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From: Donal Lowry Organization: Oxford Brookes University Subject: Re: Anti-Monarchy sentiment in Ireland In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Do you know of James Murphy's book, Abject Loyalty, on the monarchy in=20 19thc Ireland, as well as James McLoughlin's more recent book on the=20 monarchy in Ireland which goes up to the present, more or less. For more positive Irish Catholic views of Edward VII in particular=20 (including Archbishop Healy of Tuam's glowing appraisal in about 1907),=20 see my article, `The Crown, Empire Loyalism and the assimilation of=20 non-British white subjects ...', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth=20 History, May 2003. Edward VII was believed by many in Ireland to be sympathetic to=20 Catholicism and opposed to the anti-Catholic aspects of the coronation=20 oath. The fact that he holidayed in Ireland, and contemplated an Irish=20 `Balmoral' at Kylemore further enhanced this image. Best wishes, Donal Lowry Joan Allen wrote: >You could look at Antony Taylor's 'Down with the Crown; British Anti-mon= archism and debates about Royalty since 1790'(London: Reaktion Books, 199= 9) > > =20 > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List >>[mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Matthew Barlow >>Sent: 27 September 2008 01:58 >>To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK >>Subject: [IR-D] Anti-Monarchy sentiment in Ireland >> >>Hello All, >>I was wondering if the list could indulge and enlighten me. A >>friend of mine, working on the history of Derry, has come >>across something I, as a Canadian find rather remarkable. In >>the minutes of city council around the time of the coronation >>of Edward VII in 1902, a Catholic city councillor expresses >>his outrage that the poor (Catholic) taxpayers of Derry would >>be made to pay for the celebrations of the coronation of the >>new king, something which he more or less dismisses as a >>Protestant affair. He goes on to complain that Edward has no >>love for Catholics, dismissing them as "idolators" and so on. >>The city councillor expresses his outrage quite clearly and >>loudly, expressing his disdain as both a Catholic and an Irishman. >> >>Now, to my Canadian ears, this sounds rather remarkable and >>rather incendiary as an anti-monarchical statement. It is one >>thing to not want the British colonialists around, it's >>another to personally criticise the monarch. The only example >>I could think of this in Canadian history, at least, was >>during the 1837 Rebellion in Lower Canada, wherein rebels >>referred to the newly crowned Queen Victoria as a "whore." >> >>Can anyone point me to sources on such anti-royalist sentiment >>in Ireland, or, for that matter, anywhere in the British >>Empire in the early 20th century? >> >>Many thanks, >>Matthew Barlow >> >>PhD Candidate & >>Sessional Instructor >>Department of History >>Concordia University >>Montr=E9al (QC) >> >>& >> >>Faculty, >>Department of History & Classics >>John Abbott College >>Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (QC) >> >> =20 >> | |
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| 9002 | 2 October 2008 13:01 |
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From: Patrick Maume Subject: Re: Anti-Monarchy sentiment in Ireland In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: Patrick Maume Donal Lowry's reference to the Coronation Oath provides the context for the Derry councillor's outburst, which the discussion so far seems to have overlooked. Until 1910 the British Coronation ceremony required the monarch to take an oath to the effect that Catholic doctrine (certainly transubstantiation and I think also the veneration of the Virgin Mary) were not only unscriptural but idolatrous and blasphemous. There was an attempt to remove it for Edward VII's coronation (as the king and the government felt that it was unnecessarily offensive to the monarch's numerous Catholic subjects) but this was forestalled by opposition by Protestant groups among supporters of both the Liberal and Conservative parties. (It didn't help that the king's accession coincided with a mini- Evangelical revival and a campaign within the Church of England against Anglo-Catholic "Ritualists", denoued as crypto-papists.) The fact that the king was obliged to take this oath (which he is rumoured to have said as inaudibly as he could) in turn produced widespread protests by Catholics. For years thereafter DP Moran referred to himself and his fellow Catholics as "Idolators" and complained that for many Protestants "God Save the King" really meant "God Save the Anti-Idolator". Quite a few separatists who were normally somewha= t anti-clerical (such as Arthur Griffith) were quite prepared to sue the king's oath as a stick to beat deferential Catholic/clerical loyalism and t= o claim that anyone who acknowledged or praised the king or attended his visits to Ireland was thereby endorsing the oath as well. The oath was dropped for George V's coronation in 1911; he is said to hav= e told the government that he would refuse to take it, and legislation was introduced before the coronation to replace it with an oath in which the king merely swore that he was a faithful member of the Church of England an= d would uphold it. (This oath survives to the present day, though how long i= t will last is an open question; Edward VIII suggested that it ought to be modified in a multi-faith direction for his coronation, and when the Bishop of Bradford preached a sermon criticising this it was widely mistaken for a reference to the Wallis Simpson affair, which up until then had been kept out of the papers; Prince Charles has repeated a similar suggestion.) The repeal met some diehard opposition mostly from Ulster Unionists; James Craig's declaration that the king could not be trusted not to be a secret Catholic unless he specifically denounced Catholic doctrines in terms which any Catholic would find unforgivable is worth looking up in Hansard, as is Tom Kettle's speech contrasting Orange professions of loyalty to the monarc= h with their insistence that the king must be presumed to be a perjuror who could not be believed on his most solemn oath. Best wishes, Patrick On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Donal Lowry wrote: > Do you know of James Murphy's book, Abject Loyalty, on the monarchy in > 19thc Ireland, as well as James McLoughlin's more recent book on the > monarchy in Ireland which goes up to the present, more or less. > > For more positive Irish Catholic views of Edward VII in particular > (including Archbishop Healy of Tuam's glowing appraisal in about 1907), s= ee > my article, `The Crown, Empire Loyalism and the assimilation of non-Briti= sh > white subjects ...', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, May 20= 03. > > Edward VII was believed by many in Ireland to be sympathetic to Catholici= sm > and opposed to the anti-Catholic aspects of the coronation oath. The fact > that he holidayed in Ireland, and contemplated an Irish `Balmoral' at > Kylemore further enhanced this image. > > Best wishes, > Donal Lowry > > > Joan Allen wrote: > > You could look at Antony Taylor's 'Down with the Crown; British >> Anti-monarchism and debates about Royalty since 1790'(London: Reaktion >> Books, 1999) >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List >>> [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Matthew Barlow >>> Sent: 27 September 2008 01:58 >>> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK >>> Subject: [IR-D] Anti-Monarchy sentiment in Ireland >>> >>> Hello All, >>> I was wondering if the list could indulge and enlighten me. A >>> friend of mine, working on the history of Derry, has come >>> across something I, as a Canadian find rather remarkable. In >>> the minutes of city council around the time of the coronation >>> of Edward VII in 1902, a Catholic city councillor expresses >>> his outrage that the poor (Catholic) taxpayers of Derry would >>> be made to pay for the celebrations of the coronation of the >>> new king, something which he more or less dismisses as a >>> Protestant affair. He goes on to complain that Edward has no >>> love for Catholics, dismissing them as "idolators" and so on. >>> The city councillor expresses his outrage quite clearly and >>> loudly, expressing his disdain as both a Catholic and an Irishman. >>> >>> Now, to my Canadian ears, this sounds rather remarkable and >>> rather incendiary as an anti-monarchical statement. It is one >>> thing to not want the British colonialists around, it's >>> another to personally criticise the monarch. The only example >>> I could think of this in Canadian history, at least, was >>> during the 1837 Rebellion in Lower Canada, wherein rebels >>> referred to the newly crowned Queen Victoria as a "whore." >>> >>> Can anyone point me to sources on such anti-royalist sentiment >>> in Ireland, or, for that matter, anywhere in the British >>> Empire in the early 20th century? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> Matthew Barlow >>> >>> PhD Candidate & >>> Sessional Instructor >>> Department of History >>> Concordia University >>> Montr=E9al (QC) >>> >>> & >>> >>> Faculty, >>> Department of History & Classics >>> John Abbott College >>> Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (QC) >>> >>> >>> >> | |
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| 9003 | 2 October 2008 18:40 |
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:40:57 +0100
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Article, Breda Gray, Putting Emotion and Reflexivity to Work in Researching Migration MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 5, 935-952 (2008) DOI: 10.1177/0038038508094571 Putting Emotion and Reflexivity to Work in Researching Migration Breda Gray University of Limerick, Ireland, breda.gray[at]ul.ie Recent debates within sociology and feminist theory have identified a need for reflexive research and noted the importance of emotion in the researcher's relationship to the object of research and the research process.This article contributes to these debates by arguing that emotionally mediated apprehensions of the object of study and the practice of critical reflexivity in sociological research cannot be separated. This is because emotional identifications and attachments are central to the (re)framing of the object of study and the politics of knowledge production. Thus, attempts to find more reliable grounds for knowledge claims must be located in the interrelated landscapes of feeling, intellect and politics. Key Words: Bourdieu . emotion . migration . reflexivity . research . structure of feeling | |
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| 9004 | 2 October 2008 18:41 |
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:41:25 +0100
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Article, Family and sex-specific U.S. immigration from Eur ope, | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Article, Family and sex-specific U.S. immigration from Eur ope, 1870-1910 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Explorations in Economic History Volume 45, Issue 4, September 2008, Pages 356-382 Family and sex-specific U.S. immigration from Europe, 1870-1910: A panel data study of rates and composition Michael J. Greenwooda, aDepartment of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 256, Boulder, CO 80309, USA Received 8 September 2006. Available online 14 February 2008. Abstract This paper develops and estimates models of family and sex-specific emigration, as well as the sex composition of this emigration, from 12 European source countries to the U.S. for the period 1870-1910. The models are based on the distinction between economic migrants (males, single females, and some married females) and tied or trailing migrants (females) and are estimated with panel data, including data that relate to the occupational/industrial structure of male and female economic activity in source countries. Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable estimates suggest that although both males and females responded to labor-market signals, males were more responsive than females to per capita GDP differences. Moreover, compared to the rest of Europe, Ireland, and Scandinavia were the sources of many young, single male, and female migrants, who responded strongly to gaps in economic opportunities. In fact, much of the European response to such gaps appears to be due to migrants from Ireland and Scandinavia. Females tended to originate in English-speaking countries and countries that were agriculturally oriented. Service and manufacturing jobs in source countries discouraged the migration of females relative to males. Males tended to follow recent migrants more than females, but females responded more to long-term influences as measured by stocks of migrants from their source countries who had previously settled in the U.S. Countries with high birth rates had relatively fewer female emigrants, whereas those with high rates of natural increase 20 years earlier experienced relatively more male emigration. Intact families, other family members (including family-strategy male migrants and trailing female migrants), and single males and females responded strongly to economic incentives, but the singles were most responsive followed by family-strategy males. Keywords: Sex composition; European emigration; U.S. immigration Article Outline 1. Introduction 2. Conceptual underpinnings 3. Sex composition of historical U.S. immigration 4. The models 5. Compositional methodology 6. The data 6.1. Dependent variables 6.2. Independent variables 7. Econometric procedures 8. Empirical results: sex-specific migration and sex composition 9. Empirical results: family versus single migration 10. Summary and conclusions Appendix A. Data sources and procedures References | |
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| 9005 | 2 October 2008 18:41 |
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:41:46 +0100
