Postgraduate Conference
Postgraduate Conference 20 January 2021
The Graduate School in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences will host the annual Postgraduate Conference on Wendesday, 20 January 2021. The Conference will be online. ALL WELCOME!
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12.00pm Welcome Address
Dr Orla Lynch, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, CACSSS
12.05pm Short summaries from a selection of PhD students about their research
12.10pm Panel 1: MUSEUMS, ART AND MUSIC
Chair: Dr Stephen O’Brien
Shauna Allen, Curating Change: Activism in Museums
Clair Butler, From Not Knowing to Knowing: Deborah Cheetham’s Pecan Summer
Chara Charalambous, Limassol Carnival Serenades: An Applied Ethnomusicological Approach to Sustaining Sound Communities
Kaylie Streit, Going to the Well for Water: the creation of contemporary music from traditional inspiration through the case study of Caomhín Ó Raghallaigh
1.00pm Panel 2: GENDER AND VIOLENCE
Chair: Dr Sarah Foley
Maria Butler, An overview of Marian Keyes and the Irish Socio-Literary Landscape: A Critical Analysis using Close and Distant Reading
Tadgh Dennehy, Contriving Truth: Visual media and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Robyn McAuliffe, Rape as metaphor in Ӕlfric’s Lives
Doris Murphy, SWAGS: Sex workers and An Garda Síochána - policy, reality, and a sociological imaginary
1.50pm Panel 3: EDUCATION AND WELFARE
Chair: Dr Elizabeth Kiely
David Cashman, Reconceptualising Well-being to develop an Ecological Framework of organisation of a new Irish Primary School
Eugenia Hanley, The First Child Welfare Schemes in Munster, 1908-18
James Leonard, ‘I could have went down a different path’: Talking to people who used drugs problematically and service providers about Irish drug policy alternatives
2.40pm Panel 4: PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chair: Dr Orla Lynch
Melissa Shiels, Gift-Giving Strategies in the Tudor Conquest of Ireland
Michael Rose, How is territory important to group formation?
Max Darby, Human/Artificial Intelligence Value-Alignment
3.30pm Closing Remarks
Dr Orla Lynch, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, CACSSS