Conference – Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe – June 21st and 22nd

History, School of HumanitiesThe Moore Institute

Frontier and border regions in early modern Europe

21-22 June 2012

Thursday 21 June (Moore Institute Seminar Room)

09.00 ‰ÛÒ 09.20

Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands;

Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway

Introduction

09.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.10

Steven Ellis, National University of Ireland, Galway

‰Û÷Ireland‰۪s ‰ÛÏlost‰۝ English region: the English Pale in early Tudor times‰۪

10.10 ‰ÛÒ 11.00

Gerald Power, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic

‰Û÷The English Pale as a region in later Tudor Ireland‰۪

11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.20 Coffee break

11.20 ‰ÛÒ 12.10

Chris Maginn, Fordham University, New York, USA

‰Û÷Beyond the Pale: the making of the kingdom of Ireland‰۪

12.30 ‰ÛÒ 13.40 Buffet lunch

13.40 ‰ÛÒ 14.30

Diana Newton, University of Teesside, UK

‰Û÷The trials and tribulations of a border saint: Saint Cuthbert and the Reformation‰۪

14.30 ‰ÛÒ 15.20

Andy Sargent, National University of Ireland, Galway,

‰Û÷Ruling the borders:the Elizabethan government and the English west march‰۪

15.30 ‰ÛÒ 16.00 Afternoon tea

16.00 ‰ÛÒ 16.50

Anna Groundwater, University of Edinburgh, UK

‰Û÷Renewing the Anglo-Scottish border: reassessing 16th-century frontier societies‰۪

17.00 Book launch

Raingard EÌÙer, 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 ‰ÛÒ 09.50

GÌ_nther Lottes, University of Potsdam, Germany

‰Û÷Living with borders: the case of the Holy Roman Empire‰۪

09.50 ‰ÛÒ 10.40

Bertrand Forclaz, University of Neuch̢tel, Switzerland

‰Û÷Identities at the crossroads of borders: two allied territories of the Swiss Confederation during the Thirty Years War‰۪

10.40 ‰ÛÒ 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 ‰ÛÒ 11.50

Raingard EÌÙer, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

‰Û÷Not so united:Dutch provinces between the Republic and the Holy Roman Empire‰۪

12.00Buffet lunch