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FUTURE Events

Upcoming 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.Leederi.org

All are welcome. 

Recent Events

 

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

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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

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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!

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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

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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 

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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.

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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. 

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

 

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