Prof Gerry Kearns

Geography

Professor

Rhetoric House
24
(01) 708 6153

Biography

I gained a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. My work is at the intersection of historical, political and medical themes in Geography. My 2009 book, Geopolitics and Empire, won the Murchison Award from the Royal Geographical Society as the most significant contribution to geographical scholarship that year. I am currently working on the cultural politics of AIDS for a book to be called Making Space for AIDS. Distinguished Historical Geographer at the Association of American Geographers Conference, 2015.

Research Interests

Geopolitics Medical Geography Irish identities The Catholic Body and Artistic Performance

Book

Year Publication
2014 Kearns, G., David Meredith and John Morrissey (eds) (2014) Spatial justice and the Irish crisis. : Royal Irish Academy.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) Geopolitics and Empire: the legacy of Halford Mackinder. : Oxford University Press.
1993 (1993) Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present. : Pergamon.
1991 (1991) Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century. : Cambridge University Press.
1985 Kearns, G. (1985) Urban epidemics and historical geography: cholera in London 1848-9. : Geobooks.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2014 Gerry Kearns, David Meredith and John Morrissey (Ed.). (2014) Spatial justice and the Irish crisis. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy,

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2023 Kearns, Gerry (2023) 'Posthumanist materialism and the encounter with art'. The AAG Review of Books, 11 (4):37-41. [DOI]
2023 Kearns, G.; Tucker, A. (2023) 'From Rights to Beliefs: The Geopolitics of Securitising AIDS'. Irish Studies in International Affairs, 34 . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Kearns, Gerry (2023) 'The Catholic footprint in Victorian Dublin'. Journal of Victorian Culture, 28 (4):566-572. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2022 Antosik-Parsons K.; Till K.E.; Kearns G.; Callan J.; McDonald N. (2022) 'Leading Change: Reproductive Rights, Empowerment and Feminist Solidarity in the Dublin Bay North Repeal the 8th Campaign'. Feminist Encounters, 6 (1). [DOI] [Full-Text]
2022 Tucker A.; Kearns G. (2022) 'Scientific hubris and a squeamish necropolitics: tracing continuities and discontinuities in AIDS discourses from the perspective of COVID-19'. Social and Cultural Geography, . [DOI]
2022 Kearns, G. (2022) 'Irish Literature in Transition'. Scottish Geographical Journal, . https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2140187
2021 Kearns, G (2021) 'Topple the racists 2: decolonising the space and the institutional memory of geography'. Geography, 106 (1):4-15. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Koopman S.; Dalby S.; Megoran N.; Sharp J.; Kearns G.; Squire R.; Jeffrey A.; Squire V.; Toal G. (2021) 'Critical Geopolitics/critical geopolitics 25 years on'. Political Geography, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
2021 Kearns, G. (2021) 'A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians,Dykes, and Queers; The City We Became'. The AAG Review of Books, 9 (2):45-50. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'In Transit: Placelessness and the Absurd in the Writings of Anna Seghers'. GeoHumanities, 6 (1):1-24. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'Topple the racists I: Decolonising the space and the institutional memory of the university'. Geography, 105 (3):116-125. [Link] [Full-Text]
2020 Nally D.; Kearns G. (2020) 'Vegetative States: Potatoes, Affordances, and Survival Ecologies'. Antipode, 52 (5):1373-1392. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'Topple the racists 1: decolonising the space and institutional memory of the university'. Geography, 105 . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'The Cambridge History of Ireland'. Irish Geography, 53 (1):93-103. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2019 Kearns G.; Nally D. (2019) 'An accumulated wrong: Roger Casement and the anticolonial moments within imperial governance'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 64 :1-12. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2018 Kearns, G. (2018) 'The New Law of War'. DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS, 96 (January). [Link] [Full-Text]
2018 Kearns, G. (2018) 'Ireland's Brexit Problem'. The AAG Review of Books, 6 (4):275-281. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2018.1508195 [Full-Text]
2018 Kearns, G. (2018) 'Artistic proclamations'. IRISH REVIEW, 54 :8-22. [Link] [Full-Text]
2017 Kearns G. (2017) 'The territory of colonialism'. Territory, Politics, Governance, 5 (2):222-238. [DOI]
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) 'Fiona Whelan: Enduring place'. Klaxon, 6 :38-49. [Link] [Full-Text]
2015 Gerry Kearns and Shelagh Waddington (2015) 'How has my home area changed over time? Exploring a key geographical concept using on-line resources and fieldwork'. Geographical Viewpoint, 42 . [Full-Text]
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) 'Often Doublin' in the Green'. The AAG Review of Books, 3 :52-56. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2015 Kearns G. (2015) 'Vacancy and value in Dublin 1798-1911'. Irish Geography, 48 (1):13-36. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kearns, G (2014) 'Governing vitalities and the security state'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 :762-778. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) 'Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies, Part 2'. 42 :27-29. [Full-Text]
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) 'Fatal Geographies'. Irish Geography, 46 . [DOI]
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) 'If wood were an element: Primo Levi and the material world'. Versus: Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, 119 :21-49. [Full-Text]
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) 'Up to the Sun and Down to the Centre: The Utopian Moment in Anticolonial Nationalism'. 42 :130-151. [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G (2013) 'Beyond the Legacy of Mackinder'. Geopolitics, 18 :917-932. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G (2013) 'The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31 :191-207. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Geopolitical Regression'. American Association of Geographers Review of Books, 1 :135-139. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Globalization and empire'. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D, 30 :955-957. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Colonialism and the Irish Famine'. DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2 :76-77. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Irish historical geographies: Colonial contexts and postcolonial legacies'. 41 :22-34. [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Gender, Politics, Solidarity'. DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS, 30 . [Full-Text]
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) 'Looking into the dark'. DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS, 21 . [Link] [Full-Text]
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) 'Reading Gerry Kearns' Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder'. Political Geography, 30 :49-58. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2011 Nally, D., and Kearns, G. (2011) 'Lessons from the past: Why do famines still plague us? [Chronicle of Higer Education, Chronicle Review]'. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 58 :B10-B12. [Full-Text]
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) 'The descent of Darwin'. Environment and Planning A, 42 :257-258. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) 'Annual General Meeting and Medal and Awards Celebration'. Geographical Journal, 176 :256-266. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) 'Geography, geopolitics, and empire'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35 :183-207. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Mackinder Redux'. Human Geography, 2 (2):44-47. [Link] [Full-Text]
