News and Events
- Irish Studies Graduates December 2012
- International Summer School affiliated to Fulbright
- Fulbright Scholar studies at Queen's
- St Patrick's Day and National Identity
- Irish Studies Seminar Programme
- Irish Studies Graduates December 2009
- Irish Studies Raises Money for Children in Need
- Book Launch - John Wilson Foster
- Ethnic Conflict and European Integration
International Summer School affiliated to Fulbright
Commenting on the Summer Institute, Michael Scott-Kline, Director of the Fulbright Programme, said:
“We’re delighted that more American students will have the opportunity to experience life at one of the UK’s top universities. The Queen’s University Belfast Summer Institute will offer all that we would hope for in a Fulbright exchange programme: a challenging academic component, a rich and multifaceted cultural experience and an enthusiastic and welcoming host. The Institute will play a key role in deepening the relationship between the US and UK and will add something original and exciting to our 63-year old institution.”
Details regarding the Summer Institute can be found on Fulbright’s website at:
For information about applying directly to the Irish Studies International Summer School, please visit the Institute of Irish Studies Summer School Web pages.
Contact:
Michael Scott-Kline
Director, Fulbright Awards Programme
0207 498 4014 or 077 0807 1970
Fulbright Scholar studies at Queen's
Caleb Hamman
As a Fulbright Scholar, Caleb will carry out research at Queen’s University Belfast concerning the political practices and the peace building activities of youth in Northern Ireland. Following his Fulbright year, he will pursue a PhD in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame where he has received admission and a University Presidential Fellowship.
St Patrick's Day and National Identity
St Patrick's Day and National Identity Survey
This will be our second year collecting survey data, and from past experience we have come to realise how difficult it is to recruit participants. With this in mind, we would be grateful if you could pass on information about our project, or links to our surveys, to anyone you know who may be interested in participating (students, colleagues, etc.). We have attached recruitment flyers for potential participants in the Belfast and the Dublin area which contain links to the appropriate survey.
Our research is part of the Embodying Imagined Communities: The Role of Collective Participation in the Transformation of Irish Identities project. The project looks at St Patrick's Day and 1916 Easter Rising commemoration events in Belfast and Dublin - why people participate in these events and their potential to unite and divide. The research is a joint initiative between Queen's, the University of Limerick and St Andrew's University and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Irish Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University, in conjunction with the University of Limerick and the University of St. Andrews, is inviting people to participate in a study examining the experience of collective events. We are looking for those who will be attending and those who will not be attending this year’s Belfast St Patrick’s Day parade.
To do so, we would like you to complete a short survey a week before and after the parade, and three months after the parade. The survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes to complete and has received ethical approval from the relevant ethics committees. In exchange we will enter your name in a raffle to win a number of prizes.
http://edu.surveygizmo.com/s3/479925/St-Patrick-s-Day-Time-1-Belfast-SNS
Taking part in the survey is entirely voluntary. If you do choose to take part, you will not be asked for any identifying information and so your participation will be anonymous – your responses cannot be traced back to you.
If you have any questions feel free to email:
+44 (0) 28 9097 3861
d.blaylock@qub.ac.uk
Irish Studies Seminar Programme
Seminars are normally held 1.00 - 2.00pm. Everyone welcome. Booking not required.
More information on the current/past programmes available in our 'Research' section.
We are delighted that Elaine Ni Bhraonáin, Nicoletta Patri and Mary-Kathryn Rallings are continuing their studies as PhD students in the Institute of Irish Studies. Claudia Bossay, Martin McCleery and Timothy Watt are also continuing as PhD students at Queen's in Film Studies, Politics and History respectively.
Caoimhe Nic Dhábhéid graduated with a PhD and is now a Research Fellow in the Institute for 2009-2010.
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Irish Studies Raises Money for Children in Need
Book Launch - John Wilson Foster
26 November 2009
Booklaunch:
Between Shadows, modern Irish writing and culture, by John Wilson Foster
Guest speaker: Professor Terence Brown
Venue: Queen's Welcome Centre, Queen's University Belfast, 6.30pm.
RSVP: Karen O'Donaghue info@iap.ie
Institute of Irish Studies : Seminar Programme Autumn 2009
Monday 30 November 2009
‘Ethnic Conflict and European Integration’
by
Edward Moxon-Browne, University of Limerick
1.00pm
Seminar Room 1, Institute of Irish Studies, 53-67 University Road
Full Seminar Programme can be found at:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/SeminarProgrammes/
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BBC Children In Need
Thank you to everyone who contributed towards the Institute of Irish Studies sponsored beard shaving event on Friday 20th November. Thanks to the generosity of students and staff from the Institute, School of History and Anthropology and School of English, the Institute was able to raise £901 for a very worthy cause. A very special thank you goes to Dr. Dominic Bryan and Dr. Eamonn Hughes for donating their facial hair (and dignity) to make the event a great success.
