Schedule-Final

ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND
PERMANENCE & TRANSITION: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
ANNUAL AAI CONFERENCE 2015
DAY ONE: 6 TH MARCH
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
TIME SCHEDULE SPEAKER LOCATION
08:30-09:20 Registration BHSC ENTRANCE HALL
09:20-09:45 UCC Welcome Prof. Colin Sumner BHSC_G10
Conference Convenes Asst. Prof. Fiona Larkan
AAI Chair Address
Prof. Terence Wright
Theme Introduction Prof. Arpad Szakolczai
09:45-11:30 Keynote Prof. Hugh Brody BHSC_G10
Chair: Dr. Kieran Keohane
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break Kylemore Restaurant
11:45-13:15 Parallel Sessions
A1: Music
A2: Irish Travellers &
Identity
A3: Transgressive
Transformations
through Art
A4: Commemoration
& Reiteration
Chair Steve Coleman
Room BHSC_ 302
Chair David Murphy
Room BHSC_101
Chair Lidia Guzy
Room BHSC_121
Chair Ray Griffin
Room BHSC_122
Lunch Break
13:15-14:00 Lunch Break Kylemore Restaurant
14:00-15:30 Parallel Sessions
B1: Borderlands &
Transitoriness
B2: Irish Travellers &
Culture
B3: The Sacred
B4: Transitioriness
Liminality, Modernity
Chair James Kapaló
Room BHSC_ 302
Chair David Murphy
Room BHSC_101
Chair Therese Cullen
Room BHSC_121
Chair J. O’Brien
Room BHSC_122
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break Kylemore Restaurant
15:45-17:15 Plenary Session Prof. Arpad Szakolczai BHSC_G10
Chair: Dr. James Cuffe
17:30 Conference retires to The Beggarman
18:00 Film Screening at The Beggarman,
Introduction and Q+A with Professor Hugh Brody
20:00 Conference Banquet at La Dolce Vita by St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral
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Fiona Larkan, Ioannis Tsioulakis, David Murphy, James Cuffe
AAI Conference Sub-Committee

ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND
PERMANENCE & TRANSITION: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
ANNUAL AAI CONFERENCE 2015
DAY TWO: 7 TH MARCH
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
TIME SCHEDULE SPEAKER LOCATION
09:00-09:30 Registration BHSC_ ENTRANCE HALL
09:30-12:00 Parallel Sessions
C1: Performativity
C2: The king is dead;
long live the king’:
transition and
emancipation
C3: Medical
Anthropology Network
Launch
C4: Political Anthropology
Workshop
Chair I. Tsioulakis
Room BHSC_122
Chair Fiona Murphy
Room BHSC_121
Chair Fiona Larkan
Room BHSC_101
Chair E. Chatzipanagiotidou
Room BHSC_ 302
12:00-12:15 Coffee Break Kylemore Restaurant
12:15-13:00 Plenary Session BHSC_G10
ANTHROPOLOGY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS: THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Dr. David Shankland, Director, RAI
Chair: Dr. Chandana Mathur, Deputy Chair, WCAA
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break - light lunch provided by the AAI Kylemore Restaurant
[Irish Journal of Anthropology Editorial Board Meeting]
14:00-16:00 Parallel Sessions
D1: Equine Culture
D2: Community
D3: Health & Wellness
D4: Permanence, Transition
& Identity in Northern
Ireland
Chair A-R Seifert
Room BHSC_ 302
Chair Tom Boland
Room BHSC_121
Chair A. Jamie Saris
Room BHSC_101
Chair Erin Hinson
Room BHSC_122
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee Break Kylemore Restaurant
16:00 Annual General Meeting for the Anthropological Association of Ireland
17:00 Conference Close
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Fiona Larkan, Ioannis Tsioulakis, David Murphy, James Cuffe
AAI Conference Sub-Committee
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Panels & Participants
Panel A1:
Chair:
Music
Steve Coleman
Worship Wars and Singing the Self: Negotiations of Tradition, Transition, Intimacy and
Authenticity amongst Evangelicals in a Methodist Church.
Hilary Foye (Queens)
Antonis’ Wedding: Rites Between Tradition and Modernity in 21st Century Cyprus
Michalis Poupazis (UCC)
“Straight Outta B.C.”: Juice Aleem’s Precolonial Critique
J. Griffith Rollefson (UCC)
Jumpstarting history: crisis and cosmo-scepticism in Greece
Ioannis Tsioulakis (Queens)
Panel A2:
Chair:
Irish Traveller Identity
Brigid Quilligan & David Murphy
Panel Organisers
Brigid Quilligan
David Murphy
The Fight for the Official Recognition of Irish Traveller Ethnicity.
