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ISS21 Events Schedule Autumn & Winter 2025-26
| Date | Talk Title | About the talk | Topic | Location / Room | More Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Sep 2025 | Informing Decision-making with HIA Evidence: Theory and Reality | Seminar on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) with presenter Ben Cave, hosted by the School of Public Health and the ISS21 SHAPE Research Cluster. | The Hub, Dora Allman Room & online (hybrid event) | /en/iss21/sign_up/informing-decision-making-with-hia-evidence-theory-and-reality.html | |
| 12 Sep 2025 | Rethinking Research Sharing Practices: Ageing, Reclaiming the Personal and Artificial Intelligence | This symposium will explore the shift towards greater public engagement in research, and the implications of sharing scientific methods and tools as well as results. | O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/rethinking-research-sharing-practices.html | |
| 19 Sep 2025 | Disability & Mental Health Cluster - Research Sharing Event | Meet and greet event for colleagues with research interests in the fields of disability and mental health. All welcome - whether you are an existing cluster member or would like to find out more about the cluster and share your research. | O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room, ORB G27 | /en/iss21/sign_up/disability--mental-health-cluster---research-sharing.html | |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence | Grounded in UCC’s and ISS21’s commitment to interdisciplinary research and collaboration across campus, this symposium brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from UCC and beyond who have worked on questions of femicide and GBV more broadly using different methodological and theoretical perspectives from history, cultural studies including literature, theatre, translation studies, art and other creative practices, philosophy, social sciences, and the law. | The Hub, Dora Allman Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/global--comparative-perspectives-on-gender-based-violence--an-interdisciplinary-symposium-.html | |
| 24 Sep 2025 | From Lived Experience to Collective Shared Wisdom: Positioning experiential knowledge in third level teaching and practice. | In this presentation, Sinead Pierce will explore the role of experiential knowledge in mental health peer work and third level education, with a focus on the lived experience perspective. | O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/from-lived-experience-to-collective-shared-wisdom.html | |
| 28 Nov 2025 | Pedagogical Praxis as a Site of Struggle Against Neoliberal Fascisms | Rooted in critical, decolonial and feminist thinking, this cross-disciplinary gathering invites us to reimagine education as a site of resistance and transformation. | The Hub, Shtepps | /en/iss21/sign_up/pedagogical-praxis-as-a-site-of-struggle-against-neoliberal-fascisms.html | |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Getting Going with Health Impact Assessment | The TRANSLATE-HIA project is holding a "Getting Going with Health Impact Assessment" event on Thursday November 6th in University College Cork. This event brings together practitioners and experts with individuals and groups keen to learn more about how to carry out Health impact Assessments (HIA) in Ireland. | The Hub, Dora Allman Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/getting-going-with-health-impact-assessment.html | |
| 28 Oct 2025 | "Make America Healthy Again!" Biopolitics, Geopolitics and Ideals of Recovery in the Second Trump Regime | A talk by Prof Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College, Columbia University. This event is a collaboration between the Radical Humanities Lab, the Women’s Studies Unit and the ISS21 Gender, Sexualities and Families Research Cluster. | O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/make-america-healthy-again.html | |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Homemaking, Bordering and Belonging | Half-day symposium organised by Collective Social Futures in collaboration with ISS21 Migration and Integration Cluster and Department of Sociology & Criminology. | The Hub, Shtepps | /en/iss21/sign_up/homemaking-bordering-and-belonging.html | |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Made in Italy/Making Italy: Framing Inclusion and Exclusion in Daniele Vicari’s Il mio paese (‘My Country’, 2006) | Seminar with Dr. Mark Chu (Department of Italian), co-hosted by the ISS21 Migration & Integration Research Cluster and the Department of Italian | O'Rahilly Building, Mary Ryan Meeting Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/made-in-italymaking-italy.html | |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Opaque