Launch of EUROBORDERWALKS Project at UCC

18 Nov 2024

The EUROBRODERWALKS project was officially launched with a series of events, including  a keynote talk by Prof Mimi Sheller. 

It’s been another busy year for ISS21 projects and last month saw the launch of the EUROBORDERWALKS project at UCC. This three-year project is 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 group gathered at UCC for the launch which included 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.

Prof Cathal O'Connell, Interim Head of CACSSS 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) will join 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 in this research area. 

Prof Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is the Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. She was founding co-director of the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, England, and then became Professor of Sociology, Head of the Sociology Department, and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia.  Sheller was founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Sheller is an interdisciplinary scholar with interests in Caribbean Studies, Mobilities Research, and Social Theory. She is Co-Principal Investigator for the NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (2022-2027) and PI for a related NOAA-BIL award on Improving Engagement Methods for Coastal Resilience and Reducing Climate Risk (2023-2027). She has published more than 150 articles and book chapters, and is author or co-editor of fifteen books, including Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (2021); Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (2020); Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018); and Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (2014). Sheller completed her AB at Harvard University, in History and Literature and her MA and PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. She was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Roskilde University, Denmark (2015).

Prof Maggie O'Neill introduces Prof Mimi Sheller for her keynote talk "Mobility Justice and the changing 'Power Geometries' of European Borders."

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