The Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast are hosting Digitising Ireland: Irish Studies PGR Symposium 2021. The event takes place on Thu, 13 May 2021 from 10:00 – 15:00.
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This Symposium provides an opportunity to hear how postgraduate research relating to Ireland has been aided by online collections and is creating digital output.
Topics include sound archives, digital mapping, accessibility and public engagement. Panel discussions concerning the challenges, benefits and possibilities of digitisation will be led by academics and curatorial staff working with Irish collections.
Digitising Ireland: Irish Studies PGR Symposium 2021
Event Overview:
Welcome 10.00
10.15-11.15
Panel 1: Online opportunities: New perspectives and obstacles in Irish research
Chair: Deirdre Wildy QUB Special Collections
Samuel Guthrie, QUB, School of History Edward O’Hara: Archives and ethics during lockdown
Hannah Mac Auliffe, Trinity College Dublin, School of History CELT: the benefits and pitfalls of using digitised annals in the research of medieval Irish kingship
Samuel Beckton, University of Ulster, School of HistoryThe Unbroken Covenant: Could Ulster Unionists have controlled a nine-county state, 1920-1939?
11.15-12.15
Panel 2: Virtual Voices: revisiting and preserving online sound archives
Chair: Prof. Sean O’Connell, QUB
Conor Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, School of History ‘Memories of a Magdalene Laundry: Revisiting the Magdalene Oral History Collection’.
Martin Duffy, QUB, School of Irish Studies Digitalizing Narrative Accounts of “the Troubles”: A Review of a segment of the British Library “Unlocking our Sound Heritage” Programme.
Samuel Guthrie, NMNI & QUB. Irish voices in the archive: unlocking Our Sound Heritage at NMNI
Lunch break 12.15-1.00
1.00-2.15
Panel 3: Cyber spaces: The challenges, accessibility and audiences of digitised places. Chair: Dr Darragh Gannon, QUB
Rebecca Milligan, QUB, School of Natural and Built Environment Mapping WW2 Airfields
Chris Hamill, QUB, School of Architecture The Atlas of Lost Rooms
Sarah McDonagh, QUB, School of Arts English Digitisation & Accessibility: Prisons Memory Archive Case Study
Jonathan Small & Robert Barratt, QUB, School of Natural and Built environment Minecraft at the Museum: engaging children with NMNI collections and museums online.
2.15-3.00
Closing Round Table: Using digitised sources in academic research.
Chair: Dr. Lisa Griffith, Programme Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland
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