2009 Kearns, G., and Reid-Henry, S. (2009) 'Vital geographies: life, luck and the human condition'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99 :554-574. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) 'Progressive Geopolitics'. Geography Compass, 2 :1599-1620. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) 'Forging early-modern colonial Ireland'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 34 :138-144. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) 'The geography of terror'. Political Geography, 27 :360-364. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2008 Nally, D., and Kearns, G. (2008) 'Disaster capitalism in historical perspective'. Geographical Journal, 174 :285-286. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2006 Kearns, G. (2006) 'The Social Shell'. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 34 :49-70. [Full-Text]
2006 Kearns, G. (2006) 'Naturalising empire: echoes of Mackinder for the next American century?'. Geopolitics, 11 :74-98. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2006 Kearns, G. (2006) 'Dublin, modernity and the postcolonial fix'. Irish Geography, 39 :177-183. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2004 Kearns, G. (2004) 'The political pivot of Geography'. Geographical Journal, 170 :337-346. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2004 Kearns, G. (2004) 'Mother Ireland and the revolutionary sisters'. Cultural Geographies, 11 :459-483. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2001 Kearns, G. (2001) '“Educate that holy hatred”: place, trauma and identity in the Irish nationalism of John Mitchel'. Political Geography, 20 :885-911. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2000 Kearns, G. (2000) 'Maps, models and registers: the historical geography of the population of England'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 26 :298-304. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1999 Kearns, G. (1999) 'Graham Smith (1953-99): an appreciation'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24 :495-500. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1998 Kearns, G. (1998) 'The virtuous circle of facts and values in the New Western History'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88 :377-409. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1997 Kearns, G. (1997) 'The imperial subject: geography and travel writing in the work of Halford Mackinder and Mary Kingsley'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 22 :450-472. [Full-Text]
1994 Kearns, G. (1994) 'Class and environment in Fatal Years'. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 68 :113-123. [Full-Text]
1993 Kearns, G., Laxton, P. and Campbell, J. (1993) 'Duncan and the cholera test: public health in mid-nineteenth century Liverpool'. Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 143 :87-115. [Full-Text]
1993 Kearns, G. (1993) 'Le handicap urbain et le déclin de la mortalité en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles'. Annales de Demographie Historique, 1993 :75-105. [Full-Text]
1992 Kearns, G. (1992) 'Historical Geography'. 16 :406-413. [DOI]
1992 Kearns, G. (1992) 'Cholera, nuisances and environmental management in Islington 1830-1855'. Medical History, Supplement 11 :94-125. [Full-Text]
1991 Kearns, G. (1991) 'This Common Inheritance: green idealism versus Tory pragmatism'. Journal of Biogeography, 18 :363-370. [Full-Text]
1991 Kearns, G. (1991) 'Historical Geography'. 15 :47-56. [DOI]
1989 Kearns, G. (1989) 'Historical Geography'. 13 :259-266. [DOI]
1989 Kearns, G. (1989) 'Death in the time of cholera'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 15 :425-432. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1988 Kearns, G. (1988) 'Private property and public health reform in England 1830-1870'. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, 26 :187-199. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1988 Kearns, G. (1988) 'Historical Geography'. Progress in Human Geography, 12 :103-110. [DOI]
1988 Kearns, G (1988) 'History, geography and world systems theory'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 14 :281-292. [Full-Text]
1987 Kearns, G. (1987) 'Private enterprise rains O.K.? London and its water supply'. London Journal, 12 :180-186.
1985 Kearns, G. (1985) 'Halford Mackinder'. Geographers Bibliographical Studies, 9 (71).
1985 Kearns, G. (1985) 'Historical Geography'. 10 :587-594.
1984 Kearns, G. (1984) 'Closed space and political practice: Halford Mackinder and Frederick Jackson Turner'. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D, 2 :23-34. [DOI] [Full-Text]
1984 Kearns, G. (1984) 'Making space for Marx'. Historical Geography, 10 :411-417. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2024 Gerry Kearns (2024) 'The unfinished revolution against capitalism'. Journal of Historical Geography, 84 :150-151.
2024 Gerry Kearns (2024) 'Root shock and postcolonial trauma in Ireland'. Built Environment, 50 (2):307-326. [Link]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2022 Kearns, G (2022) 'Sorting the City' In: There Are Better Ways: Education, Class and Free Thought FM. Dublin : Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art. [Link] [Full-Text]
2021 Kearns, G (2021) 'At home with the Bohemians' In: This Is Our Place: A Survey of Dalymount Park, The Home of Irish Football. Dublin : Bohemians F.C.
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'Vital Geographies' In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 14. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10720-6 [Full-Text]
2020 Kearns, G. and O'Connell, P. (2020) 'Fields and Hedges: Pauline O’Connell’s You Cannot Climb a Hedge' In: Earth Writings: Bogs, Forests, Fields and Gardens. Maynooth : Cassa Preess, Maynooth Department of Geography. [Link]
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'The Potent Wayfarer' In: transhumance: the nomadic artist: part of this land. Dublin : Phizzfest. [Full-Text]
2018 Kearns, G (2018) 'The Subject in Question' In: SOUTH ASIAN GOVERNMENTALITIES: MICHEL FOUCAULT AND THE QUESTION OF POSTCOLONIAL ORDERINGS. CAMBRIDGE : CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS.
2019 Kearns, Gerry and Till, Karen E. (2019) ''The Wrath of the Rain': The Lifeworlds of Irish Cultural Practice' In: Irish Lifeworlds. Cork : University of Cork.
2019 Kearns, G. (2019) 'The Lore of the Land' In: Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art. Dublin : National Gallery of Ireland. [Full-Text]
2019 McDonald, N, Antosik-Parsons, K, Till, K.E., Kearns, G., and Callan, J. (2019) 'Campaigning for choice: canvassing as feminist pedagogy in Dublin Bay North' In: After the Eighth: Rethinking Abortion Politics. London : Zed. [Full-Text]
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) 'The territory of colonialism' In: Territorial Designs and International Politics: Inside-out and Outside-in. New York : Routledge.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) 'HIV, AIDS and the global imaginary' In: Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries. London : Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2016 Gerry Kearns (2016) 'Queering epidemiology' In: The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) 'Manly Endeavours' In: Geopolitics: An introductory reader. New York : Routledge.
2014 Kearns, G. and Meredith, D. (2014) 'Spatial Justice and Primary Education' In: Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy.
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) 'Introduction' In: Spatial justice and the Irish crisis. Dublin : Royal Irish Academy.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Imperialism and the Heartland' In: Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder. London : Hurst. [Full-Text]
