Seminars 2021-22
- 30.09.21: Prof Martin Thomas (Exeter) ‘Decolonisation and globalisation’
- 07.10.21: Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff), ‘Looking to the future; Re-setting British military strategy for Northern Ireland in 1972’
- 14.10.21: Dr Richard Kirwan (UL) ‘Grace and favour; The reception of religious converts at the University of Tübingen, 1553-1634’
- 21.10.21: Dr Eugene Costello (UCC, School of the Human Environment), ‘Feeding capitalism and facing its consequences? “Peripheral” rural communities of Northern Europe, 1350-1850’
- 28.10.21: Dr Pauline Heinrichs (University of London), ‘Strategic narratives, agency and ontological security; West Germany and the Schleyer kidnapping of 1977’
- 04.11.21: Dr Julia Schneider (UCC, Asian Studies), ‘The Qianlong literary inquisition project (1772-1788); Imperial censorship of a racist discourse?’
- 11.11.21: Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal Abbey). ‘The hand maid and the holy helpers; The cults of St Zita of Lucca and the auxiliary saints in late medieval Ireland’
- 18.11.21: Dr Alberto Cauli (UCC, post-doc), ‘“Ignoto Militi”. The centenary of the unknown Italian soldier (1921-2021), Celebration, commemoration and symbolism’.
- 25.11.21: Prof Bernadette Whelan (UL) ‘“A real revolution”; Ireland and the Oxford Group/Moral Re-Armament movement, 1933-2001’
- 02.12.2: Gabriel Doherty (UCC),‘The “other” debate; Westminster and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 14-16 December 1921’
- 27.01.22: Prof Robert Gerwarth (UCD), ‘Civil war and the making of Europe’s twentieth century’
- 03.02.22: Prof Judith Devlin (UCD), ‘Subverting Stalinism? Jokes about Stalin and their Significance?’
- 04.02.22: Dr Lusine Margaryan (CC), Prof Yervand Margaryan (Yervan) & Prof Victoria Arakelova (Yerevan), symposium ‘Transeastern Christianity and other religion systems in the early Middle Ages’
- 10.02.22: Elizabeth Tanner (UCC, PhD student), ‘Regional crisis and geopolitical imperatives: The Nixon administration in South Asia, 1971’
- 17.02.22: Dr Leanne Calvert (Hertfordshire), ‘“Are you so fond of your wife’s sister?” Negotiating incest in the Presbyterian Atlantic World, 1717-1830’
- 24.02.22: Dr Paul MacCotter (UCC) ‘The origins of the Irish parish’
- 03.03.22: Dr Michael Kennedy (RIA), ‘The Coast Watchers; Military intelligence gathering on neutral Ireland’s Second World War frontline’
- 10.03.22: Prof Geoff Roberts (UCC) ‘Stalin’s Library; A dictator and his books’
- 24.03.22: Dr Edward Burke (Nottingham), ‘The British army and the Belleek-Pettigo offensive in 1922’
- 31.03.22: Dr Detmar Klein (UCC) ‘Difficile est satiram non scribere; The role of « le ridicule » in the relationship between German-annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany prior to the outbreak of the First World War’