News
2nd October 2013, 5-7pm, Great Hall, Lanyon Building, QUB.
We extend a warm welcome to colleagues and students in QUB and beyond, to join us in a celebration of the interdisciplinary collaborative research in the humanities taking place here at Queen's. Find further details of the event here.
Enquiries to icrh@qub.ac.uk
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Thursday 7th November 2013 at the Postgraduate Centre, QUB.
The Institute is supporting this one day workshop which is organised accross the Schools of Modern Languages, English, and History and Anthropology. It is open to all MA and Doctoral level students who are interested in or are currently pursuing research in the medical humanities.
Click here for further details.
Registration Deadline 18 October 2013.
Enquiries to Robyn Atcheson (ratcheson01@qub.ac.uk)
Fellowships: Folger Shakespeare Library New Online Application Portal
We are delighted to announce the new online portal for applying for the Folger Shakespeare Library's five long-term or 45 short-term residential fellowships. The system allows applicants to modify their materials as many times as needed before submitting their final application. Recommenders, too, have a clean, easy portal through which to submit their letters of support. It also allows applicants to confirm before the deadline approaches that recommenders have submitted their letters. The application deadline for long-term fellowships is 1 November 2013.
Find out more about applying for a fellowship.
Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland General Meeting
Saturday 26th October 2013 at Queen's University Belfast
TOEBI aims to promote and support the teaching of Old English in British and Irish Universities, and to raise the profile of the Old English language, Old English literature and Anglo-Saxon England in the public eye. The organisation consists of some 100 professionals, students and other enthusiasts; it produces its own newsletter, holds an annual meeting and an AGM.
This event is supported by the School of English and the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities. Find full details on the School of English website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/Research/Conferences/TOEBI2013/
Enquiries to Marilina Cesario
Co-hosted by the School of History and Anthropology and the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities. Speakers will include Emmett O'Connor on Labour politics in Belfast 1880-1950; Peter Bunting on Left politics beyond nationalism; John Gray on contextualising the Lockout; Brian Kelly on Irish Labour in a global context; Michael Pierse on class, culture, Dublin and Belfast; Christopher J.V.Loughlin on religion and the roots of Belfast Labour; Sean Mitchell on class, sectarianism and the outdoor relief riots of 1932; and others.
This event will include a book launch by David Convey; Locked Out: A Century of Irish Working-class Life
Booking for this event is essential. Enquiries to Michael Pierse (m.pierse@qub.ac.uk)
Saturday 12 October 2013, 11am - 3pm, Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon South, QUB.
A research seminar by the School of Creative Arts, in association with the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities.
Guest Speaker: Dr Dave O’Brien (Centre for Cultural Policy and Management, City University, London).
Dave O’Brien has played a central role in the discussion of cultural value which is one of the AHRC’s key current themes and is the author of Cultural Policy Management, Value and Modernity in the Creative Industries, which is to be published later this year by Routledge. His work on cultural value includes a seminal report for DCMS. This event has been organised in conjunction with the MA in Arts Management and we are very keen to engage colleagues across the university in this important debate.
For further information and to reserve a place please contact David Grant (d.grant@qub.ac.uk).
Admission free. All welcome.
11-13 October 2013
Clinton Centre, Enniskillen
This event brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to consider the complexities of identity within Ireland in this crucial period. The registration fee is £15. It would be great to welcome colleagues and students from QUB at the event, which is sponsored by QUB School of GAP and NUI Galway School of Geography and Archaeology.
For more information please refer to the programme.
Hosted by Armagh Library.
Thursday 10 October 2013 at 7.30pm in the Long Room at Armagh Public Library.
Professor Thompson is Chair of English Textual Cultures in the School of English and Director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen's University Belfast. He is currently a founder member of a four-year European Research Commission project that brings together over eighty researchers across fourteen European countries to work on 'New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe'.
Professor Thompson's research interests include the history of books and collectors in anglophone Ireland, particularly questions relating to the collecting activities that have resulted in the survival of our Latin and vernacular written heritage in modern archives, libraries and other less accessible repositories.