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Article, The role of the Irish boundary commission in the entrenchment of the Irish border MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Journal of Historical Geography Volume 34, Issue 3, July 2008, Pages 422-447 The role of the Irish boundary commission in the entrenchment of the Irish border: from tactical panacea to political liability K.J. Rankina, aInstitute for British-Irish Studies, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Available online 25 January 2008. Abstract The abortive saga of the Irish Boundary Commission has largely been dismissed as a minor footnote that warrants little elaboration in the discussion of Ireland's partition. This is unsurprising considering that its final report was hastily suppressed so as to prevent the destabilisation of the nascent regimes in Northern Ireland and the then Irish Free State. However, the concept of the Commission derives from the intensifying controversies of Irish Home Rule and partition, and the consequent difficulties in establishing how and where a boundary was eventually drawn as well as to the status of the entities it would be dividing. The Commission was legally conceived in Article 12 of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty but confusion over its wording protracted a sequence of events that ensured that it was almost three years before it actually met. Article 12 was eventually interpreted in a restrictive manner, which exposed inherent flaws that were either ignored or naively underestimated when it was originally adapted from part of the post-World War I Treaty of Versailles. Furthermore, the complexities of evidence were inadequately scrutinised by a small and under-resourced panel that operated under considerable political pressure to delimit a precise line that satisfied subjective terms of reference. Nevertheless, the revoked Commission served as a crucial catalyst in defining the Irish Free State's relationship with the British State and in entrenching the territorial framework of Northern Ireland's six counties that exists to this day. Keywords: Ireland; Partition; Boundary; Irish Boundary Commission; Northern Ireland; Irish Free State Article Outline Introduction Countenancing an Irish boundary Conceiving an Irish boundary commission Forestalling the Irish boundary commission Implementing the Irish boundary commission Decommissioning the Irish boundary commission Conclusion Acknowledgements | |
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| 9006 | 2 October 2008 18:42 |
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:42:15 +0100
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Article, What happened to Irish industry after the British industrial revolution? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What happened to Irish industry after the British industrial revolution? Some evidence from the first UK Census of Production in 1907 Author: BIELENBERG, A.1 Source: The Economic History Review, Volume 61, Number 4, November 2008 , pp. 820-841(22) Publisher: Blackwell Publishing SUMMARY This article examines Ireland's relative position within the UK industrial sector in the early twentieth century, by critically evaluating the Irish component of the First UK Census of Production. Firstly, Ireland's employment, net output shares, and net output per person are compared to the UK results. Secondly, by supplementing and adjusting the census evidence, a new estimate of the size of the industrial workforce is constructed, which is then used to produce a new estimate of Irish industrial output. From this it is possible to estimate the contribution of industry to Irish GDP, which can then be compared to its contribution in other European economies. Document Type: Research article DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00403.x Affiliations: 1: National University of Ireland, Cork | |
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| 9007 | 2 October 2008 18:42 |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Article, From the Man in the White Suit to the Woman with the White Mantle MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From the Man in the White Suit to the Woman with the White Mantle: Milestones in my Education as an Anthropologist Author: Eipper, Christopher Source: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Volume 9, Number 3, September 2008 , pp. 198-209(12) Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group Abstract: The present paper pays tribute to a teacher who profoundly influenced the author's education as an anthropologist. Beginning with a discussion of memory, it explores the impact upon him of Douglas Miles's personality and style of teaching. Dwelling upon the idiosyncratic connections that often link what one is taught to what one is then able to apply as an ethnographer, it discusses the surprising relevance of Miles' evocation of wayang kulit and ludruk to the author's understanding of the way Ireland's remote rural poor viewed television. It then broaches how Miles' treatment of religious syncretism helped sensitise the author to this element in popular Catholic piety, something that has continued to inform both his study of Irish visionaries and their devotion to the Blessed Virgin, and his recent research into 'Mother Mary's' association with Vietnamese mother goddesses. Throughout, the aim is to celebrate the importance of an approach to comparative analysis that shows how the improbable and extraordinary can be used to illuminate our understanding of the most diverse phenomena. Keywords: Miles; Ireland; Vietnam; Marian; Virgin Mary; syncretism; wayang; ludruk; television; narrative | |
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| 9008 | 3 October 2008 15:27 |
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:27:07 +0100
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Anti-monarchist sentiment | |
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From: Loughlin James Subject: Anti-monarchist sentiment MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Mr Barlow. =20 There are two works you might look at on monarchy and Ireland: =20 James Murphy, Abject loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria. Catholic University Press, 2001. =20 James Loughlin, The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2007. =20 =20 Yours, =20 James Loughlin School of History and International Affairs Magee campus University of Ulster Londonderry=20 Northern Ireland BT48 7JL | |
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| 9009 | 4 October 2008 18:36 |
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:36:02 +0100
