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Come join us! It will be fab!
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The RIA's Archaeology Research Grants and Radiocarbon dates schemes are open to applications from now until 25 March.

Archaeologists and archaeology students (undergrad, postgrad, PhD) who wants to carry out research based in Ireland (including NI) can apply: www.ria.ie/2026/02/12/w...

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/...

Oh God, What Now? Podcast | Podmasters Oh God, What Now? combines top-quality guests, expert analysis and poor-quality jokes to make the unbearable bearable. Launched from the anti-Brexit movement in 2017, Oh God, What Now? is on a mission...

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...

UK’s new digital-only immigration system creating exclusion and fear, study finds Obtaining an eVisa to prove their status or right to legally reside in Britain is causing migrants high levels of stress

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...

The story of how the Irish border was confirmed 100 years ago There was a chance the 1925 Boundary Commission could reshape the Irish border so drastically as to make Northern Ireland unviable and thus bring about Irish unity

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 – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.

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

Poster for the online event with Dr Kevin Guyan

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!
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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...

Looking forward to meeting Heathy. Xxx Steve sends his best wishes

✨✨✨thanks Chris. How are you doing?

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

Cover art for Gender and Justice. The journals title is overlaid on a photograph depicting an art installation of illuminated globes.

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

Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefits

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 ✨

Lovely to see you Amir and congratulations on your new post 🎉