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FUTURE Events:
Talking Peace: Witness Seminar and Academic Symposium
Talking Peace: A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland ( Poster)
Date:
16 May 2012, 10am - 5pm
Venue:
Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
The seminar brings together key actors with direct experience of mediation, negotiation and decision-making in the Irish peace process, including Sir Kenneth Bloomfield; Larry and Shauna Duddy; Dr. Maurice Hayes; Jim Gibney; Dr. Harold Good; Rev. Chris Hudson and Dr. Martin Mansergh. Prof. Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania) will act as respondent.
The symposium in the afternoon brings participants in the witness seminar together with leading academics working on the politics of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, including Prof. James McAuley (University of Huddersfield); Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway); Dr. Graham Spencer (University of Portsmouth); Dr. Katy Hayward (Queen’s University Belfast); Prof. Jonathan Tonge (University of Liverpool); Prof. Robert White (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis).
The seminar is part of the Creativity at the Edge series, hosted by the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. It is supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Moore Institute and the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
Organisers: Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway), Prof. Ian McBride (King’s College London), and Prof Sean Ryder (NUI Galway).
For further information on the CSNOV, please see
here.
Recent Events
Centre for Landscape Studies:
Mapping Spectral Traces V: Bodies - Space - Memory
International Conference, Art Exhibition and Dance Festival
19-21 April 2012, Galway, Ireland
Following on from the success of Mapping Spectral Traces IV International Conference, co-convened by Dr Nessa Cronin (Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway) and Dr Karen Till (Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth) in May 2011, we are delighted to announce that Mapping Spectral Traces V: Bodies – Space – Memory International Conference, Art Exhibition and Dance Festival will take place from 19-21 April 2012, Galway this year.
This International Conference, Exhibition and Dance Festival marks the continuing collaboration between Ómós Áite, based at the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway, and the Space&Place Research Collaborative based at the Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth, and is one of a series of events organized by the Mapping Spectral Traces International Network to take place in 7 institutions across 5 countries in 2011-12.
For this year’s series of events in April we are delighted that Galway Dancer in Residence, Ríonach Ní Néill, will curate the dance and site-specific performance elements of the Dancing Days Festival, to extend discussions of the role of traditional and contemporary dance forms in Irish culture and society today. We are also delighted to have Ómós Áite co-convenor, Tim Collins, part of the conference organising committee this year. A full conference programme is attached above.
Highlights of the conference include a talk by Dakota artist and community activist, Mona Smith, on landscapes of trauma and memory in Dakota culture, a talk by Professor Gerry Kearns (NUI Maynooth) on 'Catholic Body Memory', and a roundtable discussion panel on arts practice and academic research chaired by Dr Louis de Paor.
Associated highlights of Dancing Days include the premiere of Frame on Thursday 19 April, performed by Ríonach Ní Néill, and a contemporary re-visiting and re-awakening of the tradition of the Rambling House, Cuairteoireacht, with a site-specific performance event with artists, musicians and dancers at a mystery location on Saturday 21 April.
In particular, we would be delighted if you wished to join us at the joint launch of the conference and festival programme at 7pm, Thursday 19 April, Black Box Theatre, Galway.
All Mapping Spectral Traces V: Bodies-Space-Memory conference sessions are free and open to the public, and staff and students of NUI Galway are most welcome to attend all sessions.
Tickets for Dancing Days start at Euro5 and can be purchased from the Town Hall Theatre
Conference Organising Committee
Tim Collins (Ómós Áite, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway)
Nessa Cronin (Ómós Áite, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway)
Ríonach Ní Néill (Galway Dancer in Residence)
Karen Till (Space&Place, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth).
This joint initiative is kindly supported by:
The Arts Council; Ealaín na Gaeltachta; The Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences; Ciotóg Dance Company; Parzival Productions; Vagabond Reviews; The Town Hall Theatre; Galway City Council; Galway County Council
in association with
Ómós Áite, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway; The College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway; Community Knowledge Initiative, NUI Galway; Space&Place Research Collaborative, NUI Maynooth; Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth; Mapping Spectral Traces International Network; University of Dundee; PLaCE, University of West of England, Bristol; College of Design, University of Minnesota.
Conference Websites:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/
http://geography.nuim.ie/research/space-place
http://www.ciotog.ie/
http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org/
Enquiry: A Political Theory Seminar Series
Su-Ming Khoo presents 'Educating Within Culture and Human Rights: What Can a Capabilities Approach Add?'ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Su-Ming Khoo is a lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her teaching and research areas include postcolonialism, globalization and development, human rights and development theory. Her most recent work focuses on the capabilities approach and the application of this approach to education. She is also the project leader in the 'Development Education and Research Network' at NUI, Galway.
For further details on Dr. Su-Ming Khoo's research areas and publications, please see here.