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Bards to Banville: An Irish Literature Seminar, Hertford College, | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Bards to Banville: An Irish Literature Seminar, Hertford College, Oxford MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bards to Banville: An Irish Literature Seminar Wednesdays, 5pm, Michaelmas Term, Weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7 The Old Library, Hertford College, Oxford 15 October (Week 1) Professor John Kerrigan (St John's College, University of Cambridge) 'Louis MacNeice among the Islands' 29 October (Week 3) Professor Richard McCabe (Merton College, Oxford) 'Spenser, Plato and the Bards' 12 November (Week 5) Professor Michael Parker (University of Central Lancashire) 'Standing One's Ground: Seamus Heaney's Negotiations with History' 26 November (Week 7) Dr. Heather O'Donoghue (Linacre College, Oxford) 'Craftsman or novelist? John Banville's crime fictions' All are welcome. Drinks will follow. Convenors: sarah.bennett[at]hertford.ox.ac.uk, thomas.walker[at]lincoln.ox.ac.uk | |
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| 9010 | 4 October 2008 18:40 |
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:40:08 +0100
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Book Review, "The Billionaire Who Wasn't" | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Book Review, "The Billionaire Who Wasn't" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From BookView Ireland Newsletter September 2008 #159... Pauline Ferrie In "The Billionaire Who Wasn't"=20 Conor O'Clery has revealed the business and philanthropic activities of Irish-American Chuck Feeney over some seven decades.=20 "Giving while living" was the mantra adopted by Irish-American Chuck Feeney after reading an article entitled "Wealth" by the earlier philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Conor O'Clery's biography is a = fascinating look at two worlds, the world of international business and the world of philanthropic endowments. The sums mentioned have, to those of us living more modest lives, an unreal quality; as early as 1977 the two main = owners of the duty free business DHS, Feeney and Bob Miller, were taking annual cash dividends of $12 million. By 1995 Feeney, Miller and the other two directors, Alan Parker and Anthony Pilaro, had paid into their accounts = a total of $2.85 billion in cash. What is interesting, and it is an angle which O'Clery takes pains to emphasise, is the different lifestyles = adopted by the Feeney and Miller. While Miller and his family graduated to = living in the most expensive property in Hong Kong, throwing lavish parties and = buying expensive yachts, Chuck Feeney was known for his frugality. Many = isolated incidents are cited: he arrived at an important meeting in London with = his trousers held up by a safety pin; he refused for most of his life to fly = any other way but economy, even on long-haul flights; and he wore a plastic watch worth $15. But all of these factors were part of his intensely = private persona, a desire for privacy which led to his donations through = Atlantic Philanthropies carrying a condition of secrecy for much of his life. The author has taken a chronological structure to reveal the real Chuck Feeney, from his birth to a blue-collar Irish-American family in New = Jersey through the gradual development of his duty free company and his = decision in 1984 to use his money to help others. And if the earnings of the = directors of DFS were astronomical, the sums quietly given away by Chuck Feeney = over the years since then are even more so. The foundation has concentrated = on education and health in a number of countries including Vietnam, = Australia, Ireland both North and South, and Cuba. In an eight-year period Atlantic Philanthropies provided $220 million for education and health projects = in Vietnam, while $30 million went to projects in Northern Ireland, from a total of more than $1 billion given to the entire island. But not = everything ran smoothly, and attention is given both to the rancorous break-up of = DHS and to the debacle of the Centre for Public Inquiry in Ireland, when Feeney's loyalty was put to the test as reservations came from all = quarters over the appointment of Frank Connolly as its head.=20 It would seem that Chuck Feeney, despite being one of the richest men in = the world, and certainly one of the most generous philanthropists, never = forgot his roots in the blue-collar world of New Jersey, and the reasons given = for his decision to divest himself of his wealth focus on this. For some, = the values Feeney absorbed within his own family left him with an instinct = for giving, while others believe that there was a residual guilt about = having so much when others had so little. But whatever the motives, the act of = giving away his wealth sets Chuck Feeney apart from the conspicuous consumers = who were and are his peers. (Public Affairs, ISBN 978-1-58648-642-6, pp352, =A39.99/$15.95)=20 http://www.emigrant.ie/ | |
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| 9011 | 4 October 2008 18:51 |
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Outward bound with Vargas Llosa | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Outward bound with Vargas Llosa MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From today's Guardian... Outward bound with Vargas Llosa Peru's most celebrated novelist tells Paul Hamilos about his efforts to avoid retreating from the world "Literature is my vocation," says Mario Vargas Llosa, ever the gentleman in his crisp salmon-coloured shirt and sports blazer, "but I've never liked the idea of being closed off in a world of fantasies. I like having one foot in the street." One of the leading lights of South American literature, he began his professional life as a 15-year-old crime reporter covering the seedy underworld of the Peruvian capital, Lima, for La Cronica, and continues to work as a journalist to this day, writing a regular column for the Spanish newspaper El Pais, on topics ranging from the Iraq war to the Russian invasion of Georgia. Though he's keen to insist on the distinction between journalism and literature, the time he spent pounding the streets is "fundamental" to his life as a writer. "When I write, I write with freedom but I need a solid base," he explains. It's a requirement that will see the 72-year-old writer travel to Congo later this year as part of the research for his next novel. The trip will allow him to "get to know the scenery," he explains, "to smell it, to feel it", but above all will give him a "bedrock of security that allows me to invent and to write. I'm not looking for historical precision but for something to shake me out of my insecurity." He has always travelled for research, and finds that his experiences tend to dispel any prejudices he may have: "I know that this will happen with Congo because I have read a lot about the area already and I know I will find something different when I am confronted with reality." He's following in the footsteps of Roger Casement, a British consul turned Irish nationalist who was hanged for treason in 1916 and painted as a paedophile by the British government for what he is said to have written in the so-called Black Diaries. Casement is to be the protagonist of "a novel that will take place in Ireland, Congo, in Berlin and the Amazon, including places I have never been to, such as Ulster," he says, with genuine excitement at the prospect of the journey that awaits. "Casement was born into a