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UCDscholarcast aimed at global audience

Noreen Bowden — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:58:51 +0000

UCD has launched a new podcast service on Irish cultural topics. There are three series of UCDscholarcast available so far:

The Art of Popular Culture
Archaeologies of Art: Papers from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress
Scholars Off the Page

The podcasts are recorded in a studio and aimed at academics and others; the series also includes PDF transcripts of the podcasts, to facilitate citation in written academic work. Director PJ Mathews notes the series may be of interest to the Irish abroad.

Just in time for Bloomsday, the latest podcast is Declan Kiberd, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD, reading the closing chapter of his book “Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living”.

Related websites:

“North by North West”: U of Ulster, 3-6 Sept 2009

Noreen Bowden — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:02:27 +0000

The Institute of Ulster Scots Studies has issued the following call for papers:

North by North West: An International Conference
3rd -6th Sept 2009

Description: We invite proposals for papers exploring themes that will examine the Maritime history of Ulster from 1599-2009 focusing in particular the Port of Derry/Londonderry as a ‘Gateway to the Atlantic’. The conference will be hosted by the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies.

The themes of the conference are Environmental & Archaeological history, Military & Port Fortifications of Loughs Foyle & Swilly, Merchants & Traders in 18th & 19th century Ulster & Scotland, Ulster & the Atlantic World, Shipbuilders & Shipping Lines, From Here to Wherever, emigration from NorthWest Ulster.

Paper proposals should indicate under which theme they wish to
be considered. Conference proceedings will be published.

Conference organisers: Sally Halliday M.Phil & Dr Billy Kelly

Venue: University of Ulster, Magee Campus

Contact: Sally Halliday at sp.halliday@ulster.ac.uk

Tel: 02871375098

Sally Halliday M.Phil
Institute of Ulster Scots Studies
Room MI021
Aberfoyle House
Northland Road
L’Derry
BT48 9JL

Submission date for papers: 18th May 2009

“Migrating Minds”, University of Aberdeen, 14-15 May 2009

Noreen Bowden — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:52:13 +0000

“Migrating Minds: Imagined Journeys – Imagined Homecomings” will be the topic of a conference hosted in May at the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. The conference will take place alongside the Aberdeen WORD Festival.

Organisers say:

Literature (both fiction and non-fiction), personal journals and correspondence, and art enable us to explore the impact that journeys and homecomings have had on Irish and Scottish imaginations. Irish and Scottish migrants, as well as those who sought to understand, interpret and exploit the experience of migration, participated in the production and circulation of these accounts and images both at home and abroad. As such, they form an important dimension to any understanding of the Irish and Scottish diasporas. With this in mind, we seek to investigate the idea of migration as a series of narratives and rhetorical tropes that develop over time.

Selected proceedings will be published in the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.