Research
- Ireland and the Caribbean; Comparative Perspectives
- Ireland, the British Empire and the Caribbean: Comparative Perspective
- Modern Architecture and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Media, Encounter, Witness: Troubling Pasts
- Architecture and Narrative: The Built Environment in Modern Culture
- Transnationalising the Humanities
- HI Bookshelf
- IRC Funded: Nation, Genre and Gender
- Restating the Value of the Humanities
- Cultural Imaginaries of Just Transitions
- Exploring Thresholds of Knowledge
- Extractivist Landscapes: Humanities, Artistic and Activist Responses
- CHCI – Global Humanities Institute 2023
Ireland, the British Empire and the Caribbean; Comparative Perspectives
1 - 2 December 2017
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Friday, 1 December 2017
1. 45 Welcome
2.00 Panel 1:
Aaron Graham (UCL): State and society in Ireland and Jamaica, 1660-1840: comparative perspectives
Ivar Mc Grath (UCD): Some initial thoughts on Imperial barrack-building in Ireland and the Caribbean in the 18C
Emily Mann (Kent & Courthauld): Architecture in Defence of Empire: Ireland and Bermuda in 1624
3.15 Plenary 1:
Louis Nelson (Virginia): The Architectures of Empire in Jamaica: the Irish Legacy
4.15 Tea break
4.30 Plenary 2:
Natalie Zacek (Manchester): Galway and Montserrat: Myths and Realities of Irish Settlement in the 17C Caribbean
5.30 Plenary 3:
Sir Tom Devine (Edinburgh): Forgetting and Remembering: Scotland's Historians and Scotland's Slavery Past
7.00 Dinner
Saturday, 2 December 2017
9.00 Panel 3:
Finola O'Kane (UCD): Comparing Estates at Home and Abroad; Landscape Designs from Georgia, Jamaica and Ireland 1790-1830
Philip Walsh (UCD): Living and trading in Ireland, Britain and the Caribbean: the Blakes of Ballyglunin, Co Galway, c.1670-1800
Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh): Eric Williams and William Forbes. Copper, Colonies and a Scottish Country House
10.20: Plenary 4:
Nick Draper (UCL): Ireland and British Colonial Slave- ownership 1763-1833.
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Panel 4:
Fabienne Viale (Warwick): Caribbean Transactions of Memory in the Age of Coloniality
Mary Gallagher (UCD): Putting the Colonial Habitat into Words: Ireland and the Francophone Caribbean
Claire Connolly (UCC): Grateful Fictions; Edgeworth & Empire
12.45 Lunch
2.00 Plenary 5:
Jill Casid (Wisconsin): Botanical Witness
3.00 Panel 4:
Karst de Jong (QUB): Ireland, Jamaica and Empire 1789- 1834
Ciarán O'Neill (TCD): In Search of Excess: Lambert Blair and his appetites
4.00 Roundtable
5.00 End of symposium
The Conference Poster can be downloaded here.