pro-British Protestant family in Ulster and as a boy was fascinated by the great British explorers, and with the idea of empire," says Vargas Llosa. "He went to Africa as a 19-year-old but it was his experiences in Congo that changed him and made him a critic of empire, and an Irish nationalist. And yet at the same time he was a British consul, serving the empire. "For some he was a hero, but for many people Casement was a villain. And there are still those in Ireland who view him uncomfortably because of his sexuality. There are many areas of shadow in his life, many aspects that are not clear and probably never will be because he was a very secret person, especially in his private life. There is a great debate about his homosexuality and paedophilia that has never been resolved and probably never will be . a highly contradictory character. Perfect for a novel." He is bullish about the prospect of treading on sensitive territory, both as a white man writing about Africa and a Peruvian writing about Anglo-Irish history, rejecting as racist itself the suggestion that he should not tackle these subjects. "If we believed that," he says, "we would only write about what goes on in our own households." Full text at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/04/mario.vargas.llosa.congo | |
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| 9012 | 4 October 2008 18:56 |
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Demolish Cromwell! | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Demolish Cromwell! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A letter in today's Guardian Demolish Cromwell! Reviewing Miche=E1l =D3 Siochr=FA's God's Executioner ("Brute force", = September 20) Ronan Bennett complains that my (edited) Cromwell: A Profile (1973) found no space for an examination of what Oliver did in Ireland in 1649. There would have been space had I come across an article of appropriate scholarship. An (unlikely) second edition, drawing on the historiography = of the past 30 years, would remedy the omission. For Bennett, to put = Cromwell into the context of early modern England's exploitation of its first = colony is to "quibble". Yet that attitude could go some way to exculpating, for example, Francis Drake's appalling massacre at Rathlin Island. Clearly, God's Executioner is more balanced. As to the invitation to join in a campaign to have Cromwell's statue "pulled down and chucked in the Irish Sea", Bennett's friends might recall that in 1660 Cromwell's remains = were flung - in vain - into an unmarked pit "for oblivion". Professor Ivan Roots University of Exeter Source http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/oct/04/7 | |
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| 9013 | 4 October 2008 19:07 |
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:07:27 +0100
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Interruption of Service MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I regret that there is going to be an Interruption of the Irish Diaspora list for a week or so. Bill Mulligan and I are going to be in the same place, Minneapolis-St. Paul, USA - and away from our computers. We might have access to other computers - but I cannot guarantee that. Best to keep things simple. I am going to Minneapolis-St. Paul at the invitation of Thomas O'Connell and ACIS Midwest. I am, at short notice, replacing as guest speaker Piaras MacEinri - Piaras found himself overstretched. I do apologise. I especially apologise to people who have only recently joined the Irish Diaspora list. You join - and then there is silence. But there you are - we very rarely have interruptions of this sort. Messages sent to the Irish Diaspora list email address IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK Will simply queue until either Bill or I can deal with them. Patrick O'Sullivan -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050 Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 9014 | 4 October 2008 19:12 |
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:12:51 +0100
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Lecture, Patrick O'Sullivan, Learning from Ireland | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Lecture, Patrick O'Sullivan, Learning from Ireland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is information on 32nd Annual Midwest ACIS Conference-- Ireland: Arrivals and Departures at http://go.metrostate.edu/~johnsokr/acismeeting.html I have pasted in below an outline of my lecture... Learning from Ireland Like anyone with a web presence I am visible to the world. And I find myself curiously visible, and available, to those who want to find out more about Ireland, the Irish and the Irish Diaspora. I am regularly approached by representatives of small nations, former nations, and would-be nations, and representatives of other diasporas and scattered communities. From such contacts I have inevitably built up a repertoire of replies to Frequently Asked Questions, presentations, and thoughts - and overall a picture of what it is that other nations and peoples would like to learn from Ireland, or think they can learn from Ireland. Recurring themes are things like, of course, economic success, homeland/diaspora formal relationships, citizenship and voting rights and regulations. Cultural themes are also very prominent - like language maintenance or recovery, the identification of cultural practices around which identity can be built, and cultural and artistic visibility at home and in the world. This talk gives an overview of this kind of dialogue, a summary of recurring questions and my attempts to answer them. The ensuing dialogue with members of ACIS will show me where I have gone wrong, or could do better. Patrick O'Sullivan -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Email Patrick O'Sullivan Personal Fax 0044 (0) 709 236 9050 Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/ Irish Diaspora Net http://www.irishdiaspora.net Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 9015 | 8 October 2008 16:19 |
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:19:11 +0100
