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GENDER ARC SUMMER SEMINAR

A seminar on Gender, Spirituality, Politics and Society was hosted by the Gender, Discourse, Identities Cluster of NUIG-UL Gender ARC and Global Women's Studies, NUIG, on Wed. 27 June 2012. Speaking at the event were Nikky-Guninder Singh (Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College, Maine, USA), Rita O'Donoghue (Irish Studies, NUIG), Eilís Ward (Political Science and Sociology, NUIG), Vesna Malesevic (Political Science and Sociology, NUIG), and Niamh Reilly (Global Women's Studies, NUIG). For more details, click here.

POSTGRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOL

NUIG-UL Gender ARC held a postgraduate summer school, Gender, Discourses and Identities: Gender, Nation, Text, at NUI Galway from 6 to 8 June 2012. Registration was free to all NUI Galway and UL Students. For full details, click here.

SEMINAR ON TALKING PEACE

Talking Peace, a seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland, was held at the Moore Institute Seminar Room on 16 May 2012. For more information, click here.

CONFERENCE ON ARMED CONFLICT

Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspectives, a multidisciplinary conference bringing together leading scholars working on aspects of armed conflict from a range of disciplinary perspectives, was held at the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on 18 May 2012. For full details, click here.

NEW ARTICLE BY Ó DOCHARTAIGH

Just published in Political Quarterly, this article discusses the prospects for All-Ireland politics in the current climate of economic crisis. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, 'Republicanism Domesticated? All-Ireland Politics in an Age of Austerity', Political Quarterly, 83 (2) (2012), pp. 25664. For more details, click here.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES MA SCHOLARSHIP

GWS is pleased to announce that an MA scholarship of €2,500 will be awarded in 2012-2013. For full details, click here.

GENDER AND ACADEMIC WORK SEMINAR

On 24 April 2012, NUIG hosted a half-day seminar on the topic of Gender and Academic Work, with visiting speakers from Ireland and the UK. The event is organized by the Gender, Work and New Economies (GWNE) group within Gender ARC. For further details, contact kate.kennynuigalway.ie

GWS LUNCH TIME SEMINAR SERIES FOR SPRING 2012

For full details on the Global Women’s Studies Lunch Time Seminar Series for 2011-2012, click here.

LAUNCH OF REPORT ON OLDER WOMEN WORKERS' ACCESS TO PENSIONS

Global Women's Studies (NUIG), together with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (NUIG) and Queen’s University Belfast, have produced a CARDI-funded research report on Older Women Workers’ Access to Pensions: Vulnerabilities, Perspectives and Strategies. Former president of ICTU Inez McCormack launched the report in Dublin on 24 February 2012.

To download the report, click here.

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

The Global Women's Studies Programme is hosted a series of events to mark the 16 Days of Activism to end Violence against Women, linking International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Nov. 25th) to International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10th). For more information, click here.

MICHAEL D HIGGINS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF IRELAND

The School of Political Science and Sociology is delighted to heartily congratulate its former staff member Michael D Higgins on his recent election to the office of President of Ireland. For more information, click here.

DUVVURY LAUNCHES UNFPA REPORT ON WORLD POPULATION

Dr. Nata Duvvury spoke at the October 26, 2011, launch of UNFPA’s report, State of the World Population, 2011: People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion. Jan O’Sullivan, Minister of State, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, launched the report. Dr Jacqueline Mahon, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Health and Health Systems, UNFPA, introduced the report and Dr Duvvury commented on the report, based on her extensive international development expertise. The event was organised by the Irish Family Planning Association and held at the Shelburne Hotel, Dublin.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES STUDENTS AWARDED IRCHSS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Caroline Forde and Aura Lounasma, PhD students in the Global Women's Studies programme in the School of Political Science and Sociology, were each awarded an IRCHSS postgraduate scholarship in the 2011 round. These highly competitive and prestigious scholarship have a success rate of less than 15% and are open to PhD students studying at Irish Universities in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

RELIGION, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE

An international conference, funded by the European Science Foundation and Linköping University, and sponsored by NUI Galway, took place on 21-25 June 2011 in Sweden. Entitled Religion, Gender and Human Rights: Challenges for Multicultural and Democratic Societies, the conference was an initiative of the Gender and Public Sphere thematic group within Gender ARC. The conference aimed to move gender from the periphery to the centre of debate on the role of religion in public and political life in democratic and democratising multicultural societies. For more information, click here.

