Belfast Conferences: Dates, Itinerary & Tickets Price(May Updated)

CMB RVM Solutions presents an interactive panel discussion on how Northern Ireland can deliver a world class Deposit Return Scheme. Date: 16/06/2026 Time: 16:00 - 17:00 Location: Barnett Suite, Stormont Hotel, 587 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 3LP Overview: Our mission is to support the UK’s DRS rollout with a wide range of British-made RVMs that enable a full circular lifecycle—where aluminium cans and PET bottles are produced, consumed, collected, and recycled entirely within the UK. Join our expert panel in Belfast for an interactive discussion on how Northern Ireland can prepare for the implementation of the government’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). Speakers including: Glyn Roberts, Chief Executive, Retail Northern Ireland Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick Zak Miller, General Manager, CMB RVM Solutions Matthew Bell, CEO, Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association Rob Hanly, Public and Regulatory Affairs Manager, Coca-Cola HBC Robert Kiernan, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Irish Beverage Council Information Source: CMB RVM Solutions | eventbrite

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Mark your calendars, folks! The Holiday World Show Belfast 2025 is just around the corner, taking place from January 17th to 19th. They don't call Belfast the city that never sleeps for nothing – it's gearing up to host this spectacular event at the iconic Titanic Exhibition Centre. It's the place to be for those with a case of wanderlust, eager to explore new horizons. With a wide array of exhibitors, travel experts, and cultural displays, the Holiday World Show offers a sneak peek at the latest and greatest in travel trends. Whether it's a family holiday, a solo adventure, or a romantic getaway, visitors can get the lowdown on all things travel-related. So, buckle up and get ready for an unforgettable journey at the Holiday World Show Belfast 2025 – where the world comes to Belfast.

Belfast City Council Good Relations Workshop In-Person Come join us at the Belfast City Council for a Good Relations Workshop that will inform and influence the city's new good relations strategy and action plan. Your input will really matter and help make the new strategy as good as it can be. See you there! Please note venue is Council offices via Adelaide Street. Information Source: Peter Osborne | eventbrite

Public Consultation Event - Findings from the Regional Neurology Review Join us for our first Public Consultation event, where we will be sharing the findings from the Regional Neurology Review . At the event we will present the analysis, findings and proposed recommendations of the Review; and highlight the potential improvements to services which could be achieved through the implementation of those recommendations. This in-person event will take place on Thursday, May 29 , 2025 at 7:00 PM at the Claton Hotel, Belfast . Come along to hear more about Review and share your feedback to help shape future services by participating in the public consultation . If you have any accessibility requiremnts please email us at: Neurology.Review@health-ni.gov.uk To find out more abou the consultation or respond online please go to: https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/consultations/consultation-regional-review-neurology-services-final-report Information Source: Department of Health in Northern Ireland (DoH) | eventbrite