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Irish Diaspora Foundation: Volunteers Wanted | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Irish Diaspora Foundation: Volunteers Wanted MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Forwarded on behalf of Margot Ryan, mryan[at]iwhc.com *Volunteers wanted* The Irish Diaspora Foundation, located in Manchester, is currently looking to recruit a number of volunteers to participate in two projects which are currently in the planning stages. See details below *The Irish Diaspora Foundation* The Irish Diaspora Foundation is a Charity (Reg Charity number 1086775) which works closely with the Irish World Heritage Centre in Manchester. One of the aims of the organisation is to raise the profile of Irish heritage and culture within the wider community, by providing learning opportunities for people, and through audience development. The Irish Diaspora Foundation is currently planning to build a new Irish World Heritage Centre, which will have a dedicated exhibition space and education suite. The purpose of this is to exhibit collections and materials based on Irish and Irish Diaspora themes. * Upcoming Projects* *Learning from conflict and peace in **Northern Ireland** *This is an intergenerational project aimed at encouraging young people to explore issues of national identity and conflict resolution through recollections of people who have experienced conflict in Northern Ireland. The project will result in a portable exhibition and teaching resources. ** *Migration & Settlement in the **North Manchester** *This project will explore patterns of migrations to Cheetham Hill and the surrounding areas in Manchester, and the creation of local identities in the shaping of the area. Working alongside the Jewish, Pakistani and Sikh communities this project will include historical research, contemporary oral testimonies, the collection of photographs and documents, and the interpretation of information. We will develop a programme of workshops, exhibitions, publications and a performance inspired by the findings of all participants. Young people from culturally diverse heritages and volunteers from the Irish Diaspora Foundation will work together, carrying out research and interviewing people living in Manchester, whose lives have been affected by various issues, promoting intergenerational understanding, social cohesion and an increased capacity for tolerance for both adults and young people. *Interested? *If you would be interested in participating in either of these projects either as a volunteer, interviewee, or by offering advice/ general support, please send your details to Margot Ryan by post (see address below) or email your details to mryan[at]iwhc.com . Margot Ryan Cultural and Education Development Officer Irish Diaspora Foundation 10 Queens Road Cheetham Hill Manchester M8 8UF ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to misuse[at]bradford.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
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| 9016 | 8 October 2008 16:23 |
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:23:19 +0100
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Northern Ireland programs at Library of Congress | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Northern Ireland programs at Library of Congress MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The American Folkife Center at the Library of Congress invites you to join us for three free programs on Northern Ireland. Information is below, including contact information for questions. Hope to see some of you there! The American Folklife Center and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland are proud to announce a series of three exciting events celebrating and documenting the culture and musical traditions of Northern Ireland. As a follow-up to a successful season of cooperative events in 2007, Rediscover Northern Ireland 2008 brings three of the most respected artists to the Library of Congress for a series of free, noon-time public events. These events add to the Center=92s collections of traditional music and culture from around the world. Tommy Sands with Moya and Fion=E1n Sands, County Down, Northern Ireland on October 9, 2008, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. The event is free and open to the public. An internationally celebrated singer, songwriter, storyteller, and social activist, Tommy Sands was raised with traditional music in County Down, Northern Ireland. As a member of the influential Sands Family folk ensemble, he introduced international audiences to Irish music during the 1960s and laid the groundwork for its current worldwide popularity. Author of such classic songs as =93There Were Roses,=94 =93Daughters and Sons,=94 and =93Come on Home to = the County Down,=94 he has seen his works translated into many languages and recorded by such artists as Joan Baez, Kathy Mattea, and Dolores Keane. Over the decades, his artistic integrity, engaging style, and commitment to peace and dialog between peoples of different backgrounds have contributed to his worldwide renown. =93It's Of My Rambles...=94 A Journey in the Song Tradition of Ulster Presented by Len Graham on November 6, 2008, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, in the Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress. The event is free and open to the public. Traditional singer and song collector Len Graham, from County Antrim in Northern Ireland, explores the folk song tradition of his native Ulster. His talk will be interspersed with live performances of songs in English on many themes, including early classic ballads, broadside ballads, and songs of love, politics and emigration. Graham has been a professional traditional singer since 1982 and he has received many awards for his work as a singer and collector. In 1993 he received the Sean O'Boyle Cultural Traditions Award for his book and field recordings entitled 'It's Of My Rambles=85.' In 2002 he was the first recipient of the Irish television TG4 National Music Award for Traditional Singer of the Year, and in 2008 he received the Tommy Makem Keeper of the Tradition Award. Here I Am Amongst You, his book on the songs, music and traditions of Joe Holmes (1906-78) is due for publication by Queen's University, Belfast in late 2008. "I Am a Wee Weaver": Weaving and Singing in Northern Ireland Presented by Maurice Leyden on December 4, 2008, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, in the Pickford Theater, James Madison Building, Library of Congress. The event is free and open to the public. Handloom weaving was dominated by men in 19th century Ireland. The Industrial Revolution changed that, enabling women to take a more prominent role in the factory production of linen. Maurice Leyden will discuss the reasons for this historical shift, and the impact of this change on the traditions of singing and songwriting among weavers. To illustrate his lecture, Leyden will sing songs composed by linen weavers between the 18th and 20th centuries, setting the songs in their historical context and discussing folklore and customs associated with the weavers. Maurice Leyden has been collecting traditional songs since the early 1980s. He has published two books: Belfast, City of Song and Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, each of which was accompanied by a cassette of songs. He is currently finishing a social history of the linen industry in Ulster, in the north of Ireland, narrated through the songs of the workers; this book will be accompanied by a CD. In addition to his scholarly work and his singing, Leyden is a renowned broadcaster, who produced and presented a radio program of traditional music for over a decade. For more information on these programs, please visit http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/NorthernIrelandEvents2008.html or call the American Folklife Center at 202-707-5510. For questions about program content, please call or write Nancy Groce, ngro[at]loc.gov or 202-707-1744. For questions about this posting, please write Joanne Rasi, jrasi[at]loc.gov. Thanks, Jo Rasi ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to misuse[at]bradford.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
