About this Event
Keynote speakers: Megan Hunter The End We Start From (2017) and Eileen Murphy CEO of Women's Aid Armagh Down
The concept of home – at once intimate and expansive, personal and political –continues to captivate scholarly inquiry across disciplines. In an era marked by unprecedented mobility, environmental precarity, and socio-political flux, home emerges as a critical locus for interrogating the conditions of belonging, identity, and place.
ICAS 26 seeks to engage with the multifarious meanings and materialities of home. Drawing inspiration from Gaston Bachelard’s seminal meditation in The Poetics of Space (1964), wherein he posits that ‘the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer,’ alongside bell hooks’ compelling assertion that ‘home is a place of resistance’ (1990), we seek to probe the complex dialectics of home as refuge, site of contestation, and matrix of affect.
Session 1 Thurs 29th Jan
🕑: 06:10 PM - 06:30 PM
Session 1: Thursday 29th January Online Session
Host: Erika Brandl, University of Bergen, Norway
Info: Paper 1 - Philosophy: Right-Sizing as Justice: Rethinking Housing Needs in Resource-Constrained Contexts
🕑: 06:30 PM - 06:50 PM
Session 1: Thursday 29th January Online session
Host: M.I. Imbrunito, G.G. Maqueda, and O.C. Arantes
Info: Paper 2- Architecture and Urban Planning: Incremental House: An Empowering Alternative for the Lower Circuit of the Economy (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil)
🕑: 06:50 PM - 07:10 PM
Session 1: Thursday 29th January Online Session
Host: John Bessai
Info: Paper 3- Cultural Studies: Home and Native Land? Aporetic Belonging, Settler Order, and Public Storytelling in Canada
Session 2 Fri 30th Jan
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Session 2: Friday 30th January Live Event
Host: Megan Hunter
Info: Keynote Speaker: Author : Damien Morgan Lecture
🕑: 07:15 PM - 07:45 PM
Session 2: Friday 30th January Live Event
Host: Eileen Murphy
Info: Keynote: Women's Aid CEO Armagh Down
🕑: 07:45 PM - 08:15 PM
Session 2: Friday 30th January Live Event
Host: Stephen Butler
Info: Invited Speaker: Psychology: University of Strathclyde
🕑: 08:15 PM - 08:45 PM
Session 2: Friday 30th January Live Event
Host: Claire Torley
Info: Invited Speaker: Social Policy: Displaced Children and Young People in Northern Ireland: Rights, Duties and Data (Office of Northern Ireland Children’s Commissioner for Children and Young People)
Session 3 Sat 31st Jan
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Kali Yoga
Info: 'The Heart as the body's home' Yoga session 30 mins. This session requires a separate booking as places limited to 15 on a first come, first serve basis. You can book here by emailing Liz Finnigan on [email protected]
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Michael Rogers, West College Scotland
Info: Paper 1 - Literature
🕑: 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Paul Torley, Southern Regional College
Info: Paper 2 - History: Irish Emigration: The Myth of Exceptionalism
🕑: 12:40 PM - 01:00 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Riley Finnigan, Queen's University, Belfast
Info: Paper 3 - Archaeology: The Archaeology of Home
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:05 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Peter Monaghan, Southern Regional College
Info: Paper 4 - Architecture
🕑: 02:05 PM - 02:25 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Tom Torley
Info: Fireside chat: Adrian Horsman in conversation with author Tom Torley
🕑: 02:25 PM - 02:45 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Erkin Kıryaman, Çankırı Karatekin University, Türkiye
Info: Paper 5 - Literature: Imagining Home and Homeland in “Application 39” (online)
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:05 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Maciej Laskowski, Adam Mickiewicz Uni, Poland
Info: Paper 6 - Literature: "Between Speech and Silence: Reading Polish Women's Migration Testimonies, 1900-1918"
🕑: 03:25 PM - 03:45 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Dilek Menteşe-Kıryaman Çankırı, Karatekin University
Info: Paper 7 - Literature: “Homing Desire” and The Refugee Experience in Khaled Hosseini’s Sea Prayer
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:05 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: 'The Big House' Team , Southern Regional College
Info: Paper 8 - 'Big House Research': Year 2 BA Hons in Modern English History and Literature
🕑: 04:05 PM - 04:25 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Vidya Mary George, Goa University, India
Info: Paper 9 - Philosophy: Resistance through Imaginative Variation: Addressing Hermeneutical Injustice by (Re)Imagining Home as Heterotopia
🕑: 04:25 PM - 04:45 PM
Session 3: Saturday 31st January Live Event
Host: Courtney Barnesky University of Western Ontario, Canada
Info: Paper 10 - Sociocultural Studies: Seeing Beauty in the Destruction: (Re)Learning Adventure in Post-Wildfire Jasper
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Southern Regional College - Newry Campus, Graduate Suite East Campus, Newry, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
