1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons Conference

1916 IN GLOBAL CONTEXT:

CONNECTIONS AND COMPARISONS

Conference Programme

Thursday 16^th June — Friday 17^th June 2016

Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway

and

Notre Dame Centre, Kylemore Abbey,

Connemara

Organised by RÌ_isÌ_n Healy, Enrico Dal Lago and GearÌ_id Barry of History, NUI Galway

Thursday 16^th June:

G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

9.00 Registration

9.15 Opening Remarks by Jane Ohlmeyer, Chair of the Irish Research Council, and the conference organisers

9.30-11.20 Panel 1: AFRICA

Chair: RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (NUI Galway)

Jonathan Krause (Oxford University)

The World Set Alight: Rebellion in the French Empire, 1916

Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University)

Anti-colonial revolts against the Portuguese Republic, 1914-1918

Jonathan Hyslop (Colgate University)

The Boers Were the Beginning of the End? Southern African Connections in the Making and Aftermath of the Easter Rising, c. 1896-1931

Katja Fortenbacher-Nagel (University of Marburg)

“Travelling the Same Painful Road”: Links and References between Ireland and South Africa on their Road to Independence

11.20-11.40 Coffee break

11.40-1.30 Panel 2: AMERICAS

Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)

David Brundage (University of California Santa Cruz)

The Easter Rising and Anticolonial Nationalism: The View from New York

Cecelia Hartsell (Fordham University)

Reflections on the Great Migration of 1916

Nicola Miller (University College London)

Liberalism Besieged: A Comparison of 1916 in Argentina and Mexico

Charles-Philippe Courtois (College militaire royal de Saint-Jean)

Ireland’s 1916 and Quebec’s Conscription Crisis

1.30-2.15 Lunch at NUI Galway

2.15-3.30 Bus trip to the Notre Dame Centre for Educational Excellence, Kylemore Abbey, Connemara

4.30-6.30 Panel 3: BRITISH EMPIRE AND ASIA

Chair: GearÌ_id Barry (NUI Galway)

Daniel Marc Segesser (University of Bern)

“Rebel Irish and Syndicalists Would Come into Office!”: The Easter Rising, Climatic Conditions, and the 1916 Australian Referendum on Conscription

Sucheta Mahajan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

In League with the Irish?: Annie Besant and Home Rule in India

Stephen McQuillan (Trinity College Dublin)

Failed Uprisings and Fraternal Relations: The Indo-Irish Nexus in 1916

Kate O’Malley (Royal Irish Academy)

Ireland, India, and a ‰Û÷Cult Following’ of Easter 1916?

6.30 Bus departs for dinner at Power’s Thatch Bar, Oughterard

9.30 Bus departs Oughterard for Galway

Friday 17^th June

G010, Hardiman Building, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

9.10-11.00 Panel 4: MUSLIM WORLD

Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)

Fatemeh Masjedi (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

Tabriz during colonial Russia (1908-1917)

Michael Provence (University of California San Diego)

The Crisis of Empire and the Ottoman Great War: 1916

Danielle Ross (Utah State University)

National Resistance across Borders: Parallel Depictions of the Easter Rising and the Turkestani Uprising in Russia’s Muslim Newspapers

Erin O’Halloran (University of Oxford)

A Tempest in a British Tea Pot: ‰Û÷The Arab Question’ in Cairo and Delhi

11.00-11.20 Coffee Break

11.20-12.50 Panel 5: EUROPEAN counter-currentS

Chair: RÌ_isÌ_n Healy (NUI Galway)

Geoffrey Bell (independent scholar)

‰Û÷Surely, for the first time England can try and understand?’: the British labour movement and the Easter Rising

Heike Liebau (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

Independence Committees in First World War Germany: common goals, mutual perceptions and collaboration

Padraic Kenney (Indiana University)

National, and thus Revolutionary ? Revolutionary, and thus National? Polish Struggles in Context

12.50-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 Panel 6: PERCEPTIONS AND LEGACIES

Chair: GearÌ_id Barry (NUI Galway)

Andrew Newby (University of Helsinki)

A German Agitation in Ireland: Finnish Perceptions of the 1916 Rising

SeÌÁn Brady (Trinity College Dublin)

An Embarrassing Parody of Garibaldi, a Salutary Lesson, and a Sign of Hope: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising seen through Italian Eyes

Timothy D. Hoyt (U.S. Naval War College, Newport)

The Easter Rising and the Beginnings of Modern Irregular Warfare

3.00 Closing Remarks

Conference participants and attendees are invited to visit the exhibition, “A University in War and Revolution, 1913-1919: The Galway Experience”, on view in the Hardiman Research Building.

Note: The conference is open to the public, but the organisers would ask those planning to attend to let us know in advance by sending an email to history@nuigalway.ie. There may be a small fee to cover catering costs and the bus journey to Kylemore Abbey.