Wednesday, March 4

Global Irish Studies at Georgetown University, the Department of History, and the Conflict Resolution Program presented a lecture by Dr. Olwen Purdue, Director of the Center for Public History at Queen’s University Belfast.

“Dealing with Divided Pasts: the public history of conflict in Northern Ireland”

Wednesday, March 4

Dr. Purdue is Director of the Centre for Public History at Queen’s University Belfast. Her work focuses on Public History in divided societies, looking in particular at Northern Ireland where she works on the role of cultural institutions in dealing with conflict, and on the relationship between history, identity, and community. She has just completed a Wellcome Trust-funded project on heritage and wellbeing among inner-city communities in Belfast and is also Principal Investigator on a public history project among local communities in Dhiban, Jordan.

She is International Editor of the Public Historian, a juror for the Royal Historical Society’s Public History Prize, a Governor of Belfast’s historic Linen Hall Library, and a Director of the Irish Museums Association