Events
Rebel Music: Peace, Conflict and (Counter-) Culture Beyond the Troubles
Seminar
Date: 9/12/2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Location: Room TR6, Graduate School, Queen's University Belfast
Bureaucracies in Transition
Seminar
Date: 6/12/2019
Time: 9:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: Main Site Tower, Room 8.014, Queen's University Belfast
Fireside Chat - Commemoration and Social Memory in Northern Ireland - Deirdre MacBride
Seminar, Drop-in
Date: 11/11/2019
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square
Past events
CONFERENCES AND DEBATE
A BEACON OF HOPE FOR DIVIDED NATIONS
The many conferences and events hosted by The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute aim to foster open and critical discussions about the challenges of uniting war-torn communities. Recent events include:
- Global Conflict: The Human Impact, co-ordinated in partnership with The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago to address the human cost of violent conflict.
- Building Peace: The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 20 Years On, which united key figures from the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
- Twenty Years of Peace, part of a series of conversations about pursuing progress in Northern Ireland, held at Yale University in the United States.
- The annual Harri Holkeri Lecture series at Queen’s, with recent guest speakers including Michael D Higgins and former Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern
Sounding Conflict Symposium
Symposium
Dates: 28/11/2019 - 29/11/2019
Time: 9:15AM - 5:45PM
Location: Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Cloreen Park. QUB
Gandhi Against the Human Race, Mitchell Institute Speaker Event
Lecture
Date: 15/11/2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Location: Old Staff Common Room, Queen's University, Belfast
An Evening with Damian Gorman
Seminar
Date: 8/11/2019
Time: 8:00PM - 9:30PM
Location: Mitchell Institute Common Room, Queen’s University Belfast, 18-19 University Square
Book launch - Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles
Dates: 5/11/2019 -
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Presbyterian Church Assembly Buildings Conference Centre, Fisherwick Place, Belfast
Fireside Chat -Community Activism in a Contested Society - Avila Kilmurray
Seminar, Drop-in
Date: 4/11/2019
Time: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square
Fireside Chat - Common Ground in Divided Communities - Jan King
Seminar
Date: 30/10/2019
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square, Queen's University, Belfast
Cultures of War and Peace in Afghanistan - Mitchell Institute Speaker Event
Lecture
Date: 22/10/2019
Time: 4:15PM - 5:30PM
Location: Room TR6, Graduate School
Professor Gerard Toal,Geopolitical Orientations in Russia’s Border States
Lecture
Date: 22/10/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Room 0G.006, Elmwood Building (Geography), Queen's University Belfast
When aid is not enough: integrating conflict prevention in humanitarian resilience programmes
Lecture
Date: 21/10/2019
Time: 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Location: Old Staff Common Room, Queen's University Belfast
Senator George J.Mitchell Peace Lecture 2019: Dr Mamphela Ramphele
Lecture
Date: 8/10/2019
Time: 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Canada Room & Council Chamber
Queen's University Belfast
University Road
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Keynote Lecture: Thinking Alongside the Stranger You Imagine Hears You: A précis on method
Conference
Date: 4/10/2019
Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Canada Roon, QUB
Keynote Lecture: Anthropological Methods for documenting human rights violations and genocide
Conference
Date: 3/10/2019
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Venue: Canada Room, QUB
Populism in New Media Democracies: the Case of Germany and the AfD
Lecture
Date: 30/09/2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Location: Queen's University Belfast, Room 01/004, Main Site Tower
Renaissance of the Peace Process Conference. What kind of society do we need?
Conference
Date: 27/09/2019
Time: 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Location: Canada Room, Queen’s University Belfast
The Conversation about Irish Unity
Lecture
Date: 7/08/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Mary’s University College
Constitutional Conversations Group
Lecture
Date: 6/08/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Mary’s University College
New Romantics: Performing Ireland and Cosmopolitanism on the Anniversary of Human Rights
Conference
Dates: 4/07/2019 - 5/07/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Brian Friel Theatre, 20 University Square, Queen's University Belfast