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Current Seminar Series
Our Irish Studies Research Seminar Series runs weekly on Monday afternoons at 4.30. Seminars are open to members of the university and the public.
Irish Studies Seminars - Autumn 2024
Seminars are on Mondays at 4.30 pm in the Irish Studies Seminar Room, 27UQ/01/003, unless otherwise indicated. The series begins on Monday 23 September 2024.
Most seminars will be both in-person and online via MS Teams. Please register via MS Teams. Events are free and open to all.
Date: 9/12/2024
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square 01/003
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion
Date: 20/01/2025
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square, 01/003
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion
Previous Seminars
A number of our previous Seminars are available online for audio/video streaming.
CLICK HERE to see the programmes and access the streams.
Irish Studies International lecture
The Institute hosts an annual International Irish Studies Lecture given by a distinguished academic or figure in public service.
Previous lecturers have included Prof Diane Hall (Victoria University, Melbourne), Brian O'Dwyer (New York), Prof Pat Palmer (Maynooth), Prof David Lloyd (University of California, Riverside), Prof Richard Kearney (Boston College), Prof Joe Lee (New York University), Prof Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam), Prof Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne) and Prof Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool).
Date: 4/06/2024
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Council Chamber
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion
Economic and Social History Society Conference
Queen's University Belfast, 29-30 November 2024
Proposals for papers, or for panels of papers, are welcome before 13 Sept. Proposals relating to all aspects of Irish economic and social history, from medieval to modern to contemporary history, will be considered. In particular, the conference organisers welcome papers that speak to the following themes: • Kin and networks of care • Migration and minorities • Labour history • Street cultures and urban environments • Health, medicine and welfare • Social and economic impacts of technological developments • Household structure and labour participation • Entrepreneurship and investment • Patterns of inequality • National development policies. Click on link for full CFP
Call for Papers
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies
Autumn 2024 Programme
All seminars will take place at 6pm in Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square, 01/003, Queen’s University Belfast. If you would like to attend online, please get in touch and I will send you the Teams link.
USIHS Webpage
Transatlantic Peacemaking Conference
Transatlantic Peacemaking: The role of the United States in making and sustaining peace in Ireland, north and south.
Friday 4 October 2024, Royal Irish Academy, in collaboration with QUB, University of Galway, UCC and Boston College
Programme and Registration
The Future of Irish Studies
A symposium co-hosted by The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Notre Dame, The Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, and The Mitchell Institute, QUB. Wednesday 12 June 2024, Larmour LT, QUB.
What is the future of Irish Studies? How will the study of Ireland and the Irish develop in an environment of ever-declining academic resources and ever-fewer academic appointments? How do we justify ourselves, both to society and to the academy? What even is Irish Studies? Is it a discipline, a subfield, an anachronism, or simply a convenient portmanteau into which the various disciplines interested in the island and its peoples are placed? What is happening now? What should come next? How should it be supported? Join the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, and Queen’s University Belfast’s Institute of Irish Studies and Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, to consider these and other issues facing our profession and discipline(s). This is a free event but registration is required.
Report on the event
Symposium: 'Oh, what's occurring'
'Oh, what's occurring': Irish Catholicism in the Anglophone World of Australia, Wales, the United States and beyond.
A workshop with Dr Sarah Roddy (Maynooth), Conor Brockbank (QUB) and Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB). 31 May 2024 at 4pm, QUB Graduate School
Symposium - Love & War: 1914-2024
15-17 May 2024
A 3- day symposium hosted by the project 'Acts of Union: Mixed Marriage in Modern Ireland'
More information and registration
Date: 21/03/2024
Time: 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: 27 University Square 01/003
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion
Date: 23/02/2024
Time: 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Location: Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square, 01/003
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion
Religious Studies Research Forum 2023-4
Religion in Modern Ireland
Seminars are on Thursdays at 4.15 in 27UQ/01/003 Contact Dr Andrew Holmes for more information r.holmes@qub.ac.uk
Religious Studies Research Forum
Date: 4/10/2023
Time: 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Connolly House, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion
EFACIS Conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 24-27 August
EFACIS (the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) travels to Belfast for the first time in 2023. The Federation holds an interdisciplinary Irish Studies conference every two years in a different European city, and the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s is delighted to have the opportunity of hosting the 2023 event. We look forward to welcoming some 200 delegates from fourteen European countries alongside Ireland the UK, as well as from other countries such as the US and Canada, Brazil, Argentina, China and South Africa. The range of speakers and topics is testament to the global vibrancy of Irish Studies, and the conference will also offer an opportunity for Queen’s to showcase its own extensive strengths in the field, which has been co-ordinated by the university’s Institute of Irish Studies since 1965. The conference is co-sponsored by the Seamus Heaney Centre for Creative Writing and the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, with support from the Schools of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, and of Arts, English and Languages.
The conference theme is 'Unions and Partitions in Ireland'. This incorporates historical and literary reflection on origins and memory of Ireland’s partition and the creation of its successor states, as well as more contemporary focus on the way in which the legacies of the ‘Troubles’, changing demographics and political instability have come to render the future of that 1920-22 settlement highly uncertain. The impact of the UK’s Brexit on Ireland, north and south, continues to complicate Northern Ireland’s engagement with the European Union as well as the United Kingdom. The conference also offers the opportunity to reflect on profound cultural questions about Irish identities on what remains a partitioned island, and place these in comparative contexts. This has and continues to play out in the cultural politics of language, and in rich seams of writing addressing not only the Irish border but partitions within culture, religion, class, and sexualities, north and south and past and present. At the same time, as Irish society in both parts of the island becomes increasingly diversified as a consequence of cultural and social change and migration, the dominance of older binaries of unitary identity has become increasingly challenged.
The conference runs 24-27 August 2023 on the main Queen’s campus.
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/efacis-2023/
Conference: Africa in Ireland
28-29 April 2023 at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
The International Consortium for the Study of Africans in Ireland (ICSAI) invites submissions of papers for an interdisciplinary conference on Africa in Ireland: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. This conference aims to address the historical presence of Africans and the Black diaspora in the past, present, and future on the island of Ireland. It will critically engage with this presence and the convergences of Irish-African cultural, political and religious relationships and connections. For details and Call for Papers (closing 1 Feb. 2023) click below.
Postgrad Reading Groups
The Reading Group in Irish Studies is open to all interested postgrads (MA and PhD), and is run by the Postgrads.
It meets monthly in term time.
Irish Studies Reading Group
Details to follow
The Troubles Reading Group
Details to follow
Previous Events in Irish Studies
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Date: 25/11/2024
Time: 4:30PM - 6:00PM
Location: Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square 01/003
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion