Event Details

End: December 1, 2015
Contact: enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie
More Info: http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/humanities/disciplines-centres/history/news/

The History Department at NUI Galway, Ireland, supported by the Irish Research Council, is organizing a conference to explore the significance of Ireland's Easter Rising and other revolutionary events in the year 1916 in the context of growing challenges to the global imperial system.

 

The conference will take place at NUI Galway on 16-17 June 2016. The organizers are Róisín Healy, Gearóid Barry and Enrico Dal Lago.

 

The conference's aim is to test the hypotheses that the Irish revolutionary generation had points of connection with global transnational networks and that the 1916 Rising itself has parallels with other revolutionary events worldwide in 1916.Comparable contemporary events include the Mexican Revolution, the Arab Revolt and the Basmachi revolt.

 

Prospective participants are invited to send a paper title and a 300-word abstract accompanied by a one-page CV to enrico.dallago@nuigalway.ie by the deadline of 1 December 2015.

 

Of particular interest will be proposals relating to the following themes, amongst others

Links between Irish revolutionaries and interational socialist, feminist or religious networks

Reception of the Easter Rising worldwide

Revolutionary developments in Europe and in its colonial empires.

Revolutionary templates

Urban revolutionary activity

 

For the full CFP, and confirmed speakers, please follow the NUI Galway link above.