Liam Watson (Anthropology Office) is leaving us for a career break. We wish him well and hope his stand-up routine continues to keep them laughing.

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1 SCHOOL OF HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER JUNE Staff news: Congratulations to Chris Marsh, who has been awarded the prestigious Michaelis-Jean Ratcliff Prize 2011 for a significant contribution to the study of oral history or folklife in Great Britain and Ireland, for his monograph Music and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010). Elaine Farrell will be leaving us over the summer to take up a two-year Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) postdoctoral fellowship at University College Dublin. She will be presented with her 2011 QUB Teaching Award at the graduation ceremony on 6 July. Tricia Lock (History Office) is a volunteer for the Special Olympics and has been fundraising for Special Olympics Ireland to support athletes travelling to the World Games in Athens this month, with the assistance of Henry Adams (History Society) and other QUB students. If you d like to support the project, there s more information at: Liam Watson (Anthropology Office) is leaving us for a career break. We wish him well and hope his stand-up routine continues to keep them laughing. The School s cyclists won the QUB Green Awards 2011 Cycle Challenge, with the highest number of cycling commuter journeys of any school or directorate in May-June. Student news: Many congratulations to our School Prize-winners for The prizes to be distributed following graduation on 6 July are: Mary Gardiner Prize for the student who achieves greatest distinction in Ancient History final exams: Alan Russell (BA Ancient History and Modern History) If you would like any more information on Newsletter items, or have any comments or queries, please contact us by at: history@qub.ac.uk or anthropology@qub.ac.uk, or visit our website at The School is also on Facebook at: History at Queen s University Belfast QUB Anthropology QUB History and Anthropology Alumni

2 Page2 Montgomery Medal for best undergraduate dissertation on some aspect of modern Irish politics or society: Ryan McCourt (BA Modern History) Esther Ballantine Prize for the best performance in any pathway involving Modern History: Regine Maritz (BA Modern History & International Studies) H. Montgomery Hyde Prize for the highest aggregate mark in Single Honours Modern History: Ryan McCourt. Proxime accessit (second): Robyn Atcheson Lewis Warren Prize for the best performance in Medieval History at levels 2 & 3: Marcus McComb (BA Modern History) K.H. Connell Prize: for best performance in module(s) in primarily economic and social history: Catherine Jamieson (BA Modern History) Denis Rebbeck Prize: for student showing most promise at level 2 in a pathway involving Modern History: Dominic Henry (BA Modern History & Politics) Martin Lynn Memorial Prizes for best performance in Exploring History 1 and Exploring History 2 (Level 1): Oran Kennedy (BA Modern History & Politics), Marie McGuinness (BA Arts, Culture and Society) and Kevin Donnelly (BA Modern History) J C Beckett Fund Prize, for best performance in History at Level 1: Jonathan Hayes (BA Modern History) Prize for Best Performance A world on the move at Level 1: Matthew Allen (BA Modern History & Social Anthropology) Best group project and presentation for the module History & Historians (Level 1): Philip Brett (BA Modern History & Politics), Andrea Hanvey (BA Modern History & Sociology) and Siobhan McCormack (BA Modern History). Anne Maguire Memorial Prize for the best dissertation in Social Anthropology (Level 3): Ramalie Jayawardana (BA Social Anthropology) The Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies Prize for the best performance in a module covering the 18th century - Robyn Atcheson and Joshua Montague-Munson (BA Modern History) Faculty Prize: Blayney Exhibition: Jonathan Hayes James E Todd Prize for best performance in MA Irish History (2010): Daniel Ritchie Rachel Wallace (BA English & Modern History) has been selected by a competitive program, STUDY INDIA and will spend three weeks learning about the culture, language and history of India, including lectures at the University of New Delhi in August. PhDs completed: Mary Katherine Coghlan, Traditional music schools in Belfast (Supervisors: Dr Dominic Bryan and Dr Suzel Reily). Kirsten McConnachie Governing exiles: competing sites of law and justice on the Thai- Burma border (Supervisor: Prof. Hastings Donnan). While undertaking her research, Kirsten held prestigious grants from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (New York) and the Emslie Horniman Fund of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Lisa Meaney, Civic society in eighteenth-century Ulster c (Supervisor: Prof. David Hayton)

