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PAST EVENTS

19-20/02/09 Magee campus
Research in the Twenty-first Century: New Methods, New Technologies, New Communities of Knowledge The Digital humanities Observatory is offering a two-day event that will look at the future of research and at the use of new technologies in the field of humanities. This will be part of the AICH seminar programme A Two-day event offered by the Observatory of Digital Humanities [more]

11/02/09 - Wednesday Belfast campus, York street
Qui Belfast, An Italian Eyewitness - Silvia Calamati, Journalist and free-lance writer, National Italian Broadcaster RAI24news journalist. As a young university student, with no experience of the 'war' before coming to Ireland, her life was deeply affected by what she saw and witnessed from 1982 onwards.It was the dramatic events developing around her that brought Silvia to start writing and reporting about conflict. The seminar will include the showing of the short documentary AN FHIRINNE - In Search for The truth (2004) [more]

06/11/09 Bought and Paid For, Clean and Cared For’ The changing world of women’s clothes in Ireland c.1940-1966 A seminar by Caitriona Clear, University of Galway. This quarter-century saw important changes in Irish women’s clothing and hair, both in their everyday and special-occasion wear. This was also a period of slow but steady change for women, with improved health, widening horizons and enhanced earning capacity [more]

03/11/08 Climate Change, Faerie and Community - Alastair McIntosh, University of Strathclyde. This event is the Irish launch of McIntosh's two new books Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition (Birlinn, June 2008) and Rekindling Community: Connecting People, Environment and Spirituality (Schumacher Briefings, October 2008) [more]

05/11/08 Voltaire and the Bible Graham Gargett, Professor of French Culture and Ideas, University of Ulster Contact g.gargett@ulster.ac.uk for more info

06/11/08 The changing world of women’s clothes in Ireland c.1940-1966: 'Bought and Paid For, Clean and Cared For' - Caitriona Clear, History Department, NUI Galway. This quarter-century saw important changes in Irish women’s clothing and hair, both in their everyday and special-occasion wear. This was also a period of slow but steady change for women, with improved health, widening horizons and enhanced earning capacity [more]

22/10/08 Western Shoshone Film : American Outrage Julie and Larson Bill, Western Shoshone Project, Nevada, US. Documentary on the Western Shoshone story about the lives of Mary and Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone sisters who have taken their struggle for human and environmental rights to the U.S. Supreme Court the Inter American Commission and the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination [more]

12/09/08 Changeling Meat and Magical Cows Traditional Ecological Knowledge Friday, September 12, Aberfoyle House. [more]

['07] Academy Events Programme 07/08
Full list of AICH Seminars, Symposia, Workshops for Jan - June 2007

[Sept '08] Commentarius Rinuccinianus The Commentarius is an important 17th-century source providing a unique insight into the political, diplomatic, religious and military history of Counter-reformation Ireland during the wars of the three kingdoms (1639-52). Project to translate the Commentarius from Latin at the University of Ulster is now completed and is being externally assessed. For more information see the following www.ulster.ac.co.uk/commentarius. For an update on the forthcoming print version see the Irish Manuscripts Commission.

[16-20 June '08] with nearly 400 delegates coming from 40 countries, SIEF2008 was arguably the biggest event ever hosted by the University of Ulster in the Magee Campus. The 9th SIEF-congress, SIEF2008 encouraged in boundary-crossing explorations through a broad range of panel discussions, workshops, films and exhibitions on Campus and in the City. [more]

[26 June '08] Report: Giving Voice to Africans in Northern Ireland, West of the Bann On Thursday 26 June 2008, AICH launched a new report on Africans in Northern Ireland. Migration is one of the core fields of research the academy.

[10 June '08] A Museum Research Network for Northern Ireland? Tuesday 10 June 2008 University of Ulster, Belfast campus Room 82c02, 9.30am - 4pm. The purpose of this event is to scope the possibility of a Museum Research Network for Northern Ireland and identify needs and priorities for research in and with museums. [more]

[15th May '08] MEMORY & MIMES, From Lesser Spotted to the Limelight. Lesser Spotted Ulster is one of the most popular regional documentary series in Northern Ireland. The North West Film Archive (NWFA) is a digital collection of cinematographic material from counties Derry and Donegal. AICH welcomes you to share your views with Joe Mahon, presenter of Lesser Spotted Ulster and Terry Coyle, NWFA’s project Manager [more]

[8th May] Liberation Theology and Community Empowerment in Scotland Aberfoyle House, Seminar Room, Thursday 8th May 5.30 pm. During the 1990s Alastair McIntosh engaged with communities on the Isle of Eigg and Harris in Scotland using liberation theology as a tool for community empowerment. ian.mackinnon@strath.ac.uk

[4th April '08] NorthBound 3: 'Germany & Ireland, a Case of Elective Affinities?' 4th April '08, Belfast campus, University of Ulster. Confirmed speakers include Hugo Hamilton, who will read from his autobiography 'Speckled People'. Northbound is a series of research symposium designed to explore the emerging European cultural landscapes in today’s Northern Ireland. The Goethe Institute has kindly supported the event[more]

[21 Feb '08] Calling Northern Ireland Home; the Experience of Africans. Thursday, February 21, 9.45am - 4.00pm MI022, Aberfoyle House, UU Magee. This symposium will outline results of the research project on Africans in the North-west. The audience will include representatives of a wide variety of African organisations as well as policy makers in the local community. Funded by the Community Relations Council and EU Peace II programme. Open to the public. [more]

[15 Feb '08] Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges. Dr Elizabeth Crooke, Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage studies, has publisher her second book Museums and Community: Ideas, Issues and Challenges.Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies, Dr Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum. Information on how to purchase (Paperback and Hardback): http://www.routledge.com/

[08-09 Feb '08] 'Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage' The Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages is hosting a conference on the theme of Intangible Cultural Heritage on the Magee Campus Fird 8th and Sta 9th February. This conference, sponsored by the Arts Humanities and Research Council (AHRC), will see postgraduate students as well as International speakers present the results of their research [more]

['07] A Storytelling Evening - Africans West of the Bann 06/12/07
['07] Christmas Traditions 05/12/07
['07] Cultural Heritage, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights Friday, November 30 – Saturday, December 1, UU Magee. Symposium organised jointly by the Academy and the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
['07] AICH Annual report 2005/6 (Nov 07)
['07] The Troubles & Visual Art Strategies for the new Troubles 16/11/07
['07] Writing Field Notes into Text. Seminar by Dr Helena Wulff 0 5/11/07
['07] Prof. Ullrich Kockel Inaugural Lecture 31/10/07
['07] Africans in the North-West: Giving a Voice to New Voices _09/07
['07] AICH is the editorial home of the AJEC _08/07
['07] AICH joins the Northern Irish delegation at the Smithsonian Festival
['07] 'Brethren of Britons' Conference_06/07
['07] Workshop series: 'The representation of place by collectors and through collections'. - May-Jun07