AbstractIn this session, alumni from the CEI Summer/Winter School who have completed their PhD theses will make short presentations about their theses. This will be followed by responses from selected Series Editors from the Diverse Economies and Livable World Book series (Katherine Gibson, Stephen Healy). Thesis abstracts will be available to those who register. • Sangwon Chae. “‘We just want to live well together’: the makings of alternative urbanism in a developmentalist city Seoul, South Korea” (2025)• Gilles Evrard Essuman “Community Initiatives and Social Innovation as Pathways to Socio-Territorial Transformation and Degrowth” (2024)• Ella Hubbard. “Bioregioning: Composing a politics of place for living well together” (2024)