NEW POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 2011

A new postgraduate diploma in Social Work Practice Teaching, Supervision and Management is set to commence in September 2011. For full details, click here.

GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES LUNCH-TIME SEMINAR SERIES 2010/11

A meeting of the Global Women's Studies Lunch-time Seminar Series was scheduled for Thursday, 14 April, and featured Nata Duvvury (NUIG) speaking on Gendering the Recession. Future speakers include Angela O’Connell (NUIG). For full details, click here.

EVENTS MARKING THE CENTENARY OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

In recognition of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (March 8th, 1911-2011), the Global Women’s Studies Programme (GWSP) in conjunction with the Irish Centre for Human Rights, The Galway Film Society, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and Gender ARC (an NUI Galway-UL research network) held a series of events held throughout the week of March 7th-11th. Events included Women, Power and Powerlessness - a seminar with Inez McCormack, the showing of the award-winning Iranian film Women without Men, A Celebration of the Life and Work of Diana Leonard with Kelly Coate and Anne Byrne, and a Gender ARC Public Seminar with historians Caitriona Clear (NUIG) and Bernadette Whelan (UL). More more information on all events, click here.

LERNER PUBLIC LECTURE

Prof. Richard Lerner (Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts U), delivered a public lecture on The Positive Youth Development Perspective: Implications for Programmes and Policies on Wednesday, 23 March 2011. For full details, click click here.

POWER CLUSTER CONFLICT AND IDEOLOGY SEMINAR

Prof. Paul Arthur, of the International Conflict Research Centre (INCORE, University of Ulster), spoke at the school on Wednesday 9 March 2011 on 'Embracing the Enemy: Political Leadership in the Northern Ireland Peace Process'. For more information, click here.

PhD IN CHILD AND YOUTH RESEARCH

Applicants are invited for a cross-institutional, structured PhD commencing in September, 2011. This is a full-time, four year programme, combining thesis and taught modules. Closing Date for receipt of completed applications is April 29th, 2011. For more details, click here.

SAI POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 2011 AT NUIG

The school hosted the Sociological Association of Ireland’s annual postgraduate conference on Saturday, 5th February 2011. Postgraduate scholars from across the country attended. To view the the programme, click here.

IRCHSS AWARD FOR MALESEVIC AND O DOCHARTAIGH

The IRCHSS Research Development Initiative and the Department of Foreign Affairs have awarded a research grant to Dr. Sinisa Malesevic (PI), Dr. Niall O Dochartaigh, Prof. Bill Schabas, and Prof. Tom Lodge from UL for a project entitled 'The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States? worth ca 48,000 Euros. This project is a result of a joint initiative between UL and NUI, Galway. The project involves participants from the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI, Galway and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at UL.

JONATHAN DEAN ON CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST POLITICS

The Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster hosted a seminar by Jonathan Dean (Leeds University), on 10 February 2011. The talk was based around Dr Dean’s recent book, Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics (Palgrave Macmillan).

REILLY BOOK OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE FOR 2010

Niamh Reilly's book, Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age (Polity Press), has been selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2010" by the American Library Association/CHOICE. For more information, click here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Gender and Child Welfare Network: 4th Interdisciplinary Conference will be held at NUIG on 15 June 2011. Presentations are invited on any area of theory, research or practice which relates to the themes of the conference and can be from researchers or practitioners in a range of academic and practice disciplines, including sociology, psychology, social policy, social work, socio-legal studies, education and nursing. The deadline for abstracts is 28 February 2011. For more details, click here.

MARTIN KILDUFF TO SPEAK ON ACADEMIC PUBLISHING AND ON LEADERSHIP

Professor Martin Kilduff (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) spoke on Publishing: An Editor’s Experience on Thursday, 3 February 2011, and on The Awestruck Effect: Transformational Leadership and Followers’ Emotion Suppression on Friday, 4 February 2011. For full detail on the Thursday seminar, click here, and on the Friday seminar, click here. Both seminars were co-hosted by the School of Political Science and Sociology and CISC.

