Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways: Routes to Cooperation in a Divided Island

Mapping Frontiers Final Conference
19-20 January 2006
Armagh City Hotel, Armagh

The final conference was organised by the Centre for Cross Border Studies.

The international keynote addresses was given by Professor Brendan O’Leary, who holds the Lauder Professorship of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Joseph Heyman, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Other speakers included Professor John Bradley of the Economic and Social Research Institute on the ‘island economy’ and Professor John Driscoll of the International Centre for Local and Regional Development on cross-border spatial development.

There were sessions facilitated by members of the project team on the following themes:

• the Irish Border and its economic and civil society dimensions
• cross-border mobility and cultural dimensions
• the experience of government and non-government cooperation in transcending the Border

A final round-table session looked at ways forward for North/South and cross-border cooperation as well as for future policy research.

PROGRAMME

Thursday 19th January 2006

Chair: Mr Andy Pollak, Director, Centre for Cross Border Studies

11am	Registration
11.30	Official Opening by Sir George Quigley OBE, Chair of Institute of British Irish Studies, University College Dublin
11.35	Project Overview Prof. John Coakley, University College Dublin; Prof. Liam O’Dowd, Queen’s University Belfast.	[683 kb]
	SESSION 1: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
11.45	Partitions and their History Prof Brendan O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania	[2047 kb]
12.45 pm	Lunch
2.00	Globalization, Borders and Differential Mobilities Prof. Josiah Heyman, University of Texas, El Paso.
	SESSION 2: THE IRISH BORDER: ECONOMIC AND CIVIL SOCIETY DIMENSIONS
3.00	Parallel Session A: Economic Dimensions Prof. John Bradley, Economic and Social Research Institute; Prof. Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin; Prof. Brendan Walsh, University College Dublin.	[520 kb] [330 kb]
	Parallel Session B: Civil Society Across the Border Prof. James Anderson, Queen’s University Belfast; Dr Kevin Howard, Dundalk Institute of Technology.	[134 kb]
4.00	Refreshments
	SESSION 3: CROSS-BORDER MOBILITY AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
4.30	Parallel Session A: Borders and Mobilities in the North West Region Dr Katy Hayward,Institute of British Irish Studies, University College Dublin; Dr Ian Shuttleworth, Queen’s University, Belfast.	[201 kb] [1573 kb]
	Parallel Session B: Cultural Dimensions Dr Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin; Prof. Hastings Donnan, Queen’s University Belfast.
5.30	Kieran Rankin, University College Dublin The Imagery of the Irish Border followed by Mapping Frontiers: The Movie
6.30	Drinks Reception hosted by the North/South Ministerial Council Joint Secretariat in the Market Place Theatre, Market Street, Armagh

Friday 20th January 2006

Chair: Dr Peter Smyth, Former Joint Secretary, North/South Ministerial Council

	SESSION 4: THE LOGIC OF CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION
9.30 am	Spatial Planning Mr John Driscoll, International Centre for Local and Regional Development.
10.00	North/South Cooperation in Tourism Dr Joan Henderson and Prof. Paul Teague Queen’s University Belfast	[161 kb]
10.30	Coffee
	SESSION 5: TRANSCENDING THE BORDER
11.00	Parallel Session A: Institutional Cooperation Professor John Coakley, University College Dublin; Mr Robin Wilson, Democratic Dialogue; Mr Brian Ó Caoindealbhain, Institute of British Irish Studies; Dr Etain Tannam, University College Dublin.	[355 kb]
	Parallel Session B: Projects and Case Studies Dr Eoin Magennis, InterTradeIreland; Prof Liam O’Dowd, Queen’s University Belfast; Dr Cathal McCall, Queen’s University Belfast; Mr Ivo Damkat, Queen’s University Belfast.	[600 kb] [95 kb]
	SESSION 6: ROUND TABLE – LOOKING FORWARD
12.00 pm	Short responses from Dr Peter Smyth, Prof. Joan Harbison, Walter Kirwan, Prof. Liam O’Dowd and John Coakley. Further respondents from government bodies and the voluntary sector to be confirmed.
1:00	Close

See the final report [130 kb].

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