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) 'Interpréter les differences mondiales' In: Élisée Reclus et nos géographies: Textes et prétextes. Paris : Éditions Noir et Rouge.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) 'The Political Pivot of Geography' In: Derek Gregory and Noel Castree(Eds.). Human Geography. Volume 1. London : Sage.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) 'Nationalism and the public sphere: The Nation newspaper and he movement for the repeal of the Union' In: At the Anvil: Essays in Honour of William J. Smyth. Dublin : Geographical Publications. [Full-Text]
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) 'Echoes of Schmitt among the Ideologists of the New American Empire' In: Saptiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geogrpahies of the Nomos. London : Routledge. [Full-Text]
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) 'Geopolitics' In: Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London : Sage.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Sequent occupance' In: Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore(Eds.). Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London : Wiley-Blackwell.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Heartland' In: Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore(Eds.). Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London : Wiley-Blackwell.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Frontier thesis' In: Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore(Eds.). Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London : Wiley-Blackwell.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Mackinder, H. J' In: Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift(Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford : Elsevier.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Kropótkin, P.' In: Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift(Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford : Elsevier.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) 'Frontier' In: Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London : Wiley-Blackwell.
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) 'Taking theory for a walk in Ireland' In: Practicing the archive: reflections on methods and practice in historical geography. London : Historical Geography Research Group.
2007 Kearns, G. (2007) 'The history of medical geography after Foucault' In: Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and Geography. Aldershot : Ashgate Press. [Full-Text]
2006 Kearns, G. (2006) 'Europe as the just measure of the world' In: Reclus: textes et contextes. Lyon : Université de Lyon.
2006 Kearns, G. (2006) 'Bare life, political violence and the territorial structure of Britain and Ireland' In: Violent geographies: fear, terror and political violence. New York : Routledge.
2004 Kearns, G. (2004) 'Halford Mackinder' In: Bernard Lightman(Eds.). Dictionary of nineteenth-century British scientists. London : Thoemmes Press.
2004 Kearns, G. (2004) 'Environmental history' In: A companion to cultural geography. Oxford : Blackwell. [DOI] [Full-Text]
2003 Kearns, G. (2003) 'Nation, empire, cosmopolis: Ireland and the break with Britain' In: Geographies of British modernity: space and society in the twentieth century. Oxford : Blackwell. [DOI]
2003 Kearns, G. (2003) 'Imperial geopolitics: geopolitical visions at the dawn of the American century' In: A companion to political geography. Oxford : Blackwell. [DOI]
2002 Kearns, G., and Laxton, P. (2002) 'Ethnic groups as public health hazards: the Famine Irish in Liverpool and lazaretto politics' In: The politics of the healthy life: an international perspective. Sheffield : European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.
2001 Laxton, P., and Kearns, G. (2001) 'Power and salubrity: the politics of sanitary reform in Victorian Liverpool' In: Les hygiénistes: enjeux, modèles et pratiques (XVIIIe-XXe siècles). Paris : Belin.
2000 Kearns, G. (2000) 'Town Hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840-63' In: Body and city: histories of urban public health. Aldershot : Ashgate Press.
1999 Kearns, G. (1999) 'Demography and industrialisation: a geographical overview' In: Industrialisation and the Epidemiologic Transition. Umeå : Demographic Data Base. [Full-Text]
1995 Kearns, G. (1995) 'Tuberculosis and the medicalisation of English society, 1880-1920' In: Coping with sickness: historical aspects of health care in a European perspective. Sheffield : European Association for the History of Medicine.
1994 Kearns, G., Lee, W. R., and Rogers, J. (1994) 'Urbanisierung und Professionalisierung als Bestimmungsfaktoren bei der Gestaltung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems im 19. Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich' In: Städtische Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert: Soziale und demographische Aspekte der Urbanisierung. St. Katharinen, Germany : Scripta Mercaturae Verlag.
1993 Kearns, G. (1993) 'Fin-de-siècle geopolitics: Mackinder, Hobson and theories of global closure' In: Peter Taylor(Eds.). Political geography of the twentieth century. London : Belhaven Press.
1993 Kearns, G. (1993) 'Quiet prosperity: the Nordic countries' In: Stuart Corbridge(Eds.). World economy. Oxford : Andromeda.
1993 Kearns, G. (1993) 'The city as spectacle: Paris and the celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution' In: Gerry Kearns and Chris Philo(Eds.). Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present. London : Pergamon.
1993 Philo, C., and Kearns, G. (1993) 'Culture, history, capital: a critical introduction to the selling of places' In: Gerry Kearns and Chris Philo(Eds.). Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present. London : Pergamon.
1992 Kearns, G. (1992) 'Historical and geographical perspectives' In: Alisdair Rogers, Heather Viles, and Andrew Goudie(Eds.). The student’s companion to geography. Oxford : Basil Blackwell.
1992 Kearns, G. (1992) 'The problems of sanitary reform in Islington' In: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A Sourcebook. Manchester UK : Manchester University Press.
1991 Kearns, G. (1991) 'Biology, class, and the urban penalty' In: Gerry Kearns and Charles Withers(Eds.). Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
1991 Kearns, G., and Withers, C. (1991) 'Introduction' In: Gerry Kearns and Charles Withers(Eds.). Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
1989 Kearns, G. (1989) 'Introduction' In: John Rogers and Marie Clark Nelson(Eds.). Urbanisation and the epidemiologic transition. Uppsala : Family History Project.
1989 Kearns, G. (1989) 'The interaction of political and economic factors in the public health of England, Germany and Sweden' In: John Rogers and Marie Clark Nelson(Eds.). Urbanisation and the epidemiologic transition. Uppsala : Family History Project.
1989 Kearns, G. (1989) 'Zivilis and hygaeia: urban public health during the epidemiologic transition' In: Richard Lawton(Eds.). The rise and fall of great cities. London : Belhaven Press.
1988 Kearns, G. (1988) 'The urban penalty and the population history of England' In: Anders Brändström and Lars-Göran Tedebrand(Eds.). Society and health during the demographic transition. Stockholm : Almqvist and Wiksell. [Full-Text]
2020 Niamh McDonald, Kate Antosik-Parsons, Karen E. Till, Gerry Kearns and Jack Callan (2020) 'Campaigning for choice: Canvassing as feminist pedagogy in Dublin Bay North' In: After Repeal: Rethinking Abortion Politics. London, UK : Zed Books.
2020 Kearns, G. (2020) 'Between security and reparations: Ireland and the European refugee crisis' In: Haven: The Mediterranean Crisis And Human Security. [Link] [DOI]
2019 Kearns, G. (2019) 'Vital Geographies' In: International Encyclopedia Of Human Geography, Second Edition. [Link] [DOI]
2019 MdDonald, Niamh; Antosik-Parsons, Kate; Till, Karen E.; Kearns, Gerry; and Callan, Jack (2019) 'Campaigning for Choice: Canvassing as Feminist Pedagogy in Dublin Bay North' In: After the 8th. London : Zed Books. [Full-Text]

