Events & Conferences
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Ireland’s Drama in British Cities: The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference 2010
Manchester Metropolitan University
April 15-16 2010
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This conference will examine performances of Irish identity in Britain since the beginning of the 19th century – performances including events staged in the theatre and also on the streets, for example parades, musical performances and political demonstrations. Delegates will discuss these performances and their reception by various audiences, and will examine the ways that ‘Irishness’ – and particularly ‘second-generation Irishness’ – has changed in meaning and association in Britain, pressurised by contexts such as colonialism and nationalism, modernisation and economic change in Ireland, the Troubles, the Peace Process, the ‘new terrorist threat’ post-9-11, etc.
Keynote speakers are Mary Hickman (London Metropolitan University) and Patrick Mason (Director). Other speakers include: Claire Connolly (Cardiff University), Mike Cronin (Boston College), Karen Fricker (Royal Holloway, University of London), Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin), Patrick Lonergan (NUI, Galway), Holly Maples (UEA), Victor Merriman (Liverpool Hope University), Aoife Monks (Birkbeck College, University of London), Jim Moran (Nottingham University), Patrick O’Sullivan (Bradford University), Catherine Rees (Loughborough University), Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University), Gerry Smyth (Liverpool John Moores University),
Attendance fee is £50 / £25 (day rates are available).
Further information and registrationPast BAIS Events
Ireland’s Drama in British Cities: The Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference 2010
Manchester Metropolitan University
April 15-16 2010
More information
This conference will examine performances of Irish identity in Britain since the beginning of the 19th century – performances including events staged in the theatre and also on the streets, for example parades, musical performances and political demonstrations. Delegates will discuss these performances and their reception by various audiences, and will examine the ways that ‘Irishness’ – and particularly ‘second-generation Irishness’ – has changed in meaning and association in Britain, pressurised by contexts such as colonialism and nationalism, modernisation and economic change in Ireland, the Troubles, the Peace Process, the ‘new terrorist threat’ post-9-11, etc.
Keynote speakers are Mary Hickman (London Metropolitan University) and Patrick Mason (Director). Other speakers include: Claire Connolly (Cardiff University), Mike Cronin (Boston College), Karen Fricker (Royal Holloway, University of London), Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin), Patrick Lonergan (NUI, Galway), Holly Maples (UEA), Victor Merriman (Liverpool Hope University), Aoife Monks (Birkbeck College, University of London), Jim Moran (Nottingham University), Patrick O’Sullivan (Bradford University), Catherine Rees (Loughborough University), Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University), Gerry Smyth (Liverpool John Moores University),
Attendance fee is £50 / £25 (day rates are available).
Further information and registrationArchiving Place & Time: Contemporary Art Practice in Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement
Exhibition: from Friday 13th November
Symposium: Saturday 14th November
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It is now just over a decade since the historic Belfast / Good Friday Agreement was signed, bringing an end to some thirty years of bitter conflict in Northern Ireland. The 1998 Agreement has brought significant changes not just for people’s everyday lives but their awareness of both the preceding history and their hopes for the future. The effects have inevitably registered in the responses of artists to the changed situation.
From November 13, 2009, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery will launch with its partners a major exhibition of contemporary art from Northern Ireland since 1998. The exhibition will then tour to Portadown, Northern Ireland and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The artists selected have established significant reputations both within and outside Ireland, and include: Willie Doherty, Rita Duffy, John Duncan, Sandra Johnston, Conor McFeely, Conor McGrady, Mary McIntyre, Carbon Design, Philip Napier, Aisling O’Beirn, Paul Seawright.
On Saturday 14th November, a symposium will be held to discuss issues around the visual culture of Northern Ireland in this period. The symposium will include contributions from both critics and practitioners, including the curators of the exhibition and some of the artists showing there. Our Keynote speaker will be Willie Doherty.
The exhibition and auxiliary activities have been made possible by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Lottery Fund.
SYMPOSIUM
November 14 2009
Manchester Metropolitan University
£25 / £5 concessions.
Confirmed Speakers:
KEYNOTE: Willie Doherty
Fionna Barber (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Justin Carville (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology)
Sarah Edge (University of Ulster)
Megan Johnston (Director, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown)
Sandra Johnston (Independent artist, Belfast)
Declan Long (National College of Art and Design, Dublin)
Further information:
Email: Aidan Arrowsmith (a.arrowsmith@mmu.ac.uk)
Fionna Barber (f.barber@mmu.ac.uk)
EXHIBITION
Holden Gallery, Manchester: Nov 13 2009 – Dec 18 2009; Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown: April - May 2010; Wolverhampton Art Gallery: June - December 2010. Participating artists: Willie Doherty, Rita Duffy, John Duncan, Paul Seawright, Sandra Johnston, Mary McIntyre, Conor McGrady, Aisling O’Beirn, Carbon Design (Portadown only), Philip Napier, Conor McFeely,Curators:
Megan Johnston (Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown)
Fionna Barber (Manchester School of Art)
Further information:
Email: Fionna Barber (f.barber@mmu.ac.uk)
Megan Johnston (megan@millenniumcourt.org)
New Irelands: Conference Programme
Friday 14th – Sunday 16th September 2007
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An international & interdisciplinary conference on 14 – 16 September 2007 organised by the British Association for Irish Studies in conjunction with the Institute of Irish Studies and the Department of Politics of the University of Liverpool.
