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10am – 11am – conference registration (Appellate Court, UL Glucksman Library)11am – 11.30am – conference opening
Speakers: Dr Sandra Joyce, Dean AHSS, Dr Nessa Cronin, Chair, IHA.
11.30 – Keynote 1
Oein DeBhairduin, Traveller Culture collector and Curator, National Museum of
Ireland.
‘Minceiri and the Museum: Connection, Challenge and Change’
Oein joined the NMI in March 2022 having previously worked with the HSE and was
supervisor and manager of St Olivers Training and Education Centre in Cloverhill,
Clondalkin for nine years. He was the first Minceiri/ Irish Traveller to work in the
Oireachtas, engaging in educational inclusion and cultural rights policy matters. His
focus within NMI is developing a Traveller specific collection, as directed, supported
and identified by the indigenous, ethnic, minority community. He is a published
author of Minceir/ Traveller Folklore, and a long-standing member of many Traveller
organisations such as a past vice Chair of the Irish Traveller Movement, Council
member of Miniceir Whidden and originating member of Tome Tori, the Gammon-
Cant (Shelta) speaking group.
Chair: Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam, UL.
12.30 – 1.30 – Lunch (provided)
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1.30 – 2.50 – Panel 1 (new perspectives on Irish cultures)
1.30 – 1.50: Dr Victoria Durrer (School of Art History & Cultural Policy, University
College Dublin), and Professor Aoife McGrath (School of Arts, English, and Languages,
Queen’s University Belfast).
‘Moving Maps: combining dance and cultural policy research to generate alternative
cartographies of rural border regions on the island of Ireland’.
1.50 – 2.10: Dr Mark Sweetnam (School of English, Trinity College Dublin).
‘Is there an Irish hymn?: Cultural palimpsest from Tate and Brady to the Gettys’.
2.10 – 2.30: Dr Marc Scully (Department of Psychology, Mary Immaculate College).
‘“Am I culturally appropriating Irish citizenship?” – negotiations and understandings
of Irish culture among post-Brexit applicants for Irish passports’.
2.30 – 2.50: Q&A
2.50 – 3.20 – Coffee break (provided)
3.20 – 4.40 – Panel 2 (New directions in scholarship on gender)
3.20 – 3.35: Jessica Doran (Ulster University)
‘Holy hells and magic spells: the impact of religion and witchcraft on Irish Young Adult
literature’.
3.35 – 3.50: Lauren Cassidy (University College Dublin)
‘“I do what I want with my pronouns”: Denise Chaila, bio-mythography, and rap star
simulacra’.
3.50 – 4.05 Regina Sexton (University College Cork)
‘“The girl who does the baking”: overcoming misconceptions, creating identity, and
building resilience in Irish food studies’.
4.05 – 4.20 Dr George Evans (School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University
of Edinburgh.
‘Imperial Irishmen? Imperial culture and Irishness in the British Officer Corps, 1900-
1945’.
4.20 – 4.40 – Q&A
Poster session - available throughout the day (for online and in-person
attendees)
End of day 1 (Range of dinner options available on campus, in Castletroy, and in
Limerick city).
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Friday 6th September
10am – Keynote 2
Dr Aileen Dillane, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
‘Always Coming Home': Speculative Ethnographies, Deep Ecologies, and Musical
Affordances’
Dr. Aileen Dillane is Associate Professor of Music at the Irish World Academy, UL,
where she is Course Director of the MA in Ethnomusicology. Aileen also co-directs the
Centre for the Study of Popular Music and Popular Culture, a priority research centre at
UL that has an associated book series Popular Musics Matter: Social, Cultural and Political
Interventions (Rowman & Littlefield). Aileen’s research interests include local/global
Irish musics; musical migrations and diasporas; protest musics; European popular
culture; urban soundscapes and critical citizenship; and music festivals. Aileen has co-
edited seven books and two special journal editions, published forty-six articles and
books chapters, and is currently working on a monograph. Following on from the
2019-2022 HERA-funded FestiVersities project on music festivals, public spaces and
cultural diversity, Aileen is combining her interests in applied ethnomusicology,
sustainable and intentional musicking, and writing modalities in her keynote for this
conference.
Chair: Dr Sophie Cooper, QUB.
11.15 - 11.45 – Coffee break (provided)
11.45 – 12.45 – Panel 3 (Collaborations and Connections)
11.45 – 12.00: Tiernan Gaffney (National Museum of Ireland: Country Life)
‘Ireland’s Ears: Documenting the role of music in everyday life in the National Folklife
Collection’.
