The call for papers is now closed
- The effect of the Troubles on British politics and state policy (eg counter-terrorism, policing)
- The impact of conflict on particular social groups (eg people in Britain bereaved and injured as a result of the Troubles, military veterans, the Irish in Britain, NI Protestants in Britain, NI exiles)
- British cultural engagement with the conflict in the arts, literature, media, popular culture
- Silence, amnesia and denial: refusing to engage with the NI conflict
- GB public opinion and the Troubles
- Solidarity movements, support networks, political links between organisations in Britain and NI
- Memory, commemoration, memorials
- Oral histories, life histories, memoirs and testimonies
- Peace-building and conflict transformation: local and national initiatives in Britain
- The impact of the IRA's campaign on places and communities in Britain
- Post-conflict demobilisation
- Justice, miscarriages of justice, prisons and prisoners
- State discourse, ideology, representation, censorship, the contesting of dominant meanings
- National and international comparative dimensions (current/past conflicts, Britain's colonial wars)
- Inter-generational legacies of the Troubles (including family memories, Irish/British identities)
- Re-membering the Irish conflict in the 'war on terror'
- The impact of the Irish peace process in Britain
The organisers encourage papers by both established and early career researchers that consider theoretical perspectives and historical, contemporary and comparative case studies from the full range of humanities and social science disciplines and interdisciplinarities, as well as practitioner approaches, and personal experiences of those directly affected. Please ensure that you emphasise your paper’s link with the context in Britain. Proposals, including contact details, affiliation and 100-word biography, a title, and 500-word abstract, should be sent by email to the conference administrator, Dr Sam Carroll, at TroublesConference@brighton.ac.uk by 20th April 2012. Please send as Word documents or in Rich Text Format with unformated text (no alignment or underlining etc.) The organisers intend to publish a selection of conference papers in an edited volume.
Organisers: Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative & Histories, University of Brighton http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/mnh; Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester http://www.le.ac.uk/po/; The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace http://www.foundation4peace.org/
