School of History and Anthropology

School of History and AnthropologyAlumni Day 2011

1Welcome back to Queens What is the School of History and Anthropology?What do we do?Who are our staff and students?What is our vision for the future?How can you be part of our community?

Welcome back to Queens! This is our first alumni event as the School of History and Anthropology and this is something of an experiment for us. Were keen to have regular annual events and would be anxious to have your feedback on what sort of events youd like to see.Our aim is to re-connect with our alumni community and encourage you to participate with us in whatever ways you feel interested in and comfortable with. I should assure you that our purpose today is not to press you for financial support for our work, but rather to open a line of communication.We have a busy schedule for you today, featuring presentations on fresh and innovative research by our staff and postgraduate students, a tour of our stunning new McClay library, and a buffet lunch here in the Great Hall.So before moving that feast, I want first to offer you a brief introduction to who we are, and what we do. Ill round off the day by returning to ways in which you might play a more active role in our community, but just in case anybody has to have early, Ill just encourage you to sign up for our email bulletins, and long in to our new facebook page at QUB History and Anthropology Alumni.2We are:An interdisciplinary school

Anthropological StudiesHistoryIrish StudiesCognition and CultureThe School in its present form has been in existence since 2005 and many of you will have been students in the various departments that have merged to form what it is today Modern History, Ancient History/Classics, Economic and Social History; Social Anthropology; Institute of Irish Studies.The modern school has 4 elements: the two teaching and research areas of Anthropological Studies and History, and the two semi-autonomous Research institutes of Irish Studies and Cognition and Culture.3Anthropological StudiesQueens has a world-wide reputation for its reaching and research in Anthropological Studies.

In addition to Anthropology we offer a unique range of courses in Ethnomusicology.

Our regional interests include Ireland, the British Isles, Europe, Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, the Czech Republic, West Africa, Japan, Latin America and Melanesia.

AS is a thriving teaching and research area, with 10 members of staff.4History

History at Queens covers periods and places as diverse as the Ancient Mediterranean, Medieval Byzantium, Reformation Germany, 19th-Century Belfast, and Mozambique, New Orleans and Moscow in the 20th Century.

Our historians research and teach themes which include gender, the household and consumption, religion and missions, slavery and civil rights, national identities, and popular culture and music.History is our largest teaching and research area, and now incorporates both Ancient History and Economic and Social History. We currently have 29 members of staff in this field, covering a very diverse range of places and times ...5Institute of Irish Studies

The Institute operates as a focus for research being undertaken on Irish Studies. Its research strategy is to explore the social, political, cultural and geographical factors that have influenced the people of this island and its diasporas. Research is conducted into the physical and political environment of the north of Ireland, mapping its unique influence on wider Irish and British identities.

The Institute also offers lively interdisciplinary teaching programmes in Irish Studies, and hosts a popular international summer school.

IIS, originally founded by the legendary Estyn Evans in the late 1960s, is now based in refurbished premises in University Road and has a university-wide remit.6Institute of Cognition and CultureThe ICC is one of the world's first centres for research in the cognitive science of culture. We offer a unique programme of doctoral research that is based on the recognition of a need to cross traditional disciplinary divisions in the scientific study of cultural phenomena.

ICC, founded in 2004, is a new interdisciplinary centre drawing on the approaches of Anthropology, experimental psychology and cognative philosophy.7We are:A world-class research centre

History in top 20 UK university departments graded in RAE 2008

Anthropology in top 10 UK university departments graded in RAE 2008

QUB is part of the UKs Russell Group of research-intensive universities

Were very proud of our world-class research profile in all our disciplines, making us a leading UK research centre, with world-leading research in some fields.8Research: 2010 BooksChristopher Marsh, Music and society in early modern England (Cambridge UP, 2010)Scott Dixon, Protestants: a history from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan, The anthropology of sex (Berg, 2010) David Hayton, James Kelly and John Bergin (eds), The eighteenth-century composite state (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Books scholarly monographs, edited volumes of essays and editions of texts , remain our most high profile outputs, although we also publish significant numbers of journal articles, book chapters and textbooks. Here are some of the volumes published in 2010-11.9More 2010 BooksKeith Jeffery, MI6: the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-49 (Bloomsbury, 2010)Lisette Josephides, Melanesian odysseys: negotiating the self, narrative, and modernity (Berghahn Books, new edition, 2010)Fearghal McGarry, The rising: Ireland, Easter 1916 (Oxford UP, 2010)Marie Therese Flanagan, The transformation of the Irish church in the twelfth century (Boydell Press, 2010)

