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HII Seminar Series

UCD Humanities Institute Seminar Series – Semester I

Ireland: Continuity and Change

Seminar Coordinators:

• Dr Marnie Hay (marnie.hay@ucd.ie)
• Dr Marc Caball (marc.caball@ucd.ie)

All seminars begin at 1 pm

Seminar 1 - 23 Sept. 2011:**
Professor Tadhg O'Keeffe (UCD School of Archaeology) – Culture and Ecology in Pre-Famine Ireland: is it time to re-open the clachan debate?
** Please note: The first seminar will take place in Room A105 of the Arts Building.

Seminar 2 - 7 Oct. 2011:
Professor Anne Fogarty (UCD School of English, Drama and Film) – Altered states?: Contemporary Irish Fiction

Seminar 3 - 14 Oct. 2011:
Dr Enda Delaney (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh) – Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity

Seminar 4 - 21 Oct. 2011:
Professor Tom Garvin (UCD SPIRE) – The making of a revolutionary: the youth of Seán Lemass

Seminar 5 - 4 Nov. 2011:
Professor John Coakley (UCD SPIRE) – Title TBC

Seminar 6 - 18 Nov. 2011:
Professor Tom Inglis (UCD School of Sociology): What makes the Irish different?: theories and methods in Irish Studies

For further information and queries please contact:
HII Institute Manager
hii@ucd.ie
+353(0)1-7164690

This inter-disciplinary seminar series is a dynamic focal point for academic and intellectual discussion among humanities and human sciences scholars at UCD and beyond. They represent a key point of interface between the HII and interested audiences both within UCD and externally. These seminars are a critical locus of discussion for inter-disciplinary research and the creation of an intellectual community of scholars conducive to leading-edge research. They also provide an important focus for early stage researchers in terms of academic networking and acquisition of theoretical insights and expertise. The seminars are also open to researchers from other third-level institutions.

With effect from September 2006, the HII seminar series was designated a graduate module open to all graduate students in the Graduate School in Arts and Celtic Studies (Semester 1 GSAC 40010 ‘Memory, Meaning and Identity I’; Semester 2 GSAC 40020 ‘Memory, Meaning and Identity II’). The modules are also open to students in UCD College of Human Sciences. Each module consists of eight seminars delivered by UCD and visiting academics on themes relevant to the concepts of memory, meaning and identity in the humanities and social sciences.

The series is inter-disciplinary in composition and provides students with an introduction to theoretical methodologies in the humanities as applied to specific research questions. These modules aim to generate new debates among graduate students on research questions and theoretical issues which are best understood and analysed across conventional disciplinary boundaries. They provide students with an overview of academic debates and research issues which are relevant to and/or complement their own research work. The seminars also serve to provide students with an introduction to theoretical methodologies in the humanities as applied to specific research questions. The seminars have become an established element in UCD’s academic and social life in the humanities. The new theme of the seminar series is Culture, Society and Change.

Seminars take place on Fridays at 1.10pm in room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield

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