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Ulster University (Belfast campus), 18-20 October 2019

Call closing date: 10 July 2019

Organising committee: Ruth Coon, Eugenie Scott, Michael Kinsella, Lauren Young, Stan Neal, Ian Miller

Call for Papers/Panels: The History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Network Ireland hosts an annual conference to promote the field in Ireland, and to invite speakers from overseas to share their research. In 2019, this will be hosted by Ulster University on its expanding Belfast campus. Ulster University has a vibrant medical history research community which actively engages in research, teaching and public engagement.

For its upcoming conference, the HSTM Network invites proposals on any topics in the history of science, technology and medicine. Topics do not necessarily have to relate to Ireland. 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 no more than 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 ‘Abstract 2019 conference’ as your email subject. Confirmation of acceptance should be within a month following the closing date.

Contact: Hstmconference2019@gmail.com

Keynote Speaker: The keynote speaker is Professor Mark Jackson (University of Exeter). Prof. Jackson is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Asthma: The Biography (2009), Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2013), The History of Medicine: A Beginners Guide (2014, shortlisted for the Dingle Prize), Routledge History of Disease (ed., 2016) and A Global History of Medicine (ed., 2018)

The next IAPH event is a workshop co-organised with the Dublin City Libraries and Archives. It is entitled Practising Public History: An introduction, and will take place on Saturday 22 June, in the Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, between 10 am and c. 2.30pm.

Seven speakers, all of whom have practised Public History it in different ways, will speak about their experiences and their activities in this field.

The speakers are Tara Doyle & Mary Muldowney (Historians in residence Programme, Dublin City Council), Orla Egan (Archivist, Cork LGBT Archive), Cecile Gordon (Senior Archivist, Irish Military Archive), David Swift (Living History Group, Claiomh), John Tierney (archaeologist and co-founder of the historic graves project) and Oisín Wall (Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, UCD).

Aside from the presentations, this workshop will also include a tour of the Gilbert Library Reading Room, where participants will have the chance to view some of the holdings of Dublin City Archives.

The talks are free for all to attend, and all are welcome.

Please be aware, though, that only a limited number of persons can participate in the tour of the reading room/archive (max 30 persons, divided into two sequential tours of 15 persons)! It is thus necessary to sign up for it.

You can do this by emailing info@iaph.ie

Full details of the workshop, including the programme and associated tours, can be found here: iaph.ie/2019/05/practising-public-history-an-introduction/

Irish Genealogical Research Society: Ireland Branch

Open Day, Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse St, Dublin 2

Saturday 18 May 2019. 10.00am-4.00pm

10:00-10:20 Registration

10:20-10:30 Chairperson’s Welcome

10:30-11:15 Ian d’Alton ‘A pile of stones, a living memory, a family member: Bowen’s Court, Elizabeth Bowen, and imagining the Irish gentry.’

11:20-12:00 Joan Sharkey ‘Some families of interest in the Raheny area.’

12:00-13:30 Lunch at own expense

13:45-14:30 Joan Kavanagh: ‘Banished Beyond the Seas – NAI records of convict transporta/on to Australia, 1788-1868’

14:45-16:00 David Butler ‘Publishing Research in The Irish Genealogist’

ALL WELCOME – ADMISSION FREE

The third lecture in the Edward Worth Library Seminar Series will take place in the Worth Library at 3.00pm on Wednesday 22 May.

Dr Catherine Cox (Director for the Centre for the History of Medicine, UCD): ‘Visualising the Pauper Patient in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.’

This lecture is a joint initiative of the Edward Worth Library and the Dr Steevens’ Hospital Library. Please note that seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Further details on the seminar series can be found here: http://edwardworthlibrary.ie/news-and-events/2019-news-and-events/

2 pm Saturday 13 April 2019

Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street

The Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) will host its AGM at Dublin City Library at 2 pm on Saturday, 13 April 2019. This will be followed at 3 pm by a lecture from Dr Aoife Bhreathnach. The title of the lecture is ‘”Making the army their home'”: Marriage in nineteenth-century garrison towns in Ireland’.

