‘Hunger, History and Memory
The Great Famines of Ireland and Finland Compared’
Exhibition Launch and Symposium
Speakers: Cormac Ó Grada (UCD) Breandán Mac Suibhne (Centenary
University) Lindsay Janssen (UCD) Andrew Newby (Aarhus University)
Chair: Anne Karhio (NUIG)
Thursday 21 June 2018, 1:30 pm – 4.30 pm
G011 Moore Institute, NUIG
ALL WELCOME
For more details see www.mooreinstitute.ie or email
roisin.healy@nuigalway.ie
Further details are available here: Famine Symposium NUIG 21 June
Hosted by: The School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast.
Date: 26-27 October 2018
Keynote: Professor Nick Hopwood (University of Cambridge) on a visual history of embryos, tentatively titled ‘Why you expect embryos when you’re expecting.’
Call for Papers/Panels:
For its upcoming conference, the HSTM Network invites proposals on all topics in the history of science, technology and medicine, no Irish connection required. Paper submissions should include a 250-word abstract including five key words, and mention the name and affiliation (unless independent) of the speaker. Individual presentations should be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes afterwards for questions. Panel submissions should include three papers (each with a 250-word abstract including five key words) ,a chair if possible, and a 100-word panel abstract. In both cases, please have ‘Submission 2018 conference’ as your email subject to help speed things along for us. We aim to confirm acceptance of papers within a month of the call for papers closing date.
Call closing date: 21 June 2018
Address for paper submissions/queries: hstmnetworkireland@gmail.com
Website for registration: https://knock.qub.ac.uk/ecommerce/hstm/index.php
Registration fees: £20 for unwaged/students – £40 for waged.
The J.C. Beckett Annual Memorial Lecture for 2018 will be delivered by Professor Ian McBride (Oxford). Organised by the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, it takes place at 7pm on 24 May at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
Prof. McBride will speak on ‘The Penal Times: The Catholic Church in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’.
The Lecture will be preceded by a Wine Reception at 6.15pm.
For more information on this and other USIHS events, see https://usihs36.com/https://usihs36.com/
The finalised programme of the Irish Conference of Historians, UCC, 26-28 April 2018 is available here:
Programme – Irish Conference of Historians 2018
The book of abstracts is available here:
Abstracts – Irish Conference of Historians 2018 (002)
Programme and booking form can be found here:
http://historicirishhouses.ie/news-and-events/16th-annual-historic-houses-conference
The 8th Annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will take place at Queen’s University Belfast on 24 & 25 August 2018. Proposals for papers are welcome on any aspect of Ireland during the Tudor and Stuart periods.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 25 April.
Full details are available on the conference website: www.tudorstuartireland.com
Plenary addresses will be delivered by Dr David Edwards (University College Cork) & Dr Deana Rankin (Royal Holloway,University of London).
Queries relating to the conference should be emailed to the organisers (John Cunningham, David Heffernan, Romano Mullin, Karie Schultz and Ramona Wray) at: 2018@tudorstuartireland.com
The provisional programme of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences’ Irish Conference of Historians (Thursday 26-28 April 2018) has been announced. It includes keynotes by Ruth M. Karras, Sheila Rowbotham, Michael G. Cronin, and Jeffrey Weeks.
For details of keynotes, please see here: Poster – ICH XXXII
For the provisional programme, please see here: Programme – ICH XXXIIPreview (opens in a new window)
The xxxii Irish Conference of Historians will take place at University College Cork, on 26-28 April 2018. The theme of the conference is sex, sexuality and reproduction: historical perspectives. Papers/panels are invited that address topics relating to the history of sex, sexuality and reproduction, in Ireland and across the world, from antiquity to the 1990s. As well as papers/panels that address the historiography of sex, sexuality and reproduction, and the historical/theoretical debates that have enlivened the field.
Both panel and individual proposals are welcome. Please send individual paper proposals (a 200- to 300-word abstract) and panel proposals (300-word overview + 200- to 300-word abstracts for the papers) to the conference email: irishch32@gmail.com or c/o Donal Ó Drisceoil, School of History, University College Cork, Ireland.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 JANUARY 2018
Further details can be found at the following link: Irish Conference of Historians – Call for Papers