Programme
Friday 14 September
2.00pm – 4.30pm
Registration at The Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 1 Abercromby Square, Liverpool
(n.b. see Delegate Pack for details of a local history conference at St. Gerogre’s Hall; this afternoon’s session 3.30 – 5.00.p.m.on ‘Irish Catholic Identities’ is open to delegates)
5.30pm
Plenary Lecture: Prof. Alvin Jackson
Lecture Room G04, Institute of Irish Studies
Title: Changing Ireland 1800 – 1900
7.00pm
Reception: Institute of Irish Studies
Saturday 15 September
9.00 – 10.30am
Sessions 1 & 2
Session 1: Writing and Laughing About the North after 1998
Lynne Crook, University of Lancaster
Bloody Funny: Comedy and Violence in the Work of Colin Bateman
Stephen Hopkins, University of Leicester
The Autobiographical Writing of Gerry Adams: The Construction on an Exemplary Republican Life
Anthea Cordner, University of Newcastle
‘Disoriented, Seeing in Broken Vision’: Beckett’s Belfast Woman Meets Amelia Boyd Lovett
Session 2: Analysing and Expressing Change in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Fergus O’Connor, Independent Scholar
Dublin’s Contribution to the Nineteenth Century Medical Renaissance
Phillippe Brillet, University of Marseilles
The Famine as a Tribute to the West
Yvonne Siddle, University of Chester
‘The Very Nature of Mankind has Altered in the Old Country’: Anthony Trollope’s Representation of Change in Nineteenth Century Ireland
Christina Morin, Trinity College, Dublin
’The New Order of Things?‘: Catholic Emancipation and the Irish Historical Novel
10.30 – 11.00pm
Tea & Coffee Break
11.00am – 12.30pm
Sessions 3 & 4
Session 3: Books and Music
Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores University
Music, Modernism and Memory in Joyce and Proust
Ian McKeane, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
Jules Verne’s Construction of Ireland: a Misreading of a Diasporic Identity?
Fergal Tobin, Gill & Macmillan
Books and Borders
Session 4: Return Migrants and Clashing Identities
Sara Hannafin, NUI Galway
The Idea of Ireland as ‘home’: Place, Identity and Second Generation Return Migration
Sarah O’Brien, University of Limerick
A Second Exile: The Contested Identity of Irish Migrants in New Ireland
David Ralph, University of Edinburgh
Reconceptualising Home and Belonging: Irish Transnational Return Migrants from the USA, 1996 – 2006
12.30 – 2.00pm
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30pm
Sessions 5 & 6
Session 5: Expressing Irishness in the newly Free State
Una Newell, University College, Dublin
‘Have We Been Playing at Republicanism?’: An Analysis of the 1922 Pact Election Campaign in Galway
Mike McCabe, Hertford College, Oxford
Holy Blessing? Monsignor Luzio’s Visitation to the Free State in 1923
Lauren Arrington, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
A National Theatre for a New Ireland: Subsidising the Abbey
David Doyle, NUI, Galway
The Social and Occupational Structure of Sexual Dissidence in Independent Ireland, 1922 – 32
Session 6: Negotiating Justice and Awkward Identities
Kevin McNamara, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
Fraternal Rivalries: The ICTU, the AFL-CIO and the MacBride Principles
Peter Geoghegan, University of Edinburgh
Beyond Orange and Green? The Awkwardness of Negotiating Difference in Northern Ireland
Sarah Morgan, ESR2 Project & Bronwen Walter, Anglia Ruskin University
On Not Being Irish
3.30 – 4.00pm
Tea/coffee break
4.00 – 6.00pm
Free
Conference participants are reminded that there is a great variety of places well worth a visit in Liverpool, including the Albert Dock where Tate Liverpool and the Maritime Museum with its Slavery and Emigration exhibitions are located, and the Walker Art Gallery and Museum across the road from Lime Street Station
6.00pm
Reception: Institute of Irish Studies
7.30pm
Dinner in Liverpool (cost not included in conference fee)
Sunday 16 September
9.0am – 10.30am: Sessions 7 & 8
Session 7: Imagining and Performing Irishness
Sean Crosson, NUI Galway
‘The Reservoir of Irish Manhood’: Representing Gaelic Games in ‘Rocky Road to Dublin’ and ‘Clash of the Ash’
Claire Nally, University of Hull (Scarborough Campus)
Forging or Forgery of National Identity: the ‘Giraldus’ Portrait in Yeats’ ‘A Vision’
Aurelia L.S. Annat, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford
Gender, Myth and Mysticism: Ella Young’s Ireland, 1900 – 1925
Session 8: Searching for Home and Locality
Tudor Balinisteanu, University of Glasgow
The Land of Witch’s Heart’s Desire: Ontological Flickers in Marina Carr’s ‘By the Bog of Cats…’
Frank Shovlin, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
