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Living Amidst Conflict and Insecurity Workshop, University of Galway 23/05/2023
By Dr. Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) Yuliang Lu (UCD), Marianna Espinos Blasco (UCD) and Caitríona Dowd (DCU) engage in a panel on gender, race, and sexualities in peace and conflict chaired by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway). Dr Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) welcomes participants The School of Political Science and Sociology at…
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Book launch: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law. A Law, Policy and Technology Analysis by Dr. Maria Grazia Porcedda (TCD) 18/05/2023
The launch of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law. A Law, Policy and Technology Analysis by Dr. Maria Grazia Porcedda and published by Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury, took place at the Senior Common Room of Trinity College Dublin on April 19th 2023. The book launch was supported by the PSAI’s Book…
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Reflections on women’s representation in Irish electoral politics – new research and fruitful avenues of inquiry 07/03/2023
This blog posts marks a symposium recently published in Irish Political Studies: ‘Gender and Political Change in the Republic of Ireland: Sites of Progress and Contestation’, edited by Dr. Lisa Keenan and Dr. Claire McGing. Lisa Keenan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She researches on…
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Presentation of The Punter’s Guide to Democracy at Áras an Uachtaráin 20/02/2023
On 8 February, Peter Emerson (the de Borda Institute, www.deborda.org) made a presentation of The Punters’ Guide to Democracy (2022, Springer, Heidelberg) to President Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin. He was joined by Prof. Peter Stone, Cllr. Dr. Vanessa Liston, and Rosalind Skillen (Master’s student, UCD). This is Peter Emerson’s argument for adopting the Modified Borda Count: Binary voting in decision-making…
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The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective 13/11/2022
Valesca Lima, Rafaela Pannain and Gabriela Martins were delighted to launch their book The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective, recently published by Routledge. The book was launched at the 46th Conference of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) at the University of Campinas in São Paulo…
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