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| 9017 | 8 October 2008 16:25 |
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:25:35 +0100
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SEAMUS HEANEY LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009, | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: SEAMUS HEANEY LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009, St Patrick=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C2=B9s?= College Drumcondra MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SEAMUS HEANEY LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009 www.spd.dcu.ie/shl St Patrick=C2=B9s College Drumcondra is pleased to announce that the firs= t lecture in the fifth Seamus Heaney Lecture Series will take place on Mond= ay 20 October at 8.00 p.m. The theme for the forthcoming series is '=C2=B3Al= l changed?=C2=B2 Culture and identity in contemporary Ireland'. =C2=B3All changed?=C2=B2 will explore questions of culture and identity i= n contemporary Ireland from a number of inter-related perspectives. How has immigration reconfigured notions of Irishness? How are identities negotia= ted in multicultural and multilingual contexts? How can the historical Irish experience of emigration inform Irish attitudes and policy approaches to immigration? What are the new challenges facing the educational system as= a key interface central to processes of integration and acculturation? How = can we plan for social justice in the context of economic change and globalisation? Admission is free and all lectures take place on Monday=C2=B9s 8.00 p.m. Refreshments will be served after each lecture. 20 October 2008 Cross cutting identities Rosaleen McDonagh, Amel Yacef, Kathleen O=C2=B9Neill & Livingstone Thompson 17 November 2008 Multiculturalism and multilingualism in Irish schools Jim Cummins 1 December 2008 Irish Migrant Experiences and Diasporic Identities Mary Hickman & Abel Ugba 2 February 2009 Cult=C3=BAr na Gaeilge n=C3=B3 Pobal na Gaeilge? Irish= Language and Identity from Douglas Hyde to Des Bishop M=C3=A1ir=C3=ADn Nic Eoin 23 February 2009 Globalisation and Identity: Reflections from the Iris= h Experience Peadar Kirby 2 March 2009 Poetics of the Stranger: Hospitality and Imagination Richard Kearney 23 March 2009 Theatre of the Oppressed Chrissie Poulter ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to misuse[at]bradford.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
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| 9018 | 8 October 2008 16:30 |
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:30:18 +0100
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Book Announced, Irish Protestant Identities | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: Book Announced, Irish Protestant Identities MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Irish Protestant identities Edited by Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal, Jonathan Tonge Irish Protestant Identities is the first major multi-disciplinary portray= al and analysis of the Protestant tradition - one which is often forgotten - in Ireland. A distinguished team of authors explore what is distinctive abou= t the religious minority on the island of Ireland. Protestant contributions to literature, culture, religion and politics are all examined. Accessible a= nd engaging throughout, the book examines the roles of Protestant authors, Protestant churches, Orange Order, Unionist parties and Ulster loyalists.= Most books on Ireland have concentrated upon the Catholicism and Nationalism w= hich shaped the country in terms of literature, poetry, politics and outlook. = This book is different, instead exploring how a minority tradition has coped w= ith existence in a polity and society where they have often felt under-repres= ented or neglected. Mervyn Busteed is Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Manches= ter, Salford and Liverpool. Frank Neal is Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool. Jon Tonge is Professor of Politics at the University of Liverp= ool. 234x156mm 368pp 01 August 2008 hb 9780719077456 =A360.00 ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to misuse[at]bradford.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
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| 9019 | 8 October 2008 18:37 |
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:37:41 +0100
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Transformations of Citizenship | |
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From: Tony Murray Subject: Transformations of Citizenship MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Paddy, Would you mind circulating this information about our forthcoming=20 seminar series to the list - Piaras is kicking it off. Thanks. Tony Tony Murray Irish Studies Centre London Metropolitan University Tower Building Holloway Rd London N7 8DB Tel: 020 7133 2593 www.londonmet.ac.uk/irishstudiescentre ISET European Interdisciplinary Seminar Series Autumn 2008: Transformations of Citizenship Seminars will take place between 6.00 - 7.30 p.m in The Old Staff Caf=E9 London Metropolitan University, Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road ALLWELCOME - refreshments provided http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset The ISET seminar series addresses key issues in the making and remaking=20 of Europe, whether economic, political, social or cultural. In the=20 context of globalization, these extend beyond Europe's borders, and=20 interrogate definitions of European identity. In the autumn of 2008, the=20 focus is on the socio-political and cultural strands of ISET's work and the theme is Transformations of Citizenship. This exploration of current=20 transformations in the meanings of democracy and politics interrogates=20 tensions and opportunities surrounding nationalism, political=20 representation, individualism and consumerism, women=92s rights and European social movements. 28 October Piaras Mac =C9inr=ED, University College Cork New Europe or The Return of The Repressed? Post-national Entities and=20 Old Atavisms =96 The Case of The Irish Vote on The Lisbon Referendum 4 November Barbara Einhorn, University of Sussex European Citizenship or Narrow Nationalisms? The Challenge of Gender 18 November Monica Threlfall, Loughborough University Feeling Represented? Citizens=92 and Residents=92 Subjective Views on The= ir=20 Political Representation in a Multi-Ethnic Europe 25 November Jeremy Gilbert, University of East London Citizens of the World? Aporias of Postmodern Individualism 2 December Claudia Aradau, Open University The Politics of Life: Human Trafficking and Sovereignty 9 December Kate Soper, ISET The Impact and Efficacy of European Social Movements: Some Personal=20 Reflections Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo | |
