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VIRTUAL IAS Festival: Crossing the line: contested borders and bounded space in Ireland (04 May 2021)
Panel discussion with historian Peter Leary, architect Aisling Rusk, and artist and researcher Paula McCloskey. 2021 marks the centenary of Irish partition, a major turning point in the histories of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the British Empire. This anniversary provides a moment for reflection on the past but contested boundaries of politics and identity continue to shape Ireland’s present. Much of the recent Brexit debate turned on the Irish land boundary – a site of violent and deadly conflict during the period of the Troubles – with the return of a ‘hard border’ avoided only through the creation of a new and controversial ‘border in the Irish sea’. Amidst talk of a future ‘border poll’ on the prospect of Irish unity, the city of Belfast remains deeply scarred by division. More than twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, almost 100 walls or ‘peace lines’ still delineate and separate its Catholic and Protestant communities.
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11/5/2021
IAS Vulnerability Seminar: Vulnerability and post-imperial identities - from Brexit to Ancient Rome and back
by Andrew Gardner (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) This talk discussed the impact of the demise of the British empire upon identities within the UK in the narrow majority for the Leave campaign in the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership. A comparative dimension was also pursued, with analysis of the Roman empire - which inspired many aspects of British imperialism - shedding further light on the politics of identity in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Find more information at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/ias-vulnerability-seminar-vulnerability-and-post-imperial-identities-from-brexit-to-ancient-rome-and-back
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3/21/2018