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Seminar Series

January 2010
Fri 29th
15:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 "Direct Provision Centres as Total Institutions: Rethinking Ireland’s treatment of Asylum-seekers"
- Steven Loyal, UCD School of Sociology

Discussant: Kieran Allen

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February 2010
Fri 19th
15:00 - 17:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 "'Alright in Their Own Place’: Policing and the Spatial Regulation of Irish Travellers"
- Aogán Mulcahy, UCD School of Sociology

Discussant: Prof Robert van Krieken

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Fri 5th
15:00 - 17:00
Room F308
Newman Building		 "Industrial and Reformatory schools in Ireland: the afterlife for victims of abuse"
- Sinead Pembroke, UCD School of Sociology

Discussant: Robert van Krieken

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March 2010
13:00 - 17:30 (Followed by a wine reception) Newman House
85-86 St. Stephen’s Green
Dublin 2		 The Crisis, Welfare State Retrenchment and Social Cohesion:
Lessons from Social ResearchA symposium organised by the UCD College of Human Sciences:

What guidance does social research provide on how national welfare policy should respond in the present economic and fiscal crisis? As some retrenchment in the welfare state seems inevitable, does research tell us which forms of retrenchment are socially the most harmful and which the least harmful? Is there an evidence base for prioritising between income maintenance and service provision? Which groups are most vulnerable and what supports or services are most useful in protecting them?

The purpose of this symposium will be to address these questions. Contributors will try to identify areas where there is a robust evidence base that might be drawn on to inform policy and highlight the insights which that evidence base yields.

Attendance at the event is free but must be pre-booked. Please contact mary.buckley@ucd.ie

Click here to download the symposium programme.
Fri 26th
15:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 'Political Disagreement and Delegated Discretionary Powers: Multi-Level Governance'
- Dr Diane Payne, UCD School of Sociology

Discussant: Dr Sean L'Estrange
Fri 5th
14:00 - 15:30		 Room F308
Newman Building		 Symposium: Changing Times, Changing Religion

Based on the International Social Survey Programme 2008 Religion III Module* and Norface thematic research programme: ‘The Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe’

‘Religion and Attitudes towards Gay Rights in Northern Ireland:The God Gap Revisited’
-Prof. Bernadette Hayes, Dept. of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
-Dr. LizanneDowds, ARK Northern Ireland & Queen’s University Belfast

‘Men, Women and Religion’
-Dr. Paula Devine, ARK Northern Ireland & Queen’s University Belfast

‘Religious transmission –family matters?’
-Dr. MáireNic GhiollaPhádraig, UCD SSRC & UCD School of Sociology

Chair: Professor Richard Sinnott, the Vice-Principal for Research in the UCD College for Human Sciences


The UCD Social Science Research Centre are partners with ARK in this research project.

[*Research funded under the bilateral research programme of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences with the Economic and Social Research Council, UK.]
Fri 5th
16:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 'Social and Political Foundations of the Economic Crisis'
- Niamh Hardiman, UCD School of Politics & International Relations.
- Sean O'Riain, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth.
- Kieran Allen, UCD School of Sociology.

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April 2010
Wed 21st
19:30
Theatre P
Newman Building		 "What is the alternative to Capitalism?"
- Dr Kieran Allen, UCD School of Sociology

This lecture was organised by the Equality Society. Further information should be directed to Kieran Allen at kieran.allen@ucd.ie.
Fri 30th
11:00
Room F308
Newman Building		 "The Incorporation of Australian Youth in a Multicultural and Transnational World"
- Christine Inglis, Director, Multicultural & Migration Research Centre, University of Sydney

Christine Inglis‘s research in the areas of migration, settlement and policy has involved her in developments concerning migration in Australia, Asia and Europe. She has played a leading role in Asian studies in Australia on the executive of the Asian Studies Association of Australia and has been active for many years in the International Sociological Association including being Vice President and on the Executive as well as on the Board and President of RC 05. In addition to research grants from the Australian Research Council and other bodies, she has been a consultant for UNESCO and for Australian state and federal governments.

Recent publications include Planning for Cultural Diversity, IIEP UNESCO 2008, ‘The International Movement of People: A multi-headed policy hydra for liberal democracies’ (2009), ‘ Multicultural Education in Australia: Two generations of evolution’ (2009) and ‘The Transformation of the Chinese Population in Australia’ (2009). She is currently completing a study of second generation youth from Turkish and Lebanese backgrounds and various projects on the Turkish community as well as a study of Chinese transnationalism.
September 2010
Mon 13th
14:00 - 16:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 "Mobile Lives"

- Anthony Elliott, Professor of Sociology, Flinders University & Visiting Professor UCD School of Sociology
- John Urry, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University

Discussant: Tom Inglis, Professor of Sociology, UCD School of Sociology


How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Are
lifestyles organised around intensive travel, transport and tourism sustainable? Anthony Elliott
and John Urry, with Tom Inglis as discussant, will reflect on the analysis of various aspects of mobile social life: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of ‘globals’, and intimate relationships-at-a distance, and examine the possibilities of new concepts such as miniaturised mobilities, affect storage, network capital, meetingness, portable personhood.
October 2010
Thurs 7th
11:00 - 13:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 "Linguistic Elitism: The Irish Speaker Advantage"
- Iarfhlaith Watson, UCD School of Sociology

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Thurs 14th
11:00 - 13:00		 Room 013
Quinn Building		 "The Celebrity Society: Taking Paris Hilton Seriously"
- Robert van Krieken, UCD School of Sociology
November 2010
Mon 4th
11:00 - 13:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 "Maverick on a Motorcycle? C. Wright Mills and American Society"
- Dr Daniel Geary, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin

Discussant: Dr Andreas Hess, UCD School of Sociology
Thurs 18th
11:00 - 13:00		 TBC "Commemorating a Difficult Past"
- Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

With Comments from Brian Conway, Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth
December 2010
Thurs 2nd
11:00 - 13:00		 Room F308
Newman Building		 "Sociology in Ireland: Some Historical-Sociological Reflections"
- Christina Kelly, UCD School of Sociology