12.00 – 12.15: Iwona Alexandra Kwiek (Cultural manager and anthropologist).
‘Cross cultural examination of traditions of Ireland and Poland’.
12.15 – 12.30: Katie Blackwood (Dublin City Council)
‘A reflection on working as a Historian-in-Residence with Dublin City Council’.
12.30 – 12.45: Q&A
12.45 – 1pm – walk across the UL campus to the Pavilion for lunch.
1 – 2pm – buffet lunch in the Pavilion (provided).
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2.00 – 3.00 Screening of ‘Making Dust’
A film by Fiona Hallinan (LUCA School of Art, KU Leuven) and Dr Ellen Rowley
(University College Dublin), followed by a Q&A.
Theatre 1, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.
Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest
Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin.
Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural
historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring
oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the
film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of
the building. The film invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and
materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of
sustainability in architecture.
More information available through this link.
3.00 – 3.15 – walk back to the UL Glucksman Library
3.15 – 4.30 – panel 4 (Methodologies and Approaches)
3.15 – 3.30: Dr Alan Graham (University College Dublin).
‘Ciúnas, bóthar, cailín, bainne’: the cúpla focal and the new revival’.
3.30 – 3.50: Professor Helen Phelan (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
University of Limerick), Professor Ailish Hannigan (Graduate Entry Medical School,
University of Limerick), and Dr. Fran Garry (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
University of Limerick).
‘The Arts, Data Literacy and Diversity: an interdisciplinary exploration of singing and
data storytelling with a culturally diverse community in Limerick’.
3.50 – 4.05: Moufida Benmoussa (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick)
‘Print media framings of Syrian migration to Ireland in the Irish Times and the Irish
Independent’.
4.05 – 4.20: Dr. Niamh O’Brien
‘Music, sound and story – recording and performing the sonic environment’.
4.20 – 4.40 Q&A
4.40 – 5.00 – comfort break
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5.00 – 5.30pm – Closing roundtable
With reflections on the conference and on the future directions for Irish Studies with
UL early career panel.
Roundtable panellists:
Hira Fatima (School of Law, University of Limerick)
Dr Mark Ryan (School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of
Limerick)
Cliodhna Condon (School of English, Irish, and Communication, University of
Limerick).
Poster session - available throughout the day (for online and in-person
attendees)
5.30pm conference close
Registration
This hybrid conference is free to attend, booking is essential, and participation will
be available in-person and via MS Teams. Please register your attendance before
Tuesday 27th August through this link at Microsoft Forms
Poster session details
Dr Ciara Henderson (School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin), Dr
Georgina Laraghy (School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin), and
Professor Joan Lalor (School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin).
‘The Spaces Between Us: Perinatal Death, Burial and Bereavement in 19th and 20th
century Ireland).
Tara Mozafari (Tehran University)
‘Investigating the Influence of Contemporary Irish Women Writers on the Global
Literary Landscape’.
Dr Scott Spencer (Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California),
‘Digital Humanities as a Means to Engage Irish Traditional Music Collections’.
Dr Patricia Gibson (Institute of Art, Design + Technology, Dún Laoghaire),
‘Exploring Algorithmic Cultures in Irish Education: A Posthuman Perspective’.
Dr Kevin Stevenson (Faculty of Education, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick),
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‘Musical Setting Creation for a Yeats Poem: An Autoethnographic, Irish-Canadian
Experience’.
Sofia Alferez Mendia,
‘Exploring Gendered Shame in This Is Not About You: A Menmoir (2023) by Rosemary
MacCabe.’
Niamh MacGloin,
‘Radical, non-conformist and controversial women in 20th century London.’
Nidhi Piplani Kapur (South East Technological University – SETU),
‘Celebrating Diversity at Home: Embedding a Culture of ‘Internationalisation at Home
(IaH)’ in Irish Higher Education Institutions’.
Rachel Fehily (University College Dublin),
‘A Creative Based Cultural Production’.
Iria Seijas-Pérez, Universidade de Vigo),
‘New Perspectives on Irish Young Adult Literature: Representing Sapphic Adolescent
Girls’.
David Ryan (MA in Public History and Cultural Heritage, University of Limerick),
‘Public Interactions with Oral History Collections in Irish Museum Settings’.
Steering committee:
Dr Niamh NicGhabhann (UL); Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam (UL); Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB) &
Prof Sonja Tiernan (IHA).
| Period | 5 Sep 2024 → 6 Sep 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Limerick, IrelandShow on map |