UCD School of Sociology

Completed Supervisions:

8 MA students; 

2 M.Litt's: Lisa Walsh on the collective sacrifice in Irish nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism (2008)

                  Michael Doyle on nationalism and European integration (2010)

4 PhDs  1.Kevin Ryan on the narratives of social exclusion in Ireland (2005)
            2. Brendan Sweeney on national myths in Sweden and Europe (2005)
                 3. Stacey Furlong on ideologies of neo-liberalism and Islamism (2008) (Lady Gregory fellowship Recipient)
            4. Stefanie Dinkelbach on national trauma in Germany (co-supervised with Film Studies) (2012); 
 

2 UCD PhDs 
 
1. Ozgecan Kesici - on Kazak intelligentsia and national identity (2012 - )

2. Ronan McDermott - on humanitarian interventions and risks (2011- (co-supervised with Agricultural Science)

3 Ongoing NUI, Galway PhDs   

         1. Judith O'Connell on banal nationalism and educational system in Ireland 2007- (IRCHSS fellow)
      2. Carol Staunton on crimes against bodily integrity (genocide and rape) 2008-  (IRCHSS fellow)
         3. Daniel Savery on nationalism and liberalism 2007-

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers: 

'Is Nationalism Inherently Violent? The Nation-States and Wars in the Balkans': Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona, Spain (15 March, 2013) (invited speaker);

'Urban Life and Organised Violence'; Urban Violence in the Middle East conference, SOAS, London, UK, (February 13-15, 2013) (invited speaker);

'Ideology, War Propaganda, and Armed Conflict', Tuebingen University, Germany (8 January 2013), (invited speaker);

'Destroying Diversity through Peace', Yale University, Department of Political Science , USA (30 November 2012) ( invited speaker);

'Where in the World of Nationalisms?' Are the Irish Different? Conference, UCD, Dublin,  (20-21 September 2012) (invited speaker);

'Fighting a Non-Human Enemy: Modernity and the Delegitimisation of the Adversary', The Faces of Enemy in International Relations Conference, Universite Libre de Bruxelles; 8-9 June 2012 (invited speaker);

'Religion, Violence and Cities' International Symposium, School of Sociology, QUB, Belfast 28-29 May 2012 (invited speaker/discussant); 

'Armed Conflicts and Nationalism: The Macro Foundations of Micro Realities', Armed Conflicts in Contemporary Perspective, NUI, Galway 18 May, 2012;

'Is War Becoming Obsolete?: Historical Sociology and Coercive Power'. Sociological Association of Ireland Keynote Address, NUI, Maynooth, 12 May, 2012; (invited speaker)

'The Mirage of Global Civility: Nationalism in Late Modernity'. Beyond The Island: Transnational Perspectives on History Conference. NUI, Galway, 20-1 April, 2012; (invited speaker)

'Nationalism and Organised Violence'. Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 20 March, 2012 (invited speaker) 

'Faces of Brutality: Towards a Historical Sociology of Violence' Inaugural Lecture UCD School Of Sociology, Dublin, Ireland, 22 November, 2011;

'Organised Violence and Social Order: Towards Micro and Macro Sociology of War' Invited Panel 'Is Sociology of War Feasibly/Desirable?' 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, USA 20-23 August 2011; (invited speaker);

'Can Sociology Explain War?' Debater at Invited Panel 'Engaging War: Sociologists Confront National Conflict' 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, USA 20-23 August 2011; (invited speaker);

'Obliterating Diversity through Peace: Nationalisms and Wars in the Balkans' Nations, States and Conflict Conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland 15-16 August 2011;

'Nationalism, War and Democracy' Invited Panel at the 5th Meeting of the Brazilian National Association for the Studies of Defence 'Democracy, Defence and the Armed Forces', Fortaleza, Brazil 8-10 August 2011; (invited speaker);

'Nation-States without Cities?: Nationalism, War and State Formation in the 19^th century Balkans' 20-21 May 2011, Divided Cities Conference, QUB, Belfast, Northern Ireland (invited speaker);

