Thursday 8 April

8.30 - 9.15am: Registration, The Gallery, Helix, Dublin City University

9.20 - 9.30am: Opening Address- President of D.C.U. Ferdinand von Prondzynski

9.30 - 10.30am: Key note speech - ‘Can Integration and Multiculturalism be Reconciled?’ by Prof. Han Entzinger, Erasmus University Rotterdam

10.30 - 10.45am: Tea/Coffee

10.45 - 12.45pm: Panel 1
Theme: Identity and Research
Discussant: Ronit Lentin, School of Sociology, TCD
Chair:Vera Sheridan, DCU

Paper Giver	Title of Paper	Affiliated Institution
E. Moreo	‘Sociology as 'Art of Listening': how can we talk about others without constructing the 'Other'?’	TCD
G, Macri	‘'Who do they think they are?' – Online Narratives among Romanian Diaspora in Ireland’	DCU
J. Samolyk	‘Building relations with the subjects of the research- reflections on conducting a study within researcher’s own ethnic group’	Queens University Belfast
D. Jackson	‘Acceptable Discrimination? The role of the hegemonic ideology of the sovereign territorial state in making socially acceptable the systemic denial of the human rights of the undocumented migrant’	TCD
M. Byrne	‘Intersection of race and class: attitudes of the Irish professional social class towards 'immigrants'’	TCD

12.45 - 1.30pm: Lunch

1.30 - 3.00pm: Panel 2
Theme: Community and Integration
Discussant: Maura Parazzoli, Department of Anthropology, NUIM
Chair: Mark Maguire, NUIM

Paper Giver	Title of Paper	Affiliated Institution
Jane O'Connell	‘Migration to rural areas:  Social integration through community?’	UCD
K Gallagher	‘Religion and Social Integration: A Case Study of Polish Catholics in Ireland’	NUIM
A Passarelli	‘Integration and Churches. A case study of the Anglican Church in Ireland’	TCD
A. Hilliard	‘Interfaith; The limits of policy, the perspective of dialogue’	Mary Immacualte College, Limerick

3.00 - 3.15pm: Tea/Coffee

3.15 - 4.30pm: Panel 3
Theme: Curriculum and Education
Discussant: Francesca Lorenzi, School of Ed. Studies, DCU
Chair: Veronica Crosbie, DCU

Paper Giver	Title of Paper	Affiliated Institution
Jai Liu	‘A Comparison of the Irish and Chinese Primary School Curricula’	DCU
M. McGloin	‘Cultural Appropriateness and Responsiveness of the Higher Education and Training Needs of Migrants in the Northwest of Ireland’	Sligo Institute of Technology
Ciaran Dunne	‘Host students construction of cultural difference in the context of internationalisation of higher education’	DCU

4.30 - 5.00pm: Dr. Debbie Ging and Dr. Miriam Judge, Dublin City University present ‘Someone Else’s Shoes’.
This presentation charts the pedagogical, technical, philosophical and creative processes which were involved in the development of a prototype game for educating about migration and interculturalism in Ireland.

5.00 - 5.45pm: Closing Discussion – Chairs: Debbie Ging and Miriam Judge, DCU