SCHEDULE.
THURSDAY - 28th MARCH
11:30-12:00
COFFEE & REGISTRATION
12:00-12:05
WELCOME
Dr. Edward Kessler MBE (Woolf Institute)
12:00 - 13:00
PANEL 1: MILITANT CAMPAIGNING IN THE ERA OF THE TROUBLES
Chair: Charlotte Kenealy (University of Cambridge)
Jordan Brown (University of St. Andrews)
Spongers' Revolt: Reframing the UWC Strike in an Era of Radical Industrial Action
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
Chair: Professor Claire Connolly (University College, Cork)
Kyle Martin (Trinity College, Dublin)
The Irish Roots of E.L. Godkin
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
13:30 - 15:45
COFFEE
15:45 - 17:15
PANEL 3: POVERTY AND CHARITY IN THE IRISH IMAGINATION
Chair: Dr. Charles Read (University of Cambridge)
Dr. J.P. McGuaran (IT Sligo)
The Irish Poor Law: Cultural Politics in Action
Dr. Hedetaka Hirota (Waseda University)
The Undeserving Irish: The Transatlantic Convergence of Poverty Ideology in Ireland, Britain, and the United States
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
Chair: Christopher Morash (University of Cambridge)
Professor R.F. Foster (Queen Mary University of London)
Culture, Anarchy and History in Modern Ireland
19:45
DINNER AT SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE
FRIDAY - 29th MARCH
08:45 - 10:45
PANEL 4: VISUALISING AND RECORDING IRISH HISTORY
Chair: Dr. Niamh Gallagher (University of Cambridge)
Joyce-Elena Ní Ghiobúin (Independent Researcher)
'An Enemy of the People': Nationalising the Anti-Tuberculosis Campaigns in Ireland through Visual and Literary Cultures
Tim Ellis (Teeside University)
The Politics of Visual Culture and the Irish Civil War, 1922-3
Charlotte Kenealy (University of Cambridge)
Commemoration as Reconciliation: The Impact of the Northern Ireland Peace Process on World War Remembrance
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
Chair: Aoife O'Leary McNeice (University of Cambridge)
Hugh Hanley (University of Cambridge)
Conor Cruise O'Brien and the Public Role of Writers
Max Lambert (Independent Researcher)
'An Historical Mafia': The UCD-Peterhouse Connection
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
Chair: Bethan Johnson (University of Cambridge)
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)