Recent articles and reviews by Professor Andreas Hess from the School of Sociology

Book review by Professor Andreas Hess in Dublin Review of Books

Between Memory and Hope

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought, by Dennis C Rasmussen, Princeton University Press, 316 pp, $29.95, ISBN: 978-0691177014

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, by Gordon S Wood, Penguin Press, 512 pp, $35, ISBN: 978-0735224711

Access the review here

Article in the Irish Times

Tuesday March 27, 2018

‘It feels like being exiled at your own institution’

Opinion: Plans to close UCD’s member-run common room are drawing sharp opposition from academics

Access the article here

Decolonial Dialogues: Knowledge, Control & Access Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Decolonising the Curriculum Platform UCD

Decolonial Dialogues: Knowledge, Control & Access
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 11 am, O'Brien Science Centre West B154A

This event is the second hosted by the Platform, following a group reflection held in February on Identity and the Curriculum. It is intended to be a day of discussion and dialogue focused around our two speakers. The two sessions are scheduled to leave time after each for further discussion and networking.

11-12pm : Dr. Chamindra Weerawardhana(SIBEAL, Irish Feminist and Gender Studies Network) ‘Decolonial Dialogues, North to South: Towards an Intelligible Conversation’

Dr. Weerawardhana will critically engage with the idea of viewing 'decolonial epistemologies' and 'decolonising the curriculum' as processes that are in dialogue with each other -- and not ends within themselves -- in order to make decoloniality intelligible to wider global audiences

1-2 pm: Dr. Marta Bustillo (UCD Librarian, College of Social Science and Law) ‘Information Access & the Decolonised Curriculum’

Dr. Bustillo will discuss the politics of the scholarly publications cycle, how they affect scholarship in the Global South, and how to use open access scholarship to bridge the knowledge gap.

The ​Decolonising the Curriculum ​Platform is a network of students and staff that was established to create a space for us to cultivate a community of practice in which to collectively discuss and develop ideas, activities, projects and practices that realise the transformative and mutually edifying potentials of our different ways of being, thinking, and doing.

This event is supported by the UCD School of Sociology & the MSocSc in Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies

For further information contact: jimmy.billings@ucdconnect.ie, dyuti.chakravarty@ucdconnect.ie alice.feldman@ucd.ie

https://www.facebook.com/DecoloniseUCD/
https://www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com/

Recent publications from the UCD School of Sociology

Iarfhlaith Watson and Prasanth Sukumar (UCD) have a paper in the ISA eSymposium for Sociology entitled: The Unhappy Viewer: Heavy Television Viewing, Happiness, Social Interaction and the Situation of the Sociology of the Media available HERE.

Eoin Flaherty published an article in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice entitled: Varieties of Regulation and Financialization: Comparative Pathways to Top Income Inequality in the OECD, 1975–2005 https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2017.1416827

One of our PhD students Lorenzo Posocco has had a paper accepted to the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. "Museum politics in Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (AKP): the case of the Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam"

Professor Omer Bartov - Anatomy of a Genocide: The Origins and Everyday Realities of Local Mass Murder

As part of the School of Sociology seminar series and jointly hosted with the School of History you are invited to a seminar by 

Professor Omer Bartov (Brown University)

'Anatomy of a Genocide: The Origins and Everyday Realities of Local Mass Murder' 

Wednesday 28th March, 4.30pm 

K114, Newman Building. All Welcome to attend

Our PhD student Ryan Nolan has written a blog post examining the memorialisation of the Dublin 1913 Lock Out

Check out this blog post by our PhD student Ryan Nolan which examines the memorialisation of the Dublin 1913 Lock Out as part of the seminar showcase series for the conference 'Remember Me. The Changing Face of Memorialisation'.

The conference takes place 4-7 April 2018 in Hull, UK.

Congratulations Sociology students who were honoured at the UCD President's Awards 2018

Congratulations to all of our current Sociology students and recent graduates who received awards at the UCD President's Awards 2018 which took place last Friday.

o   Ciaran Burns – The Barry Foley Prize

o   Monika da Silva Pedroso – The Patrick Clancy Medal

o   Michael Breslin – Mary Kelly Award

o   Anita Tuesley – Postgraduate Scholarship Social Sciences & Law

o   Aidan Ryan – Postgraduate Scholarship Arts & Humanities

o   Aine Kerrisk - BSocSc Sociology Scholarship

o   Zoe Manning - BSocSc Sociology Scholarship

o   Jessica Norton - BSocSc Sociology Scholarship

o   Frances Carvill - Bachelor of Arts Stage 2 Scholarship & Patrick Semple Medal

o   Cillian Mc Ginnity-  Bachelor of Arts Stage 2 Scholarship & Patrick Semple Medal

o   Muriel Smith - Bachelor of Arts Stage 2 Scholarship & Patrick Semple Medal

School of Sociology seminar series - 'The Informational Workplace in Europe's Capitalisms: The Social Politics of Work in Denmark and Ireland' by Professor Seán Ó Riain

School of Sociology seminar series - 'The Informational Workplace in Europe's Capitalisms: The Social Politics of Work in Denmark and Ireland' by Professor Seán Ó Riain (NUI Maynooth) 

Thursday 8th March, 1pm. Room D418, Newman Building
All welcome to attend.