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?”
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“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
Bronwen Walter, Inaugural lecture: 9 Sept, 2008
Professor Bronwen Walter, Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, will give her inaugural lecture on 9 September. The lecture is entitled “Close to home: Irish/English entanglementsâ€?. Professor Walter says, How Irish are the English? The English have had an ambivalent relationship with the Irish for centuries. Constructions of the Irish as the… Continue reading Bronwen Walter, Inaugural lecture: 9 Sept, 2008
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.
Neither Here Nor There: Writing the Irish Diaspora. University of Limerick, 31 Oct – 1 Nov 2008
The organisers of “Neither Here Nor There: Writing the Irish Diaspora” have issued a call for papers. The text in full: Emigration has been central to modern Irish history and society, yet the writing of emigrant experiences over the past two centuries is only beginning to be constituted as a vitally important field of enquiry… Continue reading Neither Here Nor There: Writing the Irish Diaspora. University of Limerick, 31 Oct – 1 Nov 2008
Ulster-American Heritage Symposium: Omagh, 25-28 June 2008
‘Changing Perspectives, 1607-2007’ will be the theme of this year’s Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, which is being held in June at the Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park. The event will explore recent research challenging habitual ways of thinking about the historical relationship between Ulster and North America over the last four hundred… Continue reading Ulster-American Heritage Symposium: Omagh, 25-28 June 2008