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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: This was the first message from Elliott Barkan... Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:53:15 -0500 Forwarded on behalf of... Elliott Barkan, Dept of History, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397, fax: 909-880-5985; tele: 909-880-5525; and email address: ebarkan[at]csusb.edu Elliott Barkan writes... I have a contract with ABC-Clio Books to edit a volume of 400 biographies (500 words each) of eminent/prominent ethnic Americans (past, present, men and women in all fields, including those who achievements were simply within their ethnic communities) representing some 100 ethnic groups. The primary focus is on first and second generations (otherwise it becomes unmanageable). I already have over 50 contributors, but a number of categories and groups remain open. I am seeking individuals who would like to participate. While I will send those who respond more specific information and related details, the time line is: about 4 months to develop a list of potential subjects, with a line or two on why each should be considered. We then come to an agreement on the final subjects. You would then have 10 months to a year to complete all the biographies. The following are the groups I need written about and the approximate number of entries for each. Please reply to Elliott Barkan, Dept of History, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397, fax: 909-880-5985; tele: 909-880-5525; and email address: ebarkan[at]csusb.edu Middle Eastern.....up to 17* Irish............. " " 11 South Americans..... 11 Dutch............... 9 Central Americans... 9 Russians............ 7 Hungarians.......... 6 Ukrainians.......... 5 Spanish............. 4 African(SubSaharan). 4 Polynesian.......... 4 Thai................ 3 Pakistani........... 2 Hmong...............2 Bangladeshi......... 2 Laotian............. 2 Cambodian........... 2 Barbadian........... 2 Australian/New Zea.. 2 Roma................ 1 South African....... 1 Albanian............ 1 Bulgarian........... 1 Tibet or Mongolian.. 1 Belarusin........... 1 Carpatho-Rusyn...... 1 *Could include North Africans; does not include Israelis, who are being done separately. Thanks, Elliott Barkan Elliott R. Barkan Professor of History & Ethnic Studies Book Review Editor, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 82 | 5 December 1998 22:14 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Fowarded from the H-Ethnic list... FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT for nominations for the IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY SOCIETY'S 1998 THEODORE SALOUTOS MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD IN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HISTORY. The award is given annually by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to the monograph judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States. To be eligible for the prize, which will be awarded at the Society's annual dinner in April 1999, a book must be copyrighted "1998," must be based on substantial primary research, and must offer a scholarly interpretation of sources. Collected works, edited volumes, reprints, or memoirs are not eligible. A monograph may be nominated by its author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to the chair of the Saloutos Prize Committee, Professor Reed Ueda, Department of History, East Hall, Tufts University, Medford MA 02155. Copies of the book must be received by all three members of the committee by Dec. 31, 1998. Send books to Prof. Ueda at the above address, as well as to: Prof. Cheryl Greenberg, Dept. of History, Trinity College, Hartford CT 06106-3100; and to Prof. John McClymer, History Dept., Assumption College, Worcester MA 01615-0005. - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 83 | 8 December 1998 11:14 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Four items from Liam & Pauline Ferrie's IRISH EMIGRANT email Newsletter... [My comments in square brackets.] According to the Central Statistics Office the population of the 26 counties [that is, the Republic of Ireland] is at its highest since 1881 when 3.87m people were recorded in this part [the Republic of Ireland] of the country [the island of Ireland]. The figure at April of this year was put at 3.7m, an increase of 44,300 over the previous year. The cause of the increase is said to be two-fold, with births outnumbering deaths and continuing net immigration. During the year to the end of April, 44,000 people came to live in Ireland and 21,200 emigrated. Plans to sail the replica of a famine ship from New Ross to Boston in March have had to be postponed due to a shortage of funds. The John F. Kennedy Trust had raised IR3.5m but still had a shortfall of IR1m when the postponement was announced. Since then, however, Charlie McCreevy allocated IR200k in the Budget and fund raising will continue to ensure that the Dunbrody will eventually make its transAtlantic crossing. See http://www.dunbrody.com [Does anyone know anything about this project? I'm not sure that I understand the point of it. It's not like Tim Severin's Brendan voyage - - I mean, do we need to prove that Irish Famine refugees could have reached America?] - - Bishop of Meath Dr Michael Smith has called on the National Museum to return 60 12th century skeletons for burial in grounds of Mullingar Cathedral. The skeletons were unearthed in the town during the building of a shopping centre. Many of which were accompanied by a scallop shell which indicated that the wearer had completed the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella. The National Museum organised an examination of the skeletons and plans to keep them on the basis that they are artefacts, but Bishop Smith argues that they should now be reburied rather than left in a plastic bag in a museum warehouse. [This - ownership of the dead - is a recurring debate throughout the world. I have long urged that we do good forensic archaeology whenever we discover Irish Famine graves - the skeletons could tell us so much. But this seems to run counter to a need to do reverence - the urge is to bury them again, fast. But the two approaches - search for knowledge and reverence - are surely not incompatible.] - - London now has a statue of Oscar Wilde, a rather unusual but generally admired creation showing the playwright raising his head from his coffin with cigarette in hand. "A Conversation with Oscar Wilde" is the work of Maggi Hambling and was unveiled at Trafalgar Square by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, great-grandson Lucian Holland and actor Stephen Fry. Leading members of the British theatre were on hand for the occasion. Patrick O'Sullivan - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 84 | 8 December 1998 13:56 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Paddy, In response to your query about the point of this and related projects: tourism and jobs. After its Atlantic crossing, the Dunbrody will be moored near New Ross as a sort of floating museum, housing 'educational exhibits' on migration and a computer database of all recorded Irish emigrants from 1845 onwards. For more on this, go to http://www.dunbrody.com Another three-masted barque from the Famine era , the Jeanie Johnston, is simultaneously under (re)construction at Tralee. Plans sound almost identical: after maiden voyage to North America, moored as a tourist attraction with emigrant data base housed nearby. Meanwhile, on the Moy in Mayo, the Foxford Admiral Brown Society have plans to build a replica of Brown's flagship of the Argentine fleet, the 500-ton Hercules. Initial plans called for a full-scale replica containing exhibits and English language-training facilities for South American visitors. Perhaps an unintended result of this shipbuilding will be a revival of Ireland's maritime tradition? Brian McGinn | |
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For information. Best wishes, Mary Doran, Modern Irish Collections, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. ______________________________ Forward Header __________________________ ________ Subject: Celtic Cultures Conference Author: "Suibhne Geilt" at Internet Date: 21/10/98 15:05 Celtic Cultures: an interdisciplinary conference Beltaine 1999 30th April - 1st May Department of Music University of Leeds, Yorkshire England LS2 9JT Keynote Speakers: *************************************** Peter Berresford Ellis, "The Way of the White Cow" Miranda Aldhouse-Green, "Goddesses in Celtic Iconography: Meaning & Metaphor" *************************************** Conference Websites from: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/Conf/celtics.html - - now includes information on registration, accommodation, locations, etc. Information on other speakers, etc. will be posted soon. Proposals are invited for presentation of scholarly papers, workshops, book stalls, musical performances, etc. The conference aims to gather together diverse perspectives on Celtic cultures (pre / historical and contemporary) from the following (and any other) areas: poetry, song, story-telling, mythology, dance, paganism, christianity, ceramics, sculpture, architecture, artefacts, revivalism, history, literature, politics, archaeology, musicology, gender studies, theology, linguistics, ethnography, geography, philosophy, cosmology, sociology, fine art, etc.... If you want to participate in this conference in any way, please contact: Dr. Steve Sweeney-Turner, Department of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. tel.: +44 (0)113-236-9098 e-mail: s.sweeney-turner[at]leeds.ac.uk or: suibhne_geilt[at]hotmail.com Thanks for your attention. Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any potentially interested parties. Air do slainte! ************************************************** Dr. Steve Sweeney-Turner, Research Fellow in Music, Department of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. Tel.: 0113-236-9098 Fax: 0113-233-2586 e-mail: s.sweeney-turner[at]leeds.ac.uk or:suibhne_geilt[at]hotmail.com http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/DeptInfo/Staff/SST/sst.html ************************************************** Check out: Celtic Cultures: an interdisciplinary conference http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/Conf/celtics.html Visit Critical Musicology Journal at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/CMJ/cmj.html The New Leeds MA in Popular Musicology: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/DeptInfo/PGPros/ma_pop.html | |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: A. G. Evans. Fanatic Heart: A Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1997. 258 pp. Notes and select bibliography. AUD $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-875560-82-3; AUD $34.95, ISBN 1-876268-04-2. Reviewed by Robert E. Weir, Bay Path College. Published by H-PCAACA (November, 1998) John Boyle O'Reilly won fame on three continents. In his native Ireland, he was renowned as the patriot who gave up a promising career in the British army to join the Fenian cause. For those efforts, O'Reilly was arrested, court-martialed, and transported to Australia. En route, his patriotism deepened, and O'Reilly won the admiration of fellow prisoners for his zeal, his command of Irish song, and the literary magazine he published on the high seas. In Australia, O'Reilly naturally gravitated towards the Irish exile community, which helped him effect a bold escape aboard an American whaling vessel a scant fourteen months after arriving Down Under. By the time O'Reilly landed in Philadelphia in November, 1869, he was also a highly-regarded poet. In America, O'Reilly won his greatest fame. Although some viewed him as a turncoat when he abandoned Fenianism after the abortive 1870 raid of Canada, O'Reilly's rabid nationalism, his involvement in the Irish Land League, and his sentimental poetry won him fame and respect. As