3 Page3 Clare O Kane, A society in transition: Society, identity and nostalgia in rural Northern Ireland, (Supervisor: Prof. Peter Gray, funded by DEL) Gordon Rees, Pamphlets, pamphleteers and the problems of Irish society, c (Supervisor: Prof. Sean Connolly, funded by AHRC) Research news: Publications books: Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray (eds), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011, ISBN , 244pp). This book is a ground-breaking history of poverty and welfare in modern Ireland, in the era of the Irish poor law. As the first study to address poor relief and health care together, the book fills an important gap, providing a much-needed introduction and assessment of the evolution of social welfare in 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland. The collection also addresses a number of related issues, including private philanthropy, the attitudes of landowners towards poor relief, and the crisis of the poor law during the Great Famine of Together, these interlinking contributions both survey current research and suggest new areas for investigation, providing further stimulus to the growing field of Irish welfare history. John Knight, Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops are Managed for Tourism in Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2011, ISBN , 630pp). This book is a study of the use of monkeys as a tourist attraction in Japan. Monkey parks are popular visitor attractions that display free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques to the paying public. The parks work by manipulating the movements of the monkey troop through the regular provision of food handouts at a fixed site where the monkeys can be easily viewed. This system of management leads to a variety of problems, including proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. In addition to falling visitor numbers, these problems have led to the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into question the future of the monkey park as an institution. Publications - articles and chapters: Sean Connolly, Paul Cullen s other capital: Belfast and the Devotional Revolution, in Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell (eds), Cardinal Paul Cullen and his World (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011) Colin Holbrook, Paulo Sousa and Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook, Unconscious vigilance: Worldview defense without adaptations for terror, coalition, or uncertainty management, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100 (2011) Patricia Marsh, An enormous amount of distress among the poor : Aid for the poor in Ulster during the Influenza pandemic of , in Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray (eds), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011)

4 Page4 Peter Martin, Ending the pauper taint: medical benefit and welfare reform in Northern Ireland, , in Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray (eds), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011) Olwen Purdue, Poor relief in the north of Ireland, , in Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray (eds), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011) Olwen Purdue, Challenge and change: the country house in Northern Ireland , in Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridgeway (eds.) The Irish country house: its past, present and future (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011) Conferences, seminars and public lectures: Public lectures and conferences at QUB: John Wilson Foster gave the keynote address, Titanic: a cultural manifest revisited, to Titanic Heritage and Memory, Irish Scottish Forum for Spatial Planning conference, 31 May. Liam Kennedy delivered his valedictory lecture as professor of economic and social history on 10 June on the subject Burning earth: history, economy, ecology an all that. Mary O Dowd organised a very successful workshop on the History of Marriage in Ireland on 23 June. It was sponsored by the AHRC project of the same name which is co-directed by Professor O Dowd and by Professor Maria Luddy in the University of Warwick. Papers were presented on a range of pioneering topics including the portrayal of marriage in Irish art, courtship, breach of promise cases, Irish laws on marriage, divorce and folklore customs. Speakers included Dr Claudia Kinmonth, Dr Diane Urquhart (University of Liverpool), Dr Linda Ballard (UFTM) as well as the research fellows, Dr Katie Barclay and Dr John Bergin who were employed by the project in Experts in Irish social and gender history from other Irish and UK institutions also attended the workshop and contributed to the very lively discussions that followed each session. Conference, seminar and lecture contributions elsewhere: Dominic Bryan, Gendered Ceremony & Ritual in Parliaments, invited paper given to Leverhulme-sponsored conference Rituals in Parliament at University of Sheffield. David Hayton, Swift, the church, and the improvement of Ireland, paper given to The Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, on 21 June. Colin Kidd, Ancients, moderns and the question of Troy, paper read to the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