For the lecture in Armagh Public Library he will focus on the crucial role played by Anglican clergy in shaping our understanding of Irish book history. He will offer some ideas during the lecture on why such research is relevant and how it can contribute to the cultural history and social wellbeing of the twenty-first-century communities still served by the earliest public libraries on this island.
The Governors and Guardians of the Library are grateful to Professor Thompson for his support for the Library in this way. Admission to the lecture is free and further information may be sought by contacting Armagh Public Library.
Thursday 10 October at 4.00pm
Elmwood Lecture Theatre, Elmwood Learning and Teaching Centre, Elmwood Avenue
"Bible Reading in Early Modern England"
Tuesday 8 October
4.00pm (03/028, PFC –Please note the change of venue)
Enquiries to Professor Crawford Gribben (c.gribben@qub.ac.uk)
The Engaging with Government programme is delivered by the AHRC in conjunction with the Institute for Government. The programme aims to provide an insight into the policy making process and to help participants to develop the skills needed to pursue the policy implications of their research.
This three day programme will take place in February 2014.
Further details to include the eligibility criteria can be found here.
26th and 27th Septmeber 2013 at QUB
hosted by the Translation and Interpreting Group at QUB
This conference explores the past, present and future of signed languages in the UK and Ireland in the contect of the Politics of Recognition. Enquiries to Sally Gillespie (sgillespie10@qub.ac.uk)
17th to 26th September 2013.
A series of screenings, talks and events by BBC Northern Ireland to celebrate the life of Louis MacNeice.
Full details on all of the events can be found at bbc.co.uk/events
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A new online interactive historical atlas of the city of Derry/Londonderry is now available. The Digital Atlas of Derry/Londonderry is the result of a collaborative project between Queen’s University Belfast, the Royal Irish Academy, and Derry City Council, and forms part of Derry’s 2013 ‘UK City of Culture’ programme.
Using state of the art digital technologies, the atlas allows users to explore and navigate the changing urban landscapes of Derry over five centuries. Led by Dr Keith Lilley, a team of researchers at Queen’s in the School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology developed the digital content and online delivery of the atlas. The completion of the atlas has formed part of Dr Lilley’s activities as an Institute Fellow at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities during 2013.
To access the online Digital Atlas of Derry/Londonderry visit: www.ria.ie/digitalatlasderry
The ICRH held a roundtable event on Monday 2 September 2013 to explore setting up a Belfast Urban Obervatory. Interested parties from local government, European policy makers and the business sector and community sectors attended the event.
Further details about Urban Obervatories and the progamme can be found here.
Eight exciting interdisciplinary project research groups have been successful in securing ICRH financial support for 2013-14:
- Cosmopolitanisms, Pre- to Post-Modern led by Dr Stephen Kelly
- Americas led by Dr Sarah Bowskill
- Poverty and Famine in Ireland: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, led by Professor Peter Gray
- Recomposing the City: Sonic Art and Urban Architecture, led by Dr Gascia Ouzounian and Dr Sarah Lappin
- International Crime Fiction, led by Dr Dominique Jeanerrod
- Mobilities: Cultural Exchange Beyond Borders, led by Professor Margaret Topping
- The Girl-The-Woman: Beyond Global and Generational Borders, led by Professor Yvonne Galligan
- Translating Improvisation: Beyond Disciplines, Beyond Borders, led by Dr Sara Ramshaw and Dr Paul Stapleton
Click here for further details.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Michael Alijewicz to the Institute. Michael, a visiting postdoctoral scholar from the Robert Penn Warren Centre for the Humanities, will be spending the 2013-14 academic year with us. Further details of Michael's research interests and activities are available here.
We are pleased to announce that QUB, via the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, has been accepted as an institutional partner of the Habitat Partner University Initiative. Further details can be found here.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Daniel Roberts from the School of English and Dr Dominic Bryan from the Institute of Irish Studies. Both Daniel and Dominic have taken up appointments at the ICRH for the 2013-14 academic year.
5-7 September 2013
"New Crops, Old Fields:
(Re)Imaging Irish Folklore"
The New Crops Programme will be finalised shortly. A book of abstracts is now available.
For enquires please contact newcrops@qub.ac.uk or visit http://newcrops.wordpress.com