2010-2011 Books

David Whitehead, Apollodorus Mechanicus, Siege-matters (Poliorketika). Translated with introduction and commentary. (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010)Sinead O'Sullivan (ed.), Martianus Capella, Glossae aeui Carolini in libros I-II Martiani Capellae De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (Brepols, 2010)Jesse Bering, The god instinct: the psychology of souls, destiny and the meaning of life (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2010)Ken Brown, The British Toy Industry (Shire Books, 2011)

2011 Books

Eric Morier-Genoud, C. Jeannerat & D. Pclard, Embroiled. Swiss churches, South Africa and Apartheid (LIT Verlag, 2011)Keith Jeffery, MI6: The history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909-49 (Paperback edn: Bloomsbury, 2011).Catherine Clinton (ed.), Mary Chesnut's diary (Penguin, USA, 2011)Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray (eds), Poverty and welfare in Ireland, 1838-1948 (Irish Academic Press, 2011)Research Projects: AnthropologyThe Domestic Moral Economy: An Ethnographic Study of Values in the Asia-Pacific (Prof Fiona Magowan) funded by ESRC (2011- 15)

Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (Dr Maruska Svasek and Prof Fiona Magowan) funded byHumanities in the European Research Area (2010-12)

Modelling Politeness in Social Signal Processing (Prof Hastings Donnan), funded byEU FP7 (2009-12)

Externally-funded research projects are also central to our research activities and cover a wide range of themes, activities and external collaborators.13Research Projects: AnthropologyLinking with Age and Opportunity, and Help the Aged Charities in Ireland and Northern Ireland (Dr Jonathan Skinner) funded by Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (2009-11)

Remaking Borders in Europe (Prof Hasting Donnan) funded by EU COST (2008-12)

Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network (CDEN) (Dr Maruska Svasek) 2007-

Research Projects: HistoryDocumenting Ireland Parliament, People and Migration (Prof Peter Gray), funded by AHRC (2010-11)

An Urban History of Belfast (Prof Sean Connolly), funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2010-11)

The Secret Intelligence Service (MI6): The Official History 1909-49 (Prof Keith Jeffery) funded by HMG (2005-11)

Research Projects: HistoryAfricans at Queen's University (Dr Eric Morier-Genoud), funded by QUB Development and Alumni Office (2010)

Marriage in Ireland, 1660 1925 (Prof Mary O'Dowd), funded by AHRC (2007-10)

After Slavery: Race, Labour and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas (Dr Brian Kelly), funded by AHRC (2006-10)

Socialism and secularism in Berlin, 1890-1933 (Dr Todd Weir), funded by British Academy (2011-13)

Research Projects: IIS/ICCJudgments of Moral Wrongdoing and Emotions(Dr Paulo Sousa, ICC), funded by University of Porto/Santander Totta Bank (2010-11)

Flags Monitoring Project (Dr Dominic Bryan, IIS), funded by OFMDFM

St Patricks Day Monitoring Project (Dr Dominic Bryan, IIS), funded by Belfast City Council

Imagining Belfast: Political Ritual, Symbols and Crowds (Dr Dominic Bryan, IIS) funded by ESRC

Conferences at QUB

Belfast: The Urban Experience 1613-1939 (Sept 2010)

1916: Radicalism and Sovereignty (Nov. 2010)The Ideal Woman: Interrogating Femininity across Disciplines and Time (Mar. 2011)

Classical and Near Eastern Studies Postgrad Conference (Mar. 2011)

Academic conferences are a central part of our activity allowing us to bring scholars from all over the world to present and debate their work at QUB. A number of our conferences have been organised and run by postgrad students.18The Wiles LecturesOur 2011 Wiles lectures were given in May by Dr Betty Wood of the University of Cambridge on: The many-headed hydra revisited: Bound workers in the American south 1720-1775

The 2012 lectures will be on 16-19 May and be delivered by Prof Lord Peter Hennessey (Queen Mary, University of London) on History, country, autobiography: Writing about one's own times

Everybody welcome

We have many public lectures and seminars throughout the year but for Historians, the highlight of the year are our Wiles lectures, funded by a charitable trust, which brings a world-leading scholar and discussants to explore a major theme in world history over 4 days.19We are:A centre of teaching and learning excellence

History and Anthropology are thriving subject areas at Queen's.The School has around forty teaching staff, over 500 undergraduates, and around 100 postgraduates.