the editor of the influential Catholic newspaper The Boston Pilot, O'Reilly championed Irish-American integration, black civil rights, and New England's literary culture. His premature death in 1890, at the age of 46, was mourned by Irishmen everywhere. Anthony Evans, a former Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter, seeks to dramatize the life of John Boyle O'Reilly. He gives drama aplenty, but the end result is a book destined for Irish-American coffee tables, not the shelves of serious researchers. It's a breezy, enjoyable read, enlivened by minutiae and trivia which gives a good sense of what it might be like to hide on the windswept coast of Western Australia, be aboard a ship during a storm, and dine with Longfellow, but we learn little about O'Reilly as an historical figure, for there is little analysis in this book. Moreover, for a writer obsessed with small detail, Evans is remarkably uninformed about America. He does not know, for example, that copperheads and rattlesnakes are separate reptiles, that Wendell Phillips was white, or that the term "Negro" has long been out of fashion. More seriously, there is no discussion whatsoever of O'Reilly's labor activities. He was a confidant of Terence Powderly, Frank K. Foster, and George McNeill, and he wrote kindly of the Knights of Labor. To many, he was better known as a labor advocate than as a poet. Evans clearly admires his subject, but his approach is more that of a hagiographer than a biographer. There is not even a serious assessment of O'Reilly as a writer, beyond mild criticism of a failed novel. He is little read today, largely because his poetry was sentimental and mawkish in the Victorian manner. Yet, Evans handsomely illustrates his book with photos of O'Reilly homes, haunts, and monuments. What he utterly fails to do is convince us that we should care. This book would make a good script of an after-school biography program for teens, but it will fail to challenge scholars. Citation: Robert E. Weir. "Review of A. G. Evans, Fanatic Heart: A Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890," H-PCAACA, H-Net Reviews, November, 1998. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18507912551 690. Copyright © 1998 by H-Net and the Popular Culture and the American Culture Associations. It may be reproduced electronically for educational or scholarly use. The Associations reserve print rights and permissions. (Contact: P.C.Rollins at the following electronic addr - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Peter Atkinson, who is Robert Hewison's student at the U of Lancaster, has emailed us to thank the Irish-Diaspora list for information and references on Liverpool... Peter Atkinson writes... I would like to thank you very much for the information you have been supplying to Robert Hewison on my behalf... I have read some Scally already but the Belcham references and the O'Mara references will be a great help and I appreciate your efforts. I am looking at the area of Liverpool dramatic writing in the television age and relations to `British' National Identity. thanks again. Yours Peter Atkinson - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 88 | 11 December 1998 14:19 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of... Suzanne Sinke Assistant Professor Department of History Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 (864) 656-4427 ssinke[at]clemson.edu *CALL FOR PAPERS* Migration/Immigration Network SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION Fort Worth, Texas, 11-14 November 1999 The Migration/Immigration Network of the SSHA is calling for paper and panel proposals for the November 1999 SSHA convention in Fort Worth. The network chairs prefer complete panel propsals and these tend to get priority in placement on the program, but we will try to assemble panels or find places in already existing panels for individual paper proposals. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary and comparative panels with topics covering different countries and time periods. The deadline for submissions is 1 February 1999, but proposals which arrive early will have a better chance for inclusion under a new program policy. The co-chairs, Suzanne Sinke and Dorothee Schneider, encourage you to contact us by email for preliminary discussions of your plans. Complete paper and panel proposals can be sent directly to the SSHA web page at . Make sure to check the migration network box and they will be forwarded to the network chairs automatically. Some of the suggested areas for panels the network discussed at this year's meeting included: comparative Latino idenity among immigrant groups in the U.S., emigration patterns, contemporary migration of Africans, symbolic ethnicities in festive culture, teaching migration/immigration, a roundtable on diasporas, why people leave, government sponsorship of ethnicity in diaspora, life cycle migration patterns, comparisons of migrants to North and South America, and the meaning of food in migrant identity. This list should be considered suggestive & not exhaustive. More concrete suggestions along with the organizers to contact include: Public opinion surveys about immigrants: Elliot Barkan Displaced persons: Annette van Rijn Repeat migrations: Inez Egerbladh Asian Indian family in diaspora: Bela Thacker We also encourage book roundtables and one on Jose Moya's "Cousins and Strangers" is already in planning. Preliminary discussions of topics and panels are welcome (the sooner the better): Suzanne Sinke Dorothee Schneider Clemson University University of Illinois (864) 656-4427 schndr[at]uiuc.edu ssinke[at]clemson.edu Suzanne Sinke Assistant Professor Department of History Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 (864) 656-4427 ssinke[at]clemson.edu | |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of... Managing Editors Journal of Women's History jwh[at]osu.edu (e-mail) The Journal of Women's History is soliciting essays for a special issue on age as a category of analysis in women's history. We seek manuscripts on any part of the world in any historical period that deal with age cohorts of women (young women, middle-aged women, and old women), generational interactions, or women's life cycles. We particularly are interested in conceptualizing what it means to take age into account, along with gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, in analyzing women's lives. The issue will be guest edited by Birgitte S=F8land and will appear in early 2001. The deadline for submissions is 1 August 1999. Send four one-sided, double-spaced copies of your manuscript (no more than 10,000 words, including endnotes) to: Ages of Women Issue, Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 230 W. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1367. For more details on submission policy, e-mail or see the Notice to Contributors page in any recent issue of the Journal of Women's History. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katie G. Burrill Heather Lee Miller Toni Mortimer Basia A. Nowak Managing Editors Journal of Women's History jwh[at]osu.edu (e-mail) 614-688-3092 (phone) 614-292-2282 (fax) | |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of... Anthony Shiu: shiuanth[at]pilot.msu.edu Call for Papers Disruptive Disciplines: A Joint Conference of American Studies and Ethnomusicology Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan April 17, 1999 Keynote Speaker: Eric Lott, University of Virginia Author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class The American Studies Graduate Student Association at Michigan State University and the Midwest Association of Ethnomusicology invite graduate students and independent scholars across all disciplines to present their work in a forum that reflects the breadth and variety of interdisciplinary work. American Studies and Ethnomusicology are two of many academic sites that encourage critical scholarship across disciplines. Graduate student work is uniquely positioned to explore both the promise and limitations of this recent scholarship. This conference is conceived as an opportunity to consider the wide range of approaches and methods that challenge disciplinary distinctions in both form and function. Therefore, we invite a mix of presentations--from conventional research papers to performances--that reflect the dynamic work done in our fields. All approaches from graduate students in (but not limited to) the following areas are welcome: American Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Communication Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, English, Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Queer Theory, Race/Ethnicity studies, Rhetoric/Composition, Sociology, Visual Arts, and Women's Studies. Respondents are asked to submit one page abstracts by February 7, 1999, for papers of fifteen minutes. Panel proposals are encouraged. The following are just a few examples of the range of approaches and topics we invite: - --Media: television, radio, music, and popular culture - --Education: classroom practices, theory and policy - --Performance as scholarship/Music, Dance, and Drama in the academic conference - --The centrality of theory/the poverty of theory - --Modernism and its promises - --Internet/technology studies - --Culture and the "hard" sciences - --Race, gender, class, and sexuality - --Rhetoric, composition, and English studies - --Disciplinary boundaries and horizons - --Film, history, and literature - --Ethnography and the "New" Anthropology - --Communication Studies and Issues of Representation - --Narratives of Conquest, Post-colonialism, and Imperialism The conference will be held in East Lansing, Michigan, at Michigan State University. Submissions are due February 7, 1999. The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual Russel B. Nye Lecture, given by Eric Lott, and a jazz concert featuring faculty from the School of Music will be held afterwards. To provide for ease of travel planning, applicants will be notified of their acceptance as soon as possible. Early abstracts would be greatly appreciated. Submission of abstracts and panel proposals via e-mail is encouraged. Our web site address is: http://www.msu.edu/~shiuanth/conf.html Send abstracts/panel proposals to: ASGSA Conference Program in American Studies 319 Linton Hall Michigan State University E. Lansing, MI 48824-1044 Or e-mail to: Anthony Shiu: shiuanth[at]pilot.msu.edu Inquiries should be directed to: April Herndon: herndon2[at]pilot.msu.edu Anthony Michel: michela2[at]pilot.msu.edu | |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of Jayne Morgan, ?Researching Culture' Conference Organiser mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk RESEARCHING CULTURE An international, multi-disciplinary conference on: traditions, approaches and methods for analysing culture 10/11/12 September 1999, University of North London Call for Papers Today no single discipline ?owns' the study of culture. This is an expanding field of analysis across philosophy, anthropology, sociology, cultural and media studies, literary studies, film studies, gender studies, organisational studies, geography, history, political science, and economics. Each of these disciplines has contributed to the study of culture and in the process have produced diverse definitions and methods for its analysis. What does it mean to study culture in this multi-disciplinary environment. Indeed should there be a consensus on what ?culture' means? This conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of cultural analysis. We welcome papers that explore the following questions either from an epistemological perspective or through current research: Should we decentre the concept of culture? Are disciplinary boundaries useful when studying culture? Are we asking the right questions? What are the politics of studying culture? What is at stake in the funding of cultural research? Text/audience/institutions: what do we mean by ?media culture'? What ever happened to