SHH! OCTOBER 2012

Newsletter for the School of Histories and Humanities Published Monthly

Please send items for inclusion to Jill Walsh (jill.walsh@tcd.ie)

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS &

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Centenary Conference

2-3 November 2012 Call for papers

Theme: Ireland, empire and Christian civilization

2012 marks the centenary of Archivium Hibernicum, the journal of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland. To celebrate this landmark in Irish ecclesiastical history, the Society will hold a special

conference dedicated to the theme of ‘Ireland, empire and Christian civilization’. The conference which will take place on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 November 2012 will be hosted by St Patrick’s College & the History Department, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth,

County Kildare.

Talking History is an award-winning weekly programme on Newstalk 106-108 FM which looks at everything from the ancient world to the present time. Presented by Patrick Geoghegan of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, it is on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. and can be downloaded on iTunes. ~~~~~~~~~~~

The History Show, RTE Radio 1, 6-7p.m. on Sundays, presented by Myles Dungan, PhD candidate in the School of Histories and Humanities in TCD.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Beyond the Garden Party: Re-thinking Edwardian Culture

It must have seemed like a long garden party on a golden afternoon – to those who were inside the garden. But a great deal that was important was going on outside the garden: it was out there that the twentieth-century world was being made. Nostalgia is a pleasing emotion, but it is also a simplifying one; to think of Edwardian England as a peaceful, opulent world before the flood is to misread the age and to misunderstand the changes that were dramatized by the First World War (Samuel Hynes, The Edwardian Turn of Mind).

More than forty years since Samuel Hynes wrote these words, many accounts and representations of Edwardian England still invoke the image of the garden party. Building on recent critical reappraisals, such as The Edwardian Sense (Yale 2010), and coinciding with the major Edwardian exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, this interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine this notion, and to explore the alternatives. Was there such a thing as a distinct Edwardian culture; if so, what were the forces behind it?

We invite papers on any aspect of British culture between the years 1895-1914 (the ‘long Edwardian’ era). Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Edwardian Media: art, communication technologies, design, fashion, fiction, film, music, poetry, religion, theatre, and other forms of ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture.

• Categorising the Edwardians: Victorianism/Edwardianism/Modernism/pre- and post-War/fin de siècle/the turn of the century. How useful is the term ‘Edwardian’?

• Revisionary Edwardians: challenging conventional notions of Edwardian writers, artists, and thinkers; fresh perspectives on famous Edwardians, and critical recoveries of neglected figures.

• Eclectic Edwardians: the catholicity of Edwardian taste and cultural products, the genre-hopping of Edwardian writers and artists, and Edwardian interdisciplinarity.

• Edwardian Afterlives: Edwardian nostalgia, Edwardian cultural afterlives, twenty-first-century visions of the Edwardians.

• The past and future of Edwardian studies; teaching the Edwardians.

‘Beyond the Garden Party: Re-thinking Edwardian Culture’ is the inaugural conference of the Edwardian Culture Network. The two-day conference will be joint-hosted by the Universities of York and Durham on 12th-13th April 2013. Speakers will be asked to state in which city they would prefer to give their paper.

Please send 300 word abstracts to edwardianculture@hotmail.co.uk by no later than Monday

3rd

December 2012. For more about the conference and the Edwardian Culture Network, see www.edwardianculture.com

Samuel Shaw, Sarah Shaw Naomi Carle, Andrew Hodgson

Ph.D student Department of English and Related Literature University of York Co-founder of the Edwardian Culture Network www.edwardianculture.com

Publicity Article –Trinity College An innovative oral history training programme led by TCD-based academic, Dr Anna Bryson, has just been completed in the border region. Participants included students of history, law and sociology from TCD, Cambridge University and Dundalk Institute of Technology. They enrolled alongside community workers, representatives from nationalist and unionist political parties, members of fraternal associations, frontline and law enforcement services, religious communities and local history networks. The aim of the course was to transfer skills to enable people to collect and conserve their own stories of conflict and peace at various levels and over the last fifty or so years. The training (including interview integrity procedures, processing and storing, styles and techniques, as well as relevant technical matters) set out all necessary legal, ethical and professional standards, and demonstrated how they can be embodied in practical work. The training programme is part of the Peace Process: Layers of Meaning Project, an ambitious collaboration between Queen Mary, University of London, Trinity College Dublin, and Dundalk Institute of Technology, supported with €1.1 million from the EU’s PEACE III programme. The course began in the East End of London where participants learned about oral history projects that have been undertaken within and between a diverse range of ethnic groups. Further training took place at Altnaveigh House in Newry. The programme was completed last week at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Participants reported on fieldwork undertaken in the course of the summer and progressed to advanced consideration of socially and politically sensitive interviews. They undertook intense training in the conduct of audio-visual interviews and engaged in mock interviews with professional actors. A funding workshop included guest presentations from representatives from EU and state funding bodies. Participants also heard from a wide range of community leaders about the potential impact and dissemination of interview-based projects. These included Regina Fitzpatrick (Oral History Network of Ireland), Eamon Thornton (Drogheda Voices), Kevin Murphy (Cuimheamh), and Jonathan Mattison (Stepping Towards Reconciliation in Positive Engagement).

Dr Mattison stated; ‘The work undertaken by the Layers of Meaning Project is incredibly important -

especially the production of the oral history training template for local communities

and academics...Helping individuals and communities tell their story is vital,

especially in the context of Northern Ireland, a country coming out of conflict,

where everyone’s view needs to be taken into account. The project provides a

useful template for moving forward.’