Co-hosted with the QUB School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, with support from the QUB R. M. Jones Fund, and as part of the QUB180 University events series. Session 1 (1:30pm - 3:00pm): Chair: Professor Louise Mallinder (QUB) Speakers: Professor David Armitage (Harvard): 'Gulliver's Travails: Treaty-Making and Treaty-Breaking in Modern History' Professor Christopher McCrudden (QUB): 'The Role of Trust in International Treaty Negotiations' Discussant: Professor Richard Bourke (Cambridge) Session 2 (3:30pm - 4:30pm): Professor Dame Linda Colley (Princeton) in conversation with Professor Richard English (QUB) about her book, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen (Profile, 2021). Biographies David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and an Honorary Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. His books include: The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). He is currently writing a study of opera and international law from the Medici to the Met. He is a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2006 the National Maritime Museum in London awarded him its Caird Medal for 'conspicuously important work ... of a nature that involves communicating with the public'. In 2015 he received Cambridge University's highest degree, the LittD, for 'distinction by some original contribution to the advancement of science or of learning'. Professor Armitage is an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College Cambridge. A prize-winning teacher and author, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea, and the United States. His works have been translated into sixteen languages. Richard Bourke took his first degree at University College Dublin and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He gained a second BA in Classics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He held his first academic post in Dublin, before moving to Queen Mary University of London, where he became Professor in the School of History in 2012. He was elected to the Chair in the History of Political Thought at Cambridge in 2018. In 2022 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts by University College Dublin. He previously co-directed the AHRC-funded project on Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective as well as the History in the Humanities and Social Sciences Network, also funded by the AHRC. His work has attracted various accolades and awards, including as joint winner of the István Hont Memorial Book Prize in Intellectual History in 2016. His research has been funded by the Humboldt Stiftung and the DAAD and he has held a number of Fellowships in Europe and the United States, including at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Free University in Berlin, and the University of Munich, as well as at the Huntington, Beinecke, William Andrews Clark, and John Carter Brown Libraries. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018. Professor Dame Linda Colley studied history at Bristol University, before completing a PhD at Cambridge, where she became the first female Fellow of Christ’s College. Her career has since taken her to Yale, the London School of Economics, and – since 2003 - to Princeton University, where she is the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History. She is the author of: In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982); Namier (1988); Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992), which won the Wolfson Prize; Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002); The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh (2007); Acts of Union and Disunion (2014), and The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (2021). She has received eight honorary degrees, including one from Queen’s University Belfast. Professor Colley writes on history, politics and art for the Financial Times , the London Review of Books , and the New York Review of Books . She has served on the Board of the British Library, the Council of Tate Britain, the Advisory Board of the Yale Center of British Art, and the Research Committee of the British Museum. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she was made a DBE for services to history in the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Honours List in 2021. Richard English is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Professor of Politics. Between 2011 and 2016 he was Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International Relations, and Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, at the University of St Andrews. His books include the award-winning studies Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006). His most recent books are Does Counter-Terrorism Work? (2024), Does Terrorism Work? A History (2016), The Cambridge History of Terrorism (edited, 2021), and The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism (co-edited, 2019). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, a Faculty Affiliate at the University of Chicago, a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews. In 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history. In 2019 he was awarded the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal in the Social Sciences. Louise Mallinder is a Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. At the University of Chicago she is a Faculty Affiliate of the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts, and was the 2024 Pozen Professor of Human Rights. She holds a PhD in law, an LLM in human rights law, and BA in economic and social history and politics, all from Queen’s University Belfast. Her book Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide was awarded the British Society of Criminology Book Prize and the Hart Socio-Legal Studies Association Early Career Prize. She is co-editing The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia on Law and Peace , and co-authored Lawyers in Conflict and Transition (2022). She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Higher Education Academy. She is also a member of the Institute for Integrated Transitions Law and Peace Practice Group, and of the ESRC and AHRC Peer Review Colleges. She was Chair of the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a human rights non-governmental organization based in Belfast, during 2015-2020, and was Vice-Chair during 2013-2015 and 2020-2024. Christopher McCrudden is honorary professor of human rights and equality law at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and a Fellow of the QUB Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. He holds an LLB from QUB, an LLM from Yale Law School, and a DPhil and DCL from Oxford University. He is called to the Bars of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland, and is a member of Blackstone Chambers in London. QUB awarded him an honorary LLD in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018, and an Honorary Bencher of the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2022. He is the academic member of the Judicial Studies Board for Northern Ireland, and is also a member of the Board of the Irish Centre for European Law, and chair of its Northern Ireland Committee. His books include Litigating Religions: An Essay on Human Rights, Courts and Beliefs (2018), Buying Social Justice (2007), and the co-authored Courts and Consociations (2013). His most recent publication is an edited collection, The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol (2022). He was awarded a CBE in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List. Information Source: The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice | eventbrite

