Please find below a call for papers which I hope will be of interest:
An Interdisciplinary Conference –
‘Identity and Migration on Tyneside’
"Of the many asylums to which the Irish fled after the great exodus of the [eighteen] forties, there was none in which, owing to many circumstances, they were able to ultimately find more favourable surroundings than Tyneside"
(Cooter, 2005, 21 citing O‟Connor, 1917).
These words from Cooter‟s (2005) book When Paddy Met Geordie set the context for this two day interdisciplinary conference. Whilst a core theme, this call goes beyond the Tyneside Irish community to all those who are currently or have previously worked in the areas of identity and migration involving Tyneside and its surroundings.
In representing the different strands of Tyneside‟s collective identity, we aim to bring together the work of academics and non-academics to showcase what the region has to offer. There will be a direct impact for the Tyneside Irish community, as this conference will be hosted within their cultural centre as a cornerstone event during their October Festival. It will not only connect Irish communities living across North East England, but will promote inter-ethnic social and cultural events and facilitate enhanced community integration throughout the region.
This will be the first research conference of its kind bringing together work on identity and migration with a particular focus on Tyneside and we encourage work from across academia, through postgraduates, research and teaching staff.
We are also taking this call beyond academia and wish to create and sustain an active collaboration with volunteers, community workers, artists and all interested parties, to share thinking about the identity composition of Tyneside and its historical and contemporary migrations.
We anticipate session papers will have major resonance with what is listed below. We will be investigating the identity composition of both the host community and migrant populations on Tyneside of past and present.
Some of the areas presenters may want to consider are:
Making new identities/new migrations
Re-establishing old identities/migrations
Representation of national and local identities/migrations in the arts and media
Territorial identities/migrants
Global identities/migrants
Out of place identities/migrants
Identities/migrants in conflict
Tyneside's heritage
Tyneside's future
Deadline for abstracts (200-300 words) to conference organisers
by August 26th 2011.
Conference will run during the Tyneside Irish Festival,
on October 20th and 21st 2011.
Conference papers will be put forward for a Special Issue in the journal, Global Discourses. It will be expected that presenters
have up to one month after conference to submit full papers for review.
Confirmed speakers so far include:
Prof John Tomaney, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
Prof Robert Colls, University of Leicester
Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central
The conference team are:
Michael Richardson, Sophie Yarker & Rebecca Richardson, all PhD students at Newcastle University
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions regarding the conference or for more information on how to register, please email:
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Michael Richardson
PhD Student
GEO 1096 Tutor
GEO 3105 Teaching Assistant
School of Geography, Politics & Sociology
Newcastle University
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