Ailesh Veale, a PhD student at TCD, added: ‘I thought the course was great and struck a good balance between the practical skills of using equipment and technology for interviews, and the ethical and legal requirements. I am now more aware of the benefits of oral history work for individuals and communities. The programme was organised really well and I enjoyed all the sessions and the great discussions afterwards. I feel with this training I will be more confident in conducting research interviews.’ The training programme has given way to three exemplary local projects. The first is an inter-generational study of interfaith marriages; the second will involve young people from Ballynafeigh, Darkley and Dundalk in an interview-based exploration of identity and diversity; and the third will record life histories of those involved in the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show. The latter will document cross-community and cross-border co-operation in farming and will undoubtedly make a timely and valuable contribution to the new Legacy Project. The Peace Process: Layers of Meaning project is also in the process of collecting and archiving one hundred heritage interviews with senior political figures, civil servants, and community and religious leaders involved in attempts to achieve peace over the last forty years. The project is described in full at: www.peaceprocesshistory.org.

Centre for Early Modern History. Monday Seminar Series 2012-13

Meetings begin at 4PM in the Neill/ Hoey Lecture Theatre of the Long Room Hub unless otherwise stated. 12 November, Sara Beam (Victoria), ‘Torture, reformation and blasphemy in sixteenth-century Geneva’. To be followed by the launch of The 1641 Depositions and the Irish Rebellion (eds) Eamon Darcy, Annaleigh Margey, Elaine Murphy, in TRIARC by Raymond Gillespie and Jane Ohlmeyer. 19 November, Mark Hutchinson (UCC), ‘Governing in a state of grace? Reformed theology and statist thought in Elizabethan Ireland and England’ 3 December, Centre for Early Modern History Annual Lecture- Andrew Pettegree (St Andrews), ‘Tabloid values: on the trail of the world’s first news hound’, Thomas Davis lecture room (2043), 7PM 10 December, Stephen Carroll, ‘Catholic opposition to religious enforcement in Ireland, 1603-1633’ 21 January, Matthew Shaw (British Library), ‘Re-writing time: the French Republican calendar’ 28 January, Caitlín Ní Chinnéide, ‘The Irish dimension to the Rump’s demise, 1652-3’ 4 February, Alan Smyth, ‘Plundering during the Williamite war in Ireland’ 11 February, Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library), ‘How seriously should we take ‘British’ history? Rumour, paranoia and the Williamite campaign in Ireland’. Respondent: Jeffrey Chambers 18 February, Robert Frost (Aberdeen), ‘On Unions: Composite Monarchy and the Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union’ 4 March, Emily Michelson (St Andrews), ‘Catholic reform and the Roman ghetto’ 11 March, Sean O’Reilly, ‘The missing years? Observations on the Anglo-Irish relationship, 1801-1820’ 25 March, Simon Ditchfield (York), ‘Writing a history of the Counter-Reformation in, and for, the twenty first century’

For further information contact Graeme Murdock murdocg@tcd.ie

Call for Papers

http://shiftjournal.org

Shift welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, as well as discussions concerning other art-related events from current graduate students. Please see Submission and Style Guidelines for appropriate guidelines.

The committee welcomes submissions dealing with visual and material culture from any discipline. Papers may address a full range of topics and historical periods. Topics may include, but are not limited to, art and propaganda, patronage, gender and identity, spirituality and art, nationalisms and regionalisms, modernism and modernity, performance art, photography and film, perspectives in theory, methodology, and historiography, collection and representation, art and technology.

Submission Deadline for Issue 6

This journal is an online publication. All manuscripts should be sent by email to editors@shiftjournal.org. Papers must be submitted to the editors of Shift by 01 March 2013. The journal launch will take place 01 October 2013.

Selection Process

For this issue, submitted papers will be reviewed by an Editorial Committee composed of current graduate students from Western University and New York University. Papers considered the strongest will be sent to the Editorial Board, which is composed of upper-level graduate students and established scholars. Papers judged by the Editorial Board as contributing to existing scholarship will be accepted for publication in the journal.

All papers are selected by blind jury panel, and are therefore considered refereed.

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Submission and Style Guidelines

Please read the following points carefully before submitting to Shift. Submissions that do not follow these regulations will not be considered for publication.

1. Authors must be registered as graduate students at the time they submit their work.

2. All papers must conform to the style guidelines as outlined in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or newer edition.

3. All papers must be double spaced with 1-inch margins. Font must be Arial 11. All papers must be paginated, including the first page, with numbers located on the bottom right hand corner.

4. Images should be placed in-text throughout the paper, not located together at the end. All images and figures should be properly captioned according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or newer edition. Authors are responsible for securing rights to all images and figures used within their paper. Authors must produce evidence that these rights have been obtained before an image or figure will be published.

5. In order to ensure blind readings from the Editorial Committee and Editorial Board, authors must remove any identifying information from the content of the submission and from the document's 'properties'.

6. Please submit a separate document with the authors' names, title of paper, institution, email address, phone number, and an abstract of 250 words or less with a list of 3-5 keywords to enhance the discoverability of your article online.

7. There are differing length restrictions depending on the type of manuscript submitted to the journal. Academic papers must be 2500 to 6250 words, while reviews for exhibitions, books, and other art-related events must be 1000 to 1500 words.

8. This journal is online only. All manuscripts should be sent by email to editors@shiftjournal.org. Submissions must be received the editors of Shift by midnight on 01 March 2013 to be considered for publication in issue 6.

9. Issue 6 will be published online on 01 October 2013.

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The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland celebrates its twentieth anniversary by presenting, in

collaboration with the National Library of Ireland, Professor Terence Dooley, NUI, Maynooth

'Landlord-tenant relations on the duke of Leinster's estate, c.1838-1903: social memory and reality'.

‘The burning of the Leinster Lease’ The Illustrated London News, 8 January 1881

Venue: National Library Seminar Room 13 November 2012

Time: 6.00pm All welcome