Tag: CFP

31 October 2026. The Easter 1916 Proclamation promised to ‘cherish all of the children of the nation equally’. With the Easter Rising now over a century old, we invite researchers and writers to Aotearoa New Zealand to consider all the varied resonances and implications of the phrase ‘children of the nation’. How has our sense of the nation and its children changed since 1916, or even since the decade of centenaries? What are the new approaches to the expansion of the nation, with its diasporic identities including, but also moving far beyond, the ‘exiled children’ that the Proclamation locates in America? We invite abstracts of 250-300 words, with 100-word speaker bios, for proposed 20-minute papers in English, nó as Gaeilge, on a range of themes. Proposals can be for individual talks, panels (3 speakers) or roundtables (3-5 speakers). We strongly recommend that panel and roundtable proposals should include scholars at different points in their career and from a range of institutions.

1 February 2026. The nineteenth century, including in Ireland, is often characterised by large-scale, abstract processes of accelerated change. The phenomenon of ‘modernisation’, encompassing various forms of economic rationalisation, administrative bureaucratisation, social standardisation, and cultural massification is seen to have left the Ireland of 1900 (or 1921) as almost unrecognisable from that of 1800 (or 1801). The voluminous records of a quasi-colonial ‘union’ state have provided rich pickings for historians and others seeking to situate and understand this transformation. But how do scholars find the human core to this enormous story? How did these changes impact ordinary lives? And indeed, how did ordinary people in nineteenth-century Ireland contribute to, contend with, or confound the transformations going on around them? The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 February 2026 and three conference travel bursaries of 300 euro each are available on a competitive basis.

12 December 2025. The Association of Celtic Students will be holding its thirteenth annual conference on 11-13 June 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. We welcome presentations in English and in any of the Celtic languages. We accept papers from current students and recent graduates on any aspect of Celtic Studies, as well as any topic associated with any of the Celtic languages, peoples, literatures, histories, cultures, including comparative and reception approaches. Conference papers should be between 15-20 minutes in length. We will also be hosting posters on our online Conference Hub throughout the event. We welcome poster submissions on any aspect of Celtic Studies, in any of the Celtic languages and/or English. Abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted by December 12th 2025.

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.

31 March 2024. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts for the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland (SSCNI) Annual Conference 2024 has been extended. As we grapple with an accelerating digital culture defined by just-in-time deliveries, synchronous communication, instantaneous connectivity, and 24/7 availability, the 2024 SSNCI Conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to consider ‘time’ itself as a neglected dimension of Irish history. A critical approach to temporality in nineteenth-century Ireland and amongst the Irish diaspora might embrace a variety of methodological foci, from visual, dramatic and literary representations of time to its perception, measurement and use in everyday life. From the rise and fall of local ‘time zones’ to the disruptive ‘annihilation of time’ brought about by steam, locomotion and telegraphy, the emergence of modern synchronized ‘clock time’ accompanied seismic shocks in Irish life.