Our weekly research seminar series brings together scholars from Trinity and beyond to present and discuss their latest work. Covering a wide range of sociological topics, these seminars provide a space for critical engagement with current research and emerging debates.

Department of Sociology, Research Seminar 26/27

Seminars take place every Wednesday from 3-4pm, with a mix of in-person and online sessions. All are welcome to attend.

Note: In-Person sessions will take place in Room 5039, Arts Building in Michaelmas Term.

In-Person sessions will take place in Room 3025, Arts Building in Hilary Term.

For online access, please email sociology@tcd.ie

 

MICHAELMAS TERM

Date

Speaker

Title

Venue

Sep 16

Mark Ward

(Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin)

Global Study of the Macro- and Individual-Level Causes and Consequences of Loneliness (GLOMoL)

In person; Room 5039

Sep 23

Izabela Janssen-Wnorowska

(Visiting PhD Candidate,

University of Vienna, Austria)

Coexistence in Heterogeneous Neighborhoods: Boundary-Making in Layered Conflicts, Withdrawal as Affective Agency and Asymmetrical Labor in Interethnic Neighborly Relations

In person; Room 5039

Sep 30

Orla Kelly

(Assistant Professor, University College Dublin)

Golf, Housework or Parenting? A gendered examination of time use on the 4-day Week Trials

In person; Room 5039

Oct 7

William Foley

(Research Fellow, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Separating the impact of structure, agency, and luck on the life course

In person; Room 5039

Oct 14

Christina Cross

(Associate Professor, Harvard University, United States)

Inherited Inequality:

Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

Online

Oct 21

Niall Costello

(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TILDA)

Holding on while they let go: International trends of changes in life satisfaction among informal care givers of spouses with normal, mild and severe cognitive impairment

In person; Room 5039

Oct 28

NO SEMINAR – READING WEEK!

 

 

Nov 4

Marta Eichsteller

(Assistant Professor, University College Dublin)

Beyond Empowerment: African Feminist Praxis as Biographical Process

In person; Room 5039

Nov 11

Jacob Richard Thomas

(Assistant Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)

Denial, Deterrence, and Disenchantment: Why Many Never Immigrate

Online

Nov 18

David Kretschmer

(Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin)

From Debate to Distance? How Public Opinion about Religious Veiling Affects Western Muslims’ Identification, Intergroup Relations, and Societal Participation

In person; Room 5039

Nov 25

Thembi Luckett

(Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin)

Depletion and repair: Women’s health, care and repair in the shadow of South Africa’s largest coal mine and power station

In person; Room 5039

Dec 2

Camille Portier

(Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin)

Gender-Essentialized Skills, the Gender Wage Gap and the Moderating Role of Educational Attainment. 

In person; Room 5039