POWER CLUSTER CONFLICT AND IDEOLOGY SEMINAR

Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent) spoke on “'Social Suffering': Key Problems and Fields of Concern” on 21 January 2011. For more information, click here.

16 DAYS ACTIVITIES OF GWS

In recognition of the 16 Days Campaign of Activism against Violence against Women, the Global Women’s Studies Programme is hosting a series of public events that showcases topics of critical concern to Women’s Human Rights. These events are open to the public, and all are invited to attend. For full details on all the events, click here. Events to come are:

ON DECEMBER 1: More Than a Hangover: Youth, Alcohol and Rape in Ireland, a roundtable held in conjunction with the Rape Crisis Network Ireland. Speakers include Padraig MacNeela (Psychology, NUIG), Caroline Counihan (Rape Crisis Network Ireland), Stacey Scriver (GWS, NUIG) and Saoirse Nic Gabhainn (Health Sciences, NUIG) (for full details, click here)

ON DECEMBER 9: Renewing Our Democracy, Reviving Our Economy: Time for More Women at the Helm?, a roundtable event featuring Michael D. Higgins (President of the Labour Party), Mary Murphy (NUI Maynooth), Gemma Hussey (former member of the Seanad and Dail Eireann), and David Farrell (UCD) (for full details, click here)

GWS LUNCH-TIME SEMINAR SERIES 2010/11

Each month throughout the 2010/2011 academic year the seminar series will showcase the work of researchers, academics and students with a gender-focus from within the GWSP and the NUI Galway community at large. All are invited to attend these public seminars. On 1 December there will be an extended lunch-time seminar in recognition of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. This seminar is held in conjunction with the Rape Crisis Network Ireland and supported by the BA CONNECT in Global Women’s Studies. Future speakers include Emma Brannlund and Lubna Azzam (NUIG), Rachel Pokora (Nebraska Wesleyan University), Nata Duvvury (NUIG), and Angela O’Connell (NUIG). For full details, click here. (GWS will shortly announce details of its 2010/2011 evening Public Lecture Series, which will start on Thursday, 9 December.)

Ó DOCHARTAIGH INTERVIEWED ON TG4

Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh was interviewed on TG4 news on 9 November about the Brendan Duddy papers. Brendan Duddy acted as a secret intermediary between the British government and the IRA over a period of twenty years and donated his extensive private papers to NUI Galway in 2009. To view the interview, click here.

RUNDELL ON 'MULTIPLE MODERNITIES'

Prof. John Rundell (School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne) gave a seminar on 'Multiple Modernities, Sacredness and the Democratic Imaginary' on 20 October. For more information, click here.

NATIONALISM AND ORGANISED VIOLENCE CONFERENCE

A conference on Nationalism and Organised Violence was held at the School on 24 September. The conference was sponsored by the PSAI Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict in association with the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence at NUI Galway. For more information, click here.

GENDER CLUSTER / GWS PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa, Canada), Naila Kabeer (University of Sussex) and Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London) recently appeared as part of the Gender Cluster and Global Women’s Studies Public Lecture Series, 2009-2010.

BANTON LECTURE

Emeritus Professor Michael Banton (Bristol University) spoke at the School on 'Superseding “Race” in Social Science' on 19 February. For over fifty years Professor Banton has been a world leading authority in the study of ethnic relations and racism. He is author of numerous books including Racial Consciousness (1988), Discrimination (1994), International Action against Racial Discrimination (1996), Ethnic and Racial Consciousness (1997), Racial Theories (1997), and The International Politics of Race (2002). Professor Banton was also a chairman of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

CHIEF INSPECTOR KATHLEEN O'TOOLE

Kathleen O’Toole, Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate, was the keynote speaker at a special networking event hosted by NUI Galway’s Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology. The Eighth in a series, the Child and Family Welfare Network Event took place on 9th February, in Áras Moyola. For more details, click here.

