{"id":15932,"date":"2023-02-03T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=15932"},"modified":"2023-02-03T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:16:34","slug":"cfp-colonising-and-decolonising-the-irish-nineteenth-century-deadline-03-01-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2023\/02\/03\/cfp-colonising-and-decolonising-the-irish-nineteenth-century-deadline-03-01-23\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Colonising and Decolonising the Irish Nineteenth Century (Deadline: 03\/01\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Colonising and Decolonising the Irish Nineteenth Century<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI) Conference 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Institute for Cultural and Historical Societies (RICH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference dates: 22-23 June 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though it had been part of the United Kingdom since 1801, Ireland\u2019s position within the British Empire during the long nineteenth century was complicated. The Irish were a colonial people, yet in many ways they also contributed to the expansion and administration of the British Empire. Moreover, Irish emigration, particularly to the United States, raised the issue of Irish \u2018whiteness\u2019, but also saw many Irish endorse chattel slavery in the southern United States and contribute to the removal of the Native population in the US south and west. And as colonised or colonising subjects, or indeed both, many Irish writers, artists, and policy makers at home and abroad imagined and reimagined the country\u2019s position within the British Empire and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, the legacies of (Western) colonialism have received increased \u2013 and necessary \u2013 scrutiny in both the academic and public spheres. This has led to initiatives such as Rhodes Must Fall, which quickly became a global phenomenon, and efforts to decolonise academic curricula and scholarship. It also sparked renewed attention to issues concerning problematic heritage, such as the statue of John Mitchel in Newry, and the presence of colonial art and artefacts in Western museum collections. While the question of whether or not Ireland was a colony has occupied scholars for several decades (see for instance work by Stephen Howe, Joe Cleary, and David Lloyd), in recent years Irish Studies has also started to become more self-reflective with regard to the complicated question of Irish complicity in colonial and racist systems and the ongoing ramifications of this in education and research \u2013 issues discussed, for instance, in a recent roundtable in Irish Historical Studies<\/em> (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference seeks to consider Ireland\u2019s and the Irish diaspora\u2019s position in relation to colonisation and imperialism during the long nineteenth century, as well as the reverberations and reconsiderations of this past in recent and ongoing scholarship and education. SSNCI is particularly interested in papers on the following topics, but would of course also welcome papers on related themes not mentioned here, from many disciplinary perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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