Brigid Quilligan, Director of the Irish Traveller Movement
David Murphy, AAI
Irish Travellers: Culture and Ethnicity revisited: twenty four years on’
Silvia Brandi (UCC)
Divided Spaces: An Examination of the Restrictions Placed on Young Travellers and Spatial
Mobility in Galway City: Their Perceptions - Their Voice
Sindy Louise Joyce (UL)
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Panel A3:
Chair:
Transgressive Transformations through Art
Lidia Guzy
Panel organisers
Lidia Guzy
James A. Kapaló
“And the Archangel Michael looked just like me!”: Visual Media and the Re-presentation of
Divinity in Moldovan Radical Religion
James A. Kapaló (UCC)
Divine Encounters: Contemporary Pagan Artwork, Liminal Spaces, and the Creative Process
Jenny Butler (UCC)
Aspects of Saora Ritual: permanence and transition of the artistic performance
Stefano Beggiora (UV)
Transformative Power of indigenous Adivasi Art in Indian Society.
Lidia Guzy (UCC)
Panel A4:
Chair:
Commemoration & Reiteration
Ray Griffin
A Genealogy of the Holy Dream of ‘Economic Development’ and the Irish Cargo Cult
Kieran Keohan (UCC)
‘Bitter-sweet memories of the tropel*’: The Ambiguous 2008 Sugar Cane Cutters’ Strike in
Cauca Valley, Colombia
Renán Vega Cantor (UDB)
José Antonio Gutiérrez D. (UCD)
The Threatening and Alluring Faces of Social Order: reiteration & commemoration.
Lorcan Byrne (UCC)
Forgetting the Past and the Future: The Battle of the Clarence Hotel
John O’Brien (WIT)
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Panel B1:
Chair
Borderlands & Transitoriness
James Kapaló
Crossing the Line: space, liminality and transition at the Cypriot border
Evi Chatzipanagiotidou (Queens)
From itinerary migrants to landowners. Colonizing a desert in Baja California Sur, México
(1964-1994). Women´s pérspective.
Patricia Torres Mejía (CIESAS)
Territorial defense through the shamanic memory: The pilgrimage to Wirikuta as a
preservation of the Huichol resistance.
Héctor Adrián Sánchez Garibay (UAMUI)
Becoming and Liminality: Modeling change over time in Anthropology and through Subjectivity.
Sean O’ Dubhghaill
Panel: B2:
Chair:
Irish Traveller Culture
David Murphy
Panel Organisers
Brigid Quilligan
David Murphy
“The Good Old Days”: Travellers and Nostalgia
Claire-Louise Noelle Mann (Trinity)
The Permanence & Transition of a Community
Leanne McDonagh (Ind. Sch.)
On the Margins – The Irish Folklore Commission and its work with Travellers
Bairbre Ní Fhloinn (UCD)
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Panel B3:
Chair:
The Sacred
Thérèse Cullen
Our Lady of Ipswich and the permanence of the sacred
Richard D.G. Irvine (Cambridge)
Models and Mirrors: The Celtic Cross of Humanity
Peter Kearney (UCC)
Singing, Sermons, and Status: Christian Worship as a Liminal Space in Acholi South Sudan.
Ryan Joseph O’Byrne (UCL)
Apologizing for Auschwitz and the Belfast Blitz: Kin, Community, and the Politics of Third-Party
Forgiveness
Kayla Rush (Queens)
Panel B4:
Chair:
Transitoriness, Liminality & Modernity
John O’Brien
Enjoying ‘other’ Memories during a New Tourist Festival
Robert Power (NUMI)
Same Party – Different Day: Leadership transition in a democratic dictatorship
James Cuffe (UCC & IICS,UCD)
The Transitory Power of the Parade: Orange Domination, for a Moment or Two
Joseph Webster (Queens)
Kinship in GAA club leadership
Noel Connors(WIT)
Ray Griffin (WIT)
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Panel C1:
Chair:
Perfomativity
Ioannis Tsioulakis
‘Taking Place’: Boundaries and Horizons in the Performances of Ulster Loyalist Marching Bands
Gordon Ramsey (Queens)
Foucault in a Flea-market
Tara Marie McAssey(NUMI)
Identity formation: second-generation Irish adult returnees.
