Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) 2024 Annual Conference

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Key Notes Bios

Key notes

Henrike Rau is Professor of Social Geography and Sustainability Research at LMU Munich, Germany. She has made internationally recognised contributions to the conceptual and methodological advancement of social scientific and interdisciplinary sustainability research on topics such as domestic energy use, food consumption and mobility practices across the life course. Between 2009 and 2015 she co-led a large EPA-funded research project on consumption, environment and sustainability in Ireland (CONSENSUS)

Tom Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. He has written about culture, mostly in relation to religion, meaning, the body and the media, particularly in relation to Ireland. He published two editions of Moral Monopoly: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Modern Ireland 1998. His other books include Global Ireland: Same Difference (2008) and Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland: Webs of Significance (2014). He has published two memoirs Making Love (2012) and To Love a Dog (2020). He lives in Cootehall, Co. Roscommon where is Academic Director of the John McGahern Barracks

Agenda Friday 10th May

Draft Agenda

Friday, May 10, 2024
9:00-10:00	Registration School of Education Foyer, North Campus
10:00-11:30 Panels:	FRI1: Understanding the experiences and practices of mental health Room SE130	FRI2: Margins to centres I: The Limits of public sociology Race and Ethnicity Study Group (CHAIR: BARRY CANNON) Room SE131	FRI3: The interplay between structure and culture Room SE230
10:00-11:30 Panels:	Melissa Meyer (UCC) ‘Turbulence, tricksters and tethers: Unpacking the mental Health issues young people in Ireland face as social pathologies through interviews with the counsellors who work with them’ Rachel Brown (MU) The Practice of Mental Health Ross Macmillan Carmel Hannan, Michael Anyanwu, Saoirse McInerney & Elke Hayes (UL) ‘Disruptions in child development: the impact of the pandemic on children’s psychological well-being’	Su-ming Khoo (University of Galway) ‘Decolonial repair at the limits of social science’ Pilar Luz Rodrigues & Andrea Ciribuco (University of Galway) ‘Language, intercultural communication and integration of migrants in rural communities in Ireland’ Amin Sharifi Isaloo (UCC) ‘The Public Sphere and the far-right’	Eoin Flaherty (MU) The three worlds of heavy metal: inequality and the political economy of metal music Michael McLoughlin (TUS) Inverted dependency: How Organisational Sense-making Enables Procedural Reinforcement of Hierarchies in Ireland’s Visual Art Infrastructure John O’Brien (UCC) Deregulating alcohol availability: an analysis of the Sale of Alcohol Bill Bidav, T, McEvoy, E, Kerr, A. Kitchin, P.J. Young People’s awareness, critique, and resistance to gambling marketing through sport
11:30-11:45	Coffee Break & Postgraduate Poster Exhibition SE Foyer
11: 45-12:45 Plenary I	Keynote: Prof Dr. Henrike Rau CHAIR: PAUL RYAN Room SE129	Creating a climate of hope: Sustainable consumption and the sociology of everyday practices The growing popularity of social practice approaches in environmental sociology and sociological sustainability research has sparked renewed interest in people’s daily routines and their potential transformation. Applying social practice theory to topics such as domestic energy use and mobility has provided fresh insights into the material and social elements of everyday practices and opportunities for recrafting or substituting them to reach more sustainable levels of resource consumption. This keynote address will present conceptual insights and empirical findings from the field of practice-centred sustainability research to demonstrate their contribution to a social-ecological transformation
