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Call for Papers: 2024 Annual Conference of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland
51st Annual Conference, Queen’s University Belfast
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 November 2024
Proposals relating to all aspects of Irish economic and social history, from medieval to modern to contemporary history, will be considered.
For more information and details on interest in particular themes, click here.
Call for Papers: Review of Irish Studies in Europe
Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) is the journal of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS).
The thematic focus of the next issue of the peer-reviewed journal Review of Irish Studies in Europe centres on 'anthologising Irish writing from the nineteenth century to the present'.
RISE is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal that publishes articles and reviews within the field of Irish Studies. The purpose is to publish new and innovative research within and between the broad range of disciplines and areas engaged with Irish Studies, including Literature (in both English and Irish), History, Film & Visual Culture, Politics, Translation Studies, Music Studies, and the Social Sciences.
Deadline for abstract submissions: extended to 15 September
Full details can be found by clicking here.
Call for Papers for ICMS 2025: Podcasting the Past: Innovations in Medieval Scholarship and Pedagogy
2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (Hybrid), Western Michigan University
8-10 May 2025
Podcasting has emerged as a new direction for scholarly publication in recent years. Audio scholarship can help bridge the three branches of scholarly work–research, teaching, and service–as well as the gap between medieval and modern.
In a world of reduced funding for and interest in the humanities, podcasting allows scholars to collaborate in new ways, expose research in progress, and publish findings in a publicly accessible way. Our session brings together scholars interested in thinking about and experimenting with this innovative medium.
Presentations in various forms are encouraged, in accordance with the experimental medium at the core of this session.
Deadline: 15 September 2024
Submit your abstract through this link.
For more information, please contact both session organizers: Lindsay Pereira (pereira.lindsay@gmail.com) and Ella Jando-Saul (ellajandosaul@gmail.com).
Call for Papers: Ireland and Transnational Solidarities
SOFEIR / University College Cork Conference
Société Française d’Études Irlandaises (SOFEIR) et University College Cork, Irlande
French Society of Irish Studies (SOFEIR) and University College Cork
21-22 March 2025
The conference will be held at University College Cork
Following Ireland’s formal recognition of Palestine as a sovereign and independent state in May 2024, the 2025 SOFEIR-University College Cork Conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to consider transnational solidarities in the Irish context.
Abstract submission deadline: 16 December 2024
Imaginaire Celtique
The ‘Celts around the World’ podcast interview on YouTube
Dr. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin's interview "The Celts around the World", is now available on the Imaginaire celtique YouTube channel. Click to watch.
Social & Cultural News
Link to Quebec Heritage Society Talk by Steve Cameron
Quebec Heritage Society board member Steve Cameron gave a presentation entitled Turmoil in the Community: The Corrigan Affair of 1855 which exposed the fault line between Orangemen and Ribbonmen in Lotbiniere/Mégantic area of the province of Quebec in the 1850s that had provincial and national repercussions. Steve Cameron is also the co-founder of Coirnéal Cealteach (Celtic Corner) in the Québec City region and a Concordia University Alumnus. Access the YouTube recording here.
Digging into Seamus Heaney’s Connection to the Bog
Seamus Heaney standing on a bog in Bellaghy in his father’s coat and hat and using his walking stick. (Source: Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives)
The current exhibition at the National Library of Ireland delves into Seamus Heaney’s bog poetry connection to the Irish landscape. It runs until December 2025 and is free for those who can get to Dublin.
