5 December Seminar on Irish in Britain
The Irish in Britain Seminar planned for Thursday 31 October, 6.30pm, has had to be postponed due to planned industrial action at the University on that day. The event has been rescheduled and will now take place at 6.30 on Thursday 5 December. If you have already registered for this event you do not need to register again.
Full details of this 5 December Seminar are available at: https://iib20130512.eventbrite.co.uk/
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you.
24 Oct: Dr Darragh Gannon, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The Irish in Great Britain and the Irish Question, 1916-22
7 Nov: Dr Louise Raw, independent scholar
Striking a Light, 1888: the Irish Matchwomen Who Made History
14 Nov: Dr Terence McBride, University of the West of Scotland
Irishness in Glasgow, 1848-61: ‘Catholic’ public elites and Ribbonism
21 Nov: Dr Charlotte Wildman, University of Manchester
Irish-Catholic Women and Modernity in 1930s Liverpool
5 Dec: Natasha Powers, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Escaping the Famine? Skeletal evidence for the health of Irish migrants
in mid-nineteenth century London
Seminars will take place on Thursday evenings at 6.30-8.00pm
Attendance is free but places are limited so it is essential to register in advance at: https://iib2013.eventbrite.co.uk/
or
https://iib20130512.eventbrite.co.uk/ for the seminar on 5 December
Room TM1-38, London Metropolitan University, Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road, N7 8DB
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you are cordially invited to
the second meeting of the
Seminar in Modern Irish History
for the Michaelmas Term 2013
30 Oct Brian Walker (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Villain, victim or prophet: Lady Gregory, Sir William Gregory and the Great Irish Famine.’
Seminar Room 2, Chapel Court, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
All meetings will begin at 5 p.m.
The seminar is generously supported by the Trevelyan Fund of the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge, with a contribution from the Embassy of Ireland.
Eugenio Biagini
Bronwen Walter
Sean Campbell
Niamh Gallagher, Secretary
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St Mary’s University College
Researching (Irish) Modernities:
A Postgraduate Conference Day
Saturday 16 November 2013
Shannon Room (adjoining Refectory, 1st floor)
Researching Modernities
9.30 – 10.00 Arrival, Coffee and Formal Opening: Lance Pettitt
10.00 – 10.50 Keynote I – Professor Alison Oram (Leeds Met Uni) ‘Sexuality and Modernity in the Popular Press 1914-1960.’
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee
11.20 – 12.30 Literature, Design and Popular Culture Panel
Prof Fiona Robertson (St Mary’s, Walpole Professor)
‘Romanticism’s Delusive Architecture.’
Dr Brigid Cherry (St Mary’s, Research Fellow)
‘Shadows on the Small Screen: The Televisuality and Generic Hybridity of Southern Gothic Television’.
Dr Peter Howell – ‘Compound Interest and Modern Selfhood’. (St Mary’s Senior Lecturer)
Chair: Maria Mellins
12.30– 1.30 Lunch + Book Launch – Vampire Cultures. Dr Maria Mellins (St Mary’s)
Researching Irish Modernities
1.30 – 2.30 Keynote II: Prof. Ronan Fanning (Emeritus, University College Dublin)
“THE ROLE OF VIOLENCE IN BRITAIN’S IRISH SETTLEMENTS OF 1921”
Chair: Dr Ivan Gibbons
2.30 – 3.45 Politics and History Panel
Dr Ciara Meehan (University of Hertfordshire)
‘Creating the Free State: Cumann na nGaedheal and image projection, 1922-32.’
Mr Mike Mecham (PhD candidate, St Mary’s)
‘Researching protestant labourism: an exercise in revisionism?’
Chair: Dr Daragh Minogue
3.45 – 4.10 Break
4.10 – 5.15 Literature and Culture Panel
Ms Maria Rita Viana (PhD candidate, Wolfson College, Oxford/USP, Brazil) “Yeats, letters and the laboratory of the self”
Dr Tom Herron (Leeds Met University) “Trashing the aisling – the contemporary Irish vision poem.”
Dr Sinead Moynihan (Univ. of Exeter) “Tracking the Ambiguities of the Modern”: Neil Jordan, the Seaside Resort and Ireland’s “Mixed Temporalities”.
Chair: Dr Richard Mills.
5.15 – 5.30. Closing
Post conference drinks – The Alexander Pope Hotel, Twickenham
Bookings in advance essential through the Conference Administration: Wendy Bushnellwendy.bushnell@smuc.ac.uk Tel: 0208-2404249.
Conference Organiser: Prof. Lance Pettitt lance.pettitt@smuc.ac.uk
Prices Tariff:
A. All Day – including lunch/teas £25. Waged
B. All Day – PhD students £20
C: ‘Irish Modernities’ – Lunch and all afternoon sessions – Lecturers £20;
D: Lunch and all afternoon sessions – PhD students £15
E: (No Lunch) Keynote + afternoon sessions + tea – Unwaged/Senior Citizen £10