Research Student Conference 2017
Research Graduate School
Faculty of Arts
Tuesday, 17th January, 2017
Room: LT-8 (H-105)
REGISTRATION:
All participants MUST have pre-registered with:
Mrs. Elaine Kane (e . kane @ ulster.ac.uk) [RGS Admin.] or
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (p . mckevitt @ ulster.ac.uk) [HoRGS (Pro-Tem)]
RGS Conference Programme 2017:
Room: LT-8 (H-105)
09.00am: ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION: RECEPTION DESK, MAIN FOYER (H-Block)
Mrs. Elaine Kane [RGS Admin.] & Mrs. Jane Boylan [Faculty Admin.]
10.15am: REFRESHMENTS BREAK; THE HUB [U-101] (H-121) (U-Block)
11.30am: REFRESHMENTS BREAK; THE HUB [U-101] (H-121) (U-Block)
01.30pm: BUFFET LUNCH; THE HUB [U-101] (H-121) (U-Block)
03.15pm: REFRESHMENTS BREAK; THE HUB [U-101] (H-121) (U-Block)
04.15pm: REFRESHMENTS BREAK; THE HUB [U-101] (H-121) (U-Block)
Music Installation:
THE HUB [U-101] (H-121) (U-Block)
Partners:
Related:
RGS Awards 2016:
Ksenia Kudenko
WINNER
Irish & Celtic Studies Research Institute (ICSRI)
Faculty Research Prize (Best Research Paper):
"Tochmarc Moméra as Echtra to the Otherworld"
with Dr. Peter Smith (Supervisor), Professor Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour),
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem]) & Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).
Dr. Conal Mac Seáin
WINNER
Faculty Thesis Prize (Best Thesis):
"Life and Work of Henry Morris"
Irish & Celtic Studies Research Institute (ICSRI)
With Dr. Peter Smith (Supervisor), Professor Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour),
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem]) & Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).
Briege Rafferty
WINNER
ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AHRI)
History Ireland Publishing Prize (Best Literature Review):
"Sisters in the Troubles:
Women in religious orders during the conflict in and around Northern Ireland"
With Dr. Dianne Kirby (Supervisor), Professor Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour), Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem]) & Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).
Hilary McLaughlin-Stonham ('Feather')
ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AHRI)
RUNNER-UP
Faculty Research Prize (Best Research Paper):
"Race and Protest in New Orleans:
Streetcar Integration in the Nineteenth Century"
SPONSOR: CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
With Dr. Nerys Young (Supervisor), Prof. Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour),
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem]), Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts) &
Dr. Dianne Kirby (Supervisor), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).
Giuliana Monteverde
WINNER
ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AHRI)
Faculty Research Prize (Best Research Paper):
"Navigating complicity in contemporary feminist discourse"
with Professor Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour),
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem], Dr. Kate Byrne [Supervisor] &
Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).
Dr. Frances Lynch-Kearney
RUNNER-UP
ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AHRI)
Faculty Thesis Prize (Best Thesis):
"The Wound, the Scar and the Other in the life and Work of Ernest Hemmingway"
SPONSOR: FOUR COURTS PRESS
with Dr. Paul Davies (Supervisor), Professor Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour),
Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem]), Dr. Willa Murphy [Supervisor] & Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).
Dr. John Fulton
WINNER
ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (AHRI)
Faculty Thesis Prize (Best Thesis):
"Clerics, Conjurours and Courtrooms:
Witchcraft, Magic and Religion in
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ireland"
With Dr. Andrew Sneddon (Supervisor), Professor Robert Gavin (Guest of Honour), Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt (Head of RGS [Pro-Tem]) & Prof. Jan Jederzejewski (Dean of Arts), December 1, 2016 (Courtesy: Billy Scampton).