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The Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain: Impacts, Engagements, Legacies and Memories
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2012-07-11 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-05-29 |
| Announcement ID: |
194831 |
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University of Brighton, England, 11–13 July 2012
An inter-disciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Research in Memory Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton. To explore the impacts and lasting effects of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ in Britain and responses to the conflict from Britain. For scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences; peace-builders; political and community activists; artists and writers; public and voluntary sector professionals; and those with personal or organisational experience of the conflict.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Brandon Hamber (Institute of Conflict Research, University of Ulster)
Professor Mary Hickman (London Metropolitan University)
Professor John Newsinger (Bath Spa University)
Colin Parry OBE (Co-Founder, Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace)
Plus: Survivor testimonies
Conference themes:
The literature of Irish exile and the Troubles in Britain
The British State, official discourse and the politics of the Irish conflict
Contesting the conflicted past: history, memory and forgetting
Finding a voice: representation, politics and the Irish community in Britain
Negotiating the Troubles in British cultural institutions
Activist engagements: Irish Republicanism, feminism and the British Left
Suspect communities: Policing, racism and Irish identities in Britain
The British military in Ireland: strategies and experiences
Revisiting the British campaign for withdrawal
Truth recovery, peace-making and the British State
Responding to the IRA bombing campaign
Film and the Troubles in Britain
Peace-building and conflict transformation in Britain
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