This is a past event
RIISS workshop: The Troubled Island
Friday 10 April
2pm-3pm
Keynote address
Simon Prince (Canterbury Christ Church University): Reading the Troubles Horizontally
3-3.30 pm: Coffee break
3.30-5 pm
Panel 1: Transnational Troubles
Chair: Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
- Fearghus Roulston (University of Strathclyde): Identity, activism and composure in oral histories with migrants from Northern Ireland
- Marie-Violaine Louvet (Université de Toulouse): The Troubles and the Middle East: Colonial Echoes and Transnational Solidarity
- Roseanna Doughty (University of Edinburgh): Pushing the Bounds of Northern Ireland: Integrating the Irish in Britain into ‘Troubles’ History
Saturday 11 April
9.30-11 am: Presentation of Bob Purdie Collection on the Troubles
Chair: Chloe Alexander (University of Aberdeen)
- Grace O’Leary ('Collecting the Troubles’ Internship, RIISS) in conversation with Samantha McCombe (The Linen Hall Library, Belfast)
11-11.30 am: Coffee break
11.30-1 pm
Panel 2: Domestic Troubles
Chair: Cecilia Brioni (University of Aberdeen)
- John Cunningham (University of Galway): Bob Purdie and his political contemporaries in and around Belfast in the 1970s
- James Bright (University of Edinburgh): ‘Captive Readers’: The Loyalist Long Kesh Library
- Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen): True Stories? The Troubles and the Rise of the True Crime Genre
- Hosted by
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
- Venue
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Sir Duncan Rice Library Meeting Room 1
- Contact
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For further details please contact Dr Cecilia Brioni: cecilia.brioni@abdn.ac.uk