The joint 34th Conference of Irish Historians/4th Annual Centry for Public History (QUB) will take place at Queen’s University, Belfast, ANNUAL CENTRE FOR PUBLIC HISTORY CONFERENCE 15-16 September 2023.
The full programme, registration details and accommodation options are available here.
The Irish History Students’ Association is delighted to launch its new podcast. The podcast showcases historical research from students of all levels of history, researching any historical theme and period. The opening series will run over the summer and the first episode is now freely available to listen on Spotify here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ihsapodcast/episodes/Imperial-encounters-understanding-the-Anglo-Egyptian-Sudan-e26193n
The National Library of Ireland, in association with the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, are currently inviting applications for the Research Studentship.
An excellent opportunity for a graduate who is willing to undertake intensive study of a selected manuscript collection or collections which he/she might use as a major source in a post-graduate or post-doctoral research programme. The student will work in the Manuscripts Department (Special Collections) of the National Library.
More information about the role and how to apply are available here.
Applications must be made on the official National Library of Ireland application form which can be found here.
Completed application forms should be submitted by e-mail to the NLI’s Human Resources Unit at careers@nli.ie.
Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is 3:00pm, 14 July 2023.
Programme
The 11th Robert Boyle Summer School will take place from 22 – 25 June at Waterford City and Lismore and addresses the theme Science Writing | Writing Science
Thursday 22 June City Hall Waterford
Evening:
Opening Event and Reception
Friday 23 June City Hall, Waterford
Morning Session: Robert Boyle and his Sisters
Prof Michael Hunter: The Writing of Robert Boyle
Dr Ann-Maria Walsh: The Correspondence of the Boyle Sisters
Afternoon Session: Reading Robert Boyle
Nuala Clarke An Artist’s Perspective
Prof Jim Malone: A Scientist’s Perspective
Evening Session 8 pm City Hall
“Boyle in Points”
A novel game show where the excitement will reach boiling point. Chaired by Cathal Murray, RTE’s Late Date presenter and featuring two teams battling it out to tell the difference between Science Fact and Science Faked.
Saturday 24 June Lismore (free coach transfer from Waterford)
Morning Session: Writing Science for the Public
Prof Peter J Bowler: Popular Science Writing in the 20th Century
Brian Trench: The Uses and Pleasures of Science Writing: Agnes Mary Clerke and Mary Mulvihill
Afternoon Session: Science in Fiction
WLR’s Dymphna Nugent in conversation with:
Marianne Lee author of A Quiet Tide, acclaimed biography of 18C botanist Ellen Hutchins
Andrew Hughes author of The Coroners Daughter the One Dublin One Book 2023
Late Afternoon:
Eoin Gill: Sherlock Holmes, the Archetype Scientist and the Lismore Connection
Evening Garden Party at Lismore Castle
Tapas with locally produced foods
Boyle Gin Cocktails ( Non-Alcoholic refreshments also)
Sunday 25 June Waterford City
Late Morning:
Waterford City Heritage: Visit to the Museum of the Irish Wake. (places limited)
For more details and booking, please visit https://www.robertboyle.ie/11th-robert-boyle-summer-school-2023/
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Network Ireland’s next online seminar will take place on 3 May, 3-4 pm.
Abstract
‘When the Covid-19 pandemic began to emerge in early 2020, people began seeking answers to its possible trajectory and societal impact, as well as trying to define its biological identity and find treatments and vaccinations. A global network of humanities scholars who had specialised in researching the 1918-19 influenza pandemic and other historic epidemics found themselves being called on to engage with media and governmental or specialist organisations, drawing on their research to inform the current crisis. This paper tells some of their stories, including Ida’s own.’
For registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/history-of-science-technology-and-medicine-seminar-3-may-2023-tickets-513135180137
All are welcome
Locating Nineteenth-Century Studies
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Nick Daly, UCD
Title: Gentleman Burglars and Sorceresses: Late Victorian Crime Fiction and the Rise of the Criminal Mastermind.
This interdisciplinary event, held at Queen’s University Belfast (16th June), seeks to bring together nineteenth-century scholars from across the island of Ireland. This will be an inclusive and welcoming day with the goal of allowing networking and the sharing of resources, methodologies and critical ideas among our growing community of nineteenth-century scholars. We welcome scholars at all levels, including postgraduate and early-career researchers. The event will include an early career workshop, a reading group and a keynote by Professor Nick Daly. The day will conclude with a wine reception and dinner.
This year’s theme can be interpreted broadly. We are calling for 7-10 minute work-in-progress papers on any aspect of nineteenth-century studies from researchers across a broad range of specialisms, including literature and modern languages, history (including the history of art and science), politics, geography, theatre studies, and those who work at the interface of different disciplines. We look forward to a broad-ranging discussion in which we might situate our research in temporal, local, national, global, disciplinary/ interdisciplinary terms, in the context of genre, and in relation to the politics of class, ethnicity and gender. You are also welcome to register without delivering a paper.
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Please send a paper title with your university affiliation and 150-word abstract to Dr Justin Livingstone (j.livingstone@qub.ac.uk) by 12th of May 2023, with INNS in the email heading. This event is supported by the School of Arts, English and Languages. We look forward to welcoming you to Queen’s in June.
Author James Poskett, Associate Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, will discuss his new book of ‘Horizons: A Global History of Science’ (Penguin, 2022).
In conversation with Diarmid Finnegan, Reader in Human Geography at Queen’s University Belfast.
For further details and to register go to https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/horizons-a-global-history-of-science/
Nowlan Digitisation Scheme. This scheme, which was set up thanks to a bequest from the late Prof. Kevin Nowlan aims to expand the range of digitised historical sources available through open and free access to researchers, for private study or education purposes and is open until 12th April.
For full details, see https://www.ria.ie/nowlan-digitisation-grants
The Decade of Centenaries Bursary scheme. This scheme aims to encourage new local research and local history studies (local, national and regional) as a means of recognising the significant contribution of local historians in furthering fields of study relating to the struggle for independence and the civil war period within their communities and is open until 5th April.
For details, go to https://www.ria.ie/decade-centenaries-bursary