Conférenciers invités

JOSEPH CLEARY

Joseph Cleary is Professor in English at NUI Maynooth and Visiting Professor at Yale University. He was educated in NUI Maynooth and in Columbia University, New York, where he studied with Edward W. Saïd. He is the author of Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge  University Press, 2002) and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Field Day Publications, 2007). He has co-edited (with Claire Connolly) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and (with Michael de Nie) a special issue of Éire-Ireland on ‘Empire Studies’ (Summer 2007). His articles on modern Irish writing and literary history have appeared in American, British and Irish journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, boundary 2, Textual Practice, The Irish Review, Éire-Ireland and Field Day Review. He was a Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University in 2000 and the Director of the prestigious Notre Dame Irish Seminar in Dublin from 2007-2009. Major research interests include: Modernism, Empire and World Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Twentieth-Century Irish Culture, Critical Theory and Literary History. He is currently working on books on modernism, empire and the restructuration of ‘world literature’ in early twentieth-century Europe and on a history of twentieth-century Irish cultural criticism. He is also editing The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism and co-editing (with Jed Esty and Colleen Lye) a special issue on “Realism after Modernism” for Modern Language Quarterly.

JOLENA FLETT

Jolena Flett is originally from Denver Colorado where she worked in a residential treatment   centre for adolescents with mental health issues.

She has been living in Belfast since 2003 and attended Queen’s University to complete a   Masters in Criminology. She also has a degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado.

She has been working with the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) since 2003, initially as an advisor supporting victims of racist violence and harassment, and since 2010 managing the Belfast Migrant Centre. Her other areas of work include delivering NICEM’s  OCN-accredited Equality and Diversity training, presenting awareness-raising workshops and working with Black and Minority Ethnic groups on issues of quality assurance and good governance through PQASSO training and mentoring.

KATY HAYWARD

Dr Katy Hayward is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast. She previously held positions in the Dublin European Institute and the Institute for British-Irish Studies, UCD. Her publications include Ireland Reimagined (MUP, 2009), Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland (Routledge, 2010) and Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution (Routledge, 2011).

Her recent/ongoing funded research projects include conflict management, the Belfast flags protest of 2012/13, and border securitization. Outside the university, she is on the Board of Directors for the Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh, and Charter for Northern Ireland, a community organisation in East Belfast.

BRIAN KILLORAN

Brian began work in the area of migration in 2003 when he worked as a volunteer information worker with a community development NGO working to address health inequalities among ethnic  minorities in Dublin's north inner city, before joining the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) in 2004.  Brian is responsible for the management of all aspects of the ICI's Information, Support  and Referral services, as well as providing training sessions, public information sessions, managing specific projects and funding streams and representing the ICI on several partnerships  and forums, both at national and EU level.

Brian has co-authored ICI research looking at the experiences of racism and discrimination of migrants in Dublin city, and has produced several policy papers and submissions on issues such as the impact of domestic violence on people from a migrant background, and the experiences of  children and young people from a migrant background.

KENSIKA MONSHENGWO

Kensika was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and holds a postgraduate degree from the Sorbonne in Paris (1995). He has lived in Canada, France, Switzerland, USA, Belgium and Ireland and has extensive experience in anti-racism awareness raising.

Kensika has worked with the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, under the aegis of the Department of Justice, as Training and Resources Officer as well as Acting Director.  He has extensive experience in Intercultural Training and has worked primarily with decision makers from government departments, service providers, private sector employers, media organisations and non-governmental organisations in Ireland and abroad.

He has undertaken training with various statutory and non-statutory bodies including the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Equality Authority, the Equality Tribunal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and a variety of health boards, hospitals and government departments.

During his years with the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, Kensika has provided support and advice to the Department of Justice in their effort to mainstream ethnic diversity policies and legislation into public bodies. He has also written and disseminated a wide range of advocacy and training materials.

Kensika Monshengwo is currently the Chairperson of The Smiling Tree, an organisation which raises awareness on climate change by conducting a reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

GAVAN TITLEY

Dr Gavan Titley is a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research primarily focuses on racism in Europe, with  a particular focus on media, public culture, and political discourse. He is the author of The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (Zed Books, with Alana Lentin, 2011), Broadcasting in the 'New Ireland' (2010) and the forthcoming Racism and Media (Sage Publications, 2015). Edited books include The Politics of Diversity in Europe (with Alana Lentin, 2008) and National Conversations? Public Service Media and  Cultural Diversity in Europe (2014, Intellect Books). His research has been published in journals such as Ethnic & Racial Studies, Journalism, The European Journal of Cultural Studies and The Irish Review. He is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and media in Ireland.