The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute For Global Peace, Security And Justice

Research Workshop: Orienting Political Murals in Belfast: Ecology, Audience, and Memory

Date: 2/04/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Belfast-Berkeley Conversation Series

Date: 3/04/2025
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Brian Friel Theatre, Queen’s University Belfast (Entrance: QFT, 20 University Square, Belfast BT7 1PA)
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Conference: Parity of Esteem as a Constitutional Principle in Northern Ireland and Beyond

Dates: 9/04/2025 - 10/04/2025
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

Lecture: Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US

Date: 14/04/2025
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Conference: AI Crossroads: Bridging Disciplines for Innovation

Date: 14/04/2025
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Research Workshop: Sexual Consent and Legal Reform: Towards a Communicative Responsibility Approach

Date: 30/04/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows' Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Ballyscullion Book Festival

Dates: 10/05/2025 - 11/05/2025
Time: 9:30AM - 5:30PM
Location: Ballyscullion Park, Bellaghy, Magherafelt, BT45 8NA
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Workshop: Creativity in Cultural Peace Work: Opportunities and Challenges

Date: 15/05/2025
Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Moot Court, School of Law, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Lecture: What Feminists Reveal When They Investigate Masculinities: The Case of Military ‘Manpower’

Date: 17/06/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Workshop: Global Rhythms: Music, Modernity & Conflict

Dates: 27/03/2025 - 28/03/2025
Time: 1:30PM - 12:30PM
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB (Room 02/017) and 27 University Square, QUB (Room 01/003)
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Conference: Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice

Date: 27/03/2025
Time: 9:00AM - 5:30PM
Location: T.M.C. Asser Instituut, R.J. Schimmelpennincklaan 20-22, The Hague, the Netherlands
Category: Conference / Symposium

In Conversation Event - Alex Burghart MP

Date: 27/03/2025
Time: 12:30PM - 2:30PM
Location: Peter Froggatt Centre, Room 02.026, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

ARINS Seminar: Philip McGuinness

Date: 20/03/2025
Time: 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

LINAS Seminar Series

Date: 19/03/2025
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Edgar Graham Room, second floor, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

ARINS/Irish Times survey findings - a panel discussion (Belfast)

Date: 13/03/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Location: Emeleus Lecture Theatre, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Seminar: Working with Former Combatants: Understanding Violence, Peace and Memory

Date: 13/03/2025
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Migrant Community Language Enclaves: The Case of the ‘Gaeltacht’ of Springfield, Massachusetts

Date: 12/03/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute,18 University Square, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

The Annual Harri Holkeri Lecture 2025

Date: 3/03/2025
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Location: Bell Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Peace Summit: A Reflection on the Past, A Call to Action

Dates: 26/02/2025 - 28/02/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 4:30PM
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Category: Conference / Symposium

The Annual Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation Lecture 2025

Date: 24/02/2025
Time: 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Location: Great Hall, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

LINAS Seminar Series

Date: 19/02/2025
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Edgar Graham Room, second floor, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Research Workshop: Papa, the Mighty Man, and the Klan: The Challenges of Writing Personal History

Date: 19/02/2025
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows' Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Lecture: Does Customary International Law Prohibit Amnesties?

Date: 29/01/2025
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Conference: Philosophy in Schools Now!: Empowering Young Minds in Northern Ireland

Date: 14/01/2025
Time: 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Location: Riddel Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5EE
Category: Conference / Symposium

Restoring Justice and Demanding Accountability: Reflections from Guantanamo and Beyond

Date: 12/12/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: The Moot Court, School of Law, QUB (MST.02.006)
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Research Workshop: Does Counter-Terrorism Work?

Date: 11/12/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Lecture: Resurgent Authoritarianism’s Challenge to Democracy’s Status as an International Norm

Date: 27/11/2024
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Senate Room, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Workshop: Roman History: Late Republican History in Strange Places

Date: 22/11/2024
Time: 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Lecture: Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice and Rights Politics in Most of the World

Date: 20/11/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

LINAS Seminar Series

Date: 13/11/2024
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Room 02/011, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Research Workshop: The Legality and Limits of the Anti-Amnesty Norm

Date: 5/11/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

LINAS DTP Information Session

Date: 30/10/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Online via MS Teams
Category: Information Event

Mitchell Institute October film screening

Film and Q&A: Resistance to Ecoviolence in the Amazon

Date: 23/10/2024
Time: 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Queen’s Film Theatre, 21 University Square, Belfast
Category: Film

Lecture - What is Neutrality?: Ireland’s Security and Defence Policy in a Changing World

Date: 22/10/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Negotiating with the Devil: Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation

Date: 16/10/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: The Moot Court, School of Law, QUB (MST.02.006)
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Seminar: Armed Groups, Transition and Dealing with the Past

Date: 9/10/2024
Time: 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Location: Elmwood Hall, Queen's University Belfast, Elmwood Mews, BT9 6BD
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

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These Dis-United States: Political Extremism in the United States and the 2024 Presidential Election