12:45	Welcome to MU from President Eeva Leinonen Location - SE Foyer
13:00-13:45	Lunch/HODs Meeting Location - SE Foyer
13:45-15:15 Panels:	FRI4: Sociology of the Environment Room SE130	FR5: Margins to centres II: the limits of public sociology. Race and Ethnicity Study Group Room S131	FRI6:Migrants navigating borders, boundaries and barriers on the island of Ireland. Room SE230
13:45-15:15 Panels:	Aidan O’Sullivan (Birmingham City University) ‘Expanding environmental consciousness in the social sciences curriculum: challenges and opportunities’ Eamonn Slater & Eoin Flaherty (MU) The ‘bewitched’ world of everyday things: Engels and Marx on dialectically determined reality and the dire consequences for Nature of our failure to recognize it. Su-ming Khoo (University of Galway) De-colonizing social metabolism Mike Hynes (University of Galway) Climate hero or villain: is digitalisation more often than not fuelling climate change?	Philomena Mullen (TCD) ‘A Black Studies perspective on the decolonial turn in Irish Sociology’ Duduzile Unathi Ndlova (University of Galway) ‘Black affect and decolonising higher education in South Africa’ James Carr (UL) & Tiba Bonyad (UL) ‘It’s not out of badness’: Racial literacy, Public Sociology and Local Authorities in Ireland Rebecca Chiyoko King O’Riain (MU) ‘De-colonizing Irish sociology to overcome the ‘post-colonial excuse’	Marta Kempny (QUB) Emma Calvert & Elaine Moriarty (QUB & TCD) ‘An examination of the effect of Brexit on EU nationals’ future lives and work in Northern Ireland’ Daniel Guigui (UCD) Shared spaces, shared stories: autobiographical narratives of Dublin-based hosts of Ukrainian refugees. Egle Gusciute (UCD) Ethnic hierarchy in the rental housing market: a field experiment examining discrimination against Ukrainian refugees.
15:30-15:45	Coffee Break Post graduate Poster Exhibition Room- SE foyer
15:45-17.15 Panels	FRI7: Sociology of the Environment Room SE130	FRI8: Creative epistemologies and research methodologies CHAIR: PAUL RYAN Room S131	FRI9: Migration, Intersectionality and racialisation Room SE230
15:45-17.15 Panels	Lorenzo Posocco (CPN) & Iarfhlaith Watson (UCD) Climate change and loss of bio cultural diversity: bridging the gap between global concern and national action Laure Detymowski (MU) Greening data centres through district heating for “Hopeful Futures”? Addiena Luke-Currier, Eliane Moriarty, Trevor Hodkinson (TCD) Frame analysis of policies regarding antimicrobial use in agriculture in farming newspapers in Ireland Sian Cowman (MU) The reproduction of ‘climate migration’: racialisation and future social disorder in media framing of an unstable category	Tanja Kovacic & Lisa Moran (SETU) ‘There will be more moments’: Yes I feel as if my journey has not been finished yet. Narratives of belonging and crossing borders of two sociologists using Collaborative autoethnography (CAE) Noirin McNamara (MU) The value of owning the symbols that orient us within subjectivity Paul Ryan, Kathryn McGarry, Becky Leacy, Patricia Leahy (MU) : Moving beyond peer researchers: challenges to co-creating sex work research	Matteo Moraschini (UCC) Political paralysis or life impossibility? An empirical perspective on political Refugees’ concerns Robert O’Keeffe (TCD) Nigerian taxi drivers in Dublin: Racism and the Failure of Neoliberal governmentality Pooja Priya (UCC) Exploring the placemaking strategies of the Congolese and Nigerian migrants in Delhi: an intersectional approach
17:30-18:30	SAI Wine Reception SE Foyer
19:00	Conference Dinner PUGIN HALL, South Campus

