School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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The Vertigo of Late Modernity
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Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity
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Of Ruin and Archaism: Kate O’Brien and the Polemics of Place in 1930s Ireland
(2007)Kate O’Brien’s 1938 novel Pray for the Wanderer illustrates the polemics of place operating in bourgeois Ireland in 1937, the year of the Irish Constitutional referendum. O’Brien’s subtle and audacious literary technique ... -
Finnegans wake: Mapping a national consciousness
(2005)In James Joyce's Finnegans wake, the political and sexual mores placed upon Irish culture by the presence of the British Empire and the Catholic Church during the late colonial and early post colonial period of modern ... -
Beyond the Cartesian Imagination: Placing Beckett
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Heart of Darkness Redux
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Visual Geo-Literary and Historical Analysis, Tweetflickrtubing, and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
(2015)Situated at the intersection of the arts and sciences, Humanities GIS (HumGIS) are contributing to new knowledge systems emerging in the digital, spatial, and geo-humanities. This article discusses the conceptualization ... -
A Relay of Joy: An Artist and a Geographer Reflect Upon Cybernetic Assemblies and an Embodied Media Geography of Spätkapitalismus
(2010)Perhaps it was the emergence of global media geographies of Spätkapitalismus (Late Capitalism) which provoked Deleuze and Guattari in their collaborative text Anti- Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1983) to claim ... -
Tree Ring Chronology of Meteorological Extremes for Ireland, AD425-1650
(2011)For over thirty years the study of Ireland‘s climate history has benefited from the availability of world class dendrochronological (tree ring) records, developed by Michael Baillie, David Brown and colleagues in Queen‘s ... -
Workshop Examines Climate Change and Human Response in the History of Western Eurasia from AD 1 to 1600
(2013)On November 28, the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past and the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) co-sponsored a day-long workshop on “Climate Change and Human Response in the History ... -
Understanding Volcanic Impacts through Time: 4th VICS Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 13-16 April 2019
(2019)The Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS; pastglobalchanges.org/vics) working group initiated Phase 2 this year. The aim of Phase 2 is to extend the scope of VICS to major eruptions throughout the Holocene and ... -
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. AD 1500
(2019)We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod (Gadus morhua) catch volumes and likely a tripling of ... -
Drought and Plague in Adso of Montier-en-Der's Miracles of St Mansuy
(Amsterdam University Press, 2020)