News & Events
Reassessment information
for Equalty Studies modules
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End of year 2008-2009- a group of
Equality Studies Students
and Staff
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THE CRISIS IN CAPITALISM AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION
Professor Stanley Aronowitz
Tuesday 31st March 2009
UCD Belfield, Newman, Arts Building (Theatre N)
7.30pm
Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He studies labour, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center.
He is author or editor of twenty-five books including: Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters (2008); Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006); Just Around Corner (2005); How Class Works (2003); The Last Good Job in America (2001); The Knowledge Factory (2000); The Jobless Future (1994, with William DiFazio); and False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1973, 1992).
Stanley is founding editor of the journal Social Text and is currently a member of its advisory board. Most recently, he co-founded Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and serves as co-editor in the journal's editorial collective. He also serves on the advisory board of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, and has sat on the editorial boards of Cultural Critique and Ethnography. He has published more than two hundred articles and reviews in publications such as Harvard Educational Review, Social Policy, The Nation, and The American Journal of Sociology. Prior to coming to the Graduate Center he taught at the University of California–Irvine and Staten Island Community College (now The College of Staten Island). He has been visiting professor or scholar at University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Paris VIII, Lund University (Sweden), and Columbia University.
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INVITATION TO BOOK LAUNCH
Regeneration: Public Good of Private Profit?
by Dr. John Bissett
will be launched by Prof. Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Urban Education at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York
Tuesday March 31st at 7.30 pm,
UCD Belfield, Newman Building, Theatre N
The launch will be followed by Professor Aronowit's public lecture - The Crisis in Capitalism and the role of Education hosted by the Equality Studies Centre, UCD School of Social Justice.
For more information about the book please see advert below that includes review and free chapter. If you can't see the invite below please click on the link here http://www.stmichaelsestate.ie/invite/index.html
_______________________________________________________EGALITARIAN WORLD INITIATIVE
PUBLIC LECTURE
'Where should we care? In favour of care in public institutions'.
Tuesday 24th February 2009 at 7.30pm
L503, Library Building, Belfield
Dr Anca Gheus
VIsiting EWI Marie Curie Fellow
Anca's work is in the field of feminist ethics and political theory. Within the EWI Marie Curie transfer of knowledge programme she has taught a new doctoral course on 'Contemporary Egalitarian Theory' as well as making an input into a number of existing programmes. She will leave UCD in February after six months within the EWI
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Niall Crowley
(Former Chief Executive of the Equality Authority)
Equality: The Search for Solutions in a Time of Crisis
Champions of Equality Address - Thursday 13th February 2009 in Theatre R, Belfield Dublin 4. Hosted by the UCD Equality Society.
Full text here
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EGALITARIAN WORLD INITIATIVE
PUBLIC LECTURE
Inaccessible Education? Citizenship in Limbo for Immigrants in Ireland.
EWI Civil Society Research Scholar, Ms Pamela Chiriseri, Thursday 20th November 2008
at 7.30pm
Room C214, Newman Building, Belfield.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Staff Common Room.
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Public Lecture
Professor Martha Fineman
(Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory Law School)
gave a lecture on
“Vulnerability and Equality”
July 3rd 5pm
Room A003, Health Science Building UCD Belfield
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Irish Council for Reseach of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Martina Hutton (Equality Studies) has been awarded the IRCHSS scholarship for 2008-2009.
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Professor Kathleen Lynch's address to Clare VEC Adult Education Conference November 30th 2007 Details here
How Much Inequality is there in Ireland and Who Cares?'
Professor Kathleen Lynch's address to the Pobal Conference
Realising Equality and Inclusion: Building Better Policy and Practice; Dublin Croke Park Conference Centre November 22nd 2007. Details here
Professor Kathleen Lynch's address to the conference on 'Commercialisation in Irish Education',November 17th 2007.
Details here
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UCD Equality Studies Centre
UCD School of Social Justice
Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI)
Public Lecture on
Equality
Monday 26th November 2007 at 7:30 pm
Room C214, Arts Block, UCD
Followed by a reception in the Staff Common Room
Professor Mary Darmanin
EWI Marie Curie Fellow 2007
University of Malta
The EU Knowledge Economy: A case study of the impact of supranational discourses on member states’ ICT policies
ALL WELCOME
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Teaching Fellowships in Equality Studies
2 Part-time Teaching Fellowships on Gender and Global Justice and Childhood Inequality in a Global Context commencing January 2008
Details here
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UCD Equality Studies Centre
UCD School of Social Justice
Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI)
Public Lecture on
Equality
Monday 12th November 2007 at 7:30 pm
Room C214, Arts Block, UCD
Followed by a reception in the Staff Common Room
Dr. Ronit Lentin
Trinity College Dublin
Illegal in Ireland, Irish Illegals: Diaspora Nation as Racial State
ALL WELCOME
Please notify us in advance if you wish to avail of ISL interpretation.
Please contact marie.moran@ucd.ie with any queries
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UCD Equality Studies Centre
UCD School of Social Justice
Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI)
Public Lecture on
Equality
Monday 15th October 2007 at 7:30 pm
Room C214, Arts Block, UCD
Followed by a reception in the Staff Common Room
Professor Eileen Kane
EWI Marie Curie Fellow 2006-07
The Real Differences Between the Sexes: What Do They Mean for Teaching and Learning?
ALL WELCOME
Please notify us in advance if you wish to avail of ISL interpretation.
Please contact marie.moran@ucd.ie with any queries
Equality Studies Public Lecture Series
Monday 12 March, 6pm, Room L503, James Joyce Library Building, UCD
Lester Mazor
Professor of Law, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusettes
'Equality and the Contemporary Critique of Human Rights'
Lester Mazor studied at Stanford University and served as law clerk to the Honorable Warren E. Burger, later Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Professor Mazor has taught criminal law, legal philosophy and other subjects at the University of Virginia and the University of Utah before moving to Hampshire College and has been a visiting professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Conneticut and Stanford University. He has published books and articles about the legal profession, and on topics in legal philosophy, legal history and the sociology of law. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Great Britain and West Germany and has taught in American studies at the Free University of Berlin and legal studies at Central European University in Budapest. His special concerns include the limits of law, utopian and anarchist thought, and other subjects in political, social and legal theory.
All are weclome to attend
Senior Research Fellowship
Professor Kathleen Lynch, Chair of Equality Studies, has been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences).