Conference - Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe - June 21st and 22nd
Venue
The Moore Institute and The Applied Optics Seminar Room
Date & Time
21st June, 2012 @ 09:00:00
History, School of Humanities The Moore Institute
Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe
21-22 June 2012
Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room)
09.00 – 09.20
Raingard Eßer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
Introduction
09.20 – 10.10
Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway
‘Ireland’s “lost” English region: the English Pale in early Tudor times’
10.10 – 11.00
Gerald Power, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic
‘The English Pale as a region in later Tudor Ireland’
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 – 12.10
Chris Maginn, Fordham University, New York, USA
‘Beyond the Pale: the making of the kingdom of Ireland’
12.30 – 13.40 Buffet lunch
13.40 – 14.30
Diana Newton, University of Teesside, UK
‘The trials and tribulations of a border saint: Saint Cuthbert and the Reformation’
14.30 – 15.20
Andy Sargent, National University of Ireland, Galway,
‘Ruling the borders: the Elizabethan government and the English west march’
15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon tea
16.00 – 16.50
Anna Groundwater, University of Edinburgh, UK
‘Renewing the Anglo-Scottish border: reassessing 16th-century frontier societies’
17.00 Book launch
Raingard Eßer, The Politics of Memory: the Writing of Partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries (Brill, 2012);
Christopher Maginn, William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State (Oxford, 2012)
19.00 Conference dinner
Friday 22 June (Applied Optics Seminar Room)
09.00 – 09.50
Günther Lottes, University of Potsdam, Germany
‘Living with borders: the case of the Holy Roman Empire’
09.50 – 10.40
Bertrand Forclaz, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
‘Identities at the crossroads of borders: two allied territories of the Swiss Confederation during the Thirty Years War’
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.50
Raingard Eßer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
‘Not so united: Dutch provinces between the Republic and the Holy Roman Empire’
12.00 Buffet lunch
