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kevinkosullivan

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Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Lecturer in History at University of Galway. Associate Director at the Moore Institute. Co-editor Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project. Currently researching climate change adaptation.

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Call for papers for a workshop and special issue of Twentieth Century Communism on 'The Global 1956'.
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Well, this was a very nice thing to receive in the post: a copy of the new book by my former PhD student, David Kilgannon. One of the most impressive things about the book (of which there are many!) is what it reveals about how welfare functioned in the Irish state. Also, it's available open access, which is a huge bonus. Download it here: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781837644414

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Next week's Galway History Research Seminar is our last of the semester - and it's one well worth waiting for. Dr Tomás Irish joins us from Swansea to talk about his brand new book, 'Feeding the Mind'. 4pm, Wed 15 Nov, on Zoom. Register at https://forms.office.com/e/mtn5tyXk0J for the link. All are welcome! @histodons

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Next week's @universityofgalway history research seminar features Dr Eavan O'Dochartaigh on 'Tracing and Returning a Greenlandic Woman through the Archives of Exploration'. In-person in Room G010, Hardiman Building, at 4.00pm, 8 November. For the Zoom link, register at https://forms.office.com/e/Ezy9tXU45H

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@universityofgalway @histodons POSTPONED - Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar has been postponed. We hope to re-schedule the talk at a later date.

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An aesthetically pleasing book is a wonderful thing. Congrats to the team at the National Archives of Ireland and the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project who put together this new volume on Ireland at the League of Nations and the exhibition that it accompanies. @histodons #mastodaoine

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Today's history research seminar @universityofgalway features Professor Gary Murphy (DCU) on the experience of writing a biography of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey. All are welcome. Come in person or register at https://forms.office.com/e/8gnVmsVNzZ for the link to the livestream.

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I'm looking for literature on the relationship between concepts of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' and local practices in the Global South and/or indigenous communities in the Global North (e.g. First Nations).

Specifically, I'd like to know how 'sustainability' is defined; what forms of knowledge are privileged; and how local practices are described by outsiders (& vice versa).

All suggestions welcome!

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@sinensetin @histodons @i_ngli Thanks - all suggestions gratefully received!

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@gscumming @histodons This is brilliant - these are exactly the themes that I'm interested in. Thanks a million.

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I'm a bit late to this, but this piece by Catherine Tatiana Dunlop on her pursuit of the mistral is a wonderful piece of writing about how historians experience the physical world as an archive.

"The challenge for me, as a historian, was figuring out how to engage the ecological reality presented on the European Environment Agency’s map with the human-centered geography documented in European historical archives."

American Historical Review, 2021

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/126/3/1143/6421761

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Just being a newbie in writing for academic journals, how bad is it if reviewer 1 is like "great idea, well written, but x,y,z need some more attention", reviewer 3 is like "nice work, interesting points, though I miss a,b" and reviewer 2 is like "I thought this would be good but it's meh, you're too far from this journal's standard and why would this be novel cuz don't see it." ? @phdlife @academicchatter

Oh yeah. I have a 10k word count limit, already at 9993.

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@Marrekoo @phdlife @academicchatter This is a fairly standard situation, and the journal editor should be your friend in this process. No need to do everything the reviewers suggest, but you will need to respond to everything (even if just to say why you didn't incorporate certain suggestions). Overall, though, a very good first set of peer reviews!

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I reviewed Emily Baughan's book, Saving the Children, for the latest edition of the Journal of British Studies. You can access it here (if your institution has access): https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.116. If you don't, and you really want to read it, drop me a message and I'll share a pdf. If you just want the gist, then here it is: a fascinating insight into the links between empire & humantarianism, strong on the roles of individuals, but I wasn't convinced by the ending.
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New book by John Gibney, Michael Kennedy and Zoe Reid, on Ireland and the League of Nations: https://www.ria.ie/equal-footing-all-ireland-league-nations-1923-1946-0 @histodons

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I'm really looking forward to this symposium that we're running @universityofgalway next week - to launch the 'Forgotten Polish Hero of the Irish Famine' exhibition on Paul Strzelecki, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and the Moore Institute. The event starts at 3.00pm, Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, on 27 Sept. 2023. We will also be livestreaming the talks - register at https://forms.office.com/e/1kVxYQDMnX for the Zoom link. All are welcome!

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Next week's @universityofgalway history research seminar features @mauricejcasey on 'Edward Carpenter's Irish World: Socialism, Spiritualism and Queer Sexuality in Ireland, 1890s-1920s'. 4pm (Irish Time), Wed 13 Sept 2023. Online only. Register here for the Zoom link: https://forms.office.com/e/nNfYbQz28C @histodons

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In case you're interested, here's the programme for our History Research Seminar at @universityofgalway this semester. We start on 6 September with Katherine Tycz (Galway) on 'Popular Religious Print in Early Modern Italy'. All are welcome - and all talks will be delivered simultaneously via Zoom, at 4pm (Irish Time) on Wednesday afternoons. I'll post the registration links here through the semester. @histodons

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A question for humanities and social sciences colleagues. What are the best literature mapping tools for our disciplines?

I've tried Research Rabbit and found it ok, but I wonder if Connected Papers or similar might work better. A specific question is whether there is any tool that doesn't rely solely on Scopus or similar, but takes a broader sweep of the literature? Thoughts?

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@histodons @academicchatter This appears to be a tougher question to answer than I suspected... I had a quick look at Connected Papers this morning but found it limited.

By contrast, when it works, the visualisation on Research Rabbit is brilliant. Great potential to cut significant amounts of time. But it would be very useful to know what databases each of these engines pulls from. There are huge gaps for HSS scholars on many of the metrics-generating databases.

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@gpollara @academicchatter Yes, an unequal playing field but it plugged a lot more people into global debates. At the very least, it was good for finding out what was going on.

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"Please note that this book may have out of date information" - an important warning to any historian. @histodons

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