Events
Transnational History Series - Events 2010Activities & Events
Events
A diverse range of events are organised by transnational history group members throughout the academic year. Please visit the History Events page for more details. The Transnational History Seminar Series will be of particular interest, but some of our Staff-Postgraduate Seminars also cover transnational themes.
Research Projects
Members of the group are currently involved in two major research projects focusing on the study of migration and diasporas. Prof Don MacRaild and Drs David Gleeson, Tanja Bueltmann and James McConnel are working on the English Diaspora project. This project seeks to explode enduring historical mythologies about the absence of a strong ethnic identity among the English who emigrated from their homeland between the 17th and 20th centuries. A major international conference on the theme is planned for July 2010 (see below). The second project is the Irish Isonymy project, an interdisciplinary endeavour which unites methodologies from biological anthropology with those from history to explore the origins, distribution and nature of the Irish communities of nineteenth-Century Britain. Several articles relating to the project have recently been published, Prof Don MacRaild being co-author together with Dr Marlcolm Smith, Department of Anthropology, Durham University.
Dr Sylvia Ellis has been awarded a grant from
the Nuffield Foundation for a pilot
study to assess the feasibility of a large-scale study of the history,
purpose and effectiveness of campus-based women’s centres in the United
States. The project involves working with the University of Rhode
Island, Harvard University, and the University of Connecticut.
It investigate the scope of these universities' women’s centre
archives, and conducts an initial investigation of the usage and
impact of the centres in addressing the needs of university women.
Further to his involvement with the English Diaspora project, Dr David Gleeson currently works on the Irish Atlantic and the banning of the transatlantic slave trade, and is planning to work on the US Civil War in international context.
Transnational ideas and movements are important themes in Dr Daniel Laqua's work. He is currently preparing an edited volume, International Reconfigured, which deals with these themes between the World Wars and will be published by I.B. Tauris. Together with Prof Gita Deneckere and Dr Christophe Verbruggen from the University of Ghent, Dr Laqua is coordinating a research project entitled ‘Beyond Belgium: Transnational Social and Cultural Entanglements, 1900-1925’. As part of this venture, he is joint convenor of a workshop held as a side event of the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2010).
Members of the group sit on the executive committee of the Transatlantic Studies Association and the Newspaper and Periodical Forum of Ireland. The British Association of American Studies postgraduate conference was hosted by the School last year. In March 2010, the Transnational Research Group launched a seminar series dedicated to different aspects of transnational history.
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