TIME: 4:00 p.m- 5:30 p.m
Date: 29th March (Thursday) 2012 Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway.
Background reading for seminar: Notice of reading will be circulated soon and will be on the Enquiry webpage: www.nuigalway.ie/ssrc/enquiry.html .
We wish to acknowledge the generous support for this seminar from the Social Sciences Research Centre (SSRC), NUI Galway and from the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.
Enquiry: A Political Theory Seminar Series
Dr. Ian Carter presents 'Are Respect and Toleration Compatible?' TIME: 4:00 p.m- 5:30 p.m Date: 8th March (Thursday) 2012 Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Ian Carter is currently a member of the Department of Political and Social Studies at the University of Pavia, where he is currently Associate Professor in Political Philosophy. In 2003, he was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Carter's research has concentrated on fundamental normative concepts in contemporary political philosophy, in particular freedom, rights and equality. In 1999 he published A Measure of Freedom (Oxford University Press), which investigated the problems involved in evaluating and measuring social freedom. His work on rights has concentrated on controversies regarding the choice theory and the interest theory of rights, on the logical structure of rights and on the relation between freedom and private property, while his work on equality has included critiques of freedom-based answers to the question "equality of what?", including that of the so-called "capability approach", and the defence of an alternative freedom-based approach that builds on the theses defended in A Measure of Freedom. last lines of research are presented in the Italian monograph La libertà eguale Feltrinelli, 2005) and in some of his more recent articles. His current research concerns the idea of equal respect. In particular, it examines the relation between respect and the basis of equality (the problem of specifying in what sense, if any, all persons are equals), the implications of equal respect for distributive justice, and the role of respect in interpreting the principles of equal opportunity and equal freedom.
For further details about Dr. Ian Carter, please see: http://cfs.unipv.it/compo/carter_e.htm Background reading, John Horton 'Toleration as a Virtue', in David Heyd Toleration: An Elusive Virtue, Princeton UP 1996.
Talk by Prof. Barbara Adkins (Queensland University of Technology)
Barbara Adkins, a sociologist with a long standing interest in the intersections between sociology and design, and, in particular, the role of design in health and social inclusion, will be giving a talk on 'The Role of the Internet and digital technologies in the struggle for recognition of the Forgotten Australians'.
Date/time: Monday 3rd October 2011, 2pm
Location: Main Conference Room, DERI, NUI Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway.
For further information, please contact Deirdre Lee on:
Deirdre.Lee
deri.org
SSRC Annual Lecture 2011
Prof. Denis O'Hearn presents 'Reassessing the Celtic Tiger: Its Rise and Fall'
In the 2001 Feasta Review, Prof. Peadar Kirby praised Denis O’Hearn’s 1998 book Inside the Celtic Tiger for casting an important critical eye on, and raising fundamental questions of, the former economic boom’s sustainability and its social impact.
Now, a decade on, Prof. O’Hearn will be giving the 2011 SSRC Annual Lecture in NUI Galway where he will be speaking on his work in light of recent events with his talk 'Reassessing the Celtic Tiger: Its Rise and Fall'. Denis O'Hearn is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, State University of New York and has published extensively on Ireland, social movements, the sociology of economic change and much more.
Time: 14.00 - 16.00
Date: 9th June 2011
Venue: CA111 - Lecture Hall 1, Cairnes Building (St Anthony's), NUI Galway
The talk will be followed by a wine reception in MY333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway
Finding the lecture venue (& reception): Please see the full campus map and zoom in here. For more, finer detail, go to the close up map here.
A video of the event can be seen here.
The SSRC Annual Lecture 2011 is held in association with the Department of Economics. The SSRC is funded by the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC).
About the speaker
Denis O'Hearn is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, State University of New York and was trained as an economist and sociologist at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1988. He worked for a number of years in Queens University Belfast, where he was Professor of Economic Change. He has been Fulbright Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin and visiting scholar at several universities in the US, Europe and Japan. He has been on the Board of the Centro de Estudos Sociais in Coimbra, Portugal and the Board of Experts of the Esercizio di Valutazione Nazionale della Ricerca in Italy. He is now on the PEWS Council of the American Sociological Association.
His scholarly interests are in social movements, the sociology of economic change, transnational corporations, Marxian political economy, and imprisonment. He has published extensively in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Politics & Society, British Sociological Review, and elsewhere. Most recently, he has been researching the dynamics of conflict between anti-systemic social movements and states. Among the cases he has been studying are the prison conflict in the H-Blocks in Ireland and the Zapatistas in Mexico. He is also working with prisoners in supermax prisons across the US.