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2016 Till, K.E. and Kearns, G. (2016) Landscape Values: Place and Praxis . In: Tim Collins, Gesche Kindermann, Conor Newman and Nessa Cronin eds. Emplacing “who we are, what we are”: The embodied and historical geographies of ANU Productions’ Laundry Galway,
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Mapping Spectral Traces IV . In: Till, K.E eds. Ghost Maps Maynooth, 25/05/2011- 28/05/2011 [Link]

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2018 Kearns, G. (2018) Territory's Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier ‘Colonialism and the Value of Territory,’ Queen Mary University of London, February 2018 Queen Mary University of London, 14/02/2018-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Graduate Symposium on Ireland in the World ‘The Cultural Politics of AIDS in historical perspective’, Graduate Symposium on Ireland in the World, Trinity College Long Hub, Dublin, November 2017 Trinity College Dublin, 23/11/2017-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘The Empire Speaks Back,’ Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, August 2017 London, 31/08/2017-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Defending Life by Queering Spatial Metaphors,’ Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference, Boston USA, April 2017 Boston, USA, 05/04/2017-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Conference of Irish Geographers 2017 ‘A Platform for Arts: The commemoration of 1916 in 2016,’ Conference of Irish Geographers, Cork, May 2017 Cork, 05/05/2017-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Book Launch. Morrissey, The Long War ‘The Geopolitics of the Long War,’ Moore Institute, NUI Galway, October 2017 National University of Ireland Galway, 25/10/2017-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Kings College London Geography Seminar Series ‘Contagion and Providence: Making Space for AIDS,’ King’s College London, November 2017 King's College London, 15/11/2017-.
2017 Kearns, G. (2017) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘Valuing heritage in the postcolonial city’, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, September 2017 London, 30/08/2017-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Using the Proclamation: arts, activism and the Academy ‘Using the Proclamation,’ Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, April 2016 Dublin, 26/04/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Palestinian Solidarity ‘The Geopolitics of Solidarity,’ Palestinian Symposium, Maynooth, April 2016 Maynooth, 13/04/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Revolutionary Masculinities ‘Revolutionary Masculinities and the Irish Revolution,’ Revolutionary Masculinities, Maynooth University, Maynooth, August 2016 Maynooth, 26/08/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. and Gibbons, L. (2016) Conference of Irish Geographers 2016 Fieldwalk, Memory and Landscape, Glasnevin Cemetery Dublin, 05/05/2016-.
2016 Till, K.E. and Kearns, G. (2016) Landscape Values: Place and Praxis ‘Emplacing who we are, what we are: The embodied and historical geographies of ANU’s production, “Laundry,”’ Landscape Values: Place and Praxis, Centre for Landscape Studies, NUI Galway, Galway, July 2016 National University of Ireland Galway, 02/07/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) BodyStories Conference, Women’s Studies, University College Cork ‘From Panopticon to Arcade: Stories of Bodily Discipline in the Asylum,’ BodyStories Conference, Women’s Studies, University College Cork, June 2016 Cork, 19/06/2011-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Book Launch, Gladwin and Cusick, Unfolding Landscapes ‘Triangulating with Tim Robinson,’ Moore Institute, NUI Galway, Galway, April 2016 National University of Ireland Galway, 12/04/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Conference of Irish Geographers 2016 ‘Postcolonial Memory: Commodities and Institutions,’ Conference of‘ Irish Geographers, Dublin, May 2016 Dublin, 05/05/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound Field Walk, The 1916 Rising and Artistic Representations Dublin, 16/10/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Conference of Irish Geographers 2016 ‘Historical Capitalism in the Web of Life,’ Conference of Irish Geographers, May 2016 Dublin, 05/05/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound International Conference of Artists and Academics Maynooth, 16/10/2016-20/10/2016.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound ‘Segregation and the Right to the City: Dublin, 1750-2016’ Mapping Spectral Traces 8: The Place of the Wound, Maynooth, October 2016 Maynooth, 18/10/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Using the Proclamation: arts, activism and the Academy A Conference at the Royal Irish Academy Dublin, 26/04/2016-.
2016 Kearns, G. (2016) Bodies Politic: The Casement Project ‘Roger Casement and the Bodies Politic,’ Bodies Politic: The Casement Project, Maynooth, February 2016 Maynooth, 25/02/2016-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Queer At Queens 2015 Making Metaphors for AIDS Belfast, 15/11/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Making a show of ourselves: public arts policy and re-construction of the civic in austerity Ireland
 ‘Public arts policy and the re-construction of the civic in austerity Ireland,’ National College of Art and Design, Dublin, March 2015 Dublin, 03/03/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) The Geographical Turn A conference as part of an IRC project, held at various locations in Dublin including Royal Irish Academy and Gallery of Photography Dublin, 06/11/2015-07/11/2015.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Conference of Irish Geographers 2015 ‘Geopolitics of Solidarity,’ Geographical Society of Ireland, Belfast, May 2015 Belfast, 21/05/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) International Conference of Critical Geography ‘Geopolitics after Auschwitz,’ International Conference of Critical Geography, Ramallah, Palestine, July 2015 Ramallah, Palestine, 27/07/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) American Politicall Studies Association Annual Conference ‘The territory of colonialism,’ International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2015 New Orleans, USA, 19/02/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Distinguished Historical Geographer Plenary: The Legacy of the Slums,’ Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, Chicago, April 2015 Chicago, USA, 24/05/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Conference ‘Geopolitics after Auschwitz,’ Political Geography Specialty Group, pre-conference, Chicago, April 2015 Chicago, USA, 20/04/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) The Geographical Turn ‘The Geographical Turn,’ Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, November 