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2013-May

NUIM Sociology at the 40th Annual Conference of the SAI
Sociology summer school CFP
Exhibition "Encountering Buddhist Asia: sources of Irish knowledge from the sixth to the twenty-first centuries"

2013-Apr

Staff play a role in Turner-nominated Tino Sehgal's work at IMMA
Prospective undergrads: university Open Day presentations
Sociology staff take part in National Spring Clean Week at NUIM
World Cafe event on gender equality at NUIM, Thursday May 2, 2013
Taught Masters Bursaries 2013
Mary Murphy contributes to Prime Time debate on austerity
NUIM Summer School July 2013 Call
Opportunities for Students
Thinking of postgraduate studies in Sociology? New brochure available here

2013-Mar

John O' Brennan took part in RTE's Late Debate programme
Launch of New Deals for the New Economy
The Department of Sociology is happy to announce that it will be hosting Dr Cristina Flesher Fominaya for two years from autumn 2013.
Selma James - "How Can Women Defeat Austerity?"
Workshop on Alternatives for Transformation, Saturday March 9th
The place of 'Race' in Marx and Engels writings on Ireland and the US
Paul Ryan quoted on the changing role of the agony aunt Irish Times
Mary Murphy discusses child poverty on The Pat Kenny Show RTE Radio 1
Mary Corcoran reviews Dambisa Moyo's Winner Takes All on RTE Radio 1

2013-Feb

MA graduate Anna Louise Coonan features in the Irish Times
Child poverty best attacked by services not payments writes Mary P. Murphy in the Irish Times
Irish Alternatives for Transformation
Mary Corcoran reviews a new biography of Durkheim in the Irish Times.

2013-Jan

Will the Real Democracy Please Stand Up?: Debating Democracy, Active Citizenship, and Politics of Work, Technology, and Social Equality at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Dr. Paul Ryan debates regulating the sex industry on Tonight with Vincent Browne
Saskia Sassen speaks in Dublin

2012-Dec

New Perspectives on Family Change in Ireland Workshop
Minister Joan Burton launches new report on activation by Dr. Mary Murphy
Sociology and Politics garner lots of interest on University Open Day

2012-Nov

M.A.students graduate November 2012
Qualitative Data Workshop, 21st November 2012
NOT UNDER MY ROOF: PARENTS, TEENS, AND THE CULTURE OF SEX by DR. AMY SCHALET

2012-Oct

Recent Research Grants in Sociology

2012-Sep

ESRI survey interviewing job opportunity

2012-Jul

University Open Day June 30, 2012

2012-Jun

Launch of Reflections on Crisis at the Royal Irish Academy June 27, 2012
Taught Masters Bursaries

2012-May

Special issue of Maynooth-based journal on the Arab Spring and anti-austerity movements
John O' Brennan contributes to Debate on Fiscal Treaty in the Guardian and Irish Times
Sociological Association of Ireland 39th Annual Conference, NUIM May 12-13, 2012
Sociology Staff join Maynooth town clean up

2012-Apr

Postgraduate funding opportunities - Application Deadline Change and Workshop
NUIM Professor of Sociology contributes to debate on fiscal referendum
Fr. Micheál Mac Gréil reflects on his career in the Department of Sociology at NUIM
Sociology Department contributes to NIRSA commentary and analysis of results from Census 2011

2012-Mar

Sociology at 75 Ireland Empire and Colonialism
Professor Peadar Kirby's inaugural lecture for Network on Politics, Power and Society
President Michael D. Higgins marks Sociology at 75, Tuesday, March 13
Europe in Crisis symposium makes the news

2012-Feb

Two Four Year Postgraduate Fellowships Available
One Year Postdoctoral Researcher Position Available
Dr. Linda Connolly on Sociology at NUIM and Beyond
Upcoming seminar on Whistle blowing in financial organizations
Crime Fiction and Contemporary Ireland: An audience with Declan Burke, Gene Kerrigan and Niamh O'Connor

2012-Jan

Celebrating 75 years of Sociology at the Library Social Science Festival
Mary Murphy discusses options for constitutional convention in Irish Times opinion piece
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger by Mary Murphy is out
Sociology at NUIM celebrating 75 years: first event Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 3pm
No sex please, we're Irish

2011-Dec

"Roddy Doyle reads the suburbs"

2011-Nov

The Sensory Suburb Symposium Fri, Dec 9, 2011
University Open Day- Find out more about Sociology
Meet the author event
Dr. Paul Ryan's new book Asking Angela Macnamara features in the media
Seminars and events 2011-2012
NUI Maynooth sociologist participates in International Symposium on Stigma and Social Housing

2011-Oct

“New agendas in social movement studies" Conference
Debate between Presidential Candidates: Michael D. Higgins, Seán Gallagher and David Norris
Social Studies category of the 2011 Undergraduate Awards
Our students enjoy success in the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland and Northern Ireland

Call for Papers Suburban Symposium December 9, 2011

2011-Sep

Postgraduate students visit Dublin Contemporary 2011
Launch of Growing Up in Ireland Qualitative Data deposited in Irish Qualitative Data Archive
Graduation Day September 2011

2011-Jun

New agendas in social movement studies - Conference announcement and call for papers
Official launch of the Research Network on European Social Movements at the 2011 Council for European Studies Eighteenth International Conference of Europeanists in Barcelona
Minister Willie Penrose, will welcome participants to IRCHSS Summer School, June 27th, 2011

2011-May

Dutch expert on spatial planning launchs Summer School programme
New ‘Doctoral Teaching Scholarship’ available. Deadline June 3rd, 2011
Dr. Paul Ryan's work featured in the Irish Times, May 10, 2011
NUI Maynooth sociologists present at the Sociological Association of Ireland 38th Annual Conference, Cork

2011-Apr

University Day April 16, 2011. Check out Sociology and Politics presentations here
Transnationalism and Migration Symposium
Department of Sociology to host Summer School on "Making the Built Environment Work" June 2011
Migration and Transnationalism: A one day symposium Thursday April 28, 2011

2011-Mar

Calling all Third Years: information session on postgrad opportunities, March 29
Department seminar - Bora Isyar on citizenship
Department seminar - Michel Peillon on art and social processes

2011-Feb

Symposium on Understanding the Election
Department Seminar: Milena Komarova, The Queen’s University Belfast
Invited Speaker Daniel Faas Event: Negotiating Political Identities: Multiethnic Schools and Youth in Europe
Understanding the Crisis- Sociology contributes to special postgraduate module
New books published on the Smiths, Bloody Sunday, the suburbs, and more

2011-Jan

New Book Published on Parental Involvement in Education