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Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium
September 27, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Strzelecki Exhibition Launch Symposium
3pm-6pm, Wed., 27 Sept. 2023
Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
The next event in the University of Galway History Research Seminar series will take place at 3.00pm on Wednesday, 27 September 2023 [note the earlier than usual start time]. This is an in-person event, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor). For those of you not able to attend in person, the talks will also be streamed on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92456821259.
This seminar is organised jointly with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE) at the Moore Institute, University of Galway. The symposium will be followed at 5.30pm by the launch of the associated exhibition, ‘A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki’s Struggle to Save Thousands’, in the foyer of the Hardiman Building. All are welcome!
3:00-3:05 Opening Remarks
3:05-3:35 Dr. Emily Mark-Fitzgerald (UCD) and Prof. Peter Gray (QUB)
Commemorating Paul Strzelecki (1797-1873): Australian Explorer and Irish Humanitarian
3:35-3:55 Dr. Róisín Healy (University of Galway)
Famine on Strzelecki’s Doorstep: Starving Poles in Partitioned Poland
3:55-4:15 Prof. Breandán MacSuibhne (University of Galway)
‘The greatest weapon for taming either the bold or the timid’? The Effects of Hunger in the Great Famine
4:15-4:40 Tea/Coffee
4:40-4:55 Dr. Niall Ó Ciosáin (University of Galway)
Private charity and public relief during the Great Famine
4:55-5:10 Dr. John Cunningham (University of Galway)
Feeding the Children: Pawel Strzelecki, the British Relief Association, and the National Schools
5:10-5:30 Aoife O’Leary McNeice (University of Exeter)
‘To preserve from moral evils and promiscuous assemblages’: female relief workers and the Great Famine
5:30 Exhibition Launch