2015 Dublin, 06/11/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) The Geographical Turn ‘Conversation with Larry Kirwan,’ Gallery of Photography, Dublin, November 2015 Dublin, 07/11/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Precarious Geographies: Insecurity, Solidarity and Critical Geopolitics ‘The Question of Israel and the Geopolitics of Solidarity,’ Precarious Geographies: Insecurity, Solidarity and Critical Geopolitics, Whitaker Institute NUI Galway, March 2015 National University of Ireland Galway, 30/03/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Militarism and Humanitarianism,’ Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, Chicago, April 2015 Chicago, USA, 22/04/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘The Geopolitcs of Solidarity,’ Association of American Geographers, annual meeting, Chicago, April 2015 Chicago, USA, 21/04/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Geography, University of Valdivia, Chile ‘The Legacy of the Slums: Use versus Exchange Value in Dublin 1800-2015,’ School of Architecture, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, September 2015 Valdivia, Chile, 10/09/2015-.
2015 Kearns, G. (2015) International Conference of Historical Geography ‘The Postcolonial Politics of Contagion: AIDS in South Africa,’ International Conference of Historical Geography, London, July 2015 London, 07/07/2015-.
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) HIV/AIDS and sexuality: International and local perspectives Meeting of international scholars for World AIDS Day Maynooth, 01/12/2014-.
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) Seminar Series, Department of Geography, University of Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand ‘The cultural politics of the contagion metaphor,’ Department of Geography, University of Canterbury-Christchurch, New Zealand, April 2014 Christchurch, New Zeland, 30/06/2014-.
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) Geography/Anthropology Seminars Series ‘AIDS and the postcolonial state,’ Departments of Geography/Anthropology, Maynooth University, December 2014 Maynooth, 11/12/2014-.
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) Seminar Series, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town ‘Making new metaphors for AIDS,’ Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa, July 2014 Cape Town, South Africa, 22/07/2014-.
2014 Kearns, G. (2014) Institute of Australian Geographers, Biennial Conference ‘Vital geographies: Making space for AIDS in science and culture,’ biennial meeting of the Institute of Australian Geographers, Melbourne, Australia, June 2014 Melbourne, Australia, 30/06/2014-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Terrorscapes: Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Rule, Terror and Mass Violence in Europe ‘If wood were an element: Primo Levi and the materiality of memory,’ Terrorscapes, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Waasenar, Netherlands, January 2013 Wasenaar, Netherlands, 23/01/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Conference of Irish Geographers 2013 ‘Gentrification as social formation,’ Conference of Irish Geographers, May 2013 Galway, 18/05/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis Conference of Geographers on the Crisis and Austerity, Royal Irish Academy Dublin, 23/04/2013-.
2013 Kearns,G. and Meredith, D. (2013) Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis, Royal Irish Academy Spatial Justice and Primary Education Dublin, 23/04/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘Transnationalism and the Catholic geopolitical imaginary,’ annual meeting of the IBG/Royal Geographical Society, London, August 2013 London, 30/08/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Workshop on the Silk Road ‘Halford Mackinder and the geopolitics of the Silk Road,’ Workshop on the Silk Road, Royal Geographical Society, London, February 2013 London, 06/02/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Conference of Irish Geographers 2013 ‘Neil Smith. A celebration of his life and work,’ Conference of Irish Geographers, May 2013 Galway, 17/05/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘Tribute to Neil Smith. Discussant,’ annual meeting of the IBG/Royal Geographical Society, London, August 2013 London, 28/08/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Symposium on Society, Environment and Development ‘Critical reflections on field-based learning,’ Symposium on Society, Environment and Development, NUI Galway, August 2013 National University of Ireland Galway, 27/08/2013-.
2013 Kearns, G. (2013) Seminar Series, Whitaker Institute, National University of Ireland Galway ‘The geographer’s revenge: Geopolitics and geographical fate,’ Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway, May 2013 National University of Ireland Galway, 15/05/2013-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) People, Past and Place A conference on historical geography, part of Maynooth Geography 40th birthday celebrations Maynooth, 27/04/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Mapping Spectral Traces VI ‘Spectral traces and the Irish Catholic body,’ Mapping Spectral Traces VI, Minneapolis, October 2012 Minneapolis MN, USA, 19/10/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) People, Past and Place ‘Mapping the Irish Catholic Body,’ People, Past and Place, Maynooth, April 2012 Maynooth, 27/04/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Spectral Traces V ‘Dance as spectral trace,’ Spectral Traces V, Galway, April 2012 National University of Ireland Galway, 20/04/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Capital places of engagement: the cultural politics of institutional failure,’ annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2012 New York, 26/02/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Symposium on the 31st International Eucharistic Congress ‘History and Myth,’ Symposium on the 31st International Eucharistic Congress, Dublin, September 2012 Dublin, 28/09/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Inaugural Lecture. Kearns ‘People, past, and place,’ Inaugural lecture, National University of Ireland Maynooth, February 2012 Maynooth, 16/02/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Ignite talks, Maynooth University ‘AIDS and its metaphors,’ Ignite talk, Maynooth, December 2012 Maynooth, 14/12/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Third Symposium on Environment and Development ‘Critical issues in resource justice,’ Third Symposium on Environment and Development, Galway, August 2012 National University of Ireland Galway, 28/08/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘Governing vitalities and the security state,’ annual meeting of the IBG/Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh, August 2012 Edinburgh, 04/07/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Conference of Irish Geographers 2012 ‘Choreographing Catholic bodies: Testimony and resistance in the wake of clerical sex abuse,’ Conference of Irish Geographers, Trinity College Dublin, May 2012 Dublin, 26/05/2012-.
