SHH!               MAY  2012  

                         

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CONFERENCES  AND  EVENTS  

The Oxford Medieval Geographies Research Group will be hosting a conference on the subject of

'There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in

the Medieval World'

22 June 2012

REGISTRATION OPEN: Visit our website at

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~omgrg

The Oxford Medieval Geographies Conference Organising Committee

-- http://users.ox.ac.uk/~omgrg/

     

Talking  History  is  an  award-­‐winning  weekly  programme  on  Newstalk  106-­108  FM  which  looks  at  everything  from  the  ancient  world  to  the  present  time.    Presented  by  Patrick  Geoghegan  of  the  School  of  Histories  and  Humanities  at  Trinity  College  Dublin,  it  is  on  Sunday  evenings  from  7  to  9  p.m.  and  can  be  downloaded  on  iTunes.   ~~~~~~~~~~~

 The  History  Show,  RTE  Radio  1,  6-­7p.m.  on  Sundays,    

presented  by  Myles  Dungan,  PhD  candidate  in  the  School  of  Histories  and  Humanities  in  TCD.  

 The  Woolf  Institute  is  delighted  to  announce  that,  together  with  the  Center  for  the  Study  of  Jews,  

Christians,  Muslims  at  The  Open  University  of  Israel,  it  is  hosting  a  conference;    

Tradition  and  Transition  in  Jewish,  Christian,  and  Muslim  Cultures.      The  conference  will  begin  on  the  evening  of  Sunday  24  June  and  run  through  to  26  June  2012.  It  takes  place  at  Lucy  Cavendish  College  (Cambridge).      The  conference  assembles  a  range  of  international  scholars  and  will  focus  on  the  following  broad  themes:  Space,  Family,  Art  &  Music,  and  Exile.      We  are  delighted  that  Hagit  Messer-­‐Yaron,  President  of  The  Open  University  of  Israel,  and  Kamel  Abu  Jaber,  Director  of  the  Royal  Institute  of  Inter-­‐Faith  Studies  (Jordan),  will  be  joining  us,  together  with  the  patron  of  the  Woolf  Institute  and  the  Chancellor  of  the  Open  University  of  Israel,  the  Right  Honourable  the  Lord  Woolf.    Conference  highlights  will  include  Keynote  Lecture  given  by  Ada  Rapoport-­‐Albert  (UCL)  and  a  lecture  given  by  UCL’s  Hilary  Pomeroy  with  musical  illustrations  from  Lucie  Skeaping  and  Jon  Banks  (of  The  Burning  Bush,  http://www.theburningbush.co.uk/).  Full  details  of  the  programme,  together  with  the  registration  form,  can  be  found  at  http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/events/details?year=2012&month=6&day=24#ID359  

 2 boxers and blood

Colloquium Sport and competition in Greece and Rome

Thursday 14 & Friday 15 June 2012

BP Lecture Theatre British Museum

£80, students and Members £60 Includes refreshment and buffet lunch

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The British Museum Annual Classical Colloquium in collaboration with University

College London

The colloquium will feature 20 papers by international speakers on imaging athletics, ideas and ideology, risk and reward, locations, status, revivals and receptions.

Conference organisers:

Dr Judith Swaddling, Department of Greece and Rome, British Museum, greekandroman@britishmuseum.org

Prof. Chris Carey, Department of Classics, University College London, classicsoffice@ucl.ac.uk

Book through the British Museum Ticket Desk +44 (0)20 7323 8181

tickets@britishmuseum.org britishmuseum.org

Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

Please see: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar/june_2012/sport_and_competition.a

spx for further details.

Contested histories and the parameters of resistance

University of York, Tuesday 3rd July 2012

Confirmed Keynotes: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire) and Dr.Richard Benjamin (International Slavery Museum, Liverpool)

Contested Histories and the Parameters of Resistance is a one-day interdisciplinary conference which will take place at the University of York on Tuesday 3rd July 2012 in

the Berrick Saul Building.

Throughout the day, we aim to explore the different ways in which narratives, cultural artefacts, spaces and places are creatively used and reused to perform acts of

resistance which contest authoritative versions of history. In line with this we hope to raise questions about the different kinds of impact these processes may have on

people, stories and understandings of the past and indeed the present.

