“The response from research students has been very positive and as a result the conference will showcase the research findings through the delivery of 48 papers from across the College and related disciplines”, explained Dr David Ryan, Associate Dean, CACSSS.  A keynote address will be delivered by Professor James Knowles of the Department of English on ‘A future for the doctorate?’  

The conference is designed to facilitate training related to the dissemination of research findings, conference presentation and related skills: discussion, negotiation, abstract submission and chairing.  Moreover, the conference will provide a good opportunity for research students to meet peers from other departments and provide an initial cultural event for the new research students in the College.  

To register for the conference please contact: Marie O’Donovan, m.odonovan@ucc.ie

PROGRAMME
9.00 - 9.30am        Registration, Aula Maxima
9.30 - 10.30am      Plenary, Aula Maxima, Professor James Knowles ‘A future for the doctorate?’

10.45 - 12.00pm  Panel 1 1A: Social Archaeology, Room ORB 156
Tracy Collins - Department of Archaeology, ‘Medieval Nunneries in the Irish Archaeological Record’
Elena O'Brien – Department of Archaeology, ‘Planned Industrial Villages in Ireland’
Jane Hurley – Department of Archaeology, ‘A Regional Study of the Social Archaeology of the Demesne Landscape of North Cork’

1B: ‘Space and Society: New Directions in Human Geography’ (1st panel), Room ORB 303
Fiona Kelleher – Department of Geography, “Performance and play: young people recreating the city as an 'oeuvre'”
Claire Mansfield – Department of Geography ‘Social Capital, Sustainability and the Environment: An investigation into the environmental geographies of two neighbourhoods in Cork City, Ireland’.
Gill Harold – Department of Geography ‘Exploring Cities Without Sound: the geographies of contemporary Deaf identity’

1C: Nineteenth-Century Irish History, Emigration and Resistance, Room ORB 333
Una O'Connor – Department of History ‘Transportation, the Famine Flight and Post-Hunger Exodus: Nineteenth Century Emigration from the Port of Cork’
Alan Noonan – Department of History, ‘A View of the Irish and Mining throughout the United States, 1850-1900’
Noreen Higgins-McHugh – Department of History, ‘The Tithe War, 1830-1838’

1D: Visual Representations, Room ORB 338
Aidan Power – Department of Italian/Film Studies, ‘Strangers in Dystopia: Identity and Nation in Contemporary English Science Fiction Cinema’
Stefano Odorico – Department of Italian/Film Studies, ‘A Few Notes on Ethnopragmatics and Documentaries’
JP McMahon – Department of Art history, ‘Theatrically and the early photographic practice of Vito Acconci’

1.00 – 2.15pm      Panel 2
2A: French and Italian Literature, Room ORB 303
Kathleen Hamel – Department of French, ‘Ovid through Proust: Art, Anxiety and Survival’
Catherine Burke – Department of French, ‘Proust's Mythical Odyssey’
Michael Czorycki – Department of Italian, ‘Notions of Borders and Marginality in Claudio Magris's Microcosmi and L'infinito viaggiare’

2B: Themes of Violence and Peace, Room ORB 156
James Ryan – Department of History, ‘Violence to end all violence'. The impact of the First World War on V.I. Lenin's views on violence’
Mike Cullinane – Department of History, ‘The Many Racial faces of American Anti-Imperialism: Chauvinists, Abolitionists, African-Americans, and Social Darwinists’
Sarah-Anne Buckley – Department of History, "Cruelty Man" or "Children's Men": the NSPCC in Ireland, 1890-1940
Rosemarie L. Lucero – Department of History, ‘Irish Peace in China during the Great War’?

