Second Conference of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) “Heroes, victims or villains? Irish Presentations and Representations in Latin America and the Caribbean” Morelia, Mexico 15-18 July 2009 Organised by the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo Call for Papers The time has come for SILAS to convene its first conference in… Continue reading Mexico: SILAS, July 2009. “Heroes, victims or villains?”
Category: academic conferences
“Coming home? Conflict and return migration”. Southampton, April 2009
Call for papers: Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe. 1-3 April 2009, University of Southampton. The question of return has long been thought to be central to an exilic discourse and yet relatively little is known about how return migration is actually experienced and subsequently remembered by exiles and also by migrants… Continue reading “Coming home? Conflict and return migration”. Southampton, April 2009
Ireland: Arrivals and Departures. ACIS: Minnesota, October 2008.
Call for Papers: Midwest American Conference: Ireland: Arrivals and Departures From the organisers: This year’s Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies will be held at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. The conference will open with a reception on the evening of Thursday, October 9. The conference theme is IRELAND: ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. We… Continue reading Ireland: Arrivals and Departures. ACIS: Minnesota, October 2008.
New Media & the Global Diaspora. Rhode Island, 2-4 Oct 2008
The organisers of the New Media and the Global Diaspora have issued their call for papers. The 2008 New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium at Roger Williams University is an interdisciplinary humanities conference addressing the global migrations of the past 100 years and the role media has played in transmitting ‘living traditions,’ particularly as… Continue reading New Media & the Global Diaspora. Rhode Island, 2-4 Oct 2008
Wavelengths: Irish and American Music. UCD: Sept 2008
The UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies will host a conference exploring musical links between Ireland and the US. Organisers say This event has been conceived a by a group of scholars, musicians and producers to provide a focus for performance and study of Irish and American musical relations. These relations have a long and… Continue reading Wavelengths: Irish and American Music. UCD: Sept 2008
Irish Theatrical Diaspora focuses on Dublin Theatre Festival
The Irish Theatrical Diaspora group will hold its 2007 conference in association with the Dublin Theatre Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. The conference will explore the history of the Dublin Theatre Festival in its first five decades, focusing on landmark Irish plays first staged at the DTF visiting companies and productions from abroad that… Continue reading Irish Theatrical Diaspora focuses on Dublin Theatre Festival