political economy? Do new methods follow from new technologies? Are we living in a global culture? Decentring Europe: how do we ensure internationalist perspectives?. Proposals, of 300 words maximum, are invited from academics and researchers in all relevant fields. Please send proposals by February 8th 1999 to: Jayne Morgan, ?Researching Culture' Conference Organiser mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk Please Display This Notice In Your Department ______________________________________ Jayne Morgan _Researching Culture_ Conference Organiser School of Social Sciences Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies University of North London Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove London N5 2AD UK Telephone: 01603 456239 or, 0171 753 5033 ext. 5028 email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk or, j.h.morgan[at]uea.ac.uk | |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of Jayne Morgan, ?Researching Culture' Conference Organiser mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk RESEARCHING CULTURE An international, multi-disciplinary conference on: traditions, approaches and methods for analysing culture 10/11/12 September 1999, University of North London Call for Papers Today no single discipline ?owns' the study of culture. This is an expanding field of analysis across philosophy, anthropology, sociology, cultural and media studies, literary studies, film studies, gender studies, organisational studies, geography, history, political science, and economics. Each of these disciplines has contributed to the study of culture and in the process have produced diverse definitions and methods for its analysis. What does it mean to study culture in this multi-disciplinary environment. Indeed should there be a consensus on what ?culture' means? This conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of cultural analysis. We welcome papers that explore the following questions either from an epistemological perspective or through current research: Should we decentre the concept of culture? Are disciplinary boundaries useful when studying culture? Are we asking the right questions? What are the politics of studying culture? What is at stake in the funding of cultural research? Text/audience/institutions: what do we mean by ?media culture'? What ever happened to political economy? Do new methods follow from new technologies? Are we living in a global culture? Decentring Europe: how do we ensure internationalist perspectives?. Proposals, of 300 words maximum, are invited from academics and researchers in all relevant fields. Please send proposals by February 8th 1999 to: Jayne Morgan, ?Researching Culture' Conference Organiser mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk Please Display This Notice In Your Department ______________________________________ Jayne Morgan _Researching Culture_ Conference Organiser School of Social Sciences Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies University of North London Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove London N5 2AD UK Telephone: 01603 456239 or, 0171 753 5033 ext. 5028 email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk or, j.h.morgan[at]uea.ac.uk | |
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| 93 | 14 December 1998 14:08 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of Jayne Morgan, ?Researching Culture' Conference Organiser mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk RESEARCHING CULTURE An international, multi-disciplinary conference on: traditions, approaches and methods for analysing culture 10/11/12 September 1999, University of North London Call for Papers Today no single discipline ?owns' the study of culture. This is an expanding field of analysis across philosophy, anthropology, sociology, cultural and media studies, literary studies, film studies, gender studies, organisational studies, geography, history, political science, and economics. Each of these disciplines has contributed to the study of culture and in the process have produced diverse definitions and methods for its analysis. What does it mean to study culture in this multi-disciplinary environment. Indeed should there be a consensus on what ?culture' means? This conference aims to bring together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss the present and future directions of cultural analysis. We welcome papers that explore the following questions either from an epistemological perspective or through current research: Should we decentre the concept of culture? Are disciplinary boundaries useful when studying culture? Are we asking the right questions? What are the politics of studying culture? What is at stake in the funding of cultural research? Text/audience/institutions: what do we mean by ?media culture'? What ever happened to political economy? Do new methods follow from new technologies? Are we living in a global culture? Decentring Europe: how do we ensure internationalist perspectives?. Proposals, of 300 words maximum, are invited from academics and researchers in all relevant fields. Please send proposals by February 8th 1999 to: Jayne Morgan, ?Researching Culture' Conference Organiser mail: School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove, London N5 2AD UK email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk Please Display This Notice In Your Department ______________________________________ Jayne Morgan _Researching Culture_ Conference Organiser School of Social Sciences Faculty of Environmental and Social Studies University of North London Ladbroke House 62-66 Highbury Grove London N5 2AD UK Telephone: 01603 456239 or, 0171 753 5033 ext. 5028 email: j.morgan[at]unl.ac.uk or, j.h.morgan[at]uea.ac.uk | |
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| 94 | 14 December 1998 14:38 |
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Ir-D Happy Birthday to Us... | |
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Subject: Ir-D Happy Birthday to Us...
