New paper by DSIS researcher Ian Hughes and Richard Wood:  "Psychopathology, Ultrasociality and the Real Clash of Civilisations: Towards a New Theory of International Relations to Address the Polycrisis" in Irish Studies in International Affairs (published by the RIA). doi.org/10.1353/isia...

NEW DSIS PUBLICATION by Bob Grumiau and Ian Hughes: "Starting by Doing: Ethical Orientations for Open-Ended Prefigurative Action" in "Societal Transitions to Sustainability" (pp 67-80). Available OPEN ACCESS: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

Our colleague Ian Hughes shares his insights on this week's episode of the "Oh God, What Now" podcast: Is Trump a psychopath? – The cruel psychology of modern power. Ian is author of Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy www.podmasters.co.uk/oh-god-what-...

Looks like a very interesting @posthumanresinst.bsky.social online event on conceptualization of the #Anthropocene! @maggieoneill.bsky.social @desfitzgerald.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social please share!

Former Irish President Mary McAleese, who hosted the DSIS event "Restoring the Sacred Ordinary" in June, recently addressed the Intl Conf on World Philosophies to highlight the link between the "Sacred Ordinary" and the Japanese concept of "Inochi" in this short clip: media.heanet.ie/page/67a4d15...

Great work by @migrantvoice.bsky.social and researchers from Warwick University and Leicester University. Congratulations to former colleague @mariegodin.bsky.social who co-authored the report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

On 3 December a century ago, the Irish border was set for major change. In this @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social piece, John Gibney, @difp-ria.bsky.social explores how the 1925 Boundary Commission cemented the partition we still live with today. Read the full piece: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Around this time last year, I tried an eco-philosophy exercise called “Walking the land”. It consists in immersing yourself in the care-taking of a piece of land. With time, you come to view yourself primarily as a caretaker of nature. #philsky philosophicalexercises.blogspot.com/2024/12/walk...

DSIS PhD student Bob Grumiau presented on how arts-based practices can contribute to telling stories which can help us inhabit the world meaningfully in times of 'metacrisis' at this week's "Social Pathologies of (Late) Modernity" event held in UCC. Bob's work is available at www.ucc.ie/en/dsis/

Thank you to Dr Ian Hughes and DSIS PhD student Bob Grumiau for presenting the DSIS work on "Ways of Seeing - in the context of the current 'polycrisis'" at the UCC Futures Festival of Social Science yesterday. More information and recent publications on the DSIS website: www.ucc.ie/en/dsis/

Last week's UCC Futures "Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025" was a welcome opportunity for the DSIS team to meet in-person and celebrate the launch of "Walking as Critical Pedagogy" - with contributions from DSIS co-PIs Prof Maggie O'Neill and Dr Ger Mullally.

Petrinja, Croatia, 2025. In the foreground, crosses and lanterns commemorating the 34th anniversary of the masacre of Vukovar. In the background, building repairs of the damage caused by major earthquakes in 2020. #aftermath #Petrinja #War #Vukovar #Crosses #Croatia #EU #ghosts #PostConflict

Asylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

Feel welcome to attend the online seminar by our next Political Technologies cluster speaker, Dr Kevin Guyan, and that on Tuesday 18/11 from 4-5PM. For more details, see the poster below! @oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social

Still a big fan of this free online Coursera course on "Feminism & Social Justice" by em. prof. Bettina Aptheker (that I was a Teaching Assistant for at one point while at UCSC). Do go check it out! www.coursera.org/learn/femini...

Opportunity! See Gender & Justice website for details-please circulate in your networks @drlandislife.bsky.social @afipcollective.bsky.social @marissaesque.bsky.social @veronicagago.bsky.social @requenaaguilar.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @fosfeminista.bsky.social @thinkcrea.bsky.social

Call for proposals is live! Join us!! Women, Disability, and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind Mar 13-14, 2026 #flsq #women #disability #intersectionality #feministlegalstudies #disabilitystudies femlaw.queensu.ca/sites/flswww...

Thankyou for the invitation. It was an amazing feminist conference, so enriching and underpinned by an ethic of care. Such great research was shared in this broad interdisciplinary space of gender and justice 🙏 #ISS21 @ucc.ie @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social #UCCFutures Collective Social Futures

Are you presenting a paper at the #LEXJointConference? Then your work will be a perfect fit for Gender and Justice! We’re the official journal of @lexnetwork.bsky.social. Learn more about publishing with us bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

I’m on my way and delighted to be a keynote speaker at this wonderful feminist conference- feminism as radical Hope in these turbulent times #ISS21 #Collective Social Futures @lexnetwork.bsky.social

The moral squalor of this politics knows no bounds. Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, they dig deeper. And yet I'm not surprised. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A great event and so good to meet new and returning postgraduates doing such important research ✨ Thankyou @egeertsphd.bsky.social @gemakloppe.bsky.social Fiachra and Ashling from ISS21. Lovely images @egeertsphd.bsky.social ✨

