Annual Keith Jeffery Lecture in Public History

Playing with Mud; or What Happens Where Water Meets Land. Thinking About Archives, Absences, and the Spaces Between

Sonja Boon is a researcher, writer, teacher, and flutist. Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University, she is the author of four books, most recently Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands (co-authored with Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies, Palgrave, 2018), and What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019).

The 21st Annual Sir Bernard Crossland Lecture

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache” Security of supply in a low carbon energy system’ given by Professor Keith Bell, University Strathclyde.

This talk addresses some of the main challenges in ensuring security of supply in a renewables-dominated energy system, from ensuring stable responses to faults to filling in gaps in production during ‘Dunkelflaute’.

In Conversation with Dr Raja Al Gurg

The Chief Executives' Club at Queen's and Women in Business hosted 'In Conversation with Dr Raja Al Gurg' on Monday 13th March.

This lunchtime event was presented by Roseann Kelly MBE of Women in Business and hosted by The Chief Executives' Club at Queen's. The event was held in the Canada Room and Council Chamber. Dr Raja Al Gurg is Chairperson and Managing Director of the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group. With four decades of experience as a businesswoman in sectors as diverse as education and manufacturing, Raja has had hands-on experience with a wide variety of sectors in the corporate world.

The McCosh Lecture 2023

The McCosh Lecture for 2023 was given by David Livingstone, emeritus Professor of Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen’s University Belfast, on the subject ‘James McCosh and the Idea of a University’.

The lecture was held on 17 May 2023 in the Council Chamber, Lanyon building. The event was opened by Dr Andrew Holmes, Chair of the Forum, and introduced by Professor Ian Greer, Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.

The Belfast-Berkeley Conversation Series: Conflicted Europe

Conversation between Prof John Connelly (UCB) and Dr Alex Titov (QUB), moderated by Prof Maruška Svašek (QUB), June 2023.

How Not to Remember the Past

Professor Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum and author of numerous books including Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, delivers the keynote lecture of the conference co-organised by the Centre for Public History at Queen's University Belfast and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 'Conflict, Trauma and Memorialisation: Material Culture, Archives, Public Space'.

Race Equality in Higher Education Conference

Queen's Gender Initiative and Racial Equity Champions Network hosted a one-day conference on Race Equality in Higher Education, the first of its kind at the University, on 20 September 2023.

This, the first in a series of videos drawn from the conference, features a welcome and introduction, and the Keynote Address given by Sheree Acheson, Queen's graduate and multi-award winning leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Annual Keith Jeffery Lecture in Public History

Heather-Ann Thompson, ‘American Prison Uprisings and Why They Matter Across the World’

Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan. Her latest book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and five other book awards.

Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture 2023

Professor Catherine E. De Vries, Bocconi University, Milan - PUBLIC SERVICE DEPRIVATION AND THE RISE OF THE FAR-RIGHT

The Queen’s Annual Politics Lecture was delivered by Professor Catherine E. De Vries on 7 November, 2023. Catherine is Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. At Bocconi, she is also a Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime of the BAFFI-CAREFIN research centre and the Bocconi COVID crisis.