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: December 15 is the official birthday of the Irish-Diaspora list. Tomorrow we will be one year old. The Irish-Diaspora list did have a sort of protozoan existence before December 15 1997 - some old hands will remember - as I (publicly, embarrassingly) quarrelled with the idiot software (called Majordomo) that runs the Ir-D list. But my earlier experiences in the field of mental health had taught me the correct procedures for contact with the psychotic mind... and the software and I get on all right now. Anyway, by December 15 1997 I had got things broadly right, and the Irish-Diaspora list was running the way we wanted it to. But the software is still by no means user-friendly, and I still do make mistakes - especially when I am feeling tired or bad-tempered or when I'm busy writing and I'm therefore a bit vague. (Mind you, in the vague state I have trouble remembering the names of my children...) Here in Bradford, we are going to review the Irish-Diaspora list's first year - identifying problems, looking at things we could have done better, and looking at new things to do. Some problems we have had are fairly easy to identify - eg my computer crashes. List software has developed further during the past year - and we may want to look again at our software options. Membership of the Ir-D list has grown nicely - which brings its own problems. I have to admit that I cannot now readily and immediately recall the names and interests of every Ir-D list member (more vagueness, perhaps). Maybe we need to move to some sort of Ir-D list member database (whilst defending the right to lurk). Some Ir-D list constituencies and interests have been better served that others during the past year - and we are aware of that. We would welcome any comments. In the meantime, to everyone on the Irish-Diaspora list, Happy Birthday to Us. Paddy O'Sullivan - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 95 | 14 December 1998 14:38 |
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Subject: Ir-D Happy Birthday to Us...
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: December 15 is the official birthday of the Irish-Diaspora list. Tomorrow we will be one year old. The Irish-Diaspora list did have a sort of protozoan existence before December 15 1997 - some old hands will remember - as I (publicly, embarrassingly) quarrelled with the idiot software (called Majordomo) that runs the Ir-D list. But my earlier experiences in the field of mental health had taught me the correct procedures for contact with the psychotic mind... and the software and I get on all right now. Anyway, by December 15 1997 I had got things broadly right, and the Irish-Diaspora list was running the way we wanted it to. But the software is still by no means user-friendly, and I still do make mistakes - especially when I am feeling tired or bad-tempered or when I'm busy writing and I'm therefore a bit vague. (Mind you, in the vague state I have trouble remembering the names of my children...) Here in Bradford, we are going to review the Irish-Diaspora list's first year - identifying problems, looking at things we could have done better, and looking at new things to do. Some problems we have had are fairly easy to identify - eg my computer crashes. List software has developed further during the past year - and we may want to look again at our software options. Membership of the Ir-D list has grown nicely - which brings its own problems. I have to admit that I cannot now readily and immediately recall the names and interests of every Ir-D list member (more vagueness, perhaps). Maybe we need to move to some sort of Ir-D list member database (whilst defending the right to lurk). Some Ir-D list constituencies and interests have been better served that others during the past year - and we are aware of that. We would welcome any comments. In the meantime, to everyone on the Irish-Diaspora list, Happy Birthday to Us. Paddy O'Sullivan - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 96 | 14 December 1998 14:38 |
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Subject: Ir-D Happy Birthday to Us...
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: December 15 is the official birthday of the Irish-Diaspora list. Tomorrow we will be one year old. The Irish-Diaspora list did have a sort of protozoan existence before December 15 1997 - some old hands will remember - as I (publicly, embarrassingly) quarrelled with the idiot software (called Majordomo) that runs the Ir-D list. But my earlier experiences in the field of mental health had taught me the correct procedures for contact with the psychotic mind... and the software and I get on all right now. Anyway, by December 15 1997 I had got things broadly right, and the Irish-Diaspora list was running the way we wanted it to. But the software is still by no means user-friendly, and I still do make mistakes - especially when I am feeling tired or bad-tempered or when I'm busy writing and I'm therefore a bit vague. (Mind you, in the vague state I have trouble remembering the names of my children...) Here in Bradford, we are going to review the Irish-Diaspora list's first year - identifying problems, looking at things we could have done better, and looking at new things to do. Some problems we have had are fairly easy to identify - eg my computer crashes. List software has developed further during the past year - and we may want to look again at our software options. Membership of the Ir-D list has grown nicely - which brings its own problems. I have to admit that I cannot now readily and immediately recall the names and interests of every Ir-D list member (more vagueness, perhaps). Maybe we need to move to some sort of Ir-D list member database (whilst defending the right to lurk). Some Ir-D list constituencies and interests have been better served that others during the past year - and we are aware of that. We would welcome any comments. In the meantime, to everyone on the Irish-Diaspora list, Happy Birthday to Us. Paddy O'Sullivan - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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| 97 | 14 December 1998 16:38 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: This review of Guinnane, _The Vanishing