Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, UCD, 'The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights', CUP, 2020

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The 2027 ASEN Conference will take place from 13 to 15 April 2027 at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania on 'Who Belongs to the Nation?' The call for papers is out now and is open until 15 November. Head to asen.ac.uk/conference for more info #asen2027
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Almost 2,000 academics and researchers have signed a letter saying the new €4.55 billion funding strategy of Research Ireland is too focused on areas that are “industry-centred, commercially-focused, and profit-seeking”. irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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I rarely sign open letters from groups of academics but did sign this letter about the neglect of social sciences in Research Ireland's strategic plan. I hope other social scientists will sign too because this plan doesn't meet the needs of our disciplines openletter.earth/concern-abo…
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H-Diplo Review 659 Lea David’s A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights “advancing a structuralist argument about how encounters with victims’ surviving possessions…set in motion an “emotional energy” that then can be used or misused in various ways as the surviving object moves from discovery to memorialization” –Jonathan Bach hdiplo.org/to/R659 @Lea__David
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Great to be back in Zadar at the ASEN summer school 'Nations and Nationalisms in the Contemporary World'.
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Join us for the event "Nationalism and war in 21st-century Europe", where @sini_malesevic will critically examine the conventional wisdom that nationalism and war are relics of Europe’s past. @UACES @JCMS_EU 🗓️5 June, 5.30pm Register: lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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Next week at the LSE:
Join us for the event "Nationalism and war in 21st-century Europe", where @sini_malesevic will critically examine the conventional wisdom that nationalism and war are relics of Europe’s past. @UACES @JCMS_EU 🗓️5 June, 5.30pm Register: lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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🔙👥 The latest Jeno Szucs Lecture by our Democracy in History Workgroup was delivered by @sini_malesevic and @Lea__David, who offered an insight into cutting-edge research regarding violence and moral remembrance. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/wrx537N8
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🔙👥 The latest Jeno Szucs Lecture by our Democracy in History Workgroup was delivered by @sini_malesevic and @Lea__David, who offered an insight into cutting-edge research regarding violence and moral remembrance. Details: 👉 cutt.ly/wrx537N8
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Just published (in free access). Lea David and I analyse the dynamics of violence in Gaza through the prism of sociology of war: Full article: Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Just published (in free access). Lea David and I analyse the dynamics of violence in Gaza through the prism of sociology of war: Full article: Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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