Well‑being
  • Irish language and culture
  • Students and Student Unions
  • Higher Education Policy
  • Tech Justice

• 15.00 Working groups report

• 15.20 Event closing statements