Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) and the Irish Research Council (IRC) present a one day conference on
The Social Sciences in Ireland: Status, Challenges, and Prospects
Admission is free but registration is essential.
REGISTRATION
Who should attend: academics, PhD students (with the approval of supervisor), research support officers, funding agencies and policy practitioners with an interest in the current health and future prospects of the social sciences in Ireland.
One day conference includes presentations on the legacies of PRTLI4 funding for the social sciences in Ireland; a keynote address by Prof. Ed Soja (UCLA);
Horizon 2020 workshop led by the IRC and panel discussions on future challenges facing the social sciences in Ireland.
*IRC Workshop on Horizon 2020 - Creating Opportunities for Social Scientists
The aim of the workshop (part of the conference) is to encourage and empower researchers at all career stages in the social sciences to apply to future Horizon 2020 funding as partners or co-ordinators; to collaborate and network with social science researchers in other Irish institutions; and to provide national contact points for EU research with suggestions for research themes and topics that Irish social scientists would like to see included in future Work Programmes.
A limited number of travel bursaries are available for attendance at this workshop (to a maximum of €70). Further details at link to registration above.
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
1. Plenary session – Demystifying H2020: How EU Work Programmes are designed/shaped and the opportunities that exist for Irish social scientists to shape this agenda – Paul Kilkenny, IRC
2. 3 parallel Workshops on Irish social scientists shaping the content of HORIZON 2020 2016-17 Societal Challenge Work Programmes (led by Paul Kilkenny (IRC) and Allen White (UCC)) with input from National Contact Points/NDs
3. Rapporteur/de-brief session
*If you wish to attend this workshop, please send a 100 word summary of your research interests to issplatform@mu.ie (please put 100 WORDS in subject matter on your email, thank you).
This is essential to allow organisers to customise the workshop to your needs.
For a full program click here: Communications & Marketing - ISSP Final Programme September 24th - Maynooth University
The Mission of the Social Sciences Abstract:
When the social sciences were formed in the late 19th century, a powerful historical bias was introduced to each separate discipline, and would dominate theory formation and empirical analysis ever since. This social historicism was built in part on the privileging of time over space. Time (and its social construction as history) was seen as dynamic, developmental, process-oriented, dialectic, problematic whereas space tended to be seen as fixed, immobile, a purely physical form, background, an external and extra-social environment. In recent years, however, a more balanced view of space and time, history and geography, has begun to develop, primarily in association with some have called a "spatial turn" in the human sciences. I will explore this transdisciplinary spatial turn, with a particular look at the new geographical economics. One major challenge to the social sciences today is to accommodate and recognize this spatial turn while never losing the critical explanatory power of the historical imagination.
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