Selected publications include - 'Embodied perception and utopian movements: connections across the Atlantic,’ in David Lloyd and Peter O’Neill, Black and Green Atlantic, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.; ’Repression and solidary cultures of resistance: Irish political prisoners on protest’, American Journal of Sociology, 15:2 (September 2009).; ’Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom: Ten Years Later,’ Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 8 (Spring 2009), pp.9-15.; ’The Northern Irish Economy after Ten Years of ’Peace’”, Ethnopolitics, 7:1 (2008), pp.101-118.; ’An activist behind the scenes, not underground’, Contemporary Sociology, June (2007), 329-331.; D’éirigh mé ar maidin: Beathaisnéis Roibeaird Uí Sheachnasaigh do Léitheoirí Níos Óige. Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim, 2006 (with Laurence McKeown)(English translation: I Awoke This Morning: A Biography of Bobby Sands for Younger Readers, Belfast: Beyond the Pale); Nothing but an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation. New York: Nation Books, 2006. (Also London: Pluto Books, 2006); The Atlantic Economy: Britain, Ireland and the US. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001,. [Winner of 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association] and Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model. London: Pluto, 1998
More details on Denis O'Hearn are on: http://www2.binghamton.edu/sociology/people/denis-hearn.html
For further information, email
oliver.p.feeneynuigalway.ie
Enquiry: A Political Theory
Dr Andrew Shorten (University of Limerick) will present 'Groups, Institutions and the Rule-and-Exemption Approach'
Dr Andrew Shorten (Lecturer in Politics and Course Director of the BA in History, Politics, Sociology and Social Studies, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick) will give the fourth talk in the Enquiry series of seminars with his paper 'Groups, Institutions and the Rule-and-Exemption'. For further details about Dr. Shorten, please see here.
Time: 14.30 - 16.30
Date: 15th April 2011 (Friday)
Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway
Background reading: Details are on the Enquiry page.
ALL WELCOME
Enquiry: A Political Theory Seminar Series
Dr Allyn Fives presents 'Civic education for democracy: non-coercive promotion of values'
Dr. Allyn Fives will give the third talk in the Enquiry series of seminars with his paper 'Civic education for democracy: non-coercive promotion of values'. Dr Fives is a postdoctoral researcher at the Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway and lectures in the areas of political theory and research ethics while also contributing to the Joint Structured PhD in Child and Youth Research (with TCD), the MA programmes in Social Work and Community Development, and the BA degree in the School of Political Science and Sociology. His recent publications have been in the areas of welfare entitlements, theories of justice, civic education, and democratic theory and include his Political and Philosophical Debates in Welfare (2008) and his forthcoming book, Democracy and Social Justice: Public Reasoning and Just Generosity. For further details about Dr. Fives, please see here
Time: 14.30 - 16.30
Date: 1st April 2011 (Friday)
Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway.
Background reading: Full details on the Enquiry page here.
All welcome!
Professor Stathis Kalyvas lecture on "Civil War Through History: 1810-2010" - 5th April 2011
The SSRC is delighted to announce that Professor Stathis Kalyvas (Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University) will give a talk titled "Civil Wars Through History: 1810 - 2010".
He is the author of ground breaking books The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996) and the co-editor of Order, Conflict & Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Professor Kalyvas is recipient of many awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for best book on government, politics, or international affairs (2007), the Luebbert Award for best book in comparative politics (2008), the European Academy of Sociology Book Award (2008), the J. David Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history (1997), and the Gregory Luebbery Award for best article in comparative politics (2001 & 2009). For further information about Professor Kalyvas, please see: http://stathis.research.yale.edu/
Date: 5th April 2011
Time: 15.00 - 17.00
Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway.
ALL WELCOME
7th SSRC International Conference Workshop 2011
Society, Culture and the Environment
Date: 25-26th March 2011
Venue: School of Political Science and Sociology (Áras Moyola), NUI, Galway, Galway, Ireland
Workshop Title: ’We Are What We (Do Not) Eat’: Linking Food Production and Consumption’
The production and consumption of food represents a key area of human activity that is inextricably linked to wider socio-political, environmental and economic conditions. Transformations in agricultural practices associated with the rise of productionism and technological advancements have been, and continue to be, central to social and political change in many parts of the world today. At the same time, the impact of climate change on the availability of arable land serves to highlight humankind’s reliance on natural resources, notwithstanding current efforts in biotechnology to reduce dependence on favourable environmental conditions and to create conditions for lab-based food production.
The two-day workshop will be the seventh in the SSRC-funded workshop series Society, Culture and the Environment. The event will start off with a series of plenary sessions on Friday, 25th March 2011, 2-6pm in Áras Moyola, NUI, Galway. These presentations will be open to academics, students, members of the public, NGO representatives and activists. The academic workshop session on Saturday, 26th March 2011, will facilitate ’slow papers’ (30 minutes presentation time) by a small number of presenters and complementary roundtable discussions. Attendance is free of charge.
