{"id":335,"date":"2014-03-26T12:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfastpovhist.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2014-03-26T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:49:56","slug":"conference-poverty-and-famine-in-ireland-11-12-april-2014-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/belfastpovhist\/2014\/03\/26\/conference-poverty-and-famine-in-ireland-11-12-april-2014-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference: Poverty and Famine in Ireland, 11-12 April 2014. Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"L_ROY_06804\"<\/a>The School of History and Anthropology<\/a>, in conjunction with the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities<\/a>, is hosting a conference in Clifton House<\/a>, Belfast, 11-12 April 2014 entitled ‘Poverty and Famine in Ireland: The Great Famine, its contexts and legacy’. The programme can be found below. It is open to any and all who would like to attend though for reasons of space and catering it is limited to approx. 50-60 attendees. If you would like to attend please contact Georgina Laragy by email g.laragy@qub.ac.uk as soon as you decide. Admission is free and all are welcome. The conference will hear from some of the leading researchers in the field and it should be a excellent event.<\/p>\n

Poverty and Famine in Ireland: The Great Famine, its contexts and legacy<\/span><\/p>\n

11-12 April 2014, Clifton House, North Queen Street, Belfast<\/p>\n

Friday 11 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

12.30-1.45 Private lunch for research partners<\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome<\/em><\/p>\n

2.15-3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 1: Niall \u00d3 Ciosain (NUIG), \u2018Irish poverty in the Poor Inquiry and Nicholls Reports\u2019<\/p>\n

3-4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 2: Robyn Atcheson and Peter Gray (QUB), Epidemics and Fever Hospitals in pre-Famine Belfast and during the Great Famine<\/p>\n

4-4.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee<\/em><\/p>\n

4.30-5.30\u00a0 Session 3 Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy (QUB), Poverty and welfare in post-Famine Belfast<\/p>\n

5.30-6.30\u00a0 Private Advisory Board meeting<\/p>\n

7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Private Dinner<\/em><\/p>\n

Saturday 12 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

9.30-10.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 4: Eoin McLaughlin (Edinburgh) and Chris Colvin (QUB), Evidence for Famine Nutrition from the Irish Prison Registers<\/p>\n

10.30-11\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffee<\/em><\/p>\n

11-12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 5: Ciaran Reilly (NUIM), ‘Culpability and the Great Famine: What the Strokestown archive reveals’<\/p>\n

12-1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 6: Andy Newby (Helsinki), ‘”Regarded in a Different Light”? Imperial Relations and Famine Relief in Finland, 1867-8’.<\/p>\n

1-2 Lunch<\/em><\/p>\n

2-3 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 7: Marguerite Corporaal, Chris Cusack and Lindsay Jannsen (Nijmegen), \u2018”At the verge of ruin”: Poverty and Feudalism in Famine Fiction\u2019<\/p>\n

3-4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Session 8: Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (UCD), \u2018Representations of poverty in Irish Famine memorials\u2019<\/p>\n

4 Close<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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