2012 Kearns, G. (2012) Geographical Society of Finland, Annual Conference ‘Progressive Geopolitics and the Global War on Terror,’ opening address to the annual meeting of the Finnish Geographical Society, Helsinki, November 2012 Helsinki, Finland, 25/10/2012-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Mapping Spectral Traces IV International meeting of artists and academics Maynooth, 25/05/2011-28/05/2011.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Conference ‘Passing and the geographies of identity,’ Political Geography Specialty Group, Seattle, April 2011 Seattle, USA, 10/04/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Environment, Development and Society Symposium ‘Panel Discussion: Accumulation, Securitization and the Politics of Rule,’ Environment, Development and Society Symposium, National University of Ireland Galway, 23 August 2011 National University of Ireland Galway, 23/08/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Mapping Spectral Traces IV ‘Colonial and postcolonial spectral traces in Dublin,’ Mapping Spectral Traces IV, Maynooth, May 2011 Maynooth, 26/05/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Geopolitics, Ireland, and the New World Order ‘The geopolitics of church-state relations as revealed by the clerical child sex abuse scandal,’ Geopolitics, Ireland, and the New World Order, Maynooth, November 2011 Maynooth, 25/11/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Human Encumbrances. Panel on David Nally’s book,’ annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 2011 Seattle, USA, 14/04/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Conference of Irish Geographers 2011 ‘Geography and passing,’ annual meeting of the Geographical Society of Ireland, Limerick, May 2011 Limerick, 07/05/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Geopolitics, Ireland, and the New World Order Geopolitics conference organised as part of 40th birthday celebrations for Maynooth Geography Maynooth, 25/11/2011-26/11/2011.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Political ontology of Giorgio Agamben,’ annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, April 2011 Seattle, USA, 13/04/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘Conceptions of people, past and place in Irish anticolonial nationalism,’ annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, London, August 2011 London, 31/08/2011-.
2011 Kearns, G. (2011) Seminar Series, Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin ‘Biopolitics and bare life in Irish history,’ Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, 20 May 2011 Dublin, 20/05/2011-.
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Author meets the critics: a roundtable on Kearns, Geopolitics and Empire,’ annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, 14-17 April, 2010 Washington DC, 16/04/2010-.
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) Political Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers Conference ‘Imperialism,’ contribution to roundtable at Geopolitics Symposium, Alexandria VA, April 2010 Alexandria, VA, 11/04/2010-.
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) Geopolitics Symposium, Political Geography Specialty Group. Association of American Geographers The annual pre-AAG Political Geography Conference Alexandria, VA, 11/04/2010-.
2010 Kearns, G. (2010) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Beyond the legacy of Mackinder,’ plenary address, lecture sponsored by the Geopolitics journal at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010 Washington DC, 16/04/2010-.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) Conference of Irish Geographers 2009 ‘People and public in the nationalism of The Nation,’ Conference of Irish Geographers, Cork, Ireland, May 2009 Cork, 15/04/2009-.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Law and Space: the neo- Schmittians of the American Imperium,’ Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, USA, April 2009 Las Vegas, USA, 23/03/2009-.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) Global Wounds ‘The political theatre of diasporic nationalism: Fenian funerals and the representation of violence,’ Conference on ‘Global Wounds,’ University of Manchester, UK, May 2009 Manchester, UK, 26/05/2009-.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference ‘Geography, geopolitics, and empire,’ plenary address to the Royal Geographical Society annual meeting, Manchester UK, August 2009 Manchester, UK, 27/08/2009-.
2009 Kearns, G. (2009) Association of American Geographers, Annual Conference ‘Progressive Geopolitics,’ Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, USA, April 2009 Las Vegas, USA, 26/03/2009-.
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) International Symposium on Visual Culture and the Urban Environment: Globalization and Violence ‘Violence, globalization, and the agency of diaspora,’ to ‘International Symposium on Visual Culture and the Urban Environment: Globalization and Violence,’ Paris, France, January 2008 Paris, 15/01/2008-.
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) Violence and Diasporic Nationalism ‘Violence, Globalisation, and the Agency of Diaspora,’ keynote address to conference on ‘Violence and Diasporic Nationalism,’ Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, September 2008 Coimbra, Portugal, 19/09/2018-.
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) Seminar Series, Department of Geography, City University of New York ‘Conservative and Progressive Geopolitics,’ City University New York, USA, May 2008 New York, 15/05/2008-.
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) Critical Geopolitics 2008 ‘Conservative and Progressive Geopolitics,’ Critical Geopolitics Conference, Durham University, UK, September 2008 Durham, UK, 23/08/2008-.
2008 Kearns, G. (2008) Romantic Nations ‘James Clarence Mangan and the irony of Romantic Ireland,’ Romantic Nations Conference, Cardiff University, Wales, October 2008 Cardiff, Wales, UK, 24/10/2008-.
2007 Kearns, G. (2007) Globalising Urban Histories ‘Globalisation and diaspora’, keynote address to the World History Workshop Conference on ‘Globalising urban histories,’ Cambridge, UK, December 2007 Cambridge, UK, 04/12/2007-.
2006 Kearns, G. (2006) Postcolonial Creatures ‘Joyce, Yeats and Irish Postcolonial Creatures,’ keynote address to the conference, “Postcolonial Creatures,” organised by the Department of English, University of Cambridge, UK, March 2006 Cambridge, UK, 17/03/2006-.
2017 Till, Karen E., Cronin, Nessa, Kearns, Gerry and Collins, Tim (2017) Conference of Irish Geographers Supporting Women in Geography Ireland Roundtable University College Cork, 04/05/2017-06/05/2017. [Full-Text]