Date: 26/09/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Leaders Making Peace: Incentives towards Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Dates: 20/09/2024 - 21/09/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Various
Category: Conference / Symposium

Staged Reading - “The Rise of Maqoma” by Nandi Jola

Date: 26/06/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Brian Friel Theatre (beside QFT), 20 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2024

Date: 19/06/2024
Time: 8:45AM - 5:00PM
Location: Moot Court, School of Law, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

Symposium - ‘Our Roots Travel Widely’: Irish Poetry Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism (BRAN)

Date: 14/06/2024
Time: 10:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: The Linen Hall, 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast, BT1 5GB
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Conference - The Future of Irish Studies

Date: 12/06/2024
Time: 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Location: Larmor Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

Conference - The Disappeared

Dates: 10/06/2024 - 11/06/2024
Time: 8:30AM - 5:00PM
Location: Riddel Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road and The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, QUB.
Category: Conference / Symposium

Unsettled Shakespeares: Adaptation, Mobility, Justice

Dates: 10/06/2024 - 11/06/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: The Senate Room and The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, QUB
Category: Conference / Symposium

The Annual Harri Holkeri Lecture 2024

Date: 6/06/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Emeleus Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

Launch of Queer/Feminist Analysis of Peace & Security Framework Brief

Date: 27/05/2024
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Online
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Symposium - Love & War: 1914-2024

Dates: 15/05/2024 - 17/05/2024
Time: 5:30PM - 9:00PM
Location: Moot Court, School of Law, Main Site Tower, QUB.
Category: Conference / Symposium

NI Business and Human Rights Index Launch

Date: 14/05/2024
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: Moot Court, QUB Law School, Main Site Tower
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Institute of Irish Studies / Mitchell Institute Seminar - Huw Bennett, 'Uncivil War'

Date: 13/05/2024
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square, 01/003, QUB.
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Eaton Lecture 2024

Date: 10/05/2024
Time: 6:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, QUB.
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Frank Wright Memorial Lecture - Professor Melani Cammett (Harvard University)

Date: 9/05/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Emeleus Lecture Theatre, Lanyon Building, QUB.
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Film Screening - “We Will Remain”

Date: 8/05/2024
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Queen’s Film Theatre, 20 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1PA
Category: Film

Roundtable - The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race and the Martial Politics of Intervention

Date: 7/05/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, QUB
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Seminar - Youth, Truth, and Society

Date: 1/05/2024
Time: 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Book Talk - Douglas Janoff, Queer Diplomacy

Date: 30/04/2024
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Canada Room, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Post-Conflict Stage and Screen in Northern Ireland

Date: 30/04/2024
Time: 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Location: The American Irish Historical Society, 5th Avenue, New York
Category: Conference / Symposium

Talk4Peace: Innovative Strategies in Transformative Mediation and Inclusive Dialogue

Date: 29/04/2024
Time: 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

In Conversation with Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Date: 23/04/2024
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location: The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Conference - ‘The Automation Generation’: The Societal Implications of AI, ML and Big Data

Date: 22/04/2024
Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: Canada Room, Lanyon Building, QUB (in-person only event)
Category: Conference / Symposium

What to Preserve in Times of Crisis, and How

Date: 18/04/2024
Time: 9:30AM - 11:00AM
Location: The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

In-Conversation - Policing and Politics in Divided Societies

Date: 15/04/2024
Time: 5:45PM - 7:30PM
Location: The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Religion and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

Date: 11/04/2024
Time: 4:15PM - 5:30PM
Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Annual Front Line Defenders Lecture 2024

Date: 14/03/2024
Time: 4:15PM - 6:00PM
Location: Moot Court, School of Law, Main Site Tower, QUB.
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

LINAS Seminar Series

Date: 13/03/2024
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Room 03.004, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Peacebuilding, the Arts and the Participation of Children and Young People

Date: 12/03/2024
Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

The Importance of BDS for Decolonial Feminist Peace in Palestine

Date: 8/03/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Seminar - Meeting Violence with Non-Violence

Date: 7/03/2024
Time: 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Moot Court, School of Law, Main Site Tower
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

In-Conversation - Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK

Date: 5/03/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Museum of the Troubles and Peace initiative

Date: 26/02/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, QUB.
Category: Conference / Symposium

Research Workshop – Professor Michael Semple

Date: 21/02/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Conference - Academic Freedom under Threat: Global and Local Perspectives

Date: 20/02/2024
Time: 9:30AM - 4:40PM
Location: The Mac, Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

Book Launch - Mick Lynch: The making of a working-class hero

Date: 15/02/2024
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Location: Room 02/026, Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

LINAS Seminar Series

Date: 14/02/2024
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Room 03.004, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Annual Senator George J. Mitchell Peace Lecture 2024

Date: 13/02/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, QUB
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Book Launch - All We Want is the Earth. Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism

Date: 9/02/2024
Time: 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Location: Room 1/003, 27 University Square, QUB
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Lecture - Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes

Date: 31/01/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Senate Room, Lanyon Building, QUB
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Research Workshop - Documentary Film and the Politics of Radical Psychiatry

Date: 24/01/2024
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fellows Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

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