Archive 2023

Queen’s hosted the British Academy’s Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture on the topic, “The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the Union.”

QUB hosted the 2023 General Conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. With more than 200 participants, the conference reflects the vibrant and dynamic community within the field of political studies.

An academic from Queen’s has been awarded the prestigious RSPB Medal on behalf of the Climate Coalition Northern Ireland for their successful campaigning to deliver historic climate legislation in Northern Ireland.

Congratulations to HAPP colleague Dr Amanda Slevin, awarded the AHSS ‘Citizenship and Outreach’ award for ‘her work on multi-level climate action and sustainability within and beyond Queen’s University Belfast.’

Three academics from Queen’s University have been elected as Fellows to the Academy of Social Sciences.
The Centre for Creative Ethnography was successfully launched on 28th September 2023 in Belfast and online with a diverse line-up of speakers and activities.

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics hosts 53rd Annual Conference of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

'Migration, Forced Displacement and the Politics of Loss in Ukraine and beyond' on 20-23 June 2023.

Queen’s hosted a conference in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that explored the challenges facing scholars, museum professionals and archivists as they seek to address difficult, contested or traumatic pasts.

Applications open for a fully funded three-year British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship award to outstanding early career researcher across any subject area in the humanities or social sciences.

Congratulations to two colleagues from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, recently elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy.

Congratulations to Dr Juneseo Hwang, winner of the PSA 2022-2023 Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for best dissertation on Inequality & Social Justice.

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics hosted the 2022 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) biennial conference in Belfast in July 2022.