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Academy For Irish Cultural Heritages
SEMINAR SERIES 0809
Inch Island, Co Donegal - photo by P.McDermott
Sept 08 || Oct 08 || Nov 08 || Dec 08 || Jan 09 || Feb 09 || Mar 09 ||
Please note, details of seminars may be subject to change
03/04/09 - Friday - One-day event
Northbound - La Francophonie Irlandaise - Maria Angela Ferrario, Research Associate AICH, University of Ulster NorthBound is a series of symposia organised by the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. The series consists of four events and it focuses on both the established and the emerging European cultural landscapes in today’s Northern Ireland. This last session will be exploring the French speaking world. [more]
30/04/09 -Thursday - Aberfoyle Seminar Room, Magee Campus - 16:30pm
Soot, Silverfish and Strawberry Jam. Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Project Mary Delargy, Education and Outreach Officer with the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Project. Mary Delargy discusses the Derry and Raphoe Library Project which aims to conserve the wealth of material contained in the Church of Ireland library and raises awareness of the importance of this collection and of the city of Derry in the history of Ireland and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [more]
01/05/09 - Friday - Room MB016 Magee Campus - 14:30pm
Libraries and Archives: ‘Archiving new discoveries from ancient to modern manuscripts’. Sinead McCoole, Historian & Author and Curator of the Jackie Clarke Library & Archives, Mayo.
01-02/05/09 - Magee campus - Great Hall
Ecology, Communities and The Human Spirit - A two-day event
01-02/05/09
5th UK Graduate Conference in Folklore & Ethnology 2009 University of Ulster, Magee campus
19/03/09 - Thursday - Magee campus 2.15pm
Border Violence in the Work of Eugene McCabe Henry Patterson, Professor of Politics, School of Policy Studies, University of Ulster
26/03/09 - Magee campus - Aberfoyle House Seminar Room 16:30pm
Ethnographer or cultural translator?: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and the world of the Nahuas Victoria Ríos Castaño, School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster. This paper re-evaluates the Franciscan missionary Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) and his text on the Mexican Nahuas, Historia universal de las cosas de Nueva España (ca. 1578). In the twentieth century Sahagún’s role as churchman has been forgotten. [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]
19-20/02/09 - A Two-day event offered by the Observatory of Digital Humanities ( DHO)
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 [more
JANUARY 2009
28/01/09 - Wednesday - Magee campus 16:30pm
Multiculturalism's Double-Bind: Cosmopolitanism and Difference with the London-Irish. John Nagle, INCORE, University of Ulster Taking into account critiques of multiculturalism, Dr Nagle's seminar provides an example of one overlooked group’s attempt to gain recognition in the British state sponsored multicultural paradigm: the London–Irish [more]
02/12/08 Tuesday - Magee campus -16:30pm
Building Community Memory Through On-line Technology Ted Leath, Computer and Engineering, University of Ulster. Until now, many communities have relied on official records, tradition, customs, stories (both oral and written), language and myth for the preservation of cultural identity and community memory. It is proposed that online technologies could augment community memory through the provision of highly interactive and distributed means of gathering, indexing and archiving multimedia assets [more]
21/11/08 Friday - Magee campus -14:00pm
Sense of Community. Trust, Hope and Worrying in the Welfare State, Jonas Frykman, Dept. of Ethnology, University of Lund . A presentation of a research-project involving ethnologists and political scientists. It started out as an investigation into an urgent social problem – the amount of people being on the sick-list in Sweden – and ended up as an analysis of the importance of different local cultures in an era of globalisation [more]
03/11/08 Monday -Colloquium series- Magee campus -16:30pm
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 Wednesday - Magee campus - Room MC114 -17:30pm
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 Thursday - Magee campus -16:30pm
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 Wednesday - Colloquium series -Magee campus - 16:00pm
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]
SEPTEMBER 2008
12/09/08
Changeling Meats and Magical Cows: Traditional Ecological Knowledge Patricia Monaghan DePaul University in Chicago. This seminar explores traditional ecological knowledge in an Irish / Scottish context. Monaghan's main areas of research and teaching are mythology, ecology and spirituality and she is regarded as one of the pioneers of contemporary earth spirituality which explores the intersections of metaphor and science [more]
DOWNLOADS
1. AICH seminar brochure
2. Notes for Speakers 
Queries, More Info? Please contact Dr Maria Angela Ferrario, AICH seminar programme coordinator