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Ireland's Social Transformation Conference

1) The BAIS Conference in September 2015 hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary's University in London will examine Ireland's social transformation over the 20th and 21st centuries. 2) The conference will focus on how Ireland transformed from a neglected part of the British Empire to one of the most globalized societies in the world, and how the financial crisis of 2008 exposed Ireland and led to further socio-economic transformation. 3) Presenters are invited to discuss social transformation across disciplines, looking at the effects of the crisis on both private and public life in Ireland and how these changes have been historically contextualized, recorded, and represented in various art forms and aspects of Irish society and culture.

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Ireland's Social Transformation Conference

1) The BAIS Conference in September 2015 hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary's University in London will examine Ireland's social transformation over the 20th and 21st centuries. 2) The conference will focus on how Ireland transformed from a neglected part of the British Empire to one of the most globalized societies in the world, and how the financial crisis of 2008 exposed Ireland and led to further socio-economic transformation. 3) Presenters are invited to discuss social transformation across disciplines, looking at the effects of the crisis on both private and public life in Ireland and how these changes have been historically contextualized, recorded, and represented in various art forms and aspects of Irish society and culture.

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BAIS Conference September 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS


Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies
St Marys University, Twickenham, London

Ireland: Agents of Social Transformation


4-5 September 2015
Programme commences on Friday evening at a central London venue with keynote
and reception followed by full day of papers and keynotes on Saturday at the
Twickenham campus.
Much of the Irish story in the twentieth century was about Irelands transformation
from being a neglected corner of the British Empire to its emergence as one of the
worlds most globalized societies. However, the first decade of the twenty-first
century exposed the country to a world financial crisis in an acute form. The resulting
socio-economic transformation is given greater perspective by considering it over a
longer period, and connecting its manifestations in various other domains from
consumerism to religion, from migration to the mass media. The need for
transformation in Ireland has been generated as much by critiques of institutions such
as the Catholic Church, the political system and other public bodies, such as the health
service, as by the collapse of the Celtic Tiger. Since 2008, emigration has predictably
accelerated again although its character is qualitatively different from previous phases
of outward migration.
This conference takes transformation and agents/agency as key terms that involve
a consideration of fundamental changes in the way Irish society is organised, ruled,
imaged and perceived. Social transformation lies at the radical end of conceptions of
social change and implies fundamental changes in societys core institutions, the
polity, the economy, and cultural production. Papers are invited which engage with the
issue of social transformation across the disciplinary spectrum which, while
acknowledging the political and economic basis of the crisis acknowledge that its
consequences are as much existential as economic, psychological as well as political.
Presentations are welcomed which look to the effects of the crisis on all aspects of
private and public life and their historical contextualisation, recording, realisation and
representation in forms as diverse as music, mass demonstrations, theatre, migration,
membership of the EU and constitutional reform. The multiple manifestations of the
consequences of crisis as Ireland engages with what Fintan OToole termed the hard
task of making a republic.
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Prof. Mary McAleese; others tbc.
Proposals for 20 min papers (no more than 300 words with name and affiliation) may
be sent to Samantha Walcott, Administrator, Centre for Irish Studies, by Monday 27
April 2015: [Link]@[Link].
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