5 Page5 Justin Lane (PhD ICC), Communal death: ritual suicide in 20 th -century American new religious movements, at the Thirtieth Irish Conference of Historians: Death and Dying, NUI Maynooth, 19 June. Eric Morier-Genoud, The Catholic Church, African nationalism and independence in Beira, Mozambique, at the conference The End of the Portuguese Empire in a Comparative Perspective, Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal, June. Jonathan Skinner was an invited workshop speaker at the Edge Hill University dance programme where he led a workshop on Variations of Rumba about the Diaspora, globalisation and commoditization of the dance. Natalie Wilcoxen (MA Irish History, 2010), Death in the diaspora: the evolution of Jewish death rituals and their impact upon the 20 th -century Jew, at the Thirtieth Irish Conference of Historians: Death and Dying, NUI Maynooth, 19 June. Research projects: The OFMDFM- sponsored Report on Flags 2010, directed by Dominic Bryan, is available at: Jonathan Skinner and Dr Sylvia O Sulivan (Limerick) concluded their CARDI cross-border project on ageing, wellbeing and social inclusion. Their end of project report notes work with Age NI and Age and Opportunity, with the latter public agency integrating workshop activities and training into their practice manuals. Fearghal McGarry and Des Bell have been awarded an AHRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership for the project Documentary Film as Knowledge Transfer: Dúcheiste Frank Ryan. Amit Desai and Barbara Graham discuss the Research-Objects-Images-Emotions (ROIE) postgraduate workshop in Reflections (issue 12, June 2011) see: Publications/ External appointments: Sean Connolly has been appointed to a Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute, Florence, for September to December He will use the time to develop a comparison between nineteenth-century Ireland and Italy, looking in particular at issues of state building and the social basis of popular nationalism. John Wilson Foster has been awarded a short-term stipendiary research fellowship, Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub. Peter Gray was external examiner for a PhD thesis in NUI Maynooth.

6 Page6 Eric Morier-Genoud joined the newly formed editorial board of the book collection and journal of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE), Maputo, Mozambique. Jonathan Skinner began external examining for the Anthropology programme at the University of Durham. International connections: Hastings Donnan represented the Vice Chancellor at the 60th anniversary celebrations of Minzu University in Beijing, China. Anthropology has an established partnership with Minzu whereby Minzu graduates can take the School s Anthropology MA. While in Beijing Hastings met with the Minzu President, Professor Chen Li, to sign off a new agreement which will enable Anthropology undergraduates at Minzu to complete the final two years of their undergraduate degree at Queen s. He also met a broad range of staff and students of Minzu Prof Donnan with visiting academics at University, including Professor Mingxin Liu, whom he had Minzu s 60 th anniversary event first met in Beijing in 1999, and who visited Belfast for a month in Spring Video of Ethnomusicology s recent production 'Bumbos, Bois and Cirandas can be watched in full at Many thanks to the sponsors, Queen s Annual Fund, Santander and Belfast City Council, for making possible the visit to Queen s of the Brazilian group Urucungos. Jonathan Skinner is developing research on the position and performance of tour guides and dance hosts on cruise ships with Celebrity Caribbean, Saga and Cunard. This recently involved a week s ethnographic research to Norway on the Queen Mary 2 and will prove insightful for next semester s Leisure, Tourism and Culture module. [He won a bottle of champagne dancing on the first night but was subsequently charged for corkage!!] The School was visited by Dr Robert Graham (Provost) and Prof Sut Sakchutchawan (Director of International Studies) from Waynesburgh University, PA, USA to discuss student exchanges. CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar: Conflict Resolution: Grounded Practice at the Community Interfaces in Northern Ireland. Faculty from a range of universities in the USA were hosted at the Institute of Irish Studies on 9-14 June. CIEE s study abroad program in Irish Studies at QUB launches in Dominic Bryan and Gordon Gillespie (Irish Studies) led workshops or tours for visiting student groups from the following US institutions in June: Vanderbilt University, TN; Bucknell CIEE visitors at IIS University, PA; Fordham University, NY; Boston College, MA; John Carroll University, OH; Walsh Jesuit High School, OH.

