Professor Helena
Sheehan
Professor Emerita
Dublin
City University
academic interests
- history
of
ideas
/
sociology
of
knowledge
/
contending world
views
- history
of
marxism
- science
studies:
epitemology,
philosophy of scince
- media
studies: news, current affairs, television drama
books
New Jersey: Humanities
Press,
1985 / 1993 (2 editions)
on
doras
The
Continuing Story of Irish Television Drama: Tracking the Tiger
Dublin:
Four
Courts
Press,
2004
extract
the
times: 1987-2002
full text on doras
"A
Voice from the Dead" text
or extract
an
introduction to posthumous work of NI Bukharin Philosophical
Arabesques
New
York:
Monthly Review Press/ New York University Press, 2004
(as
co-editor)
Mapping
Irish media: critical explorations
Dublin: UCD Press,
2007
launch
articles
/ chapters/ conference papers/ pamphlets
selected past articles
selected
chapters
pamphlets
translations of
various books and articles into French, German, Russian, Chinese,
Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, Greek,
Arabic
some recent papers,
guest lectures, multimedia conference presentations
- Crossakiel 2009
- "Another
tv
drama
is
possible:
The
Wire"
at
Marxism
2008 conference (November 2008)
- "Universities,
social
movements
and
market
forces:
the
fate
of
philosophy"
at UCD Philosophy Society (October 2008)
- "Why the
new interest in marxism and science?" at
seminar
on Marxism(s) and historiography of science at Université Paris
7 (March 2008)
- "Identities,
ideologies
and
intellectuals"
at
Forging
identities
conference
at
DCU
(February
2008)
- "Breakfast
roll man, public space and planet of slums" at Ireland
Institute
for Historical and Cultural Studies (November 2007)
- "Marxism
and
science:
the
historical
drama,
the
contemporay
conjucture" Historical
Materialism conference at SOAS, University of London (November
2007)
- "Marxism
and
the
natural
sciences"
at
Communist
University
of
Britain at Ruskin
House, Croydon (October 2007)
- "Marxism
in
the
21st
century"
at
Communist
University
of
Britain at Ruskin
House,
Croydon (October 2007)
- "The
centenary of Christopher Caudwell and the philosophical landscape of
the
century" at Caudwell centenary conference sponsored by Marx
Memorial
Library, London (October 2007)
- "The
assault on scientific rationality: historical analysis and
epistemological
response" at conference on The assault on science: Constructing a
response,
13th congress of European Council of Skeptical Organisations, Dublin
(September
2007)
- "Philosophy
and science: connection, disconnection, consequences" public
lecture sponsored by Irish Skeptics Society (June 2007)
- "Marxism
and
the
interpretation
of
science"
at
Institute
of
Historical Research,
University of London (May 2007)
- "Marxism
and
science:
a
sweep
through
the
decades" at 34th annual
philosophy
of science conference at Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (April 2007)
- "Universities,
social movements and market forces" at All Africa House, University
of Cape Town (March 2007)
- "Identities,
ideologies, market forces and social sciences" at Dept of
Sociology,
University of Cape Town (Feb 2007)
- "Identities
and
ideologies:
Are
sociologists
stenographers
of
the
surface?”
plenary
address
at Sociological Association of Ireland postgraduate conference
(November 2006)
- "Are
the humanities threatened by the increasing commercialisation of
universities?"
(debate with president of DCU) at humanities festival at DCU (May 2006)
- "Fair
City and our fair city: soap opera and social order” at conference
on Irish Media in Global and Local Contexts sponsored by Irish Media
Research
Network at DIT (June 2006)
- “JD
Bernal:
philosophy,
politics
and
the
science
of
science”
at
JD Bernal: Science
and Society sponsored by Institute of Physics in Ireland at Limerick
Institute
of Technology (June 2006)
- "Marxism
and
science
studies:
from
1931
to
now"
conference
on Scientists
and
Social Commitment at Science Museum London (September 2006)
- "The
influence
of
marxism
on
science
studies"
at
Princeton
seminar
on Geopolitics,
Marxism
& 75 Years of Science Studies at Princeton University (March 2006) abstract & collage
- "Speaking
of the south: northern voices and southern realities" at conference
on
Education for Development in a Globalising World at DCU (March 2006)
- "Teaching
philosophy
in
the
21st
century"
at
Royal
Institute
of Philosophy,
Cardiff
(March 2004)
- "The West Wing and the wider world:
a transatlantic perspective on idealised America" at University of
Birmingham (October 2004) abstract
- "Cultures
and
transformation
in
post-apartheid
South
Africa"
at
Cultures
in
Conflict
conference at DCU (February 2002)
- "Philosophy
and
transformation"
at
conference
of
Philosophical
Society
of
Southern
Africa, University of Stellenbosch (January 2002)
- "Politics
and
academe
in
the
new
South
Africa"
at
DCU School of Communications
staff
seninar series (Nov 2001) and for MA in International Relations lecture
series (April 2002)
- "The
legacy
of
the
German
Democratic
Republic"
at
Trinity
College
Dublin
for
