Noticeboard: Conferences and Calls for Papers on Irish/Northern Irish research-related themes.
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CONFERENCES & CALL FOR PAPERS Queen's Belfast (July) Queen's Belfast (April) Limerick (June)
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LEGITIMATE IRELAND: New Voices conference, Queen's Belfast, 19th-21st April 2012
From plantations to Grattan's parliament, poitín distillers to the IMF bailout, the Irish have always had a fraught relationship with institutions of economic, political, social, legal and religious power. This raises questions surrounding the legitimacy of performative and systemic aspects of Irishness, which has been and continues to be in flux both north and south of the border.
We invite postgraduate and early career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to interrogate the concept of legitimacy from an historical and a contemporary perspective through papers including, but not limited to, the following:
• The spaces, performances and subversions of Irishness.
• Transgression and informing, surveillance and policing.
• Biopolitics and the regulation of the body and behaviour.
• The representation of gendered and LGBTQ identities.
• The challenges of multiculturalism and diaspora.
• The relationship between Church and State.
• Economic and political accountability.
• The national question from the Act of Union to the post-nation.
We invite abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute presentations to be submitted by Friday 16th December 2011 to newvoices2012@qub.ac.uk .
IV LUPOR Conference In and Out of (Postcolonial) Europe: Portugal and Ireland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Queen's University Belfast, Friday 6th and Saturday 7 th of July 2012 : Hosted by Queen's Postcolonial Research Forum
Positioned at the geographical limits of Western Europe, Portugal and Ireland have also been envisioned to differing degrees and at various points in history as the periphery of an idea of Europe – culturally, economically and politically. Until recently both countries have, despite or because of their peripheral status, engaged with a Europe that has seemingly assisted Irish and Portuguese accommodation to their postcolonial histories. For Portugal, European finance helped in its return to a Europe that it had, until 1974, largely turned its back on while stubbornly clinging to its empire. For the south of the island of Ireland, on the other hand, Europe provided the means to further assert its independence from its former colonial ruler, whilst in the north European funds were employed to help bring an end to a campaign of violence between those who sought Irish reunification and those loyal to the British crown. Now, however, both Portugal and the Republic of Ireland, following their economic collapse, appear to have been firmly repositioned within a periphery of nations failing to live up to European norms, and one that threatens the very foundations of the European project.
The overarching purpose of the IV LUPOR (Lusophone Postcolonial Research Network) conference is to gain a critical understanding of Ireland and Portugal's changing relationships with postcolonial Europe – that is, a Europe which, since the Second World War, gradually abandoned colonial territorial possession in favour of an identity based on a “coalition of the willing”. By looking at the evolution of Portuguese and Irish relations with Europe, it will not only identify their similarities and differences, but also assess how “Europe” – through its own visions of Ireland and Portugal – sees itself.
The suggested themes are:
- “European visions of Ireland and Portugal: From the Berlin Conference to the Present”
- “Ireland and Portugal during the Second World War: National Sovereignty and Imperial Identity”
- “Religion, Nationalism and (anti-) Imperialism in Portugal and Ireland”
- “Portuguese and Irish Outward Migration: Extra-European Identities?”
- “Inward Migration to Ireland and Portugal: Markers of a (Postcolonial) European Maturity?”
- “Postcolonial Portugal and (Northern) Ireland: The Theoretical Gaps?”
- “(Non) Europe in the Irish and Portuguese Cultural Imaginations”
We welcome both individual proposals for papers and for specific panels dealing with the “Portuguese” or “Irish” perspectives, and not necessarily both . Abstracts (200 words) must be submitted by email to Anthony Soares ( a.soares@qub.ac.uk ) by Friday 16th December 2011 , and we welcome proposals from colleagues working in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences, broadly conceived. Conference Fee: £35.00 per day (£20.00 for postgraduate students); Conference Dinner: £25.00.
CFP: Behind the Lines: Women, War and Letters 1880-1920 - UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IRELAND 9th & 10th June 2012
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Professor Lucy McDiarmid (Montclair State University)
Professor Matthew Campbell (University of York)
Proposals are invited for a two-day literary conference titled “Behind the Lines: Women, War and Letters 1880-1920”, organised as part of a research cluster within the University of Limerick and NUI Galway Gender ARC. The conference will be held at the University of Limerick.
The aim of this conference is to interrogate the literary tropes and political constructions through which women’s writing conceptualises conflict. In Ireland, to engage with national politics and national conflicts in the period between the Land War and partition was to find oneself grappling with gendered norms and expectations, through which distinctive modes of patriotic action could be validated or naturalised, but also re-interpreted or condemned. At the same time, in an international context, imperial and colonial conflicts of the late nineteenth-century opened up new conceptions of space and national identity, while in the early twentieth century the First World War produced a sustained literary re-evaluation of cultures of militarisms and masculinity. These political events were, however, taking place alongside a series of other conflicts, conflicts centred around disruptions of norms of gendered behaviour and class alignments, as well as disruptions of literary norms with the rise of Modernism. What meanings accrue to these colliding agendas, needs, and practices? How can we discover them?
Papers may address, but are not limited to:
- Gender and conflict in literature
- Women’s nation-building narratives
- Imperial femininities in literature, life-writing, travel writing, and/or epistolary writing.
- Genre and conflict
- Literary representations of women soldiers and non-combatants in conflict zones
- Pacifism and conflict resolution in women’s writing
- Sexualities in war narratives
- Feminism and war
- Literature as portable heritage: memorialising and commemorating national conflicts
- Literary constructions of memory and trauma in the context of national struggle
- Transnational solidarity in women’s war writing
Proposals of approx. 250 words should be sent by Email Yvonne OKeeffe by 31st March 2012.
Conference organisers: Professor Margaret Mills Harper (UL), Dr. Tina O’Toole (UL), Dr. Muireann O Cinneide (NUIG).
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BAIS Postgraduate Bursary Scheme
Our Postgraduate Bursary Award Scheme , has become the major scheme of its kind in the UK. Each year, we make significant funds available to students researching Irish-related topics at British universities. We aim to support research that uncovers new or neglected areas in the field.
As an applicant, you are encouraged to produce a specific and targeted funding request, detailing how the award will support your research. Your applications will be assessed by a panel of important international academics, ensuring that this is a valuable award in more ways than one. We are keen to recognise the diversity of work taking place on Irish culture and society when coming to our final decision. In any one year we usually give bursaries to between three and five winners (sums are usually between £300–£1000). The bursaries are presented to successful candidates by the Irish Ambassador to Great Britain, at our Awards Ceremony held at the Irish Embassy in London.
The scheme has given rise to important research which has been published internationally. A number of the students it has helped in the past are now lecturing in the field of Irish Studies at universities in Britain and Ireland.
Students may apply to use the bursary for travel expenses, payment of fees, subsistence or other expenses related to the completion of their research projects. Applicants must be members of the British Association for Irish Studies (or should join when they apply). Applicants will be required to submit a completed Application Form together with two completed forms from referees, who will be required to send these direct to the Chair of the Bursaries Committee. The decision of the BAIS Postgraduate Bursaries Committee will be final.
The deadline for submission of applications is 17 March 2012, and the awards will be announced in April 2012.
Application forms will be available to download shortly from the BAIS website: http://sites.brunel.ac.uk/bais/funding .
Alternatively, for more information on the competition for 2012, and an application form, please contact the Chair of the Bursaries Committee: Dr. Scott Brewster, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT. 0161 295 2850. W.S.Brewster@salford.ac.uk .
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