Contact:
Dr. Henrike Rau. School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway, Ireland. E-mail:
henrike.raunuigalway.ie Tel: +353-91-495104
Free Event, all welcome! For more information, please click here
Enquiry: A Political Theory Seminar Series
Dr Pete Morriss presents 'Casuistry and Chess: The Use of Intuitions'.
Dr. Peter Morriss, Lecturer in the School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway, gave the second talk in the series of Enquiry seminars with his paper 'Casuistry and Chess: The Use of Intuitions. Dr. Morriss is the author of Power: A Philosophical Analysis (2nd ed: Manchester: Manchester University Press and New York: Palgrave, 2002) and his work has appeared in a number of philosophy and political science journals including Political Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Inquiry, Political Studies Review and Irish Political Studies. For further details about Dr. Morriss, please see: http://www.nuigalway.ie/soc/staff/morriss_peter.html.
Background reading for seminar: Details available here.
Time: 2 - 4pm Date: 18th February 2011 (Friday) Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway. See the map for Aras Moyola. All Welcome. Tea & coffee-making facilities will be available and wine will be provided.
For further details and updates, please go to the Enquiry page.
Inaugural seminar : Enquiry - A Political Theory Seminar Series
Geoff Cupit presents 'Equality and Fraternity'
Enquiry is a meeting of political theorists and philosophers where various discussion papers are informally presented, supplemented with readings, on topics within the fields of analytic and normative political philosophy.
Dr. Geoff Cupit, Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, gave our inaugural talk and led the first of our discussions with his paper 'Equality and Fraternity'. Dr. Cupit is the author of Justice as Fittingness (Oxford University Press, 1996), and his work has appeared in a number of philosophy and political science journals including the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, the Philosophy Quarterly, Philosophy, and Political Science. For further details about Dr Cupit, see: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/staff/pols/cupit
Reading: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice , 'Section 17 The Tendency to Equality'. Available on main Enquiry page.
Time: 3 - 5pm - Date: 19th January 2011 - Location: Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola Building, NUI Galway - All Welcome. Tea, coffee and wine will be provided.
For further details, email:
oliver.p.feeneynuigalway.ie or
d.savery2nuigalway.ie
For further details about Enquiry itself, click here.
Fair Ireland Forum event - 27th January 2011
'Asylum Seekers experience of Ireland's Direct Provision System'
Time and Location: 7pm in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway
Date: 27th January 2011
For more information, contact
kate.kennynuigalway.ie
Multiple Modernities, Sacredness and the Democratic Imaginary
Seminar by Prof. John Rundell (The School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne)
20th October 2010, NUI Galway
Room 333, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
ALL WELCOME
Associate Professor John Rundell studied sociology and philosophy at La Trobe University, gaining his PhD in Sociology in 1985. He taught in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University from 1986 until joining the Ashworth Program for Social Theory at The University of Melbourne in 1993, and has been its Director since 1998. He is a former editor of the journal Thesis Eleven and a founding editor of Critical Horizons , and The Social and Critical Theory Book Series.
John Rundell has published Origins of Modernity: The Origins of Modern Social Theory from Kant to Hegel to Marx and jointly edited Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity (with Peter Beilharz and Gillian Robinson), Rethinking Imagination: Culture and Creativity (with Gillian Robinson), Culture and Civilization: Classical and Critical Readings (with Stephen Mennell), Blurred Boundaries: Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (with Rainer Bauboeck), Critical Theory After Habermas Encounters and Departures (with Dieter Freundlieb and Wayne Hudson), Contemporary Perspectives in Social and Critical Philosophy (with Danielle Petherbridge et al), Recognition, Work, Politics. New Directions in French Critical Theory (with Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge and Robert Sinnerbrink), and Aesthetics and Modernity Essays by Agnes Heller (forthcoming).
He has published widely on the topic of modernity, and problems of human self-images in social theory, with particular reference to the imagination.
Nationalism & Organised Violence, NUI Galway
A conference of the PSAI Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict
in association with the
Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence
at NUI Galway
24th September 2010, NUI Galway
Room 333, Aras Moyola
For full programme, please click here
For further information see
http://nuigalway.ie/soc or contact:Niall Ó Dochartaigh
niall.odochartaighnuigalway.ie or Katy Hayward
k.haywardqub.ac.uk
5th COBRA Conference on "Teaching Professional Ethics"
Moore Institute Seminar Room, Arts/Science Concourse, NUI Galway
Friday 10th and Saturday 11th September 2010
For full programme, please click here.
Registration is free. For enquiries, please contact Heike Felzmann at
heike.felzmannnuigalway.ie
This event has been supported by: Royal Irish Academy Committee for Philosophy and Ethics, Social Science Research Centre, NUIG, and School of Humanities, NUIG.
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 524411 Ext: 2280, E-mail: oliver.p.feeney
nuigalway.ie
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