NUI Maynooth sociologists present at the Sociological Association of Ireland 38th Annual Conference, Cork
Over the weekend of May 8-10th, 2011 more than 60 Irish sociologists gathered at University College Cork to present papers on a variety of topics from migration to the media, from first holy communion to the ageing process, from poverty to political comedy and from sex workers rights to violence and nationalism. For the full programme see www.sociology.ie.
If you would like to listen to Professor Steve Fuller's keynote address "moral entrepreneurship: a twenty first century vocation?" please click here Fuller address. This will link you to the SAI website and then on to Professor Fuller's home page at Warwick University. To skip the introduction go to 3 minutes in on the recording.
Steve Fuller (born 1959, New York City) is Professor of Sociology at Warwick Univerity, UK. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science (Ph.D., 1985, University of Pittsburgh), he is the founder of the research program of social epistemology. His books include Social Epistemology (Indiana University Press, 1988), Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents, 2nd edn. (Guilford Press, 1993), Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993; 2nd edn. with James Collier, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), Science (Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1997), The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (Open University Press, 2000), Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (University of Chicago Press, 2000); Knowledge Management Foundations (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002); Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Icon and Columbia University Press, 2003); The Intellectual (Icon 2005); The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2006); The New Sociological Imagination (Sage, 2006); The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture (Acumen, 2007); Science vs Religion? (Polity, 2007); New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies (Polity, 2007); Dissent over Descent (Icon, 2008); The Sociology of Intellectual Life (Sage, 2009); Science: The Art of Living (Acumen, 2010); Humanity 2.0: 21st Foundations for Social Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
NUI Maynooth sociologists Anne O Brien, Fergal Rhatigan, Eamon Slater and Paul Ryan all presented papers, and Kerry Gallagher presented a poster at the conference. Picture shows Niamh Hourigan, UCC addressing the conference.
