Category: Notices

15 September 2024. Global Nineteenth-Century Studies is pleased to invite submissions for a special issue on “The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century.” We welcome essays that employ oceanic approaches to nineteenth-century culture, ecology, economics, history, and politics in a range of global contexts.

15 May 2024. This symposium will analyse the diversity and the historical, cultural, linguistic and identity-related richness of these so-called "Celtic" diasporas, and question "Celtic" identities in the Pacific.

12 April 2024. Guest editors Emily Mark-FitzGerald (UCD) and Emma Radley (UCD) invite contributions for a special issue of Irish University Review. Over the last five years, a number of collections, special issues, handbooks, and critical companions have emerged in Irish Studies, focused (in various ways) on defining and mapping the field in the twenty-first century. Collectively they have sought to account for the state(s) of Irish Studies after the Celtic Tiger, through recession, austerity, and pandemic. These include the 2020 Jubilee issue of the Irish University Review, edited by Emilie Pine; Paige Reynolds’ The New Irish Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2021; Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Eamon Maher andEugene O’Brien, published by Peter Lang in 2021; and, most comprehensively, The Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies, edited by Renée Fox, Mike Cronin and Brian Ó Conchubhair, published in 2022.

5 April 2024. The Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) is pleased to announce its 2024 conference on the theme of Oral History and Identity. The conference will be held 21-22 June 2024 at Ulster University (Derry ~ Londonderry Campus). To participate, please submit an abstract (of not more than 250 words) along with your contact details by no later than Friday 29th March 2024. All proposals must demonstrate a clear engagement with oral history and/or personal testimony, and we actively encourage the use of audio and/or video clips.

1 April 2024. CFP deadline for OHA Biennial Conference. Oral history can be powerful in so many ways. Interviews generate potent emotions. Recordings capture the power of voice as well as the power of silence. Multimedia productions engage and connect new audiences with the complexities of the past. Fundamentally, oral history transforms the historical archive and challenges mainstream histories. It can shift traditional power dynamics, bring forth new voices and perspectives, reshape policies and politics, and shake up old certainties. Yet those possibilities come with risk as well as reward. Recording sensitive subjects is never easy. Creating an oral history production takes time, skill and care, and sometimes goes wrong. Imaginative re-uses of oral history recordings can raise ethical and legal complexities. And oral histories that disrupt accepted narratives can generate pain and conflict, in families, communities and nations.