Future Events

WATCH THIS SPACE! Details of the upcoming Annual Lecture, SSRC-supported Conferences and Visiting Speakers will be coming shortly.

Recent Events

25th Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics: Fechner Day 2009

The internationally renowned Fechner Day 2009 took place on October 21st - 24th in the Glenlo Abbey Hotel, Galway. For details of papers and times, please visit the Fechner Day website: http://www.fechnerday.com/

5th SSRC International Conference Workshop 2009

Bringing Nature Back In? Theories of Nature-Society Relations in Environmental Sociology & Sustainability Research

Friday, June 26th 2009 at 2pm

Room 226-7, Floor 1, Aras Moyola, NUIG

Speakers:

2.00 - 3.00 pm Dr. Matthias Groß (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany)

Landscapes, Ruins, and the Autonomy of Nature:
Georg Simmel and the Restoration of Ecosystems

3.00 - 4.00 pm   Dr. Peter Doran (QUB)

Consuming Passions: Bringing the mind/body back into theory

4 - 4.30 pm  Coffee break

4.30 - 5.30 pm   Dr. Su-ming Khoo (NUIG)

Un/re/thinking Green Political Economy

Reception: Room 333, School of Political Science and Sociology, Floor 2, �ras Moyola

ALL WELCOME!  

SSRC Critical Theory Seminar Series

'A conversation with Maeve Cooke: Questions and Preoccupations'

Room 333, School of Political Science & Sociology, Aras Moyola
Friday 19th June 2009 at 2pm
Accompanied by refreshments
 
Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her current research projects focus on re-conceptualising domination and violence, on re-articulating autonomy and on issues in current debates on religion and politics.

Social Science, Geography and the Spatial Turn

Edward Soja, the Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, will be giving his lecture on Monday 18th May 2009 at 4pm in Room 203 in the Moore Institute. The event is co-sponsored by the School of Geography and Archaeology, Moore Institute, Social Sciences Research Centre, and the Geographical Society of Ireland.

SSRC Annual Lecture 2009 - Mitchell Dean

Professor Mitchell Dean, author of Governmentality: power and rule in modern societies (1999) gave this year's Annual SSRC lecture on Friday 24th of April 2009 at 2pm in the Moore Institute's Seminar room.

His book, possibly more than any other, was responsible for the academic popularization of Foucault's ideas of bio-power and governmentality. In the lecture, Mitchell Dean presented his paper "Social Thought and the Art of Government".

A video of the lecture can be found here as well as the accompanying PowerPoint which can be found at: http://www.nuigalway.ie/ssrc/documents/mitchell_dean_lecture.ppt.

For further details about Professor Dean's research and publications, please click: http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/people/dean_mitchell.htm

For further information, please contact  oliver.p.feeneynuigalway.ie

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