Martin Toal (DCU)
Performing Chinese identity in everyday dance practice in Belfast
Wanting Wu (Queens)
Ethnicity and Nationhood: Memories and Societal Changes of West Hunan, China
Lijing Peng (NUIM)
Panel C2:
Chair:
The king is dead; long live the king’: transition and emancipation
Fiona Murphy
Panel Organisers
Barbara Karatsioli
Mariya Ivancheva
Genealogies of Change and Resistance in Irish Gaeltacht Activism
Steve Coleman, (NUIM)
Change over emancipation or emancipatory change? Peace in Cyprus and Northern Ireland
Barbara Karatsioli (NUMI)
Sharing transition experiences: struggling with civil-society in Poland and South Sudan
Ela Drazkiewicz (NUMI)
Restoring Justice? Sexual Violence, Community Responses and Restorative Justice
Tanya Serisier (Queens)
From informal to illegal: housing for the poor in (post)socialist Sofia
Mariya Ivancheva (UCD)
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Panel C3:
Chair:
Medical Anthropology Launch Workshop
Fiona Larkan
Medical Anthropology: Retrospects and Prospects (While Being Circumspect)
A. Jamie Saris
Why do Irish parents decide not to vaccinate their children?– risk perceptions relating to
vaccines
Suzanne Cotter
The Ivy leaves and Holy water - Lay beliefs about healing
Carol Barron
Culture and health: the role of culturally competent healthcare professionals
Sinead Donohue
Identity and engagement in culturally appropriate health care: Lessons learned from 15 years'
collaboration with U.S. community health centers
Susan J. Shaw
Panel C4:
Chair:
Political Anthropology Launch Workshop
Evi Chatzipanagiotidou
Understanding the Relationship between Anthropology and Antiquity
James Fagan (Queens)
Exploiting symbols in Liminal Schismogenesis: Examining the transition period of the 1979
revolution in Iran
Amin Sharifi Isaloo (UCC)
The early anthropologist and the emancipation of the anthropology
Jefferson Virgílio (FU Santa Catarina)
Everyday politics in the lives of NGO workers in Senegal
Máire Ní Mhórdha (St. Andrews)
Analysing Critique and Ideology as liminal schismogenesis within Modernity: The case of postboom
Ireland
Tom Boland (WIT)
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Panel D1:
Chair:
Equine Culture
Amelia-Roisin Seifert
Hunting the Tinsel Fox
Alison Acton (Ind. Sch.)
Panel Organisers
Amelia-Roisin Seifert
Claire J. Brown
Breeding Heritage: Intersections of Tradition and Modernity in the Connemara Pony Industry
Claire J. Brown (SU New York)
Permanence and transition in a livery yard: an ethnographic case study from Scotland
Valerie Will (Uni. West Scot.)
Daune West(Uni. West Scot.)
“Blessings in their forelocks:” Islamic horse folklore and modernity
Gwyneth Talley (UCLA)
Indian Relay: Tradition and Evolution in Contemporary Native American Horse-Racing
Amelia-Roisin Seifert (Queens)
Panel D2:
Chair:
Community
Tom Boland
Narratives of sex trafficking: Divergences between academic and NGO representations
Aideen Elliot (SOAS)
Finding Shared Purpose… The Pursuit of a Utopian Life
Joanna Lenihan (UCC)
Cèilidh as community: Being and becoming on a small, Scottish island
Samuel Ward (Queens)
Stories From A Room in Donegal
Karin White, Julie Costello, Clara Kane, Alan Cusack (Sligo IT)
Culture is pulling us back: The frustrations of traditions' persistence in the context of social
change in the Papua New Guinea Highlands
Ivo Syndicus (NUIM)
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Panel D3:
Chair:
Health & Wellness
A. Jamie Saris
Family and Community Continuity: Co-Creating Transitional Spaces for Permanence in Change
Dirck van Bekkum Moira CTT
Pro- Ana Websites, the ‘Size 0 Phenomenon’ and Mimetic Desire: theoretical perspectives on
eating disorders
Carmen Kuhling (UL)
Purchasing Innocence in exchange of sexuality: Negotiation of Rape Survivors of Liberation war
in Bangladesh
Nasrin Khandoker (NUMI)
Liminality, Fluidity, and Incorporation in Dementia Research; a reflection on ethics, informed
consent and research participation
Cormac Sheehan (UCC)
Panel D4:
Chair:
Permanence, Transition & Identity in Northern Ireland
Erin Hinson
‘Reimagining the Maze: constructing prison landscapes through objects in transition’
Erin Hinson (Queens)
Panel Organiser
Erin Hinson
The never-ending ought to be: The work of mourning in Loyalist commemoration of Ulster’s
‘Golden Age’
Jonathan Evershed (Queens)
Attempting to ‘undo’ the ‘permanent’: changing identities, shifting landscapes, and the search
for the ‘disappeared’ of Northern Ireland
Lauren Dempster (Queens)
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