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Events

The Centre is active in hosting regular events. These include lectures or other addresses by distinguished guest speakers from academia and the practitioner community, as well as book launches, plus conferences, both as sole organiser and in collaboration with colleagues in other institutions.

Forthcoming Conferences, Events and Guest Speakers
DateEvent
28-29 November 2024 Conference – ‘Reflections on a Changing Ireland and its Relationships’ (organised jointly with the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick Wilfreed Martens Centre for European Studies and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) UK & Ireland office), and to be held at Ulster University.
Recent Conferences, Events and Guest Speakers
DateEvent
4 October 2024Visit by Dr Sara Dybris McQuaid, Associate Professor in British-Irish History, Society & Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.  Lecture entitled - Administrations of Memory and the Politics of Northern Ireland 1994-2024.
19 September 2024Visit by  Professor Hiroyuki Ogawa, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies & British Studies Section, Department of Area Studies and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan.  Lecture entitled - The Irish Question from the perspectives of Japanese Intellectuals and Politicians from the late 19th to early 20th Centuries.
18 September 2024Visit by Dr Mansour Nasasra, Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics and International Relations, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Lecture entitled - Jerusalem since the Jordanian Rule and the Oslo Peace Accords.
14 March 2024 Book Launch – Book entitled The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. Editors – Michele Gazzola (Ulster University), François Grin (Université de Genève), Linda Cardinal (Université de l'Ontario français) and Kathleen Heugh (University of South Australia). Discussant, Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University). Moderator: Nicole Marinaro (Ulster University).
13 December 2023 Visit by Dr Jane Morrice, former journalist, MLA, Deputy Speaker, Northern Ireland Assembly. Lecture entitled - The role of USA & EU in the Northern Ireland Peace Process - different means to the same end.
16-17 November 2023 Conference - ‘Engaging Cross Borders: Perspectives from Ireland and Europe’ (organised jointly with the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick Wilfreed Martens Centre for European Studies and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) UK & Ireland office), and held at the University of Limerick as the 20th International Conference in Irish-German Studies),
18 October 2023 Visit by Nina Teigland, University of Bergen. Lecture entitled - Language Policy and the Public Administration in Norway: Issues and Challenges.
13-15 September 2023 Conference - 39th Annual ‘International Society for the Study of Subjectivity’ (ISSSS) conference (known by its more familiar term of Q Methodology),
9 March 2023 Visit by H.E. Piotr Wilczek, the Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom. Lecture entitled Polish diplomacy: the case of relations with the United States and the United Kingdom (event co-organised with Professor Jan Jedrzejewski).
3-4 November 2022 Conference - ‘New Ways of Engagement and the International Context: Northern Ireland and Ireland’ (organised jointly with the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) UK and Ireland office), and held at Clifton House and Ulster University Belfast.
2 November 2022 Visit by Professor Luc Turgeon, University of Ottowa, Canada. Lecture entitled – ‘The Politics of Representative Bureaucracy in Multilingual Public Administrations’.
4-5 November 2021 Conference - ‘Unions, Break-ups and Special Relationships – Aspects of the Irish-German-UK Relationships’ (organised jointly with the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) UK and Ireland office), and held at the University of Limerick as the 18th International Conference in Irish-German Studies)
26-27 July 2021

Nitobe Symposium – ‘Language, Conflict, and Security’ organised jointly with Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems (CED) with financial support of the Esperantic Studies Foundation.