Irish_, will appear in the journal _Immigrants and Minorities_ at a later date. The review is now made available to the Irish-Diaspora list through the courtesy of its author, Peter Kirby, and of the Reviews Editor of the journal, Donald MacRaild. Note that copyright remains with the author of the review, Peter Kirby. REVIEW Guinnane , T.W., The vanishing Irish: households, migration, and the rural economy in Ireland, 1850-1914 (Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 340. ISBN: 0-691-04307-8. £32.50) The question why people leave their homeland is central to the history of immigrants and minorities. This book extends Timothy Guinnane's 1987 Stanford Ph.D. thesis and examines the large and protracted decline in the population of Ireland in the six decades after the Great Famine. During the period 1850-1914, the population of Ireland declined by about one-third, the proportion of females remaining unmarried in the age- group 45-54 almost doubled and two million people 'vanished' from the Irish demographic scene. Guinnane's aim is 'to understand why young Irish people made decisions about marriage emigration and childbearing that produced Ireland's distinctive demographic regime.' The reader is provided with a concise chapter on the historiography of the Irish rural economy before and after the Famine. A free trade area resulting from the Act of Union together with increasing competition from British industrial products were pricing smaller rural Irish manufactures out of the market prior to the famine. Intensification of grain production in the pre-famine period was matched by a rate of population increase in excess of the already dramatic English figures: a classic Malthusian crisis developed thereafter. In the second half of the nineteenth century, emigration and a greater integration of the Irish labour market with north America and Britain prompted a rational increase in pastoral production. Farmers were driven to minimise labour-costs and to maximise output. Marriage became unpopular. By 1911 about a quarter of people in their fifties had never married (a level almost identical to that of England in the late seventeenth century). By the mid-twentieth century, the population of Ireland stood at about half of its pre-famine level. However, Guinnane argues that orthodox Malthusian explanations of post-famine depopulation, that falling living standards influenced patterns of inheritance and levels of nuptiality (the guiding philosophy of Connell's classic 1950 study of Irish depopulation), are inadequate. By 1901, 71 per cent of Irish male workers on Irish farms were either farmers (43%) or the relatives of farmers (28%). The Atlantic coastal counties harboured the largest proportion of labourers to farmers whilst a majority of the counties of Connaught had fewer farm labourers than farmers. Even so, in the post-famine period, 'few farms were subdivided, and an increasing average holding size suggests rather that the amalgamation of holdings was more common.' Guinnane thinks that reliance upon published census sources has prevented detailed examination of celibates who did not emigrate and whose standard of living was not necessarily poor. The period 1851-1911 saw substantial increases in per capita output from a declining population of farm workers. Bachelors and spinsters may not, therefore, have been driven to celibacy because of falling living standards. Guinnane also mounts a challenge to assumptions that Ireland was a special case and he places her demographic changes within a wider European regime. 'To believe that because Ireland was different from England it was unique is absurd.' argues Guinnane, 'Claims about Ireland's exceptionalism usually fly in the face of similar institutions, problems, and population developments in other regions of Europe.' The pattern of Irish farming households seems exceptional only in comparison with England. Indeed, the pattern is similar to that existing in France and in parts of Germany in the late-nineteenth century. It is argued 'that some aspects of Irish depopulation were unusual but that the basic forces leading to depopulation were similar to those at work all across Europe in the late nineteenth century.' Guinnane's argument is, in some respects, similar to the explanation of late-nineteenth century Scottish rural depopulation offered by Anderson and Morse (Population Studies 1993). However, to imply that individual components of the Irish demographic scene were 'normal' when singled out for comparison with European examples is not really very helpful: it was precisely the 'particular combination' (Guinnane's words) of economic and demographic factors that caused Ireland so much suffering and so much emigration during the nineteenth century. One disappointing section of an otherwise excellently-written book is the concluding theoretical chapter in which a less-than- convincing caricature of neo-Malthusian thought is offered. 'One of the ironies of modern demographic historiography', notes Guinnane, 'is that many of those who criticise orthodox economic theory for being reductionist cling to Malthusian models, which are the most reductionist of all economic models of population.' This reviewer can not agree that other scholars are as faithful to Malthus in the way implied by Guinnane. An acceptance of the basic economic problem of scarcity as elucidated by Malthus, does not imply acceptance of all Malthusian precepts. In this respect, Guinnane's critique parallels that directed against neo-Marxist historians who are often deemed to be discredited on the fragile pretext of errors and omissions in the writings of their nominal antecedent. Another weak point is the lack of a separate chapter on emigration (although this is implicit in many parts of the book). Guinnane has a masterly command of the secondary sources and this book enriches the population history of post-Famine Ireland. The book provides the less quantitatively-minded reader with a description of the sources and methods for Irish population history together with explanations of the problems and procedures employed in the research. Appendices explaining methods of constructing cohort-depletion and fertility indices are devoid of jargon and understandable to the non- specialist. The book, in addition to its value as a scholarly monograph, is a pleasure to read. Peter Kirby University of Manchester Copyright 1998 Peter Kirby | |