The School is diverse and stimulating, without being overly large - it has a reputation for being friendly and supportive.

We admit about 180 UG students every year, and 60-70 MA students and 20-30 PhD students. We are working hard to enhance our students experience have recently brought in personal tutoring and will be introducing a peer-mentoring scheme for UGs next year.20Education achievements 2010-11Dr Elaine Farrell won a student-nominated QUB Teaching Award 2011 for innovative teaching and student engagement on her course Family, gender and household in 19th-century Ireland

A new Medieval History strand of the MA in Modern History was launched in September 2010, convened by Dr James Davis.

Todd Weirs module The legacy of fascism in Germany 1918 to 2005 won the 2010 syllabus contest for best course on Nazi/Holocaust history held by H-German, an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers of German history

Our staff are developing innovative teaching methods and research-led teaching courses to connect their own research to student learning.21Education achievements 2010-11Joanne Davies (BA English and Modern History, 2010) was awarded the prize for Historical Studies at the Undergraduate Awards for Ireland and Northern Ireland, 2010.

Joannes winning entry was an essay on Womanhood under Stalin, selfhood under threat? A critical exploration of the Soviet sexual counter-revolution of the 1930s.

Ryan Charteris (BA Modern History 2010) was awarded a British Commission for Maritime History Prize for Undergraduate Achievement in Maritime History. Ryans entry was his BA dissertation on Sir Thomas Lipton and the Americas Cup.

Joannes presentation was made by former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, at the Royal Irish Academy.Were very proud of exceptional attainment by some of our students.22Graduation, July 2010:

In the summer graduation we saw 16 PhDs, 5 MAs and 162 BAs take their degrees in the SchoolAnd of course of all our students who see their degrees through to graduation.23Graduation, December 2010

Winter graduation saw 4 PhDs, 64 MAs and 10 BAs take their degrees from the School. We are:Globally connected

We have student and staff exchange programmes with international institutions including:

Minzu University, Beijing, ChinaBoston College, MA, USAGettysburg College, PA, USA (Lincoln Interns)Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USAUniversity of Amsterdam, Netherlands (Erasmus)University of Athens, Greece (Erasmus)Aarhus University, Denmark (Erasmus)The European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany (Erasmus)Basel University, Switzerland (Erasmus)Sciences Po, Bordeaux, France (Erasmus)University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (Erasmus)

25Our global research partners include:-The Free University Amsterdam , University of Oslo, Manchester Metropolitan University, Museum fr Vlkerkunde, Vienna (CIM Project)

-Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (Robert Hart Diaries Project)

- CESAER Dijon/ Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Ecole d'Economie de Paris (History of consumer credit project)

-MOP Vaishnav University for Women, Chennai, India (CDEN Network)

- Gilder Lehrman Institute, New York, and the New YorkDepartment of Education.-Ecole francaise dExtreme Orient, Hanoi, Vietnam

Social Life:

Our incoming International Students from China, Europe and North America are taken on a tour of Derry

School staff at the History/Anthropology Formal

Ethnomusicology students participated in this years Saint Patricks Day Parade. The students took the Schools Boi-Bumb, a subaltern Brazilian street musical drama, on parade as a means of gaining a first-hand experience of the empowering potential of the appropriation of the public space.

We are:

Green Winners of the QUB Green Awards 2011 Cycle ChallengeProject Rwanda: Supporting Disadvantaged Children Through Education

Providing educational support to orphans in RwandaFor these children education is the only hope for the future

These children need help with simple necessities before they can make the transition from primary to secondary educationStudents from the school of history and social anthropology participated in a number of events to raise money for Rwanda. Including an 80s night, a bake sale, and 5 teams ran in the Belfast city marathon.

Or by sending a cheque to: QUB Project Rwanda c/o History SocietySchool of History and AnthropologyQueens University BelfastBelfast BT7 1NN

If you would like to donate to Project Rwanda, you can do so by going to our facebook page, projectrwanda@groups.facebook.comand following the link for donations.