Contemporary Irish Political History Research Cluster & Governance and Public Policy Cluster will be holding a Postgraduate Workshop.
Speakers: Robert Smyth, 'Why do journalists always get it wrong? The Misinterpretation of opinion polls in the Irish media', Jason Foy, 'Brian Faulkner: the challenges of researching and writing a political biography'.
5pm, Seminar Room 1, 53-67 University Road.
This joint workshop will be followed by a drinks reception to be held in Seminar Room 1, 53-67 University Road from 6.30pm.
All Welcome.
Ulster Bank, Belfast Festival at Queen's
The Ulster Bank, Belfast Festival at Queen's is Ireland's biggest international festival with over 70 events from around the world. The festival takes place from 16 - 31 October 2009. Highlights include drama & dance, music, visual arts, comedy, film and talks. Please follow the link below to discover many events with an Irish theme...
27 October 2009
'Big fat lies and fiction' a reading and discussion based on politics and the literature of Glenn Patterson.
Glenn Patterson is the author of many novels: Burning Your Own (1988), for which he was awarded the Rooney Prize and a Betty Trask first novel prize, Fat Lad (1992), Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995), The International (1999), Number 5 (2003), That Which Was (2004), Lapsed Protestant (2006), The Third Party (2007), and Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times (2008). His short stories have been broadcast on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and articles and essays have appeared in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Independent, Irish Times, Dublin Review. He has been Creative Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, writer-in-residence at University College Cork and Queen's University. He has also presented numerous television documentaries and an arts review series for RTE.
Venue: Bell Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, QUB
Time: 5.30pm
All Welcome
22 October 2009
Dr. Diarmuid Whelan (University College Cork) will give a lecture entitled 'Conor Cruise O'Brien: making politics out of the personal'. The lecture will be based on his new book published by Irish Academic Press (Conor Cruise O'Brien: Violent Notions) and copies will be on sale at the lecture. The discussant will be Dr. Richard Bourke (Queen Mary College, University of London).
Venue: Bell Lecure Theatre, Physics Building, QUB at 5pm.
This lecture is a joint venture between Irish Studies International Research Initiative and Irish Politics Research Cluster, QUB.
August 2009
Congratulations to Professor Desmond Bell, School of Languages, Literature and Performing Arts, QUB, who will be taking part in the next QUB / Boston College Faculty Exchange in March 2010. Professor Bell is Professor of Film Studies at QUB and his research interests include the political economy of the media, documentary film theory and practice, the history of visual culture, social history of photography in Ireland, practice-based research methodologies in film and the visual arts. He is also an active documentary film maker, whose work has been regularly broadcast and screened at international film festivals.
The Irish Legal History Society has recently launched its new website:
www.ilhs.eu
.The website features details of upcoming events and publications, information on scholarships and bursaries and information for those wishing to become members.
The Society's objective is to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of Irish law, especially by the publication of original documents and scholarly works.
Membership is open to anyone with an interest in legal history. The annual subscription is £40, and this entitles members to receive on publication a copy of each book brought out by the Society. Members can also purchase books from our back catalogue.
If you would like any further information, please see our website or contact Dr Niamh Howlin (
n.howlin@qub.ac.uk
) , School of Law, QUB.
26-27 June 2009
Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, c.1833 - 1948
Institute of Irish Studies, 53-67 University Road, Queen's University Belfast
A conference sponsored by the ESRC and the Royal Historical Society and hosted by QUB and Oxford Brookes University
Closing date for registration 16 May 2009
Contact Dr Olwen Purdue & Professor Peter Gray, School of History, email: povertyconference@qub.ac.uk
For further details follow link to conference website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/History/NewsandEvents/Conferences/poverty09/
1 June 2009
The Irish Studies International Research Initiaitive hosted a public lecture by Professor Adrian Little (University of Melbourne):
Disjunctured narratives: reconciliation and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland
Professor Adrian Little was educated at Nottingham Trent University and Queen's University Belfast where he was awarded his PhD in 1993. He taught at University College Northampton and Goldsmiths College, University of London where he specialized in political and social theory before joining the School as Lecturer in Political Theory in February 2004. In 2008 he became Associate Professor and Reader in Political Theory and the new Head of School.
Professor Little's research interests include: contemporary political and social theory, democratic theory and practice, Northern Irish politics and British politics.
His recent monographs include:
Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
Democracy and Northern Ireland: Beyond the Liberal Paradigm? (London: Palgrave, 2004)
The Politics of Community: Theory and Practice (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002)
Professor John Morison, Professor Richard English, Professor Keith Jeffery
15 May 2009
Congratulations to Professor Richard English, (School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy), Professor John Morison (School of Law) and Professor Keith Jeffery (School of History and Anthropology) who were recently elected as Members of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) at a ceremony in Dublin. Membership of the Royal Irish Academy is awarded to scholars who who have attained international distinction in science or the humanities and social sciences. Professors English, Morison and Jeffery have all made valuable contributions through their research in various aspects of Irish Studies at QUB.
