Explorations of Northern Irishness – Queen’s University Belfast, 12th March 2015 Day Time Event 9.00 - 9.30 9.30 - 9.45 Registration & coffee Introduction by John Thompson – Director, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities 9.45 - 11.25 Session 1 - Media Representations of Northern Irishness Giada Lagana - L’Osservatore Romano : the voice of the Holy See on Northern Ireland (1969 – 1998) Owen Fenton - Media Representations of Northern Irishness: Narrative Visualisations of Identity Change Augusto Soares – The Political Satire of Loyalists Against Democracy (LAD) in Northern Ireland: Social media engagement, digital remixes, and tensions between parody and sincerity. Portia Ellis Woods – The identity of 2BE: 1924-1934. Thursday 12th March 11.25am 11.40am 11.40am – 1.15pm Coffee break Session 2 - Social & Psychological Insights into Northern Irish Identities Erin Hinson - Fifty shades of Northern Ireland: artworks and identities in loyalist exprisoner narratives. Patrick Flack - Identity Change amongst loyalist paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland. Kevin McNicholl - A Shared Identity in a Divided Society? Modelling the cause, effect and asymmetries of the Northern Irish identity. Angela Stephanie Mazzetti - The long-term impact of ‘growing-up’ during ‘the Troubles’ on coping behaviours. 1.15pm 2pm 2pm 3.40pm 3.40pm 3.55pm 3.55pm 5.35pm Lunch Session 3 - Cultural and Material Identities in Northern Ireland Michael Dwyer - Rediscovery of Cultural Identity: A Comparative Analysis of the Irishman, the West Indian and the Latino in the Post-Colonial Age. Rachel Hanna - By our tongues united? Irish and Scots language contact in rural Ulster. Rachel Tracey – An Archaeology of Cultural Identity: Evidence from 17th-century Carrickfergus. Matthew Jackson - Representing the Troubles: A critical re-examination of the Maze/Long Kesh project. Coffee break Session 4 - International & Civic perspectives on Northern Ireland Sophie Long - Silencing the Guns. Bronagh Bowerman - Translating Conflict: Domesticating and Orientalising Palestinian Identity in Northern Ireland. Jonathan Evershed - 'Commemorative Controversy: The contentious politics of memory in the 'new' Northern Ireland'. Julia Andrade Roche - TBA