Diaspora is a major theme that will be discussed in the “History of the European Family Conference”, at University of Limerick on June 20-21, 2007.
Trinity College Professor David Fitzpatrick, author of “Oceans of Consolation: personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia” will be a plenary speaker. His talk is entitled “Far-flung families: How post-Famine Irish reconciled mass migration with family values”.
Other migration-related panels include “Diaspora and family business”, “Diaspora and ethnicity”, and “Globalisation and contemporary affairs”.
See the full programme at the University of Limerick’s History Department website.