QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
Thursday 1 July – Sunday 4 July 2010

Transnational Ireland: migration, conflict, representations

Offers of papers are invited on any topic relating to Ireland and the Irish abroad, but topics relating to the Irish experience in Australia and New Zealand, influences and experiences of Australians / New Zealanders in Ireland, Irish and Australasian sports, and comparative experiences of emigration and conflict will be especially welcome. The conference will be interdisciplinary, with contributions anticipated from such areas as: history, migration studies, sociology, politics, literature, the arts, gender, geography, anthropology and economics.

The scope is deliberately wide, but specific topics that could be addressed include:

Ireland – Australasia – America
Conflict and conflict resolution
Indigeneity and cultural authenticities
Representations of identity in literature
Ireland, the empire and colonial identity
Transnational Ireland: migration, conflict, representations
Moving lives: the world in Ulster, Ulster in the world
Interdisciplinarity and Irish Studies
Surfing the Irish Economic Wave
Sporting traditions