Double Vision Conference - Dublin

DOUBLE VISION CONFERENCE - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND - 18th-20th MARCH, 2005

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LIMINAL IRISH IDENTITIES

Between the 18th and 20th of March 2005, UCD hosted an interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Double Vision: Liminal Irish Identities’ to explore concepts of ‘Irishness’ in the light of increasing multiculturalism. Irishness was examined raising issues of disability, education, access, cultural dominance, colour, ethnicity and gender.

The historian, Dr Margaret MacCurtain officially opened the conference and literary readings were offered by Hugo Hamilton and Ursula Rani Sarma. Scholars, writers and activists from national and international institutions attended and contributed to this vibrant conference offering insights and analysis of a wide range of topics. Concurrent panels were held on, for example, ‘Multiculturalism and Irish identities,’ ‘Borders and Deportations’, ‘Irish travellers in culture and society’, and ‘Making and breaking codes of racialisation in contemporary Ireland’. There were also three lively plenary roundtable discussions covering issues both diverse and interrelated such as gender, immigration, sexuality and processes of marginalisation. (For details see conference programme.)

UCD’s Faculty of Arts was well represented by several members of the academic staff from the Schools of English and History, the Departments of Sociology and German, the Equality Studies Centre, and WERRC. Many other national institutions were also represented: NUI Maynooth, Galway, Cork, and Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra and the Dublin Institute of Technology. There were also speakers from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster. There were many international representatives from universities in Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Hungary, and the United States.

The organisers would like to thank everyone for a stimulating and hugely enjoyable event. The publication of selected essays is now underway. For more information please contact Borbála or Moynagh (see Contacts)

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