Conference presentations will be followed by a discussion, led by Dr Zoë Norridge (University of York), which will explore both the theory and the practice of resisting

official histories and interrogate the parameters of resistance.

Please see our conference website for a full programme and further information on presents and papers, and the registration form:

http://contestedhistories.blogspot.co.uk/.

Due to generous funding from the Humanities Research Centre and the Centre for Modern Studies at the University of York, attendance is FREE and lunch and coffee/tea will be provided but places are limited, so please register by sending the registration

form to contestedhistories@gmail.com by 15th June 2012.

Locating  Revolution:  Place,  Voice,  Community        

Aberystwyth  9–12  July  2012  

 Confirmed  Speakers:  Professor  John  Barrell  (University  of  York);  Professor  Nigel  Leask  (University  of  Glasgow);  Professor  Pierre  Serna  (Institut  de  l'histoire  de  la  révolution  

française,  Paris)      

A  conference  jointly  hosted  by  the  Wales  and  the  French  Revolution  Project  at  the  University  of  Wales  Centre  for  Advanced  Welsh  and  Celtic  Studies;  the  Centre  for  Romantic  Studies,  Aberystwyth  University;  and  the  Department  of  English,  Swansea  University.  

This   multi-­‐disciplinary   conference   which   engages   with   local,   regional,   national,   European   and  transatlantic   responses   to   the   Age   of   Revolutions.   In   what   local   forms   did   the   upheavals   of   the   age  manifest   themselves?  What  was   the   relationship   between   social,   religious   and   political   loyalties   and  people’s  landscapes  and  environments?  What  forms  did  loyalism  and  opposition  take  in  particular  rural,  regional,   urban   and  metropolitan   communities?   Papers  may   focus   on   any   aspect   of   history,   science,  literature,  song,  visual  arts  and  material  culture.      

• local/regional/national/European  identities  • readings  of  ‘place’  and  ‘space’  

• cartographies  of  loyalism  and  opposition  • Romanticism  

• connections  between  different  experiences  of  revolution  • transmission  of  ideas  

• four  Nations  criticism:  refining  the  ‘British’  response  • neglected  /silenced  voices  

• oral  traditions    

   

Dr  Angharad  Elias  Swyddog  Gweinyddol  /  Administrative  Officer  

Canolfan  Uwchefrydiau  Cymreig  a  Cheltaidd  Prifysgol  Cymru  /  University  of  Wales  Centre  for  Advanced  Welsh  and  Celtic  Studies  

Llyfrgell  Genedlaethol  Cymru  /  National  Library  of  Wales  Aberystwyth  Ceredigion  SY23  3HH  

T:  01970  636543  F:  01970  639090  

a.elias@cymru.ac.uk  www.cymru.ac.uk/canolfan  

 

   

Genealogies  of  Colonial  Violence  Conference  

 1  -­‐  2  June  2012  ,    University  of  Cambridge*  

 This  two-­‐day  conference  seeks  to  move  past  the  standard    

debates  that  continue  to  dominate  both    public  discourse  and  much  scholarly  research  

regarding  violence  and  colonialism.  This  conference  aims  to  bring  together  interdisciplinary  researchers  to  suggest  

alternative  interpretations,  theoretical  approaches,  and  future  avenues  of  research  

relating  to  violence  and  colonialism.  Proposals  are  welcome  from  established  academics,  early-­‐career  researchers  and  graduate  students  in  the  humanities  and  social  sciences  that  work  on  colonialism  and  its  postcolonial  legacies  in  Africa,  Asia  and  the  Americas.  The  conference  

will  feature  a  keynote  address  by  Professor  Achille  Mbembe  (University  of  Witwatersrand).  

 .  For  more  information  and  updates,  please  visit  us  at:  

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/research/conferences/genealogies-­‐colonial-­‐violence  

   

 

Regarding  the  Other  in  Modern  Jewish  Thought.    

