This provides an exciting opportunity for George Washington University students to engage at a deep level with the issues they are learning about in terms of post-conflict societies and to immerse themselves in Belfast’s rich cultural life, while their presence on campus also enriches the social, cultural and intellectual life of our entire student body.

We are also developing some very exciting research collaboration around public history in divided societies and have held two research colloquia – one at Queen’s and one on George Washington University Foggy Bottom campus – which have explored how division is perpetuated through uses and abuses of the past, the challenges of finding peaceful solutions, and the role that that civil society, communities and the cultural sectors might play in building more integrated and inclusive societies.

University of Virginia

Graduate exchange – US and European studies

This exchange programme provides an exciting opportunity for graduate students to spend a semester at the partners university taking classes and working with scholars working in the broad fields of US or European Studies. In 2019 we were delighted to welcome Bridget Hanrahan, a UVA student on the Masters in European Studies, to Queen’s for a semester, and in 2020/21 one of our History PhD students, Emma Taylor, who works on memory and women in the US civil war, will spend a semester working with Dr Caroline Janney Director of UVA’s John L. Nau III Centre for Civil War History.

In 2018, Dr Olwen Purdue and Professor Dominic Bryan visited the University of Virginia in Charlottesville to deliver public lectures on uses and representations of the past in divided societies, where they also met with students in the Batten School of Public Policy and with local community organisations to discuss tensions around.

Yale University

Jonathan Edwards Center of the Yale School of Divinity

In 2019 we launched a graduate exchange, which was the natural development of the close partnership that has been building between the School of HAPP and the School of Divinity at Yale. This is led by Professor Crawford Gribben who is a historian of Puritanism and evangelicalism and the founding co-director of the Jonathan Edwards Centre (UK), an affiliate of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

Boston College

Staff student exchanges

We have enjoyed a close relationship with Boston College over many years, with both academics and students benefitting from our exchange programmes. A number of our academics (including Marie Coleman, Andrew Holmes, Olwen Purdue, and Peter McLoughlin) have spent time at Boston  College. while we have  been privileged to host a number of BC’s faculty members, including Professor Rob Savage, as visiting scholars here at Queen’s. This year we are excited to launch a new graduate exchange programme for PhD students working in the broad field of Irish Studies, History or Politics.

Georgetown University

Global Irish Studies

Our relationship with Georgetown University has a long pedigree, based on a common interest in the broad interdisciplinary field of Irish Studies and in related disciplines. The past few years have seen the development of strong research and teaching  links with Global Irish Studies at Georgetown and our school. In March 2020 Dr Olwen Purdue delivered a lecture hosted by Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University, the Department of History, and the Conflict Resolution Program, and we are looking forward to welcoming Georgetown University undergraduate students to our International Summer School in Irish Studies.

Undergraduate exchange programmes

We are also delighted to have partnered with the following universities for the purpose of offering one-semester exchanges to undergraduate students

University of Illinois, Springfield

College of Charleston

University of Texas, San Antonio

Building on the highly successful QUB/University of Chicago ‘Global Conflict: The Human Impact’ Conference held at Queen’s in August 2018, there is now an emerging partnership with the Pearson Institute at the University of Chicago. This will involve co-organized events, invitations for academics to deliver Lectures about their work at the partner institution, and opportunities for students at each University to engage with academics/students from the partner University.

We have a knowledge exchange program (2020-2021) with the Howard Marks Chair in Economic History University of Pennsylvania, USA. This will include a high profile lecture series on Global Economic Order Management: Hosted at the Lauder Institute in partnership with the Perry World House Centre.

Professor John Barry and Dr Erika Bsumek have been successful in applying for a grant to develop an innovative joint course between University of Texas at Austin and Queen’s University Belfast, in Spring 2020 entitled ‘Global Environmental History – Radical Hope: Inspiring Present-day Sustainability Transformations through an Examination of Our Past’.

Professor Debbie Lisle collaborates with Professor Roland Bleiker at the University of Queensland in Brisbane on ‘Visuality, Creativity & Global Politics’ in honour of the late Professor Alex Danchev. A first workshop took place 1-2 November 2018 in Brisbane, and a second one will be held in London in 2019. This project involves artists, curators, academics and creative producers who explicitly engage with questions of global politics in their work: https://polsis.uq.edu.au/event/session/3416

Professor Debbie Lisle and Dr Heather Johnson teach core modules for MA and PhD students in the International Political Sociology ‘Winter School’ at PUC-RIO: https://ipswinterschool.com/the-2018-winter-school/

Political Theory and Philosophy at Queen's have ongoing research collaboration with the Centre for Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the Philosophy Department at the University of Graz, Austria. There are collaborative research projects with theorists based in Frankfurt, University College Dublin, and Queen's University, Canada.

The Centre for the Study of Risk & Inequality has close ties with Professor May Thorseth and the researchers of the Sustainability Research Programme at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Technology & Science in Trondheim. Professor Thorseth will be visiting Queen's in Spring 2019.

Both address the same overarching question: to what extent must revolutionary change be understood within a global, transnational as well as a nation-state framework?

Professor McGarry is working in collaboration with Prof Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh) and colleagues in Boston College. A conference on the Global Irish Revolution will be held in Boston College in 2020.

Read more about a global history of Irish Revolution 1916-1923

The project is composed of Irish, US, and Dutch nationals and supported by an international advisory board. In April 2018, a workshop held at Queen's explored the work of Sylvain Piron, directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris. In June 2018 the project team organised an international conference on the theme 'War and the University in the Sixteenth Century', attended by scholars from the USA, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, and the UK.

More details here