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| 98 | 14 December 1998 16:48 |
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Subject: Ir-D Douglas et al, Cartoon History, Review
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: This review of Douglas, Harte and O'Hara, _Cartoon History of Anglo- Irish Relations_, will appear in the journal _Immigrants and Minorities_ at a later date. The review is now made available to the Irish-Diaspora list through the courtesy of its author, Donald MacRaild, who also happens to be the Reviews Editor of the journal. Note that copyright of the review remains with the author of the review, Donald MacRaild. REVIEW Roy Douglas, Liam Harte, Jim O'Hara, Drawing Conclusions: A Cartoon History of Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798-1998 (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1998), pp.350. £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 85640 624 4. There is almost universal agreement among historians that the cartoon is an important document for reading the past. A cartoon may not be an objective representation of a past event, but acidic contemporary analysis, of the type found in this volume, certainly helps us to make sense of history and current affairs. The range of cartoons included in this volume is quite breathtaking. More than 200 years of shared history is viewed through the works of some of the greatest cartoonists of their day, including Gilray, Tenniel. Jak, Garland, Steve Bell, Rowson, Turner and Knox. Many of the prints ? especially those chosen to illustrate the Great Famine (1845-51) ? are well known, but most readers will be far less familiar with earlier examples (notably those commenting upon the Act of Union and on the early resistance in Britain to Catholic emancipation). For Britons, whose reading on Irish affairs tends to be parochial or non- existent, the inclusion of a large number of Irish cartoons dealing with the Peace Process will show that people in Dublin, too, are interested in what happens on the streets of Ulster. What comes across here is that actors on both sides of the sectarian divided are teased or lampooned; no one seems to be safe. Even the most cursory glance at the later pages will show how reputations rise and fall. Gerry Adams received particularly savage treatment during his long and slow march towards constitutionalism. The image of Bill Clinton administering oxygen to a breathless Adams (Garland, Daily Telegraph 1 February 1994), and Rowson's representation of the Sinn Fein leader and a masked IRA gunman as Dr Doolitte's two-headed Llama, the `Push-Me-Pull-Me' (Sunday Tribune, 14 September 1997), provide particularly telling examples. Few politicians have been as savagely (or justifiably) criticised as Margaret Thatcher, although the image of John Major closing the castle gate on John Hume (a straining Sisyphus), as pushes the stone of peace uphill, is a shocking reminder of how precarious the Peace Process was late in 1996 (Irish News, 30 November 1996). The authors have included cartoons from as recently as May 1998, so, as things unfold in Northern Ireland, there can be little doubt that a second edition will be needed. That being the case, the authors might also consider a number of additions. The bibliography of merely 27 titles, requires some bolstering. A number of important books are omitted, including edited works on revisionism by Brady and Boyce and O'Day; the failure to use Patrick O'Farrell's pithy study Ireland's English Problem also should be rectified. With wider reading the authors could strengthen the essays which introduce each chapter, for these are somewhat thin at times. There needs also to be greater recognition of the debate which has surrounded the use of cartoons in historical analysis. The authors rightly acknowledge the contribution made by L.P. Curtis, but critics (notably Sheridan Gilley and Roy Foster) as well as his supporters (for example, Mary Hickman) are overlooked. Having made these points, it must be stated that this long, well- produced and beautifully illustrated book makes for illuminating history. These cartoons will help many teachers freshen up their classes and will hopefully introduce many general readers to the twisted path of Anglo-Irish relations over the past two centuries. Finally, it is nice to be able to record that Blackstaff have again produced a big book at a competitive price. DONALD M MacRAILD University of Sunderland Copyright 1998 DONALD M MacRAILD | |
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| 99 | 14 December 1998 16:51 |
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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of Gary Owens... Those attending AHA conference in Washington next month are cordially invited to attend a reception hosted by Michael Moloney, Cultural Attache, at the Embassy of Ireland. The reception will take place on Friday, January 8th, from 6:30 to 8:00. It will be held in conjunction with the American Conference for Irish Studies session at the conference entitled "Out of Ireland: Approaches to the Study of Irish Migrations to North America." Please RSVP to the Embassy if you plan to attend: Tel. (202) 462-3939. Gary Owens History Representative American Conference for Irish Studies - -- Patrick O'Sullivan Head of the Irish Diaspora Research Unit Email Patrick O'Sullivan Irish-Diaspora list Irish Diaspora Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/diaspora Irish Diaspora Research Unit Department of Interdisciplinary Human Studies University of Bradford Bradford BD7 1DP Yorkshire England | |
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Dear Paddy,
Congratulations for the Ir-D list's first anniversary. When you are so far away, as it is my case, you can really appreciate the importance of the network you have built in this year. Also, I want to thank Brian McGinn (from USA), for introducing me into the Ir-D List. Thank you Brian. Last, but not least, I want to send to all the members my best wishes for the seasons. Good luck and thank you again. Guillermo MacLoughlin Buenos Aires, Argentina. | |
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