Professor Siniša Malešević at the launch of “ The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence”

Professor Siniša Malešević from the School of Sociology pictured above at the successful launch of
 “ The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence”
The book was launched by Professor Sylvia Walby from Lancaster University last Wednesday 20th September in UCD. Thank you to all who attended.

The book is available to buy now through Cambridge University Press

The Social Simulation Conference 2017 will take place in UCD next week

The Social Simulation Conference 2017 takes place next week, it will be held in the O' Brien Centre in UCD, Dublin on 25 – 29 September, 2017

This is the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) which is the main European scientific society to promote social simulation and computational social science.

The aim of this international conference is to share and foster a deeper understanding of how complex social problems can be understood through computational simulations and techniques.
This year’s conference will explore the theme “Social Simulation for a Digital Society” through stimulating cross-disciplinary research and using applied and methodological tools in a transforming society.

Please visit the website for more information regarding the programme and speakers attending.

Life raft debate: Arts vs Science with Dr. Grund, today 6pm, Fitzgerald Chamber

Recent publications by faculty from the UCD School of Sociology

Recent publications by faculty from the UCD School of Sociology in the Journal of Visual Studies.

Introduction to a visual sociology of smaller nations in Europe
Gerard Boucher & Iarfhlaith Watson

Fortress Europe as Empire and Ireland’s National Diaspora Centre
Gerard Boucher & Iarfhlaith Watson

Review of The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar: Exile from Exile, Palgrave Macmillan: New York by Andreas Hess
Reviewed by: Christian Dayé, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Full review is available from SAGE Journals

Theorising Changes in Violence, a seminar by Professor Sylvia Walby and a book launch by Professor Siniša Malešević

Two events taking place tomorrow Wednesday 20 September,  School of Sociology

A book launch by Professor Siniša Malešević (UCD Sociology) "The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence" with Cambridge University Press. 

5pm in the UCD Common Room, B104, Newman Building

Also as part of the School of Sociology Seminar series

Theorising Changes in Violence by Professor Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University)

3pm, D418, Newman Building

All are welcome to both events.

Dr Grund publishes new article on criminal networks

Dr. Thomas Grund (School of Sociology, UCD) just published a new article on criminal networks. The article can be accessed freely here.

Grund, T. and Morselli, C. (20017)  Overlapping crime: Stability and specialization of co-offending relationships. Social Networks, Volume 51, October 2017, Pages 14-22.

Abstract:

Dyadic analyses of relationships between criminals have mostly ignored the multiplex nature of criminal ties. This study attempts to provide a more complete assessment of co-offending networks by incorporating the different types of crime that relate individuals with each other. Drawing on a large dataset of arrests in Quebec between 2003 and 2009, we focus on co-offending stability and specialization and illustrate how co-offending networks based on different types of criminal activities overlap. We portray a pattern of co-offending, which extends debate of criminal specialization/versatility to the dyadic level. Our study illustrates the ways in which the frequency and spectrum of crime include a relational component. More generally, the article emphasizes the need to consider the semantics of network ties, and further, the association between different types of networks, which ultimately offers a reassessment of social structure.

TCD/UCD Public Lecture Series 2017-2018 - Professor Mike Savage, The Politics of Nationalism and White Racism in the UK

TCD/UCD Public Lecture Series 2017-2018

The Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD), has initiated a series of public lectures in which internationally acclaimed speakers will discuss contemporary sociological issues. The aim of this TCD-UCD Sociology Public Lecture Series is to promote informed and non-partisan debate and to offer new ideas on cutting-edge sociological issues including but not limited to responses to the current crisis. It provides a platform to deepen research and teaching synergies between TCD and UCD especially in light of HEA’s policy ‘Towards a Future Higher Education Landscape’. The series features two public lectures per term with one event hosted at TCD and the other at UCD.

Speaker: Professor Mike Savage (LSE)
Title: The Politics of Nationalism and White Racism in the UK 
Date and time: 4th October 2017, 7pm
Venue: Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin

AbstractProfessor Mike Savage
The rise of populist nationalism in many parts of the developed world testifies to the resurgence of fears around intensified immigration and the renewed power of racism. My paper draws on a mixed methods study of the National Child Development study to consider, in the British case, how racist and nationalist attitudes intersect with social inequalities. My paper disputes the view that racism as a product of the ‘left behind’ white working class. I emphasise the continued power of ‘imperial nationalism’ amongst economically advantaged white Britons, and draw attention to the anti-establishment nationalism of the most disadvantaged which need not have strong racist overtones. This inter-twining of racism with other social and economic inequalities is intense and has the potential to generate increasingly visceral and volatile forms of political identification.

Biography
Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics where he is also co-director of the International Inequalities Institute. His recent books include the co-authored, and best selling Social Class in the 21st Century (2015) and Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940: the politics of method (2010).