NEW GENDER WORKING PAPERS

The Gender, Empowerment and Globalisation Research Cluster has issued four new working papers. Working Paper No. 1 is Fundamentalisms and Women’s Human Rights by Niamh Reilly. No. 2 is GROW-ing Neo-Secularisation by Vesna Malesevic and Aine Lorie. No. 3 is 'Not an Issue?' The Muslim Headscarf in Irish Post-Primary Schools by Noirin Clancy. No. 4 is Ireland through the Veil: Gender, Autonomy and the Nation by Stacey Scriver. To download the Working Papers, click here.

RECENT PHD WINS THESIS PRIZE

Recent PhD student Oliver Feeney was awarded the 2009 PSAI Basil Chubb prize for the best PhD thesis produced in an Irish university. For more information, click here.

NARRATIVE STUDIES GROUP BOOK CLUB

The NUIG Narrative Studies Group hold a monthly reading/discussion group for those interested in understanding narrative and its use in education, humanities, the social sciences and health and therapeutic sciences. For more information, click here.

NAOMI GOLDENBERG LECTURE

Professor Naomi Goldenberg (University of Ottawa, Canada) will speak on Wednesday, 14 April, at 6 pm, in the Lecture Theatre, Aras Moyola, on "Gender and the Vestigial State of Religion" as part of the Gender Cluster and Global Women’s Studies Public Lecture Series, 2009-2010. She is the author of The Changing of the Gods: Feminism and the End of Traditional Religion (1979) and Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion, and Psychoanalysis (1993). Her recent work seeks to bridge the religious/secular divide in social theory. For more details, click here.

NAILA KABEER LECTURE

Naila Kabeer (University of Sussex) spoke on "Marriage, motherhood and masculinity in the global economy: A crisis in social reproduction" on Thursday, March 18th as part of the Gender Cluster and Global Women’s Studies Public Lecture Series, 2009-2010. Prof. Kabeer is one of the world’s foremost experts in feminist economics, specialising in gender, poverty, and social policy issues. For more details about her, click here.

BURREN SPRING CONFERENCE

The Burren College of Art, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, hosted its Spring Conference, Business in the Burren: Sustaining Vibrant Communities, on 5-7 March 2010. For more details, click here.

YUVAL-DAVIS LECTURE

Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London) spoke on the topic of "Intersectionality in Transversal Politics" on 12 March as part of the Gender Cluster and Global Women’s Studies Public Lecture Series, 2009-2010. Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations. For more details on Yuval-Davis, click here.

ROJEK ON 'CELEBRITY CULTURE'

Professor Chris Rojek (Brunel University) spoke at the School on 'Celebrity Culture' on Friday, 4 December. Rojek is a world-renowned sociologist of culture specialising in studies of celebrity, leisure, tourism and popular music. He is author of numerous highly influential books including Celebrity (2001), Stuart Hall (2003), Frank Sinatra (2004), Leisure Theory (2005), Cultural Studies (2007) and Brit-Myth (2007).

NARRATIVE STUDIES GROUP TRAINING COURSE

The NUIG Narrative Studies Group held an intensive training course in the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) on 19-25 November, 2009, in Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare. For more information, click here.

VISITING SPEAKER TOM INGLIS

Professor Tom Inglis (UCD) spoke on the topic of ’Love as Social and Personal: Tapping into the Sociology of Emotions’ on 25 September 2009. Inglis is a prominent Irish sociologist of religion and sexuality and author of Moral Monopoly (1987/1998), Lessons in Irish Sexuality (1998), Truth, Power and Lies (2003) and, most recently, Global Ireland: Same Difference (2008)

NEW BOOK LAUNCH

The Open University Press launched a new book by Paul Michael Garrett on September 11, 2009. 'Transforming' Children's Services? Social Work, Neoliberalism and the 'Modern' World provides an accessible overview of the 'transformation' of Children's Services in England. For more information, click here.

IRISH RURAL STUDIES SYMPOSIUM HELD

The Inaugural Irish Rural Studies Symposium (IRSS) took place on 1 September 2009. Anne Bryne, Nata Duvvury, Aine Macken Walsh, and Tanya Watson from the School's Gender, Globalisation and Empowerment Research Cluster chaired sessions and/or presented papers at the symposium. For more information, click here.

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