SCHEDULE.
THURSDAY - 28th MARCH
​11:30-12:00
COFFEE & REGISTRATION
​12:00-12:05
WELCOME
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Dr. Edward Kessler MBE (Woolf Institute)
12:00 - 13:00​
PANEL 1: MILITANT CAMPAIGNING IN THE ERA OF THE TROUBLES
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Chair: Charlotte Kenealy (University of Cambridge)
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Jordan Brown (University of St. Andrews)
Spongers' Revolt: Reframing the UWC Strike in an Era of Radical Industrial Action
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Bethan Johnson (University of Cambridge)
The Conflicting Faces of Separatism: The Alleged Origins of Militant Campaign Strategies in the Troubles
13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
​14:00 - 15:30
PANEL 2: IRISH MIGRATION AND THE POLITICS OF THE DIASPORA
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Chair: Professor Claire Connolly (University College, Cork)
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Kyle Martin (Trinity College, Dublin)
The Irish Roots of E.L. Godkin
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Christopher Morash (University College Cambridge)
'The Stranger who is within our Gates,' Young Ireland and the Politics of Culture
Trisha Kessler (University College, Dublin)
The Stop List: Travel Permits and the Dynamics of Social Power in Modern Ireland, 1939-45
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​13:30 - 15:45
COFFEE
​15:45 - 17:15
PANEL 3: POVERTY AND CHARITY IN THE IRISH IMAGINATION
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Chair: Dr. Charles Read (University of Cambridge)
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Dr. J.P. McGuaran (IT Sligo)
The Irish Poor Law: Cultural Politics in Action
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Dr. Hedetaka Hirota (Waseda University)
The Undeserving Irish: The Transatlantic Convergence of Poverty Ideology in Ireland, Britain, and the United States
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Aiofe O'Leary McNeice:
Networks of Global Humanitarianism and the Great Irish Famine
17:15 - 17:45​
DRINKS RECEPTION
17:45 - 19:15
KEYNOTE LECTURE
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Chair: Christopher Morash (University of Cambridge)
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Professor R.F. Foster (Queen Mary University of London)
Culture, Anarchy and History in Modern Ireland​
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19:45
DINNER AT SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE
FRIDAY - 29th MARCH
08:45 - 10:45​
PANEL 4: VISUALISING AND RECORDING IRISH HISTORY
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Chair: Dr. Niamh Gallagher (University of Cambridge)
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Joyce-Elena Ní Ghiobúin (Independent Researcher)
'An Enemy of the People': Nationalising the Anti-Tuberculosis Campaigns in Ireland through Visual and Literary Cultures
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Tim Ellis (Teeside University)
The Politics of Visual Culture and the Irish Civil War, 1922-3
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Charlotte Kenealy (University of Cambridge)
Commemoration as Reconciliation: The Impact of the Northern Ireland Peace Process on World War Remembrance
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Dr. Richard Parfit (University of Oxford)
Political Archives and Cultural History
​10:45 - 11:00
COFFEE
11:00 - 12:30
PANEL 5: INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICAL IDEAS
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Chair: Aoife O'Leary McNeice (University of Cambridge)
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Hugh Hanley (University of Cambridge)
Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Public Role of Writers
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Max Lambert (Independent Researcher)
'An Historical Mafia': The UCD-Peterhouse Connection
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​Séan Donnelly (Teeside University)
Purging the 'Slave Mind': Cumann na nGaedheal and the Philosophy of Irish Ireland, 1892-1922
​12:30 - 13:00
COFFEE
​13:00 - 14:00
CONCLUDING ROUND-TABLE
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Chair: Bethan Johnson (University of Cambridge)
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Discussants:
Professor Eugenio Biagini (University of Cambridge)
Professor Richard Bourke (University of Cambridge)
Professor Claire Connolly (University College, Cork)
Professor Clair Wills (University of Cambridge)
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