Panellist at Field Day’s Seamus Deane Annual Lecture 2024 with Special Guest Amitav Gosh, Playhouse Derry. Organised with Queen’s University Belfast. See video of lecture here. Coverage of event in the Irish Times and Derry Journal.
Speaker on two panels at EARTH RISING festival, 21 September 2024. Interviewing Dr. Nadine El-Enany on ‘Race Law and the Air We Breathe’ and Panellist on ‘Designing with Living Systems’ with architects BothAnd Group and Donal Lally. Earth Rising is the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s (IMMA) flagship festival focused on the Earth crisis.
Speaker at Sunday Business Post Energy Transition Summit, 26th September 2024. PANEL DISCUSSION: Energy Infrastructure: Creating a transition-ready network: Construction, connection and management. Speaker profile here. Sunday Business Post coverage of the event here. Quote: Mercier emphasised the importance of committing to an objective and sticking to it when you wanted people to be on the same page. “You can’t be oxymoronic in your approach,” she said. “A choice has to be made; you can’t have the demand for renewables increase alongside the demands for fossil fuels. One action has to be taken by the state, and they have to choose one.”
Speaker at Rethinking Growth Conference, Towards a Wellbeing Economy for Ireland: June 25 – 26 2024, Trinity College Dublin Business School. Plenary session “Decolonizing the Social Imaginary: how can we ‘do’ economics in the Fifth Province?”. Facilitated by Prof. John Barry (QUB) and Dr. Sharae Deckard (UCD), Dr. Mark Garavan (ATU), Sinead Mercier (UCD), Dr. Amy Strecker (UCD).
