The Sixteenth Annual Historic Houses Conference, will be held at Maynooth University, 8-9 June 2018. The call for papers is now open on the theme of ‘The Country House: Sport and Leisure’.
More details can be found at the following link:
http://historicirishhouses.ie/news-and-events/cfp-country-house-sport-and-leisure
The conference ‘Southern Irish Loyalism in Context’ will take place at Maynooth University, 21-22 July 2017. For details and to register please use the following link:
The annual conference of the Economic and Social History Society will take place at the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, on 16 and 17 November 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is “Globalisation, Identity and Prosperity in Irish History”, but submissions on other topics are also encouraged.
Proposals should consist of a one-page abstract and should be sent by Friday 15 September 2017.
Full details can be found at the society’s website:
The third Women’s History in the Digital World Conference will be held at Maynooth University, 6-7 July 2017. Registration is now open. For the conference program and to register please follow the link below:
As a member of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (CISH-ICHS) the ICHS will be attending that body’s General Assembly in Moscow in September 2017. There it will be the guest of the National Committee of Russian Historians. The NCRH, CISH-ICHS and local Russian scholars are together organising two conferences – on the related themes of the Russian revolution and civil wars more broadly – to run alongside the Assembly. We appreciate not many historians from Ireland may be able to get to Moscow for these events (only one of our committee is going), but thought you might like to see the programmes, which have been circulated in provisional form to us. We will post a report of our experiences on these pages. If anyone would like us to make particular contact with anyone on the programmes, do send us an email, for we would be very pleased to network on your behalf.
‘The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its historical footprint’ MGIMO University, 27-8 September 2017 (International conference) programme here
‘Anatomy of Civil War’ Moscow Academy of Sciences, 28 September 2017 (CISH-ICHS Symposium) programme here
Both programmes are published first in French and then in English.
The ICHS were pleased to see such a large audience at their re-launch symposium on 29 March in the NLI. Here are some photos of the event. Thanks go to the panel of speakers – Lawrence Goldman, David Hayton and Marian Lyons – for a fascinating discussion of the problems and possibilities facing the modern historical profession.
The provisional program for the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Conference KU Leuven, Belgium | 29-30 June 2017, is now available. This year’s conference theme is ‘Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-century Ireland’. Further details can be found here: https://ssnci2017.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/conference-programme.pdf
Registration for the Revolutionary Masculinities Symposium, Maynooth University, 26th June 2017, is now open. Please use the following link: https://revolutionarymasculinities.wordpress.com/registration/
The History Lab aims to support and encourage student engagement with online primary and secondary sources.
The History Lab aims:
Over the past twenty-five years, millions of primary sources have been digitised by libraries and archives and made available online. (Malkmus, 2008) From an Irish context, in the lead up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising, there has been a major drive to survey and digitise relevant archival material. These digitisation projects share a common ideal to make Ireland’s heritage widely available to everyone and to enrich the historical narrative. The Decade of Centenaries has contributed archival developments such as the digitisation of the Bureau of Military History Military Service Pensions Collection, and the 1901 and 1911 censuses. Other projects such as the Google virtual tour “Dublin Rising 1916-2016 Virtual Tour” a unique digital primary source project demonstrate scale and scope of online primary sources available to history learners.
History is the study and interpretation of the past, and engaging with primary sources is central to the development of authentic critical historical thinking. (Wineburg, 1999) Since the 1970s, millions of primary sources have been digitised by libraries and archives which has created a wealth of rich content for historians and history students. However the sheer scale of sources material, websites and questions about source quality make it a challenging research environment for history students. (Tally & Goldenberg, 2005)
Our solution to this was to create “The History Lab” Digital Research Skills resource to support and scaffold the learners’ engagement with digital primary sources.
Available at: https://thehistorylabblog.wordpress.com/
The call for papers for a one-day symposium reflecting on masculinities in the revolutionary era is open. It will take place at Maynooth University, 26 June 2017. 300 word abstracts for 30-minute papers should be sent to the conference organiser, Dr Jennifer Redmond.
Full details can be found at the conference website: https://revolutionarymasculinities.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/