The Irish Association of Professional Historians (IAPH) is delighted to announce that their public lecture will take place on Wednesday. 17 April at 7 pm in the National Library of Ireland. Professor Jane Ohlmeyer will speak on the following:- ‘Late the wife of…’ : Widows and the 1641 Depositions.
All are welcome to attend, but seating is on a “first come, first served” basis.

A 2-day conference at PRONI, Belfast 13-14 June 2019

This conference seeks to bring together researchers at every level (postgraduate, early career and established) to assess the ‘state of the discipline’ in relation to research on the history of institutions in Ireland. The organisers (Dr Gillian Allmond and Max Meulendijks, QUB; Triona Waters, University of Limerick) would be
particularly interested to receive papers on the following subject areas (papers to be 15 to 20 minutes in length), but all topics relating to institutions will be considered. Panel suggestions are also welcome:
• Sources, archives and oral histories: challenges and opportunities presented by the nature and extent of primary source material
• Materiality of institutions: from the buildings themselves to the shackles and straitjackets that are emblematic of certain institutions
• Spatiality of institutions: how can we understand the internal spaces and external landscapes of Irish institutions?
• Treatments and therapies: what practices, medical and otherwise, were intended to heal and/or reform?
• Institutions as heritage: how are the buildings still remaining in our landscape presented as heritage? How do we deal with the problems that dark heritage presents?
• Patient/inmate voices: how do we get at the experiences and responses of patients and inmates, given the nature of institutional records?
• Emotional history of institutions: how do we write the emotional history of institutions, from the perspective of inmates/patients and as a society?
• Institutions and engagement: how do we engage groups outside academia with the history of institutions.

The call for papers closes on 31st March 2019. Abstracts not exceeding 250 words in length, together with a short biography should be sent to Dr Gillian Allmond at irishinstitutions@gmail.com

Full details can be found here:

Irish History Students’ Association / Comhaltas na gCumann Staire IHSA Annual Conference 2019 / CCS Comhdháil Bhliantúil

2019 1-3 March,

2019 Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

The Irish History Students’ Association is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 69th Annual Conference. Join us from the 1-3 March, 2019 at Mary Immaculate College Campus, located in the centre of the historic Treaty city of Limerick.

Proposals are invited for papers (in English or Irish) on any historical topic or period, from undergraduate/postgraduate students and early-career researchers. Abstracts of no more than 250 words for a 20-minute research paper (approx. 2,500-3,000 words) should be submitted, along with a short personal biography of no more than 100 words.

Poster presentations are also invited. Posters should be A0 in size and may encompass any style or theme, similar to the criteria for written papers. Presenters should be prepared to speak for up to 10 minutes regarding their posters, with or without an accompanying short paper.

All proposals should be submitted by email to ihsa2019@outlook.com no later than Thursday, 31 January, 2019. Abstracts and biographies should be submitted in the form of a word document attached to the email and should include: Full Name; Institutional Affiliation (if any) and Paper/Poster title.

Further details will be provided on request by emailing ihsa2019@outlook.com or see the official IHSA 2019 website https://ihsa2019.wixsite.com/ihsaconference2019 for regular updates.

A flyer for the call for papers can be found below

The Royal Irish Academy will host a conference exploring the history of Dáil Eireann from 1919 to the present. This will take place on 11 December 2018 at 9.00am-5.30pm

OUTLINE PROGRAMME:
PANEL ONE:
ORIGINS AND CONSOLIDATION: 1919–45
PANEL TWO:
EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENTS: 1945–PRESENT
PANEL THREE:
STAYING RELEVANT: THE DÁIL IN ITS SECOND CENTURY
PANEL FOUR:
PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF DÁIL ÉIREANN: 100 YEARS LATER

The full programme can be found here: RIA conference

and further details at

https://www.ria.ie/dail-eireann-first-100-years-1919-2019

BOOKING:
www.ria.ie/events
Tickets €20/€10 concessions