7 Page7 Knowledge transfer / research impact: Dominic Bryan took part in the discussion about the illegal paramilitary Red Hand Commando flags which have been put up in main roads close to Bangor town centre, BBC NI Evening Extra, 2 June. The report on Public Displays of Flags and Emblems in Northern Ireland: Survey 2010 was published by the Institute of Irish Studies. Dominic Bryan was interviewed on the report for BBC Newsline, U105, Cool FM, and Downtown radio. The report was covered in the Newsletter and the Belfast Telegraph as well as on a BBC news web page. John Wilson Foster spoke on Filson Young (London and Portaferry historian, novelist, essayist): a talk and reading for A Night to Remember, an evening celebrating the launch of the Titanic and the birth of the Portaferry-born playwright, actor and novelist, Joseph Tomelty, in aid of Cancer Research, Exploris Aquarium, Portaferry, 17 June. He was also organiser of the Pen Insula Literary Evenings (Portaferry) in association with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry (QUB); 25 June: Introduced Gerald Dawe, poet and critic. Peter Gray spoke on Voices of Famine and Emigration: Using the DIPPAM Database to Access Irish History to the 'Bridges Project', Randalstown, 21 June. Keith Jeffery spoke at the Newtownards Armed Forces Day Lecture at the Somme Heritage Centre, 25 June; and was interviewed by John Sergeant on BBC 1 s The One Show, about the centenary of the Official Secrets Act, on 29 June. Gillian McIntosh was interviewed about the Ulster 71 Exhibition on Good Morning Ulster, BBC Radio Ulster, 20 June Jim O Neill (PhD History) assisted the Northern Ireland Environment Agency: Built Heritage with their exhibit at Benburb Castle, Co. Tyrone, as part of the Benburb Sunday and heritage weekend festival on 19 June. The display was primarily focused on the two famous battles in the vicinity of the castle, Yellow Ford (1598) and Benburb (1646). During the day he was in the castle with living history re-enactors (Jim was not dressed up!), to answer questions posed by members of the public about any of the more grisly events relating to the local area. Teaching news: Sean Connolly reflects on the challenges of teaching our innovative Level 2 module History and Society using the cutting-edge technology available in the University s Flexible Teaching Space, in Reflections, 12 (June 2011), p.23. see: reforeducationaldevelopment/publications/

8 Page8 Alumni news: About 30 School alumni, with graduation years ranging from 1950 to 2008, attended our inaugural Alumni Day event in the Great Hall on 25 June. They enjoyed meeting students and staff and hearing presentations on the School s activities from Prof. Peter Gray, and from Prof Keith Jeffery, Dr Brian Kelly and Prof Sean Connolly on their recent research projects. Students led visits to the new McClay Library, our Ethnomusicology musicians put on a recital, and our current and recent PhD students presented their work in a research poster competition. Thanks to all who participated in this successful day. More details and pictures are online at: ay25june2011/ We aim to follow this up with further alumni events please contact Catherine Boone (c.boone@qub.ac.uk) for details, or log on to our Facebook site for QUB History and Anthropology Alumni. Patricia Marsh (PhD History 2010) won the Alumni Day poster competition with this entry on World War One and the Influenza Pandemic in Ulster : Recruitment activities: The School held a one-day workshop for History teachers on 3 June. The event, organised by Paul Corthorn, Catherine Boone and the Recruitment Group, was attended by 25 teachers from schools across N. Ireland. The day involved a series of talks relating to the A-level curriculum as well as lively discussion sessions on the use of primary sources and the transition from school to university. The following members of staff took part: Peter Gray; Chris Marsh; Danny Kowalsky; Sean O Connell; Sean Connolly; Andrew Holmes; Liam Kennedy; Jonathan Skinner and Fearghal McGarry. Forthcoming events in July: Graduation for History and Anthropology: 6 July at 10.30, Whitla Hall. Irish Studies International Summer School: 18 July 6 August. Start of term The new academic teaching year begins on Monday 26 September 2011 (week 1), with registration and induction events in the preceding week. Have a good summer!

9 Page9 Vanderbilt University students visit the Institute of Irish Studies, June 2011 Please see the School website News section ( ) for more information on events, or contact us by /phone at the numbers above.