Agenda Saturday 11th May

Saturday, May 11, 2024
8:30-9:00	Registration School of Education Foyer, North Campus
9:00-10:30 Panels	SAT1 Foreclosing the future: challenges for social theory. Social Theory Panel Room SE010	SAT2: Mothering Futures CHAIR: Jenny Sailavaara, MU Room SE011	SAT3: Civil Society/State Relations in an age of Political Polarisation Panel (convened by Barry Cannon) CHAIR: BLANCA BLANCO (TROCAIRE) Room SE012
9:00-10:30 Panels	Diana Stypinska (University of Galway) ‘The future without (a) future …? On economicization and ecological relationality Tom Boland (UCC) & Ray Griffin (SETU) ‘Prescribing the future on a misdiagnosis: Unemployment Scarring, NEETs and Activation’ João Nunes de Almeida (University of Glasgow) 'The Crisis of Social Cures as the Crisis of Sociology of Indecision and Complicity'	Ciara Bradley (MU) Lived experience of Traveller women of pregnancy and birthd during the Covid-19 pandemic and post-pandemic Roisin Freeney (MU) and Orlagh Woods (MU) Reflections on themes of Irish Motherhood in Anne Enright’s The Green Road. Tanya Cassidy (MU) Thinking about mother futures: Imagining hope and potentiality informed by memories and experiences in the past and present	Chris O’Connell, (Trocaire) A struggle for rights and freedom: the importance of civil society space Barry Cannon and Shane Murphy (MU) ‘We’re not the right-wing or racist but…’ : far right myth and distributive conflict in asylum-seeker related protest in the Republic of Ireland, Nov 2022-July 2023 Nessa Ni Chasaide (MU) Challenging Ireland’s corporate tax games? Options from ‘above’ and ‘below. John Brown (MU) Radical-left governments and popular sector relations: tensions and contradictions in the building of Venuzela’s communes
10:30-10:45	Coffee Postgraduate Poster Exhibition SE Foyer
10:45-12:15 Panels	SAT4: Critical Problems in Public, Social Theory Panel Room SE010	SAT5: Love, Marriage and the Family CHAIR: ANGELOS BOLLAS Room SE011	SAT6: securitization and its discontents Room SE012
10:45-12:15 Panels	Aslı Kandemir ( (University of Birmingham) In spatiality of populism: Discourse of tolerance as symbolic border Jody Moore-Ponce (UCC) “I feel like….” A Digital ethnography and linguistic genealogy of representations of ‘lived experience’. Billy Goodwin (UCC) Combating hyper reality with Rosa’s (2019) Resonance	Catherine B McNamee & Danielle Mackle Dating experiences and perspectives among LGBTQ+ university students in Northern Ireland Lim Mengzhen (Meiji/Temple University) What if a romantic relationship is short term? Ann Burke (SETU) ‘Exploring the moral dimensions of pro-life feminism in the Irish pro-life movement’	Iva-Nicole Mavrlja, Aphra Kerr, Ciara Bracken-Roche (MU) Facial Recognition Technology: the expanding security assemblage in Irish policing Sarah Carol (UCD) & Faouzia Zeraoulia (UJ) ‘The social architecture of checkpoints: the case of Palestine’ Giulia Levi ‘Srebrenica: place of death or place of life: thinking about the future in a post-genocide town’
12:15-13:15 Plenary II	Keynote: EMERITUS PROF Tom Inglis CHAIR: MARY P. CORCORAN Room SE014	The Control of Self: Honour and Shame in Ireland Honour and shame are emotional controls that are central to social order in everyday life. One’s Identity, sense of self and individual self-worth are developed over time and presented to others for assessment. It is through this assessment that individuals come to be, on the one hand, recognised, respected and honoured or, on the other, ignored, demeaned or shamed. There is a constant struggle to maintain face. It is because this struggle is intensely emotional, that it is difficult to find good evidence. I suggest that sociologists might look at alternative sources such as novels and, when it comes to understanding how honour and shame operate in Ireland, to the works of John McGahern.
13:15-14:00	Lunch/AGM SE Foyer
14:00-15.30* Panels	SAT7: Education across the life course Room SE010	SAT8: Political polarisation, policy tensions and ways forward CHAIR: Mary P. Murphy Room SE011	SAT9: Health, Technology and Agency Room SE012
14:00-15.30* Panels	Delma Byrne (MU) Negotiating provision for school choice for a diverse and inclusive society Emily Murphy (UL) Changes in gender inequality among young people with disabilities Keitumetse Mabole (MU) Indigenous knowledge and lifelong learning Tom Kissock-Mamede (University of Cambridge) Non-indigenous sociologists researching indigenous rights ( autoethnography)	Kieran Allen (UCD) Shifts in political cleavages in Ireland 2024 Niamh Kirk (UL) Decolonising Ireland? Narratives of hospitality and anti-colonialism on a shared Island Lisa Smyth (QUB) Liberty and Solidarity : Ireland’s Moral Revolution Rian Mulcahy and Jessica Simpson, (University of Greenwich) The Hidden pandemic: consequences and responses to Qanon	Jack Lehane, Aphra Kerr & Mani Dhingra (MU) ‘Health beyond health care: demonstrating non-traditional public sector relevance for population health through Smart D8’ Harriet Wilkinson (MU) Old wives tales to digital trackers- the shifting social imaginaries of menstruation in Ireland Elena Cristina Pislariu, (UCM Spain) ‘Mapas locos’: the recovery of agency from surveillance of mental institutions
15:30-15:45	Coffee Postgraduate Poster Exhibition SE Foyer
15:45-17:15 Panels	SAT10: The Sociology and Political Economy of Work Room SE010	SAT10: State capacity: European, national and local perspectives Room SE011	SAT12: Digital Futures Room SE012
15:45-17:15 Panels	Amy Healy (UL) & Sean O ‘Riain (MU) ‘The mean side of lean: work organisation, gender and workplace abuse’ Sasha Noon (TUS) ‘Becoming and being a Social Profession: how the sociology of professions can those support those in the social professions to become agents of influence and change in and for their professions’ Shannon Hughes Spence (SETU) ‘Types of feminine subjectivities in modern nightclubs' Mary P. Murphy (MU) Navigating tensions between care income proposals in eco-social welfare policy proposals	Shamsoddin Shariati (MU) The Imperative of state capacity in addressing polycrises: a comparative analysis of wicked problem management in Europe Sean O’Riain (MU) Growth models and futures in Ireland’s Political Economy Mary P. Corcoran (MU) Urban space as contested space: the struggle to make and sustain liveable neighbourhoods in Dublin	Eric Deibel (MU) STS, AI and the Social Contract AI Dominic Hewson (UU) A new ‘world of information’: shifting parameters of power at the dawn of the dataistic episteme Mani Dhingra (MU) et al ‘Digital Twins and their potential use in democratising urban futures’ J. Clark Powers (MU) Resilience through Resistance: Digital Sociology as Necessarily Technoskeptic

