Irish Anthropology Day
19 May 2022
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square, Dublin
This seminar is dedicated to the anthropology on/of the island of Ireland. Co-organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and the Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, together with colleagues in Queens University Belfast, the event follows in a series of meetings featuring anthropology of different country and regional traditions organized by the RAI.
If you are not a speaker and wish to attend the event, please RSVP by 4:00 p.m. Friday 13 May 2022 at anthropology.office@mu.ie.
Programme
9.00 – 9.45 Arrivals and Welcome Tea and Coffee
9.45 – 10.00 Opening Remarks – David Shankland (Director, RAI), Mark Maguire (Dean, Maynooth University)
10.00 – 10.20 – Opening Lecture – Helena Wulff (Stockholm University)
Irish Inspirations: Studying Dancers and Writers in a New Key
(Introduction – Hana Cervinkova, Maynooth University)
10.30 – 11.15 – Part 1 – Histories and Geographies
(Moderator – Hana Cervinkova)
Seamas O’Siochain (Maynooth University)
Remarks on the History of the Anthropological Association of Ireland
Lawrence Taylor (Maynooth University)
An bhfaca tú riamh áit ar bith chomh iargúlta? (Have you ever seen a place so remote?): Reflections on moral geography at the edge of Ireland
11.15 – 11.45 – Tea and Coffee Break
11.45 – 13.00 – Part 2 – Discourse and Narrative
(Moderator – David Shankland)
Steve Coleman (Maynooth University)
The ethnography of discourse and the discourse of ethnography in Ireland
Hilary Leathem (Queen’s University Belfast)
Towards an Anthropology of History in Ireland
Karen Lane (St. Andrew’s University)
Shaping the Story of Place: Ethnographic Attention and the Anthropological Metanarrative
Matthew Gault (Queen’s University Belfast)
Stories and the ‘Troubles’ Memorial Landscape in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
13:00 – 14.00 – Lunch
14.00 – 15.15 – Part 3 – Changing Landscapes I
(Moderator – David Shankland)
Thomas Wilson (Binghamton University)
From Large Farms to Little Dublins: Culture and Class (revisited) in Suburban Eastern Ireland
Gordon Ramsey (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Good Thing About Sectarianism? An Intersectional Approach to Social Class and Sectarian Identity in Northern Ireland
Jamie Saris (Maynooth University)
An Anthropologist in Ireland Reflects on 25 years of Working Around the Irish Health Services
David Prendergast (Maynooth University)
Thrills, Pills and Spills: The Trials and Tribulations of ‘Ageing-in-place’
15.15 – 15.45 – Tea and Coffee Break
15.45 – 17.15 – Part 4 – Changing Landscapes II
(Moderator – Mark Maguire)
David Whyte (University College London)
The End of Neoliberalism? Covid-19 and Catholic Nationalist Political Economy in the ‘Community Response’ in Ireland
Yomi Ogunsanya (Independent Scholar)
Towards an Anthropology of Direct Provision in Ireland: A Proposal
Chrissy Skelton (Maynooth University)
Race, Rescue, Rehome in Ireland: For the Love of Dog
Tanya Cassidy (Dublin City University)
Building Liquid Bridges Beyond Gender, Identity and Ambivalence
Sean French (University of Cambridge)
The Role of Marching Bands in Loyalist Communities in Derry
17.30 – 18.00 – Closing Lecture
Abdullahi El-Tom (Maynooth University)
From Nomadism to Commerce: The Zaghawa people of Darfur, Sudan
(Introduction – Hana Cervinkova)
18.00 – 19.00 – Wine Reception
Organizers: The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) and Maynooth University (MU)
Scientific Committee:
Hana Cervinkova (Maynooth University)
David Shankland (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)
Hastings Donnan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Mark Maguire (Maynooth University)
