New paper by DSIS researcher Ian Hughes and Richard Wood: 

"Psychopathology, Ultrasociality and the Real Clash of Civilisations: Towards a New Theory of International Relations to Address the Polycrisis" in Irish Studies in International Affairs (published by the RIA).

doi.org/10.1353/isia...

Former Irish President Mary McAleese, who hosted the DSIS event "Restoring the Sacred Ordinary" in June, recently addressed the Intl Conf on World Philosophies to highlight the link between the "Sacred Ordinary" and the Japanese concept of "Inochi" in this short clip: media.heanet.ie/page/67a4d15...

DSIS PhD student Bob Grumiau presented on how arts-based practices can contribute to telling stories which can help us inhabit the world meaningfully in times of 'metacrisis' at this week's "Social Pathologies of (Late) Modernity" event held in UCC.
Bob's work is available at www.ucc.ie/en/dsis/

Last week's UCC Futures "Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025" was a welcome opportunity for the DSIS team to meet in-person and celebrate the launch of "Walking as Critical Pedagogy" - with contributions from DSIS co-PIs Prof Maggie O'Neill and Dr Ger Mullally.

Thank you to Dr Ian Hughes and DSIS PhD student Bob Grumiau for presenting the DSIS work on "Ways of Seeing - in the context of the current 'polycrisis'" at the UCC Futures Festival of Social Science yesterday.

More information and recent publications on the DSIS website: www.ucc.ie/en/dsis/