The West’s Asleep: Mike McCormack’s ‘Notes from a Coma’ and the End of Identity
John Kenny, NUI Galway
South of the Border, Down Monaghan Way: Localism and Popular Culture in Patrick McCabe
10.30am – 11.00am
Tea/Coffee
11.00am – 12.00pm
Plenary Lecture: Prof. Diane Negra on
Urban Space, Luxury Retailing and the New Irishness
End of Conference
Conference Fee
The Conference Fee is £75 (£60 unwaged & postgrad research students) paid by cheque made out to The British Association for Irish Studies and sent to:
M.A. Busteed
78 Hale Road, Hale, Altrincham
Cheshire WA15 9HS, UK
Please mark your envelope BAIS. Your payment will be acknowledged by email and a documentary receipt will be included in your delegate pack collected on registration in Liverpool
Accommodation
Hotels/B&Bs
Contact Liverpool Tourism on 0151 (from Republic of Ireland 0044 151) 709 8111 or bookaroom@merseyside.org.uk
There is a vast range of hotels; at the economy end of the market the following have recently opened hotels in Liverpool and have websites with online booking facilities:
Ibis
27 Wapping
Liverpool L1 8LY
0151 706 9800
ibishotel.com
Dolby
36–42 Chaloner Street
Queen’s Dock
Liverpool L3 4DE
dolbyhotels.co.uk
Express by Holiday Inn
Britannia Pavilion
Albert Dock
Liverpool L3 4AD
www.hiexpress.co.uk
Campanile
Chaloner Street
Queen’s Dock
Liverpool L3 4AJ
Hotel Information
Premier Travel Inn
Albert Dock
Liverpool L3 4AD
Premier Travel Inn
Vernon Street
Liverpool L2 2 AY
premiertravelinn.com
All (except the last) of these are in the Albert/Wapping Dock area of the city about 30 minutes walk or a £6 taxi ride (‘Mersey Cabs’ 0151 298 2222) from the conference site. There is also a bus service (No1, destination plate ‘Broadgreen Hospital’) which passes close to the University.
Because of the build up of events to Liverpool’s role as ‘European Capital of Culture’ early booking is advisable
Any further queries please contact me on 07789 990 725 or mervynbusteed@hotmail.com
Irish Historiographies: A Symposium
Saturday 12 May 2007
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Supported by: London Irish Studies Seminar; British Association for Irish Studies; School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London; Kings College, London.
Lock Keeper’s Graduate Centre, Queen Mary, University of London
10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:30 Prof. Hugh Kearney, (Amundson Professor of British History Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh): ‘In Search of Irish History’
11:30 Break
11.45 Prof. Ciaran Brady (Dept. of History, TCD): ‘Retarded Developments: Academic Professionalisation and the Roots of Revisionism, 1848 – 1938’
12:45 LUNCH
2:00 Dr Graham Dawson (Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton): ‘The Intractable Past: Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles’
3:00 Break
3:15 Prof. Angela Bourke (UCD, and Parnell Fellow, Cambridge): ‘Inadvertent Histories’
4:15 Professor Joseph Lee (Glucksman Ireland House, NYU): Closing Reflections
5:00 Drinks
Organisers: Dr Ian McBride, Kings College, London
Professor Clair Wills, Queen Mary, University of London
For further information and to register please contact Alistair Daniel, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London
Other Irish Studies Events
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29th Irish Conference of Historians: Power and History
University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College. Venue: Strand Hotel, Limerick. 12-14 June 2009
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IASIL 2010: Irish Literatures and Culture: New and Old Knowledges
NUI Maynooth, July 26-30 2010
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“Fins de siècles”: developments in Irish culture, literature and society from the 1890s to the 1990s: EFACIS PhD-seminar in Irish Studies
Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. September 6-10, 2010
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ACIS Mid-atlantic Regional Conference, 2010: Re-viewing Ireland: Irish Culture in Words, Music and Images
Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, USA. October 1-2 2010
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ACIS, Western Region, 2010: “(Re)Defining Irish-ness in the Contemporary/Post-Modern”
Boise State University, Idaho, USA
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Ireland and Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Institute of Irish STudies, Queen’s University Belfast, November 11-13 2010
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Kilt by kelt shell kithagain with kinagain” : Ireland and Scotland
University of Sunderland, November 12-14 2010