Dr Tim Wilson (QUB), Professor Adrian Guelke (QUB), Dr Duncan Morrow (Community Relations Council), with a portrait of Professor Frank Wright (QUB)
15 May 2009
The International Politics and Ethnic Conflict Cluster (IPEC), QUB, hosted a one-day symposium:
‘No place apart? Celebrating Frank Wright and Comparative Approaches to the Study of Ethnic Conflict’.
This one day symposium was held in the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB. As the title indicates, the aim of the conference was both to take general stock of the ways in which Northern Ireland does (or does not) resemble other deeply divided societies around the world, but also to remember the provocative comparative legacy left by Frank Wright who taught at QUB between 1973 and 1992. The day was therefore very much a celebration of both Frank Wright and his work: and to this end a photographic portrait has been made that will be hung in the main conference room in the School of Politics.
The event was organised by Dr Timothy Wilson, Research Fellow, Irish Studies International Research Initiative, QUB. The keynote address was delivered by Professor Adrian Guelke (Queen's University Belfast).
No Place Apart? Poster
7 May 2009
Dr Eamonn Hughes (School of English, QUB) welcomed Dr Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) to the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, to deliver a public lecture on 'Biopower and Bare Life in Irish Literature: Castle Rackrent; In the Shadow of the Glen; The Gathering'.
4-5 April 2009
Moore Symposium: International Perspectives on Thomas Moore
The School of English, Queen's University Belfast, hosted a symposium on 4-5 April 2009
The two aims of this conference were to provide new multiple perspectives on the Irish writer and musician Thomas Moore (1779-1852) and to stimulate dialogue between fields of Moore criticism that currently operate exclusively. To these ends, keynote papers were presented by literary critics, musicologists and historians; and by eminent scholars of British Romanticism and from differing methodological schools within Irish Studies.
This event was part of the research network on 'United Islands? Multi-lingual radical poetry and folk song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820', led by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown, and was funded by an AHRC Research Networks / Workshop Grant.
The symposium organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Irish Studies International Research Initiative and the School of English, QUB.
Thomas Moore Symposium - Speaker Biographiess
Professor Ruth-Ann Harris from Boston College spent a week at QUB as part of our first Queen's University Belfast & Boston College Faculty Exchange Programme, 2008-2009.
As well as researching archives at QUB Professor Harris delivered a seminar paper on 'The women of Carrickmacross: from petitions undermining patriarchy to immigrants in North America' to several members of QUB staff, graduate students and members of the public. Professor Harris also conducted a graduate workshop on 'Researching and finding the voices of women: what are the specific aspects of female emigration?' to postgraduate students from a variety of Schools.
Professor Graham Walker, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, QUB, visited Boston College in April 2009 as part of the first Queen's University Belfast and Boston College faculty exchange programme.
"I am delighted and honoured to have been chosen to spend time in Boston to further my research project and to establish links with scholars based in the College. I look forward, while I am there, to promoting Queen’s in every possible way." Professor Graham Walker
2 April 2009
The Irish Studies Initiative, with Manchester University Press, hosted a reception to celebrate the launch of two books by QUB academics.
Professor Peter Gray, School of History and Anthropology, The Making of the Irish Poor Law, 1815 -43
Guest Speaker: Lord Bew of Donegore
Dr Katy Hayward, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Irish Nationalism and European Integration: the official redefinition of the island of Ireland
Guest Speaker: Professor Liam O'Dowd, QUB
Many thanks to all who attended.
The QUB Annual Irish Studies Lecture 2009
4 March 2009
The Irish Studies International Research Initiative recently held the QUB Annual Irish Studies Lecture which was delivered by Professor Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam).
Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Professor Leerssen studied Comparative Literature and English at the University of Aachen and Anglo-Irish Studies at University College Dublin; he took his PhD in 1986 at the University of Utrecht. In that year he was appointed at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained the chair in Modern European Literature in 1991.
He served as director of the Huizinga Institute (Dutch National Research Institute for Cultural Studies) from 1995 until 2006. He held the Erasmus Lecturership at Harvard University in 2003, and was awarded the Spinoza Prize in 2008.
Many thanks to Professor Leerssen for a superb lecture, and to QUB staff and students from many different Schools who attended.
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On 16th and 17th January 2009 Queen's University Belfast held the Belfast International Terrorism Workshop.
This workshop brought together some of the world’s most distinguished scholars in the field of terrorism and political violence, drawn from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and reflecting a wide range of intellectual approaches to the subject. The aim was to hold two days of Workshop Sessions to engage systematically with a series of focused questions concerning the causes, explanations, sustenance, nature and ending of terrorism, as well as the best analytical and political responses to the phenomenon.
Our thanks to all those who took part in, or attended, the workshop.
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