A new article from Matt York – a PhD student in the UCC Department of Government and Politics – has been published in the Journal for Social Change. 

Department of Government and Politics

Jean Monnet Lecture Series

An Unquiet World: Trans-Atlantic Trump, Brexit and Beyond

Professor Amelia Hadfield

Canterbury Christ Church University

1-2pm, Thursday 29 November 2018

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Brexit: what are the gender consequences?

A long-awaited 20th Memorial Philip Monahan Lecture, which took place on the 22nd November 2018, was delivered by Fiona Mackay, Professor of Politics in the University of Edinburgh.

The theme of this year’s lecture was ‘The Gendered Consequences of Brexit’. The question of 'what prospects for women and women’s rights post-Brexit' was given thought-provoking answers. Additionally, Prof. Mackay assessed the pitfalls and perspectives for gender equality policy and women’s rights in these uncertain times.

The lecture was live-recorded and can be listen to via the Panpoto recording platform.

NOTE: Please skip approximately first 30 minutes of the recording from the Awards Night to start the lecture's slides and the audio.

Dr Laurence Davis has won the Kenneth M. Roemer Award for Innovative Course Design. The award is sponsored by the North American Society for Utopian Studies.  

On 10 September last, Dr Fiona Buckley addressed the International Congress of Parliamentary Women Caucuses, held in Dublin Castle. Fiona spoke about the adoption, implementation and effectiveness of gender quotas. 

On October 17, Senator Michael McDowell launched The Treaty: Debating and Establishing the Irish State in the Kevin Barry Recital Room in the National Concert Hall. This was the venue at which the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was debated and voted on by the Second Dáil.

Dr Liam Weeks recently visited the Houses of the Oireachtas for an Open Day for the newly established Oireachtas internship. 

On 3 October 2018, Miriam O’Callaghan (RTÉ) launched The Post-Crisis Irish Voter: Voting behaviour in the Irish 2016 general election at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. 

Theresa Reidy received the Research Communicator of the Year Award from UCC President, Patrick O’Shea, at the UCC staff research awards ceremony on 4 October 2018.

The UCC Open Day took place on Saturday the 13th of October 2018. The Department of Government and Politics stand was located in the Main Restaurant on the UCC main campus. 

The flagship event of the PSAI is the Annual Conference, held each October at a different location. The 2018 conference was hosted by the University of Limerick on the weekend of the 12-14th October 2018.

Dr Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan, UCC and Professor Gavin Barrett, UCD, were invited before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs on 3 October to analyse the European Commission’s Task Force’s report on subsidiarity, proportionality and ‘doing more with less’.  

On 28 September 2018, UCC organised ‘Cork Discovers’ funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. It was a night of discovery where UCC researchers demonstrated what they do for society and how they might change your life!

You are invited to an event to mark the publication of

Ghosts of the Somme: Commemoration and Culture War in Northern Ireland

'The Day After [Brexit]': Rebuilding an Enduring Relationship for these Islands

Dr Steve Aiken OBE MLA

Chief Whip Ulster Unionist Party

Brexit and Finance Spokesperson

3-4pm, Thursday 18 October, CACSSS Seminar Room, UCC.

ALL WELCOME (no registration necessary)

The Department of Government and Politics Jean Monnet Lecture Series was delivered by Mr Matthew O'Toole, Chief Press Officer for Europe and Economic Affairs to British Prime Minister David Cameron (2015-2017). He discussed 'Brexit: Northern Ireland and the limits of language' on Thursday the 10th of May at 3pm in ORB_G.27.

Mr O'Toole's lecture can be heared here:

https://ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=302e9164-2055-44b1-b0e8-a8dc00d40e2c

You are invited to an event to mark the publication of

Europe and Northern Ireland’s Future:

Negotiating Brexit’s Unique Case

The Department of Government and Politics Jean Monnet Lecture Series was delivered by Author Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities and the Inside Story of the Irish Response (Penguin 2017), Mr Tony Connelly, RTÉ Europe Editor. He discussed Brexit: Negotiating the Negotiations on Thursday the 12th of April at 4pm in ORB_G.27.

Mr Connelly's lecture can be viewed here:

https://ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fb994727-0fa4-4e48-aec5-a8c400d62f4b

The Department of Government and Politics Jean Monnet Lecture Series will be delivered by Author British-Irish Relations in the 21^st Century (OUP forthcoming), Dr Etain Tannam. She will discuss How Brexit is bruising British-Irish Relations on Tuesday the 20th of March at 3pm in ORB_1.56.

The Department of Government and Politics Jean Monnet Lecture Series was delivered by former UK Minister for Europe, Denis MacShane. He discussed Brexit: Amputation or Co-Existence? on Tuesday the 20th of February at 3pm in ORB_G27.

On Monday 23^rd April, 4^th year BSc Government student, Kaitlin Jeffers, spoke at an event organised by the Institute for International and European Affairs (IIEA). The conference on Brexit, Ireland and the Future of Europe saw Kaitlin deliver her vision for the future of Europe to a large audience in the Mansion House, Dublin. Taking place shortly after the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the event featured a conversation with former Taoisigh on the topic of the Northern Ireland peace settlement, and the role it has played in the Brexit negotiations. Subsequently, a panel of high level European speakers discussed the future of the EU without the United Kingdom.