A  CJCR  Colloquium  -­‐  27  June  2012  

The  Centre  for  the  Study  of  Jewish-­‐Christian  Relations  (Woolf  Institute,  Cambridge)  is  delighted  to  announce  that  it  is  hosting  a  colloquium,  Regarding  the  Other  in  Modern  Jewish  Thought.  The  colloquium  will  be  held  on  Wednesday,  27  June  2012  and  take  place  at  Lucy  

Cavendish  College  (Cambridge).      

The  speakers  at  the  colloquium  will  be  CJCR  Visiting  Fellow,  Aaron  Rosen  (KCL),  Agata  Bielik-­‐Robson  (Nottingham),  and  Melissa  Raphael  (Gloucestershire).  

 Full  details  of  the  colloquium,  together  with  the  registration  form,  can  be  found  at  http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/events/details?year=2012&month=6&day=27#ID449.    

 

Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages 2012 Register either at

http://spaceandsettlement2012.eventbrite.com or by emailing us at spaceandsettlement@gmail.com

Conference registration is €20 (€10 for students) and is payable at the door (sorry, but we can only accept cash)

The preliminary speaker's programme is below.  

Space and Settlement in the Middle Ages 2012

Preliminary Speaker's Programme

Friday 1 June 2012

Session One: Space and Structures 11:30 am

Cherie Peters TCD "What's In A Name? Terminology for Lower Class Housing in Early Medieval

Ireland"

Alison Lennon “Roche Castle: an argument for excavation”

Geraldine Stout National Monuments Service “Filling In The Spaces: St. Mary's Abbey and precinct,

Dublin"

Vanessa Ryan "The Archaeology of Conflict and Ethnicity on the South Armagh Border"

Questions 12:50pm – 1:15pm

Lunch 1:15pm – 2:30pm

Session Two: Agriculture and Land Use in Medieval Ireland 2:30pm

Colin Rynne UCC “An Archaeological Perspective on Romano-British Influences on Agricultural

Change in Early Medieval Ireland”

Finbar McCormick QUB “Agricultural and Settlement Change in Early Medieval Ireland”

Ingelise Stujits The Discovery Programme "A Bluffer's Guide to Medieval Woodland Management in

Ireland"

Questions 3:30pm – 4pm

Keynote Speech: Benjamin Hudson Pennsylvania State University 6pm - 7pm

“Space, Settlement and Medieval Atlanticism”

Informal Pub Reception 7pm

Saturday 2 June 2012

Session Three: Rings and Things: circular earthworks and settlement patterns 10am

Emma Arbuthnot TCD “Reconsidering the Castles of the Conquest: an analysis of the form and

nature of Anglo-Norman fortification, 1169-1175”

Thomas Kerr QUB “Population Decline, Regional Variation or Chronological Construct - problems

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Thomas Kerr QUB “Population Decline, Regional Variation or Chronological Construct - problems

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Matthew Stout St. Patrick's College Drumcondra “The Distribution of Irish Early Medieval

Ecclesiastical Sites”

Questions 11am – 11:30am

Coffee 11:30am – 12 noon

Coffee will be provided in the Trinity Long Room Hub Building

Session Four: Territories and Control 12 noon

Linda Shine Meath Partnership “Granny Castle and its Dependent Manors: a case study of later

medieval manorial organisation”

Patrick Gleeson UCC “Kingship, Landscape and Territory: examining scales of community and

assembly in early medieval Ireland”

Terry Barry TCD “Settlement in Medieval Ireland: analysing their new complexities”

Questions 1pm – 1:30pm

Lunch 1:30pm – 2:30pm

Session Five: Networks and Influence 2:30pm

Vicky McAlister TCD “Identifying Regional Commerce: interactions between tower houses,

settlements and commercial networks”

Michael Potterton Four Courts Press “Verging On A Renaissance? Contact between Ireland and the

Continent in the sixteenth century”

Rebecca Wall-Forrestal TCD “Natural Resources and Political Geography: reconstructing

Waterford's late Viking Age hinterland”

Questions 3:30pm – 4pm

Conference Closing Remarks: 4pm

Copyright © 2012 Space and Settlement conference, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Space and Settlement conference

School of Histories and Humanities Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Dublin 2 Ireland

   

