Congratulations to Dr. Theresa O'Keefe and Dr. Aline Courtois! 

As long-term precarious workers, they founded Third Level Workplace Watch in 2013, a collective of precarious academics who came together to resist casualisation in Irish higher education institutions. Their joint publications on academic precarity can be read here (open access) and here (paywalled). 

Congratulations to the Sociological Association of Ireland's President, Dr. John O'Brien, on the publication of the first issue of the Sociological Observer. This issue - titled 'Covid-19 Pandemic: Sociological Reflections' has sections called Risk and Trust, Inequalities, Health Policy and Expertise, Social Practice. 

Dr. Kieran Keohane, Conor Cashman and Melissa Meyer from our Department, have articles in this issue.

Congratulations to Ian Hughes and Kieran Keohane on this timely article about Covid-19 and society!

This stimulating and thought-provoking article brings together René Girard's "scapegoating" and "gift exchange" of  Marcel Mauss to view our present society. "COVID-19 is a crisis in the original medical sense of the word, for ‘crisis’ means a turning point in an illness: either things get worse and the patient dies - with society deteriorating further towards authoritarian neoliberalism - or they get better and the ‘patient’ lives by rallying around a renewed social solidarity."

Professor Arpad Szakolczai has written a series of articles that reflect on the world in Covid_19.

 https://voegelinview.com/the-end-of-kantianism-the-current-pandemic-madness-part-one/

https://voegelinview.com/the-end-of-kantianism-the-tricks-of-economic-theory-part-two/

https://voegelinview.com/the-end-of-kantianism-the-tricks-of-economic-theory-corruption-creative-destruction-and-existential-corruptness-part-iii/

https://voegelinview.com/the-end-of-kantianism-fairground-economy-police-states-and-the-permanent-apocalyptic-sacrificial-carnival/

Prof. Jan Haaken presented an advance screening of her latest film, Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance. It was shown on Wednesday 11 March 2020 at 6pm in the lecture theatre at St. John’s Central College, Cork. 

There was a Q&A session afterwards with Prof. Jan Haaken, Dr. Tracey Skillington, and Dr. Paul Bolger. Dr. Skillington, the author of Climate Justice & Human Rights and Climate Change and Intergenerational Justice, is a lecturer at Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC. Dr. Bolger is manager of Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork.

This event was collaboration between Women Producing Media; Department of Sociology & Criminology, UCC; Environment Research Institute UCC, and St. John’s Central College, Cork.

Congratulations to Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai, and Manussos Marangudakis on the publication of their edited book: Modern Leaders: In between charisma and trickery.

This is a timely book that considers the current striking rise of ‘outsider’ political leaders, catapulted, apparently, from nowhere, to take charge of a nation. It offers studies of contemporary political figures from the world stage - including Presidents Macron, Tsipras and Bolsonaro, among others - to examine the ways in which charismatic and trickster modalities can become intertwined, especially under the impact of theatrical public media.

Congratulations to Dr. Kieran Keohane, whose article "Modern culture and well being: how we may treat the social pathologies of contemporary civilisation" was recently published in Modern Culture and Well-Being: Towards A Sustainable Future compiled and edited by Dr Catherine Conlon.

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Theresa O'Keefe, who organised this very successful event as part of UCC EQUALITY WEEK

Political Alchemy - Creative Destruction is the title of International Political Anthropology Summer School 2020. This is the 11th year of this successful Summer School which is held in Italy for one week in June.

Professor Maggie O'Neill, Professor Arpad Szakolczai, Dr. Ger Mullally and some Postgraduates from our Department, in collaboration with the Dingle Creativity and Innovation Hub https://dinglehub.com are hosting a walking symposium 6th and 7th March in Dingle! 

2020.02.28PM Dingle Hub weekend