Conference Contributions

QUB Law and Mitchell Institute online conference on Apologies, Abuses & Dealing with the Past

QUB Law and Mitchell Institute online conference on Apologies, Abuses & Dealing with the Past

QUB Law and Mitchell Institute online conference on Apologies, Abuses & Dealing with the Past

QUB Law and Mitchell Institute online conference on Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past

QUB Law and Mitchell Institute online conference on Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past

Invited Presentation at Tilburg University public seminar titled: ‘Understanding the “Age of Apology”‘

Columbia University, Irish Studies Seminar

Women as Legal Changemakers Conference, Queen’s University Belfast

Amnesty International ‘Learning the Lessons’: Co-designing the Inquiry into Mother and Baby and Magdalene Laundry Institutions in Northern Ireland  – On-line Panel

Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh presented a paper on ‘Apologies, Accountability and Organisational Reputation’ in a Session on ‘Accountability and Reputation’ at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions hosted by the University of Nicosia.

Anne-Marie McAlinden presented paper on ‘Apologies and Victims of Institutional Child Abuse’, at the ‘Present Past: Time, Memory & The Negotiation of Historical Justice’, 6th Annual Conference of the Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network’, Columbia University, New York, 7-9 Dec 2017.

Dr Anna Bryson and Prof Kieran McEvoy presented papers at the Social and Legal Studies Association conference in Newcastle, UK, 2017.

Dr Anna Bryson and Prof Kieran McEvoy presented papers at the European Society of Criminology conference in Cardiff, UK, in September 2017.

Dr Anna Bryson presented a paper at the Historical Dialogues conference at Columbia University, New York, in December 2017.

Prof Shadd Maruna and Prof Kieran McEvoy were invited to give plenary talks at a conference hosted by the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at Leeds University, in September 2017.

Dr Anna Bryson presented a paper entitled, ‘Apologies, Acknowledgement and Symbolic Reparations in Transitional Justice,’ at the Law and Society Association’s annual conference in Toronto in June 2018.

Prof Anne-Marie McAlinden presented a paper entitled, ”Apologies in the Aftermath of Historical Child Abuse in Ireland’ at Georgetown University, Washington DC, as part of their conference on ‘Legacies of the Past: Apologies & Memorialisation.’

Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh presented a paper entitled ‘Organisational Accountability and Reputation: The Role of Blame Acceptance’ at the European Group for Public Administration Annual Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, in September 2018. The presentation was given to an engaged audience as part of a panel on governance in public sector organisations.

Prof Kieran McEvoy was invited to give the plenary address at Hebrew University Law School in 2018 on the role of lawyers in engaging in research and activism on dealing with the past. It was entitled, ‘Human Rights, Legacy and Cultures of Violence in Northern Ireland.’