Containment: Racialised Governance and the Making of Migrant Illegality in Algeria | A seminar hosted by the ISS21 Migration & Integration Research Cluster, with speaker Dr. Kheira Arrouche (Radical Humanities Laboratory) | O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/opaque-containment-racialised-governance-and-the-making-of-migrant-illegality-in-algeria.html | |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Use | This two-hour seminar will be a conversation between researchers on two separate projects conducted in Cork and Dublin. Both projects, which were funded by Research Ireland New Foundations, conducted semi-structured interviews with women who had used addiction services. Many participants had been victims of IPV (Intimate Partner Violence). All welcome. | The Hub, The Shtepps | /en/iss21/sign_up/womens-experiences-of-intimate-partner-violence-and-substance-use.html | |
| 8 Dec 2025 | Considering Indirect Costs of Health Technology Advancements | Online 'Bus Stop Chat' hosted by the ISS21 SHAPE Research Cluster, with Dr Brian Turner, Department of Economics, UCC | Online | /en/iss21/sign_up/considering-indirect-costs-of-health-technology-advancements.html | |
| 14 Nov 2025 | Supporting People in Distress: Critical Perspectives on Safe Places and Spaces | Two day conference 14 - 15 November 2025 | /en/iss21/sign_up/supporting-people-in-distress-critical-perspectives-on-safe-places-and-spaces.html | ||
| 3 Dec 2025 | Culpability of juvenile offenders: the neurocognitive perspective | Seminar hosted by the UCC Department of Sociology and Criminology, and ISS21 Crime and Social Harm (CSH) Research Cluster | UCC Main Campus, Tower Room 2 | /en/iss21/sign_up/culpability-of-juvenile-offenders-the-neurocognitive-perspective.html | |
| 1 Dec 2025 | ISS21 Populism and the rise of the far-right panel discussion | Populist and far-right movements have gained significant traction in recent decades. Their rise and activities reshape the political landscape, challenging the established order and leading to a decline in respect for human rights, equality, justice, and international norms. Consequently, the impact of their actions can be profound on individuals and communities. | The Hub, The Shtepps | /en/iss21/sign_up/iss21-populism-and-the-rise-of-the-far-right-panel-discussion.html | |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Making Sense of Hearing Voices: A One-Day Interactive Seminar | Seminar with Jacqui Dillon. This event provides a rare opportunity to work with a trainer with both personal and professional experience, awareness, and skills in the understanding of Hearing Voices. | Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, Room G06 | /en/iss21/sign_up/making-sense-of-hearing-voices-a-one-day-interactive-seminar.html | |
| 23 Jan 2026 | Understanding Inclusion Health – why it is everyone’s business. | Online seminar, part of the 'Bus Stop Chats' series hosted by the ISS21 SHAPE Research Cluster. | Online | /en/iss21/sign_up/understanding-inclusion-health.html | |
| 16 Feb 2026 | Industry influence in academia and policy: a case study. | Online seminar, part of the 'Bus Stop Chats' series hosted by the ISS21 SHAPE Research Cluster. | Online | /en/iss21/sign_up/industry-influence-in-academia-and-policy.html | |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Obesity and Health Promotion in the Ozempic Era (or What I have learned from talking about my research in real life) | Online seminar, part of the 'Bus Stop Chats' series hosted by the ISS21 SHAPE Research Cluster. | Online | /en/iss21/sign_up/obesity-and-health-promotion-in-the-ozempic-era.html | |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Unpacking our understanding of health. | Online seminar, part of the 'Bus Stop Chats' series hosted by the ISS21 SHAPE Research Cluster. | Online | /en/iss21/sign_up/unpacking-our-understanding-of-health-.html | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | Public Health and Its Enemies: The Threat of the Far-Right | Seminar hosted by the ISS21 SHAPE cluster on the threat to public health posed by the ideology of the Far-Right, with Professor Vittorio Bufacchi. | O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room | /en/iss21/sign_up/public-health-and-its-enemies-the-threat-of-the-far-right.html | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Fostering text comprehension as a way to make learning and thinking visible | The ISS21 Children and Young People Research Cluster and UCC Futures - Children invite you to a seminar: Fostering text comprehension as a way to make learning and thinking visible | O'Rahilly Building, 156 | /en/iss21/sign_up/fostering-text-comprehension-as-a-way-to-make-learning-and-thinking-visible.html |
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