'Wars That Make Nations and Wars that Make States: Nationalisms and Wars in the Balkans' 25-27 March 2011, 'Nationalisms and Wars' Conference McGill University, Montreal, Canada;

'Sociological Theory and Organised Violence' 5  February, 2011 Keynote speaker p/g SAI conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland (invited speaker);

'War, Nation-States and Nationalism' 19 January 2011, Centre for Justice, Violence and Rights, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (invited speaker);

'Inter-State Wars and Nationalism' 17 January 2011, Centre for Conflict Studies, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker);

'State and Nation Formation in Denmark and Balkans Compared' 13 December 2010 'State and Nation Formation in 19^th century Europe workshop' , University of Copenhagen, Denmark (invited speaker);

'Sociology and Warfare' 10 December, 2010, Departments of War Studies and Leadership and Management, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden (invited speaker);

'Warfare, Nationalism and Sociology' 24 November 2010, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (invited speaker);

'Nationalism, War and Solidarity' 24 September 2010; 'Nationalism and Organised Violence' A Conference of the PSAI specialist group on Peace and Conflict, NUI, Galway, Ireland (invited speaker);

'To Kill and Die for the Nation: War, Nationalism and Group Homogeneity Theory' 12-17 July 2010, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden;

'Nationalism, War and State in the Balkans: Did Tilly Get It Wrong?' 28 April 2010, Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland (invited speaker);

'National Identity' And Popular Mobilisation in Europe: A Critique', 11 November 2009, 'National Identity in the Old and New Europe' Nations and Nationalism 15^Th anniversary conference, LSE, London, UK (invited speaker);

'What is 'Ethnic' in 'Ethnic Conflict'?, 22 May 2009, 'An Irish Model for Peace' A Conference of the PSAI specialist group on Peace and Conflict, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (invited speaker);

'How Pacifist were the Founding Fathers? War and Violence in Classical Social Thought', 16-18 April 2009 BSA Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK;

'Ethnicity in Time and Space' , 15-17 April 2008, 'Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood',, ASEN 17^th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK;

'The Two Faces of Ethnicity' 13 December 2007, The Center for Ethnicity and Citizenship, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (invited speaker);

'Is There Nationalism in Late Modernity: Gellner Revisited', 12-14 September 2007, Beyond the Nation Conference, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland;

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers:

- 'Ethnic Cleansing and Modernity: Lessons from Bosnia and Rwanda' 25 May 2007, Comparative Ethnicity Workshop, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, UCD, Dublin, Ireland (invited speaker);

- 'Collective Violence, Nationalism and Power: A Sociological Assessment' , 17-19 April 2007, The Dark Face of Nationalism, ASEN 16^th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK;

- 'From Coercion to Legitimacy: Towards Neo-Weberian Theory of Ideology?' 9-13 July 2006, International Political Science Association XXth World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan.

- 'Ethnicity and Nationalism in Contemporary Sociology' 5 June 2006,  EuroAsia Heritage Foundation, Moscow, Russia  (invited speaker)

- 'Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism',  7 June 2006, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia (invited speaker)

- 'Nationalism and the Dominant Ideology Thesis', 2 June 2005, ASEN Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker)

- 'Between the Macro and Micro Sociology of Ethnic Cleansing', 1 June 2005, The Dark Side of Democracy Debate, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker)

- 'Between the Book and the new Sword: Gellner, Violence and Ideology' At the conference The Social and Political Relevance of Ernest Gellner's Thought Today, 21-22 May 2005, NUI Galway, Ireland.