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| 9020 | 9 October 2008 16:01 |
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CFP, Music and Migration, University of Southampton, | |
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan Subject: CFP, Music and Migration, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, 15-17 October 2009 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Music and Migration University of Southampton, United Kingdom 15-17 October 2009 Call for Papers This conference will explore the relationship between music and migration by providing new insights into the creative practices and life-stories of migrant artists across the globe. A core theme of the conference will be the motivations and experiences of migrant musicians who leave, return, stay or move beyond their localities. Through the focus on such specific groups of migrants the conference aims to throw light on their identifications in their artistic and every-day lives. Past and on-going research shows that patterns of migration are clearly linked to transnational networks. By focusing on the role of migrant musicians within such networks, this conference seeks to analyse and understand the extent to which musicians' networks may or may not be special cases within migration studies. We suggest that artists who create or enter such networks may follow a different logic of translocal and transnational links than is normally associated with migration research on music. Thus we aim to widen the scope from 'bi-focal', ethnically and spatially defined communities in sending and originating countries to more complex flows and the networking of individuals. Whilst recently there has been a plethora of research which theorises networks and flows in migration studies, little empirical research has as yet emerged which studies these in closer detail. We therefore welcome contributions which explore artists' transnational networks and movements both empirically and theoretically. We expect to highlight the role of highly visible cultural hubs and all they have to offer to migrant musicians in terms of cultural infrastructure whilst not neglecting the role that less visible cities play in the re-directing of artistic energy. We therefore hope to include discussions of well-established musical networks as well as interconnections with those emerging from musical industries in so-called sending countries. We also seek to further understanding and debate on the interconnection between migrant musicians and the socio-political engagement of associations within civil society, thus evaluating their impact on a variety of cultural, social, political factors within countries of settlement and origin. The conference will have both a theoretical and an empirical focus. It will be a forum for interdisciplinary debate and will appeal to colleagues working across the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference delegates will also include musicians, media, cultural industries' and cultural policy representatives who will take part in a specially convened stakeholder panel discussion. Keynote speakers: * Professor Nina Glick-Schiller, University of Manchester * Professor Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago Suggested themes for academic papers include (non-exhaustive list): * Transnational musicians' networks * Musical experiences of diaspora * Global and local music industries * Return migration and 'emergent' cultural hubs * Migration routes that by-pass well-established (e.g. post-colonial) pathways * Identity/identities * Texts/musical genre/aesthetics/ multimodality * Local and global cultural hubs * Migrant and post-migrant cultural production * Relationships between artistic and socio-political engagement * Cultural policy * Historical perspectives on musical culture transfer The conference is organised by the University of Southampton (Modern Languages, Music) and the University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton. It is the final conference of a 3-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council programme Diaspora, Migration, Identities: 'Diaspora as Social and Cultural Practice: a Study of Transnational Networks across Europe and Africa' www.tnmundi.com. The conference is the third of three events arising from the project. The first event, 'Musics of Madagascar: South North Crossroads?' took place in Antananarivo, Madagascar on 16-17 November, 2007 and the second event, 'Music and Migration: North African Artists' Networks across Europe and Africa' will take place in Rabat, Morocco on 13-14 November 2008. The conference forms part of a week's innovative cultural activities to be held at the University of Southampton in conjunction with the City of Southampton and Black History Month. The weeklong series of events will start with a lunchtime concert by the acclaimed 'Madagascar AllStars', at the Turner Sims Concert Hall on 12 October 2009. On the 13 and 14 October, musicians of Malagasy and North African origin who are based in Europe and Africa will be engaged in creative outreach sessions with local Southampton schools and on the 15 October, the conference will be officially opened with a special concert which will bring together Malagasy and North African musicians in a one-off public performance at the Turner Sims Concert Hall. We welcome submissions to present papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions) on the conference themes. Your paper might present some empirical findings, a theoretical review, critique and new argument; it might consist of a textual analysis, raise provocative questions or analyse one case, site or context. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Ulrike Meinhof uhm[at]soton.ac.uk; Nadia Kiwan n.kiwan[at]abdn.ac.uk and Marie-Pierre Gibert marie.gibert[at]soton.ac.uk by December 4, 2008 including full contact details for all authors. Scientific and Artistic Committee - Prof Ulrike Meinhof (Cultural Studies, Linguistic Ethnography, Sociolinguistics), School of Humanities, Centre for Transnational Studies, Modern Languages, University of Southampton - Dr Nadia Kiwan (Sociology and Francophone Cultural Studies), School of Language and Literature, French Studies, University of Aberdeen - Dr Marie-Pierre Gibert (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology), School of Humanities, Centre for Transnational Studies, Modern Languages, University of Southampton - Dr Thomas Irvine (Musicology and Performance Studies), School of Humanities, Music, University of Southampton - Prof Taieb Belghazi (Cultural Studies, Sociology and Literature), University Mohamed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco - Dama Mahaleo (Musician and cultural consultant), Antananarivo, Madagascar ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.brad.ac.uk To report misuse from this email address forward the message and full headers to misuse[at]bradford.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ | |
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