Join our team Please circulate among you colleagues & students Details 👇@rosamundevb.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @drjadelevell.bsky.social @maggieoneill.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social @claremcglynn.bsky.social @debbieging.bsky.social

WCK’s newest Field Kitchen in Gaza, the Salam Kitchen in Deir al-Balah, is up and running! The team here prepared tens of thousands of hot meals on their first day, adding to our existing network in a major step towards our goal of 1 million meals daily for Palestinian families. (1/2)

Do you want to work with a fabulous feminist team as book review editor? Then get in touch at the link below! @sharronfitz.bsky.social [email protected] @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social @ruthholliday.bsky.social @umuterel.bsky.social @imogentyler.bsky.social @lindaconnolly.bsky.social

Congrats to five fantastic @ucc.ie colleagues admitted to Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie today - Denis O'Mahony, Nuala Finnegan, @paulmcs.bsky.social & Holger Claussen A worthy reflection of their impactful research & scholarship @uccresearch.bsky.social

New vacancy: applications are invited for the position of Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply here: https://www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-assistant-editor-documents-on-irish-foreign-policy/

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WCK opened a new community kitchen in a shelter for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia. This is the third city that is part of our growing network of locally-led spaces to help Ukrainians access food. (1/2)

#LSA2025 #GenderandJustice is a New interdisciplinary & feminist social science journal. Does your research focus on: ✅ Gender ✅ Inequality ✅Justice Consider sending your work to us. Details 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

WCK teams in Jordan are standing by with trucks loaded with vital ingredients, ready to enter Gaza the moment access is granted. We have more than 100 trucks ready to roll (and 100s of trucks ready to take more supplies), but we still don't have permission from Israel to bring in aid. #ChefsForGaza

For those with an interest in all things environmental (post)humanities - see the cfp from @ecobioartlab.bsky.social below!

Our @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social MA students at @ucc.ie wrapped up a year full of discussions, lectures, & events w fantastic thesis presentations. This proud program director is signing off on what was an intense but great year! Interested in our program? See ucc.ie/en/cke03/

Interested in women's & gender issues like our current @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social MA student Anna featured in our video here (www.youtube.com/shorts/auRi9...)? Then check out the following info page (www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/) & webinar (www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHr...). #UCC #postgrad #womensstudies

Our sister network @lex is leading out again. this is a fantastic & Inclusive conference. Evidence of what is possible when we pull together & push back! Do consider attending

⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎 ✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’. ✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill ✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025 ✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events' ✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3

Are you going to the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) conference in Cork this week? At 5pm on Friday 8 May you can attend the Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-... #sociology #irishsociology #history #humanrights #speirgorm

More via @oireachtasnews.bsky.social 1798. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to introduce paid miscarriage leave... [18777/25] www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/q... Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject

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🆕📄 Mapping perinatal #BereavementCare education & training for maternity staff (in Ireland) ✍️ @maritahennessy.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social 🔗 imj.ie/wp-content/u... @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social #PregnancyLoss #PerinatalDeath

A fantastic time at the #RenaissanceSocietyofAmerica conference in Boston, presenting with Dr. James Russel! Already looking forward to next year's conference in San Francisco. And a special thanks to @routledgehistory.bsky.social for exhibiting my book at the Conference Book Exhibition!

Congratulations 🙌 @james-c-oneill.bsky.social it is a wonderful book ✨✨✨🎉 @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @yorkmedieval.bsky.social

We are delighted to share that @ria.ie and the Grangegorman Development Agency have published a new collection in the Repository, making available content commissioned as part of the Grangegorman Histories project. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

2) the ins & outs of #womensandgenderstudies, while attending a masterclass & keynote by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social's Prof @irisvdt.bsky.social, w responses by Prof @maggieoneill.bsky.social & @egeertsphd.bsky.social. See ucc.ie/en/cke03/ @uccresearch.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social

1) A recap of March's #IWD #PG7044 module on “Researching through Gendered & Intersectional Lenses”, offered by @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & available to all CACSSS PhD students. Curated by Dr @egeertsphd.bsky.social & taught by the wonderful MAWS team, students got...

Hotell Viru, Tallinn, 2025. Former Soviet Intourist Hotel housing KGB surveillance offices on the 23rd floor. #HotellViru #Intourist #Tallinn #Estonia #JohnPerivolaris #BlackandWhite #Zone #Europa #KGB #Soviet #History #Ghosts #Baltic #Iphone13 #iPhoneography #LookingUp #night

Human Rights groups urge Starmer to ‘stop using language that demonises migrants’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Seminar alert - Niamh Maguire, @nicolacarr.bsky.social & Gerry McNally will be talking about the reasons for over-use of short prison sentences & underutilisation of Community Service Orders in Ireland. Register here lnkd.in/eV6ts9sQ @maggieoneill.bsky.social @katharinaswirak.bsky.social @ucc.ie

#ThroughHerEyes The first female professor of medicine in Britain and Ireland, from County Antrim, will be recognised with an Ulster History Circle blue plaque. 👏👏👏 Louise McIlroy was told the battlefield was no place for a woman but she went anyway. www.bbc.com/news/article...