MPhil in Peace Studies course on Eastern Europe (January 2001)
- "The
rise
of
the
repressed:
where
does
South
Africa
fit
into the picture ?" at
All
Africa House, University of Cape Town (March 2001)
- "Transformation
and
academe:
alternative
paths"
at
Centre
for
Higher
Education
Development,
University of Cape Town (April 2001)
- "The
history
of
philosophy:
questions
about
class,
race
and
gender"
at Department of
Philosophy, University of Cape Town (March 2001)
- "The
history
of
ideas
and
the
other"
at
Cultures
in
Transition conference at
DCU
(February 2000)
- "Class:
defining
it,
debating
it,
dramatising
it"
at
Understanding
Class in
Ireland
conference at University College Dublin (December 1999)
online
articles
work
in progress
books
The shifting
shapes of tv
drama: storytelling and ideology in American society
The tides
of academe: the crosswinds
of mentalities, movements and markets in the history of knowledge
Navigating the
zeitgeist:
a grand narrative 
past papers
delivered
at international conferences
• World Congress
of
Philosophy Boston 1998
• International Conference
on 150th Anniversary of Communist Manifesto Paris 1998
• Socialist Scholars
Conference
NY 1993
• Imagining Ireland
Conference
at Irish Film Centre 1993
• International Television
Studies Conference London 1988
• International Congress
of
Logic, Methodology & Philosophy of Science Hanover 1979
• International History of
Science Congress Bucharest 1981
• Conference of History
&
Philosophy of Science Royal Irish Academy 1982
• International Round
Table
Cavtat 1988 & 1989 Sarajevo 1988
other occasional
papers
/ guest lectures
Harvard University,
Boston
University, Temple University, New York University, University of
Pennsylvania,
University of Bridgeport, Fairfield University, Villanova University,
University
of Toronto, York University, University of London, University of Cape
Town,
TCD, UCD, UCC, UCG, QUB, Maynooth, Safarik University Presov, USSR
Academy
of Sciences, GDR Academy of Sciences, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,
Hungarian Political Science Association, Tito Political School
Kumrovec,
Interuniversity Centre of Postgraduate Studies Dubrovnik, Goethe
Institut,
Renner Instiut Vienna, Brecht Forum, NY Marxist School, Socialist
Scholars
Conference, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, Science and
Society (journal) , Irish Labour History Society, Society of Socialist
Social Scientists, People's College, Kilkenny VEC, Media Association of
Ireland, Irish Film Institute, RTE, Irish Philosophical Society,
Philosophical
Association of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Forfas, Comhlamh, Irish
Writers
Centre, Liberty Hall, European City of Culture (lecture series),
Dublin
Institute for Adult Education, Teacher's Club, Ballymun Job Centre,
Peadar
O'Donnell Centre for the Unemployed Galway, Arthouse Temple Bar,
Association of Irish Humanists, Irish School of Ecumenics, University
of Birmingham, University
of
Wales Cardiff, Princeton University, University of London, University
of
Paris, Ireland Institute
degrees
PhD 1980
Trinity College, Dublin
University
MA
1970
Temple University, Philadelphia
BS
1967 St
Joseph's College, Philadephia
teaching
DCU
School of Communications
- for BA in
Journalism
& BA
in Communication Studies
- for MA in
International Relations,
MA in Political Communication, MA in International Security &
Conflict
Studies, MA in International Organisations
MA in Development
- for MSc
in Science Communication
- for BA in
Journalism, BA in Communication
Studies, BSc in Multimedia
- for MA in
Film & Television Studies
- archived course
websites
other professional positions / activities
During the 2000-2001
academic
year I was on sabbatical leave. During October 2000 I was in the
USA (Philadelphia and New York) and November 2000 in Cuba (Havana)
visiting
universities and attending conferences. From February to April 2001 I
was
in South Africa at University of Cape
Town
as a visiting scholar at the Graduate
School of the Humanities and a visiting associate at the Centre
for Higher Education Development and in residence at All
Africa House. I was doing research on academic
transformation
in South Africa. I produced a multimedia research report that I
presented
at DCU in Oct 2001. My interview
with Jeremy Cronin, MP done in April 2001 and follow up interview
done in January 2002 have caused considerable controversy within
South
Africa. I returned to South Africa for further research trips in 2002
and
2005. I was based at the University of the Witwatersrand in July-August
2002. During 2007 I was again on sabbatical at University of Cape Town.
Based on this research, I have written "Contradictory transformations:
observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African
universities".
I also spent time in Berlin and Dubrovnik investigating the fate of
marxism
in Eastern Europe.
address 
Dr
Helena
Sheehan School of
Communications
Dublin City University Dublin
9
Ireland tel:
-353-1-700-5568
e-mail: helena.sheehan@dcu.ie
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