You are warmly invited to a seminar on Improving the Funding Model between Government Departments and the Community and Voluntary Sector , taking place on Tuesday 12th June 2025 from 2pm to 4.30pm at NICVA. This seminar, hosted by the Reset and Rebalance Workstream of the Children’s Social Care Services Strategic Reform Programme and informed by the Joint Forum’s Fair Funding Principles, will bring together community, voluntary and statutory colleagues to explore how we can develop a more consistent and effective funding model. We aim to share good practice and examine the varied approaches across departments with a view to harmonising them. This event will be of particular interest to those working in financial planning, commissioning and funding arrangements given the focus on funding processes, accountability and partnership arrangements. Information Source: eventbrite

The Programme for Government 2024-27 ‘Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most’ recognises that the central role of government is to protect citizens and identifies ‘Safer Communities’ for all, particularly for women and girls, as an immediate priority for the Northern Ireland Executive. A well resourced and connected justice system is vital to the delivery of this programme for government priority commitment, the social and economic value of which will be significant. This event will provide an excellent opportunity to consider what resources and partnerships are needed to achieve this outcome. Schedule 11:30PM: Exhibition & Drop-In 12:05PM: Welcome: Stewart Dickson MLA, APG Access to Justice Chair 12:10PM: Justice Minister Naomi Long MLA 12:20PM: Connecting Justice for Safer Communities panel discussion 12:50PM: Victims of Crime Commissioner Geraldine Hanna 12:55PM: Closing Remarks: Ciara Ferguson MLA, APG Access to Justice Deputy Chair 1:00PM: Close Information Source: The Legal History Project | eventbrite

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) is launching its new independent research report ‘The Environment, Human Rights and the Windsor Framework'. The event will take place on Tuesday 24 June, from 10.30am - 1.30pm at the Dublin Suite, Europa Hotel, Belfast. The event will be in-person and online. The report, written by Dr Ciara Brennan (Director, Environmental Justice Network Ireland), Dr Mary Dobbs (Associate Professor, Maynooth University), Alison Hough BL (Senior Lecturer, Technological University of the Shannon), Dr Orla Kelleher (Assistant Professor, Maynooth University), and Dr Lisa Claire Whitten (Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast), examines the relationship between Article 2 of the Windsor Framework and environmental protections in Northern Ireland. Join us for a discussion on the findings of the report and on the relevance of Windsor Framework Article 2 for the protection of environmental rights in NI. Refreshments will be provided upon arrival. Lunch will also be provided. Event programme to follow. For any queries please contact events@nihrc.org . Information Source: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission | eventbrite

The Equality Commission is launching its latest research on the impact on equality groups across Northern Ireland, following the loss of EU funding and the transition to the replacement funding stream, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The research is an update to our previous research published in 2022. The discussion will be led by: Geraldine McGahey, Chief Commissioner, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland When: Thursday 26 June Where: Shankill Shared Women’s Centre, Belfast Time: 9.30am to 1.00pm Join us to hear from the researchers, led by Dr Eve Hepburn at Horizons Research, and directly from sector representatives on the impact these changes have had in Northern Ireland to date. An overview of the voluntary and community sector will be provided by: Celine McStravick, Chief Executive, NICVA There will also be an opportunity for discussion with our expert panel: Edyth Dunlop, Regional Manager, Northern Ireland Union of Supported Employment Claire Meenehan, Regional Director, Include Youth Lynn Carvill, Chief Executive, WOMEN’STEC Susan Russam, Chief Executive, GEMS NI The panellists will discuss what this has meant for their organisations and the people they provide support services to, and how future funding allocations could be improved. This event and the research will be of particular interest to those from the disability, women's, children and young people, and community and voluntary sectors. A light lunch will be provided at the end of the event. Please let us know of any dietary requirements or reasonable adjustments when registering. If you would like to attend, please register using the Eventbrite 'Get tickets' link by Monday 23rd June at 4.30pm. Information Source: Equality Commission for Northern Ireland | eventbrite