New Publication by Prof Steven Loyal and Sinisa Malesevic - 'The Sociology of Randall Collins'

We are delighted to announce that Professors Steven Loyal and Sinisa Malesevic of School of Sociology have recently edited a special issue of Thesis Eleven - 'The Sociology of Randall Collins' which has just been published: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/thea/current on Thesis Eleven.

The other contributors are Michael Mann, Barry Barnes, Anthony King, Lea David, Su-Ming Khoo, Ralph Schroder and Randal Collins responds to all the papers in teh volume. Click here for more information now!

Social Circus as international Encounter

The School of Sociology is delighted to announce the start of a new Erasmus Plus project in the field of Education, Training and Youth promoting intercultural dialogue, cultural diversity and social inclusion through development of innovative arts- and research-based training for social circus trainers working with youth from migrant, refugee and ethnic minority backgrounds.

For more information, see https://www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com/current-event

Prof Andreas Hess has published his new edition : Between Utopia and Realism

Professor Andreas Hess (UCD Sociology) has published his new edition together with Samantha Ashenden (UL). The book is titled “Between Utopia and Realism”

The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law. Contributors address Shklar's critique of Cold War liberalism, interpretation of Montaigne and its connection to her genealogy of liberal morals, lectures on political obligation, focus on cruelty, and her late reflections on exile. Others consider her role as a legal theorist, her interest in literary tropes and psychological experience, and her famed skepticism.

Between Utopia and Realism showcases Shklar's approach to addressing the intractable problems of social life. Her finely honed political skepticism emphasized the importance of diagnosing problems over proffering excessively optimistic solutions. As this collection makes clear, her thought continues to be useful in addressing cruelty, limiting injustice, and combating the cynicism of the present moment.

The book will be released by University of Pennsylvania Press and for more information please see link below:

https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16034.html

Prof. Malesevic interviewed by Al Jazeera for International Day of Peace

Prof Sinisa Malešević interviewed by Al Jazeera Balkans TV Programme and commemorating the international day of peace (21st September 2019). The topic of this TV debate was ‘War and Peace in the Contemporary World’.

Roland Adorjani starts job as senior research specialist at Princeton University

Our PhD student Roland Adorjani (supervised by Associate Professor Thomas Grund) just started a new job as senior research specialist at Princeton University. Roland will work with political scientists on social media and fake news during the US presidential elections 2020. Good luck Roland!

Create and Carlow Arts Festival Artist Residency Recipient: Chinedum Muotto

Create and Carlow Arts Festival are delighted to announce Chinedum Muotto as the successful recipient of a residency award, to precede and coincide with the festival, 4-9 June 2019. Chinedum is one of our Masters students on the Race Migration and Decolonial Studies programme.

http://www.create-ireland.ie/aic-residencies/create-and-carlow-arts-festival-artist-residency-recipient-chinedum-muotto

UCD/TCD Joint Lecture ' Empires in World History' by Prof. Krishan Kumar and book launch by Siniša Malešević ‘Grounded Nationalisms'

Prof Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia) will present a Joint UCD-TCD Public Lecture at 5pm  - D418 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield.

“Empires in World History”

Empire, as John Darwin has said, has been “the default mode” of political organization for most of human history. Why is that? Why are empires so ubiquitous? What has made them so persistent and long-lasting? Can we find any principles that link them as a universal phenomenon? Are there major differences between Eastern and Western empires? This talk will explore connections as well as divergences in the imperial experience. It will argue that there has been a “tradition” of empire, in the West, linking the empires in a chain of empires. But that has not meant that there has not been intensive interaction between empires across the globe, at least within the Eurasian landmass. Empire is a Eurasian phenomenon, even if not all empires have participated equally in Eurasian developments. This talk will seek to map those empires across Eurasia, and to examine interconnections.

After the lecture the new book by Siniša Malešević ‘Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis’ will be launched by Prof Krishan Kumar. The book launch will take place after the lecture at 6.30pm also in - D418 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield.

Here is more information about the book: 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/grounded-nationalisms/5680546377BA81E1E43235C71F17C4ED#fndtn-information