Thesis

Year Publication
1985 Kearns, G. (1985) Aspects of cholera, society and space in nineteenth-century England and Wales. University of Cambridge: [Thesis]
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Professional Associations

Description Function From / To
Geographical Society of Ireland Member 01/01/2000 -
Association of American Geographers Member 01/01/1987 -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/11/2016 Tom Jones Hughes Viewpoint Contributors Award (jointly with Dr Shelagh Waddington) Association of Geography Teachers of Ireland
01/01/2004 Visiting Research Fellow, NUI-Maynooth
01/01/2014 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
01/01/2017 Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
01/01/1991 Guest Researcher, Demographic Data Base, Umeå
01/01/1991 Nuffield Research Fellowship
01/01/2010 Murchison Award, Royal Geographical Society, London
01/04/2015 Distinguished Historical Geographer Association of American Geographers
01/01/2007 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Minneapolis
01/01/1986 Swedish Institute Visiting Research Fellow

Committees

Committee Function From / To
Historical Geography Member 01/01/1996 - 31/12/2020
Geosciences and Geographical Sciences Committee, Royal Irish Academy Member 01/01/2010 - 30/06/2018
Irish Geography Member 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2020
Journal of Historical Geography Member 01/01/1990 - 31/12/2020

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
University of Cambridge BA
University of Cambridge PhD

