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Collective Social Futures, Festival of Social Science
On 25-26 November 2024 UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures will host the second Festival of Social Science, including an evening of music and performance and a full-day symposium showcasing social science research across UCC.
Music and Performance, 25 November
6.00-8.00 pm, with refreshments from 5.30
Venue: The Shtepps, The Hub, UCC
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENING EVENT IS NOW CLOSED
Registrations remain open for the symposium on 26th Nov - see below for further details
Please note that numbers are restricted in The Shtepps
On November 25, Collective Social Futures will host an evening of music, theatre and the spoken word that address important social science themes. This event will celebrate local artists, musicians and poets and showcase how social science research can collaborate with the arts to conduct, connect, and communicate research on key local and global challenges. The line-up for the evening is as follows:
- World music from Citadel, a group of musicians formed in the Kinsale Road Accomodation Centre in 2018.
- Algorithmic Justice: A forum theatre taster by members of MTU's Creativity and Change, and UCC School of Applied Psychology
- Rosie McCarthy – Traveller, Singer, Actor, Student
- Anton Floyd - award-winning poet whose work has been widely published in Ireland and overseas.
- Fiona Leigh – Singer, actor, writer and MA Women’s Studies graduate
Details on participating artists availabe at: CSF Festival of Social Science Artists
The festival will open with words of welcome from UCC President, Professor John O’Halloran, Professor Maggie O'Neill (Director of Collective Social Futures), Professor John Cryan (Vice-President for Research and Innovation), and Professor Cathal O’Connell (Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences).
Mary Crilly, founding member and CEO of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork will also speak briefly about the work of the centre to mark November 25 the first day of the global campaign ‘16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.’
Symposium
Social Science Matters: Innovation, Co-production and Social Transformation,
26 November, 9-5pm. Venue: Aula Maxima
Register now at this link: CSF Symposium 2024 Registration
The symposium is organised into three main themes and five panels, as well as a keynote presentation from Professor Linda Connolly, Professor of Sociology and Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute.
Abstracts available at: Symposium Abstracts
9.00. Welcome (Teas & Coffees)
Theme 1: Innovation. How can we best take account of and understand rapidly changing societal complexities in understandable and meaningful ways? What new and/or renewed theories and methodologies matter at this time of social turbulence constituted by the ‘polycrisis’?
9.15-10.45 Panel 1. Innovation, New Materialisms and Social Pathologies.
- Dr Evelien Geerts. Why Memes (Analyses) Matter: Critical New Materialisms for Troubled Times.
- Prof Kieran Keohane. Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: from diagnosis towards metanoia.
Dr Dan McCarthy. Shifting the Burden: Corporate / Indigenous Relations in Canadian Contexts and How They Often Go Wrong. - Bob Grumiau. Nos hemos escondido: we have hidden ourselves.
Short Break
11.00 -12.00 Panel 2. Climate Justice, the ‘polycrisis’ and Innovative methods.
- Dr Catherine Forde, Dr Fiona Dukelow, Edith Busteed. Intersectional climate justice, climate policy and the Irish welfare state: elusive connections.
- Dr Elena Kavanagh. Weaving a Web of Resilience: Indigenous Knowledge and Global Risk Governance.
- Dr Monica O’Mullane. Using a Stop & Share Action Research Reflective Method in Doing and Researching Health Impact Assessment: The Case of the HIA on the Cork City Development Plan (2022-2028).
Chair: Dr Tracey Skillington, Department of Sociology & Criminology
Theme 2: Co-Production. How can our research methods and research practices be reimagined in ways that foster interdisciplinarity, are socially engaged, and creative, mutually beneficial and not extractive?
12.00-1.30. Panel 3. Re-imagining and enacting socially engaged research
- Dr Conor Cashman and Dr Siobhan O'Sullivan. The Policy and Practice Impact of Engaged Research with Offshore Island Communities.
- Zara Harnett, Dr Laura Linehan and Prof Keelin O’Donoghue. Enhancing pregnancy loss and fertility awareness and knowledge amongst young people within school settings.
- Dr Gill Harold and Dr Noel O' Connell. Mind the Gap! Challenging poor access provision for deaf sign language users in public healthcare systems.
- Dr Claire Dorrity (UCC) and Dr Naomi Masheti (Cork Migrant Centre). Navigating the Integration Process: The participation of migrants in shaping better understandings of exclusion.
Chair: Dr Ger Mullally, Department of Sociology & Criminology
1.30-2.15. Light lunch
2.15- 3.00 Keynote Address:
Undeservedly Forgotten: Gender-based violence, impunity, documents and testimony.
Prof. Linda Connolly, Professor of Sociology and Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute.
Chair: Dr John Borgonovo, University Historian, School of History.
Theme 3. Social Transformation - How can democracy and collective engagement, university and community partnerships supported by theoretical and methodological innovations be re-envisioned to achieve action-oriented interventions as well as social, spatial and ecologically sustainable transformations.
3.00-4.00. Panel 4. Employment Transformations
- Dr Tom Boland. Employment Transformations: Career Guidance as the handmaiden of capitalism or empowering?
- Dr Nicola Ingram. The re(making) of elites in education and employment transitions: embodied cultural capital and symbolic closure.
- Dr Lauren Bari. The cost of flexibility: glass ceilings, the pressures of parenthood and the transition to solo self-employment.
Chair: Dr Caitríona Ni Laoire, Applied Social Studies
Short Break
4.15-5.30. Panel 5. Populism and the rise of far-right (Round Table)
- Dr Vittorio Bufacchi, Dr Piaras MacEinri, Dr Gertrude Cotter, Dr Yasmine Ahmed and Jody Ponce will each talk for ten minutes and then we open dialogue and discussion.
Chair: Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo, Department of Sociology & Criminology
For more on this story contact:
Dr Margaret Scanlon (m.scanlon@ucc.ie)