2C: Representing Contemporary Issues, Room ORB 333
Lee-Ann Burke – Department of Economics, ‘An Exploratory Factor Analysis of the GHQ-12’
Emma O'Reilly – Department of Economics, ‘Obesity in Ireland: The factors associated with obesity in Irish adults’,
Patrica Radley – Department of Education, ‘The Effects of the Media on Young Children’

2D: English Literature and Music, Room ORB 338
Catherine Smith – Department of English, 'Ireland is not so small but there must be room for that': Bridget Boland's The Wild Geese
Kathy D'Arcy – Department of English, ‘Experiment in Error': The Poetry of Sheila Wingfield and Blanaid Salkeld
Serena Standley – Department of Music, ‘Fashioning a Court’: Annibale Coma's Second Book of Madrigals and Count Mario

2.15 – 3.30pm  Panel 3
3A: Medieval/ Early Modern Irish History, Room ORB 303
Britt Forde – Department of History, ‘Monstrous Peoples in Adam of Bremen’
Maire Aine Sheehan – Department of History, ‘Gaelic Professionals in Jacobean Ireland’
William O'Dea – Department of History , ‘The Belfast Society: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth Century Ulster’

3B: Democracy, the failed modern state and political participation, Room ORB 338
Siobhan O'Sullivan – Department of Sociology, ‘Reflections on Democracy, Legitimacy and Globalisation’
Philip Murphy – Department of Government , ‘Nature of Nurture, Politically Engaging 'The New Kids on the Block': An Analysis of Socialisation Effect on Political Efficacy among Adolescents in the Republic of Ireland'
Sardar Aziz – Department of Government, ‘Failed modern state as a model to understand the Middle Eastern states’

3C: Assessing quantitative and qualitative data, Room ORB 333
Finn O'Murchu – Department of Education , ‘Team-Teaching for Inclusive Learning’
Jacinta McCarthy – Department of Education , ‘A study of the development of collaborative work practices of teachers in DEIS urban primary schools in Ireland’
David Walker – Department of Applied Social Studies , ‘National and Local Planning Strategies and their effects on a small community’

3D: Room ORB 156
Fiona Shanahan – Department of Applied Psychology, ‘The social and cultural context of the 'reintegration' of girl soldiers in Northern Uganda’
Linda Coakley – Department of Geography, ‘The lived experience of migration: an examination of sensory experiences created through foodways for Polish migrants living in Cork’
Jackie Mullins – Department of Applied Social Studies , ‘A critical analysis of public discourses on same-sex marriage and parenthood against the backdrop of a heterosexist bias in Irish social policy’

3.45 – 5.00pm   Panel 4
4A: Archaeology (2nd panel), Room ORB 333
Lisa-Levis Carey – Department of Archaeology , ‘Post-Medieval Masonry arched bridges in Munster: 1550-1900’
Andrew Mills – Department of Archaeology , ‘Hill-top Enclosures: the enduring problems in the study’
Mara Vejby – Department of Archaeology , ‘Iron Perceptions of the Past'    

4B: ‘Space and Society: New Directions in Human Geography’ (2nd panel), Room ORB 156
Helen Maulion – Department of Geography , ‘Stories of terrain's intimate experience’
Kieran McCarthy – Department of Geography , ‘Interconnections: Geography, Landscape and Memory’
Breffni Lennon – Department of Geography, ‘Wind energy public perceptions. Landscape and planning’

4C: German and Hispanic Studies, Room ORB 338
Renata Plaice – Department of German , ‘Playforms of Literature: The modern and postmodern concept of game and play’
Andres Romera – Department of Hispanic Studies, ‘Translating history in the works of Eduardo Cormick’
Julia Buerger – Department of German, ‘Theory and Practice of Intercultual Learning: A multi-perspective investigation of binational training groups’

4D: Twentieth Century Irish History, Room ORB 303
John O'Donovan – Department of History , ‘The General Election of January 1910 - A Cork Perspective’
Donal Corcoran – Department of History', Justice in the Irish Free State, 1922-1932’
Michael Whelan – Department of History , ‘Edward Heath and Jack Lynch: a meeting of minds on Northern Ireland’

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