Outreach Activities

Organisation Type Description
Galway Dance Days Civic Society Discussant for panel on Cultural Resilience & Transmission
Connect the Dots Civic Society Facilitator at Connect the Dots event, Re-Using Dublin, De-Light Studios, Dublin 1
Nerin Economic Research Institute Civic Society A lecture on Lessons from the Crisis
Irish Museum of Modern Art Civic Society Field Walk for Culturstruction as part of St John's Eve celebrations [Link]
Irish Museum of Modern Art Civic Society Lecture. ‘Deranging Memory: Institutions and Proclamations,’ Art|Memory|Place, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, April 2016. [Link]
City Intersections Civic Society ‘Branding Dublin,’ City Intersections, Dublin, November 2012 [Link]
Creative Time Summit Civic Society Occupy the Future,’ Creative Time Summit, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, October 2016. [Link]
Playful City Civic Society Walkshop. Historical perspectives on Sheriff Street, Playful City Conference, Design Meets Play, 17 October 2017 [Link]
Galway Arts Festival Civic Society Programme essay for Olwen Fouéré's Riverrun [Link]
Transit Gateway Civic Society Lecture to this art-based project on mapping Dublin's port
KildareFM Radio Civic Society Interviewed about Science/Politics Pairing Scheme of the Royal Irish Academy, KildareFM, Kildare Focus, 4 June 2015.
Irish Times Civic Society ‘Is our budget strategy in tune with the Constitution,’ Irish Times (8 October 2014) 12. [Link]
Huffington Post Civic Society ‘From hero to zero: Uganda fails its HIV test, and what we should do about it,’ Huffington Post (23 May 2014); http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/gerry-kearns/uganda-hiv_b_5370975.html [Link]
Upstart Collective Civic Society Part of the academic team supporting the Upstart Collective with their Granby Park Pop-Up Park [Link]
Gallery of Photography Civic Society Borderlands and Identities in Suspension: Thinking with Kate Nolan’s Lacuna - a talk associated with an exhibition of photography.
British Library Civic Society Lecture on 'The Casement Project and Empathic Memory' [Link]
Martin Luther King Peace Committee Civic Society Lecture on Good Fences make Good Neighbours
Nimble Spaces Civic Society ‘Power, poverty and legitimation in the urban landscape,’ field-walk for Nimble Spaces, Camphill Community, Callan, May 2015. [Link]
Butler Gallery Civic Society A field walk and lecture as part of Re:Collecting, a project of Commonage and the Butler Gallery about the St John's priory site in Kilkenny [Link]
Abhainn Rí Festival Civic Society ‘The Famine and the Workhouse in Callan,’ Field-walk for the Abhainn Rí Festival, Callan, July 2015.
Association of Geographical Teachers of Ireland Civic Society ‘An Altered Audience: The Geography of School Demographics,’ annual lecture to the Association of Geographical Teachers of Ireland, Thurles, October 2013 [Link]
Capital Irish Film Festival Civic Society ‘An historical introduction to the film Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen, 2008),’ Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC, December 2009 [Link]
Virginia Festival of the Book Civic Society ‘Geopolitics, Empire, and the Bomb,’ panel member for discussion at Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville VA, March 2010.
Biennial Pop Up Art Festival Civic Society ‘Bodies, buildings, and dance,’ Biennial Pop Up Art Festival, Dublin, June 2012.
Kildare Arts Office, Irish Walled Towns Network Civic Society Plenary talk to seminar on Art and Heritage
Hunt Museum Civic Society Deranging Colonial Memory. Lecture associated with Rita Duffy exhibition, Alternate Truth.
National Gallery, Dublin Civic Society Lecture on 'Commodification and Postcolonial Memory'
Irish Architecture Foundation Civic Society Lecture on planning spaces for longer lives part of the Beltaine festival [Link]
artsandhealth.ie Civic Society ACTUP, a lecture to the Arts and Health Check up, Checking confreence, LAB, Dublin [Link]
Newstalk.com Civic Society ‘A “milder” form of HIV does not mean we can ignore its prevention,’Newstalk.com (2 December 2014); http://www.newstalk.com/OPINION:-A-milder-form-of-HIV-does-not-mean-we-can-ignore-its-prevention [Link]
Granby Park Pop-Up Park Civic Society Walking through history, a walking tour of the Granby Park neighbourhood as part of the Granby Park Pop-Up Park, Dublin, September 2013 [Link]
Midlands 103 Radio Civic Society Interviewed about the budget of Government of Ireland, on Midlands 103 Radio, ‘Midlands Today with Will Faulkner,’ 8 October 2014.
RTÉ Radio One Civic Society Panel member for discussion of the Artist as Citizen, RTÉ Radio 1, Arts Tonight, Monday 24 November 2014, archived by RTÉ at http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arts-tonight/ [Link]
Newstalk Radio Civic Society Interviewed about Homophobia and AIDS in Ireland, Ian Yates and Chris Donoghue, Newtalk Breakfast, 1 December 2014; archived at (from 18.00 minutes) http://www.newstalk.com/player/shows/Breakfast/70802/what_you_missed_xmas_shopping_hivaids__galway_races [Link]
Bradóg Youth Services Civic Society Historical workshops and walk for young people at Bradóg Youth Services [Link]
Irish Housing Network Civic Society Advice on policy with respect to academic collaborations [Link]
Radio UACh, University of Valdivia, Chile Civic Society 2105. Radio interview with Carolina Ihle and Laura Rodriguez, ‘Desde La Ventana’ Radio UACh Programme, Sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Geography, University of Valdivia, Chile: http://arquitectura.uach.cl/noticia.php?codigo=16772 (September 10). [Link]
Galway Dance Days Civic Society ‘Conversation with La Veronal choreographer, Marcus Morau,’ Dance Days, Galway, May 2013 [Link]
Minneapolis-St Paul, Metro Cable Network Channel 6 Civic Society Interviewed about Art and Geography on Minneapolis-St Paul, Metro Cable Network Channel 6, TV programme, The Bat of Minerva, Minneapolis, 18 October 2012
Dublin Dance Festival Civic Society Totems, the Liz Roche Dance Company. Academic member of creative team for dance performance. [Link]

Recent Students

Graduation date Name Degree
2015 Martin Millerick M Litt
2017 Gisele M Litt
2018 Fearghus Ó Conchuir Ph.D.