_{*The MU Arts and Minds Festival coincides with the SAI Annual Conference meeting at Maynooth. You may be interested in the following exhibition and panel session

Queer Religion – Photographic Exhibition and Panel Discussion

This London-based collection created by Irish queer atheist photographer Frances Marshall, spotlights and celebrates prominent queer leaders in religion. These queer leaders risk so much personally in order to live in their truth and create positive change within the monotheistic religions. The subjects captured openly identify as queer and by their very existence provide a safe space within institutions that actively promote queerphobia. Religious organisations still blend seamlessly into society and with that comes a deep spread of negative and dangerous views towards queer people, inviting discrimination and hate towards this often-vulnerable community. Coming to terms with her own queerness in a Catholic community and education system, Frances believes that the answer to this issue is to bring the secular and religious worlds closer in this conversation rather than pushing each other away. Her goal is to shine light on these individuals that are unashamedly living their true selves and demonstrating that being queer and having religious beliefs can beautifully coexist. This collection is purposefully shot in natural light in order to represent the normality of queer life in religion. 

The exhibition is free and will be available in the TSI Building Foyer from 10am on Saturday, 11th May until 6pm.

Panel Discussion (14:00- 15:00 Saturday, May 11^th ) - TSI Building, Lecture Theatre 1 - Get your tickets on Eventbrite

Exploring the multifaceted aspects of queerphobia through the lens of religion, law and life, Anna Nolan, Chairperson of National LGBT Federation and Head of Development at COCO Content, one of Ireland’s leading television production companies, will chair a panel discussion on what that means to the panellists and the lives they’re living today.  Joining Anna and Frances on the panel are Maeve Delargy, Founder of Lesbian Lawyers Network and Senior Associate with Philip Lee LLP; Mother Christina Beardsley, a London-based trans Christian advocate and Reverend who features in the exhibition; and Oisín O’Reilly, CEO of Outhouse LTBTQ+ Centre. *Please note that as part of the MU Hearts and Minds Festival there will be a panel session from 14:00-15:00 on Queer Religion. Places must be booked and cost €5.

The full programme of MU Arts and Minds Festival and Eventbrite links are here.}

Accommodation options

There are several options for accommodation in of Maynooth, we have a limited number of rooms reserved with Maynooth Campus Accommodation exclusively for our guests for the night of the 10th of May with some availability for the 11th.

Details on how to book with Maynooth Campus are attached for your convenience. Note these rooms are only reserved until the 26th of April, on a first come first served basis. the Voucher code to use for the conference is SAIC_11/23 Maynooth Campus accommodation booking instructions
Other options you can choose from are;

For any inquiries or assistance regarding accommodation options, feel free to reach out to our team.
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How to get here

Travel
If travelling by car, Google Maps should show you how to get to us in Maynooth University, you can use this link https://maps.app.goo.gl/wF776oHigrTmN5JFA we are on the north Campus (where this link will bring you to) and there are 2 entrances and you can use either of them.
A car parking map can be found here, there is very limited pay parking available and cannot be guaranteed, we would encourage you to use public transport where available. Information on pay parking can be found here.
The Education building is indicated on the map as building 57.
There are disability car parking spaces available also – indicated separately on this map, Drivers of vehicles requiring the use of 'universally accessible parking bays' may only do so if their vehicle displays a valid and registered "blue badge"(Disabled Parking Permit or Card (also known as European Parking Card or Disabled Parking Badge). If drivers have a blue badge, they may use any of the bays indicated for free. *note clamping is in place and users must display the appropriate Blue Badge.

If travelling by public transport, Dublin Bus, and Bus Eireann both serve Maynooth Town as well as Irish Rail, you can find more information here

Wi-Fi
There is open access Wi-Fi in the University, you just need to search for “MU-Guest”, and this will give you access. Please keep all devices on silent while in the Theatre.

Access
All surfaces are flat until you reach the stairs, where a lift if required is available for any of the events on the 2nd floor. If you have any other access requirements that you may need help with, please do let us know and we will do our best to assist.

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Please see the conference program here SAI 2024 Conference Program

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