CALL  FOR  PAPERS  

The 2012 International Symposia on Cultural Diplomacy

ICD Young Leaders’ Forums

- Call for Applications -

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ICD Young Leaders’ Forums (Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Brussels, London, Helsinki – June-September 2012) www.icd-ylf.org The ICD Young Leaders Forums are international networks of like-minded young individuals with an interest in developing, supporting and sustaining intercultural relations. The first Young Leaders Forum was developed in 2003 and we have since developed and launched a variety of different bilateral and multilateral forums that focus on a diverse range of relationships across the world. Over the past decade the ICD Young Leaders Forum has grown to become one of Europe’s largest independent cultural exchange organizations, hosting programs that facilitate interaction among young individuals of all cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds, from across the world. To apply see link: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.de/index.php?en_application-form_weeklong-seminars The 2012 International Symposia on Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin, Geneva, Washington D.C., June 1st - June 28th, 2012) Symposia Brochure – The Symposia Brochure can be found at this link: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/articles/events/2012-symposium/symposia-2012_brochure.pdf www.i-s-c-d.org The International Symposia on Cultural Diplomacy 2012 is the world’s leading and largest event in the field of cultural diplomacy. The Symposia 2012 will include five large-scale events incorporating the fields of cultural diplomacy, international politics and economics, and international human rights. The events will take place in three different countries throughout the entire month of June and will include over 200 high level speakers and over 2000 participants. In addition to the main five events of the symposia, additional events will take place around the world in all 5 continents simultaneously during the month of June. Symposia Participants > The symposia is open to applications from governmental and diplomatic officials, economists, artists, civil society practitioners, young professionals, students and scholars, journalists, and other interested stakeholders from across the world. Symposia Speakers > The speakers during the conference will include leading figures and experts from international politics, academia, the diplomatic community, civil society and the private sector, from across the world. These speakers will include a number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board. To learn more about the ICD Advisory Board please visit: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/index.php?en_advisoryboard

Speakers for the Symposia include:

• President Alfred Moisiu – Former President of Albania  • President Alfredo Palacio - Former President of Ecuador  • Cecile Molinier - Director, UNDP Office in Geneva  • David Smith - Africa Correspondent, The Guardian  • President Emil Constantinescu - Former President of Romania  

• Prof. Joseph Nye - Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University (tbc)  • Secretary Michael Chertoff - Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security  • President Pierre Nkurunziza – President of the Republic of Burundi  • Amb. Rufus Yerxa, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)  • The Hon. Said Musa – Former Prime minister of Belize  • The Hon. Theo-Ben Gurirab - Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia,

Former President of the UN General Assembly, Former Prime minister of Namibia   We are accepting applications for the following events: To apply please visit: http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/index.php?Application-Forms

• The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2012 – “Social & Cultural Inequality: Innovative Strategies to Promote Access to Human Rights and Equalize Globalization” (Berlin, June 1st - 4th, 2012) www.icd-internationalsymposium.org

• The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Africa 2012 - "Cultural Diplomacy & Sustainable Development in Africa" (Berlin, June 10th - 12th, 2012)  www.icd-international-symposium-africa.org  

• The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Geneva 2012 – "Cultural Diplomacy & Sustainable Development" (Geneva, June 13th -15th, 2012) www.icd-international-symposium-geneva.org

• The 2012 International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy & International Economics – "Political & Economic Inequalities: Bridging the Gap between Civil Society and the Public & Private Sectors" (Berlin, June 20th - 22nd, 2012) www.iscdie.org

• The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in the USA 2012 – "Cultural Diplomacy, National Security, and Global Risks" (Washington D.C, June 26th - 28th, 2012) www.icd-international-symposium-usa.org

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In addition, we are very pleased to inform you that the ICD is now able to develop additional projects, in order to further promote the fascinating field of cultural diplomacy. If you would be interested in developing projects together with us, please contact me through my direct email: donfried@culturaldiplomacy.org. We also warmly encourage you to join and contribute to the development of the ICD Networks. Please stay informed about the activities of the ICD and join our community by “Liking” our official organization profile, “Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD)”, which you can access by following the link www.icd-on-facebook.org

Mark Donfried Director & Founder

Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) Ku´damm Karree (3rd Floor/Hochhaus)

