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SOME CEESA-LINKED EVENTS...


Outside the academy

As part of our 2015-16 rethink we hosted a discussion on "Intellectual work outside the academy" with oral historian Terry Fagan, independent scholar Tomás MacSheoin, campaigning journalist William Hederman and community activist Cathleen O'Neill (who couldn't make it on the night). A lot of activist and community-based researchers and educators turned up and the discussion carries on...

John Holloway seminar

In April 2015 radical theorist John Holloway gave a brilliant two-day seminar for CEESA on the theme "Think hope, think crisis" to over thirty activists, students and researchers.

Social movements and collective agency

April 2015 also saw a seminar on "Social movements and collective agency" with two researchers from our associated PhD programme. Anna Szolucha discussed direct democracy in the Occupy Movement and Terry Dunne talked about popular movements in early 19th century Ireland.

Grassroots Gathering 2015

CEESA people co-organised the 2015 Grassroots Gathering in Drimnagh, themed as "Joining the dots between grassroots movements, communities, campaigns..." The three days included a discussion session with activists from different anti-water charges groups, a photo exhibition from Rossport "If I could say one thing to other communities...", a walking tour of St Michael's Estate, a film from Barcelona's anti-eviction movement - and a break in the middle for the water charges demo!

Making our own history

Laurence Cox and Alf Nilsen launched their book We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism at the Historical Materialism conference in London (November 2014), with responses from Colin Barker, Subir Sinha and Lesley Wood. You can see the full video on the Pluto Press website - the video quality isn't ideal but the audio is fine. There's also a session with Laurence Cox for the International Sociological Association's social movements research committee on youtube - again the audio is better than the video!

Jane McAlevey in Dublin

CEESA got together with Mandate, the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope, Communication Workers Union, Attac Ireland, IBOA the Finance Union and the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland to bring US labor activist Jane McAlevey over to deliver training days for union organisers and movement activists. Here's a video of the final, public session.

Ken Saro-Wiwa's last letters

The great Nigerian writer and human rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the military regime in 1995. His final letters, to Irish solidarity activist Majella McCarron, were given to Maynooth in recognition of our students' involvement in the Shell to Sea campaign. CEESA's Laurence Cox co-edited the letters as Silence would be treason; they were published in November 2013.

Selma James in Maynooth

CEESA co-hosted lifelong activist Selma James - founder of Wages for Housework, coordinator of the Global Women's Strike and author of books like Sex, Race and Class - at Maynooth in March 2013. The podcast is here.

Anti-austerity politics in Spain and Ireland

From 2013 - 2015 Maynooth hosted Cristina Flesher Fominaya's project on Irish and Spanish anti-austerity protest. See this post for more on the project or her blog here.

New agendas in social movement studies

In November 2011 Maynooth Sociology hosted the first social movements conference in Ireland since the late 1990s. You can see the programme here.

Activist Fleadh in Kilbarrack

We were involved in a summer school for "radicals of all ages" hosted by Kilbarrack CDP in summer 2011. More details here

Beyond the crisis: global justice, equality and social movements

CEESA co-organised a day-long activist / academic workshop in Seomra Spraoi on May 7th 2011 trying to think in a longer and more strategic term about what the new situation for movements in Ireland looks like. More details here.

Social movements and the crisis

The Irish CrisisJam site, together with ZNet (US), the Greek Left Review and the New Left project (UK) put together an interesting project about the current economic crisis and the new kinds of social movement responses for May Day 2011.

Social movements after partnership

The Kilbarrack Activist Fleadh developed from a discussion between Cathleen O'Neill and CEESA's Laurence Cox at UCD Equality Studies' 2010 "Equality in a time of crisis" conference about how social movements should respond to inequality and crisis, and in particular the crisis of Ireland's "social partnership" model. You can find the background paper on Irish Left Review here.

Movement research workshop

There was a workshop on social movement / activist research in Dublin and Maynooth from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th June 2010. Full details are here and a PDF of the programme is here. Some of the presentations can be found here.

CD lessons

"Community development: lessons for social movements" audio here. Talks by Mick O'Broin and Laurence Cox followed by group discussion (Seomra Spraoi social centre, Feb 3 2010).

Activist research

Short podcast here on "Saying something useful: the challenge of movement-related research". Laurence Cox at the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, 21 April 2008

AND A FEW PICTURES...


Poster for the course launch, 2009

Poster for the course launch, 2009
The Masked Activists' Ball...

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