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26 October 2011

Part of a Commemoration Seminar Series Preparing for a decade of commemorations An opportunity for discussion

Speakers: Dr Margaret O’ Callaghan & Dr Caitriona Pennell
Facilitator: Geraldine Smyth
Friday, 28 October 2011 - 10.00am – 12.30pm at Healing Through Remembering
Alexander House
17a Ormeau Avenue
Belfast BT2 8HD

Registration 9:30am
Closing with a light lunch from 1.00pm

Please contact Claire Smith on 90238844 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to book a space

Dr. Margaret O’ Callaghan: Margaret is a senior lecturer in politics at Queen’s University Belfast. She was awarded, with Professor Mary Daly of UCD, a major research grant by the Republic of Ireland North South Research Programme for Collaborative Re- search 2003-2006. She is also engaged in further work on the politics of commemoration. She has published essays on republicanism, partition, propaganda wars in nineteenth century Ireland, Roger Casement, and Tom Kettle.

Dr Catriona Pennell: Catriona is a lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, Corn- wall Campus. She is currently on a Visiting Research Fellowship at NUI, Maynooth, examining the experiences of the 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) Divisions in the final Spring Offensive on the Somme in March 1918 where they fought, only metres apart, facing similar experiences and hardships regardless of their religious or political loyalties.

Facilitator: Geraldine Smyth is the Chairperson of International Advisory Group INCORE, (International Conflict Research): a joint project of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University Tokyo - combining research, education and comparative analysis on conflict and reconciliation. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Theology & Interreligious Studies as well as Head of Discipline for the Irish School of Ecumenics.

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