- 'Ethnic Cleansing as State-Building: Bosnia and Rwanda compared' At the conference State Building: Theory and Practice, 16-17 April, 2005, University of Limerick,  Limerick, Ireland  (invited speaker)

- 'Sacred Ethnies': Anthony D. Smith and the Neo-Durkhemian Theory of Nationalism, 23-24 April 2004, The Nationalism Debate, ASEN 14^th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker)

- La Trahison des Clercs: Intelligentsia in Yugoslavia and its Successor States, 24 April 2003, Department of Political Science, Leiden University, Leiden,  the Netherlands (invited speaker)

- Political Ideologies in Northern Ireland, 19 June 2003, Boston University Summer School for Post-Graduate Students ¿Communication, Conflict, and the Media¿, Galway, Ireland (invited speaker)

- Genes, Memes and Ethnicity: Can Sociobiology Explain Ethnic Phenomena? At the 29th Annual Sociological Association of Ireland conference 'Transitions', April, 2002, Galway, Ireland.

- Measuring the Invisible: The Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Researching Ethnic Identity. Studying Collective Identity: A Conceptual and Methodological Inquiry Workshop. July 6-7, 2001, Rome, Italy (invited speaker)

- From Organic Legislators to Organicist Interpreters: Intellectuals in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav States. The workshop in Interpretative Social and Political Analysis, June 29 -30, 2001, Allihies, West Cork, Ireland.

- Rational Choice Theory and the Sociology of Ethnic Relations: A Critique. A Conference 'Theorising Collectivities: Nation, Ethnicity, Race', May 19-20, 2000, NUI, Galway, Ireland.

- Dominant Ideology in post-Cold War Serbia. A Conference 'Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe', September 1-3, 1999, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanti, Greece (invited speaker).

- Rehabilitating Ideology after Post-Structuralism. A Conference 'Ideology After Post-Structuralism', July 1-2, 1999, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

- Ideology and Legitimation in Serbia and Croatia. The workshop in Interpretative Social and Political Analysis, September 4 -6, 1998, Allihies, West Cork, Ireland.

- Political Legitimacy in Three Societies: Weber in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Croatia. At the 25th Annual Sociological Association of Ireland conference 'Political Sociology: The States We Are In', May 7-10, 1998, Wexford, Ireland.

- Ustashas and Chetniks: Delegitimisation of an Ethnic Enemy in Serbian and Croatian War-Time Cartoons.  At the conference 'Freedom of Speech', April 9-11, 1997,  New Hall College, Cambridge University, Cambridge,  UK

- Ethnic Distance and War: Croatia 1992-1993. (October, 1996)  Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria  (invited speaker)

- Multi-functionality of Cultural Centres in Central and Eastern Europe. 3. Annual meeting of the European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC, Bruxless), June 1996, Gastaig, Munich, Germany (invited speaker)

- Koncepti 'idealnog drustva' kao odrednice misljenja o odljevu mozgova. (Conceptions of an 'Ideal Society' as  Determinants of the  Attitudes to the 'Brain Drain' Process). At the annual Sociological Association of Croatia conference 'The Profession of Sociologist', April 1994, University of Zagreb.

- Socijalne determinante nacionalne i religijske distance. (Social Determinants of Ethnic and Religious Distance). At the annual SAC conference 'The Profession of Sociologist', April 1993, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

- Situacijski i anticipacijski defetizam. (Situational and Anticipatory Defeatism). At the SAC conference 'Sociology and War', January 1992, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

International Conferences Organised:

1. 18 May, 2012: Armed Conflicts in Comparative Perspective, NUI, Galway (jointly organised with School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway); 

2. 15-16 August, 2011: Nations, States and Conflict, Moore Institute; NUI, Galway;

3. 25-27 March, 2011: Wars and Nationalisms, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (jointly organised with the Department of Sociology, McGill University);

4. 21-22 May, 2005: The Social and Political Relevance of Ernest Gellner's Thought Today, NUI, Galway, Ireland and the Czech Embassy Dublin;

5. 19-20 May, 2000: Theorising Collectivities: Nation, Ethnicity, Race, NUI, Galway, Ireland;

6. 1-2 July, 1999: Ideology after Post-Structuralism, Queens University Belfast, NI (jointly organised with the School of Politics, Queens University, Belfast);