Project Updates
Launch of EUROBORDERWALKS Project at UCC
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The EUROBRODERWALKS project was officially launched on 18 November in UCC with a series of events.
EUROBORDERWALKS is a three-year project led by Professor Maggie O'Neill, Director of ISS21 and Collective Social Futures and is funded through the IRC Advanced Laureate Awards programme. The research team gathered at UCC for the launch which included a welcome event with Professor Cathal O'Connell (Interim Head of CACSSS), a trip along A Feminist Walk of Cork 2 and a well-received keynote talk by Professor Mimi Sheller who presented a paper on migration, mobility justice and borders.
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Prof Cathal O'Connell welcomes the EUROBORDERWALKS research group to UCC with Prof Maggie O'Neill.
Research Team
The research team include the PI Professor Maggie O’Neill, Dept. Sociology & Criminology, ISS21/CSF and collaborating academics Dr Krešimir Žažar, Dept. Sociology, University of Zagreb; Professor Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas and Professor Katarzyna Waniek Dept. of Sociology of Culture, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, Professor Tomasz Ferenc, Department of Sociology of Art, University of Łódź, and artists Dr Michael Mcloughlin, University of Limerick, Dr John Perivolaris, and Professor Marek Domański, Academy of Fine Arts, Władysław Strzemiński in Łódź.
Two postdoctoral researchers, Dr Vladimir Ivanović and Aleksandra Sobańska, joined the team to conduct research on a) the Polish/Ukrainian Border and b) the Bosnia-Herzegovina Border. Conach Gibson-Feinblum is undertaking a PhD project under the supervision of Prof. Maggie O'Neill.
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