Kurfürstendamm 207-8 Berlin, Germany-10719 Phone: 00.49(0)30.2360-7680

www.culturaldiplomacy.org info@culturaldiplomacy.org

 

The  Catholic  Historical  Society  of  Ireland  Centenary  Conference  2-­‐3  November  2012  

Call  for  papers    

Theme:  Ireland,  empire  and  Christian  civilization    

2012  marks  the  centenary  of  Archivium  Hibernicum,  the  journal  of  the  Catholic  Historical  Society  of  Ireland.  To  celebrate  this  landmark  in  Irish  ecclesiastical  history,  the  Society  will  hold  a  special  conference  dedicated  to  the  theme  of  ‘Ireland,  empire  and  Christian  civilization’.  The  conference  which  will  take  place  on  Friday  2  and  Saturday  3  November  2012  will  be  hosted  by  St  Patrick’s  College  &  the  History  Department,  National  University  of  Ireland  Maynooth,  Maynooth,  County  Kildare.  

ORAL HISTORY TRAINING PROGRAMME

TCD PRESS RELEASE - ORAL HISTORY TRAINING PROGRAMME Trinity College Students Acquire New Skills To Help Understand The Past

A new programme of oral history training has begun to help local communities in border areas tell the stories of their past and sometimes troubled histories. The oral history training is being offered as part of the Peace Process: Layers of Meaning Project; an ambitious collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin, and Dundalk Institute of Technology. The programme is supported with €1.1 million from the EU’s PEACE III programme. Trinity graduate students in history, law and sociology are enrolled in this programme, together with a truly diverse range of community leaders from Northern Ireland and the border counties. Three LLM students - Alex Layden, Christina O’Byrne and Beatrice Vance - are part of a group of forty-five participants, twenty-seven of whom flew to Queen Mary College, University of London, last week to undertake four days of specialist training. Located in the heart of multi-cultural East London, Queen Mary provided the idea base from which to explore communities in conflict and to learn from oral history projects that have been undertaken with a wide range of ethnic groups. Field trips included a visit to the Imperial War Museum and to Toynbee Hall, a world-renowned pioneer in the identification and resolution of community stresses and conflicts. Alex Layden explained why he got involved in the project: “Oral history opens a window into the human side of past events. It engages the listener in a personal way and provides the public with a record of history seen through the eyes of those who were there.” He hopes that the skills acquired will be a valuable tool in future research into post-conflict societies and added: ‘Hopefully a greater dialogue will develop within TCD which promotes the benefits of oral history’. Christine added that the programme had underscored to her the value of oral testimonies. She feels that ‘living history can have a much great impact, emotionally and intellectually’. She added that she will now ‘have a greater interest in listening to members of my own family and community and in learning of times gone by.’ Highlighting the transferability of the skills she gained she stated: ‘I will try and incorporate more oral history testimonies into further research I conduct, rather than relying on simple written case law - facts and evidence.’ Beatrice Vance is already planning how she would use her skills, saying: “While in London I have been thinking about Irish history and that the Irish nuns could be extremely interesting in relation to why they became nuns - the educational roles they undertook and the Magdalene laundries, although it is a sensitive issue.”

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Further training will take place at Altnaveigh House in Newry and at Dundalk Institute of Technology. The programme aims to equip teachers, students and community leaders with the skills and knowledge to carry out their own oral history projects; recording the recollections and stories about their communities, their shared and divided pasts, and the steps taken by local people towards peace and reconciliation. The Programme Director, Dr Anna Bryson, from the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin, explained: “The aim of the training programme is to demystify the academic process involved in oral history and social enquiry interviewing. We want to equip community leaders and students, interested or already involved in oral history projects, with the necessary skills and self-confidence to engage with the past in a professional and ethical manner. In the spirit of the settlement movement this course demonstrates the immense value of combining academic research with community engagement. It provides an opportunity for our students to work alongside those who have been deeply affected by conflict and to consider new approaches to cross-community research.” The training programme will act as the foundation for three border-region oral history projects due to be announced shortly. The project is also in the process of collecting and archiving one hundred ‘heritage interviews’ with senior political figures, civil servants, and community and religious leaders involved in attempts to achieve peace over the last forty years. The project is described in full at: www.peaceprocesshistory.org.