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Monday, January 28th, 2008Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand will host a conference called “Nations, Diasporas, Identities” from March 27 to 30, 2008.
The conference will look at the notion of diaspora and identity as set against the backdrop of political and economic events in Scotland and Ireland, as well as increasing assertion of Irish and Scottish identities abroad. In examining the relationships between these issues, organisers ask:
Do these diasporic identities, however, have any continuing relationship with the identities of the nations to which they are attached? Or are national identities themselves being transformed by feedback from their diaporas? Or are alternative ‘national’ identities developing which may claim to express the same national past but in fact envisage it in very different ways? Should the notion of the ‘nation’ be extended to encompass its diasporas or should it be narrowed down so that it does not exclude those who are themselves immigrants within its boundaries? What is a national history or a national culture in this world of mobile populations?
For more information, visit the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.
Aberdeen: Irish and Scottish Migration. Feb-June 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008The University of Aberdeen is hosting a series of three one-day conferences called “Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement: Intellectual, Political and Environmental Frontiers”. The conferences will be held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.
Organisers say:
Overseas migration has conventionally been understood as a process that leads migrants to cross a variety of literal and metaphorical “frontiers� in order to settle into new societies. This series of three one-day conferences invites participants to reconsider this issue, looking instead at the varied ways in which the exploration of intellectual, political and environmental “frontiers� by Irish and Scottish migrants and their descendants generated new ideas, discourses and modes of life. Participants are also invited to consider the significance of this dynamic process for overseas Scottish and Irish communities, for the broader societies within which they lived, as well as for the Irish and Scottish homelands.
The conferences are scheduled as follows:
- Intellectual Frontiers – 23 Feb
- Political Frontiers – 3 May
- Environmental Frontiers – 21 June
See the programme for “Intellectual Frontiers”.
The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen is an interdisciplinary centre offering taught master and doctoral programmes in the history, literature and culture of Ireland and Scotland, and carries out research across these disciplines. It is host to the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, funded by the Art and Humanities Research Council.
See the website for the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.
“Human Agency and an Irish Diaspora”: Centre for Migration Studies, January 2008
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park will host its annual MSSc in Irish Migration Studies Reunion Lecture on Saturday, January 26. Professor Don MacRaild of the University of Ulster will speak on “Human Agency and an Irish Diaspora”. Prof. MacRaild is the author of Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in Victorian Cumbria, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922, and Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: The Orange Order and Irish Migrants in Northern England, c.1850-1920.
For more information see the Ulster American Folk Park website, or contact Christine Johnston at 028 8225 6315.
Migration Studies in Ireland: Trinity, March 2008
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007‘Migration Studies in Ireland: Â An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate
Conference’ will be held in Trinity College, Dublin on March 27-28, 2008.
Organisers have issued a call for papers from postgrad students working on questions of migration, race, rights, public policy, inter/transculturalism
and the use of audio and visual media in social research. They welcome input from the fields of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, geography, education, social policy, lens-based practice, film and media studies, race, ethnicity and gender studies, among others.
This is the inaugural conference but will it occur annually and rotate location between the following convening partner institutions: University College Dublin (UCD); National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM); University College, Cork (UCC); Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT); University of Limerick (UL); Dublin City University (DCU); Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
Abstracts should be sent to migrationstudiesireland@gmail.com no later than January 20.
US National Migration Week, Jan 6-12
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007National Migration Week will take place in the US from January 6 – 12. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a website with resources for the week at the usccb.org website.
Exhibition on Irish in Europe opens
Friday, December 14th, 2007“Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600 – 1800” has opened at the National Library’s Genealogical Office on Kildare Street in Dublin.
The exhibition tells the story of the Irish who went to continental Europe from the time of the Flight of the Earls. It shows that the Irish left for a variety of reasons and had a myriad of experiences:
Following the wars at the end of the 16th century, the Irish began to migrate to continental Europe in a pattern which continued over two hundred years. Soldiers, students, priests, professionals, and merchants, were among the many thousands who emigrated, to Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Sweden, and elsewhere. Over time migrants formed communities and eventually integrated into their host societies.
The exhibition features a number of images from institutions across the Continent, as well as original manuscripts illuminating the Irish experience. Digital installations allow visitors to explore topics in greater depth and also to look up individuals who served in the French and Spanish armies of the 18th century and who studied at Irish colleges in Paris, Leuven, or Toulouse.
The exhibition, which celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls, will be open throughout 2008. Admission is free.
See the National Library website.
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