Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand will host a conference called “Nations, Diasporas, Identities” from March 27 to 30, 2008. The conference will look at the notion of diaspora and identity as set against the backdrop of political and economic events in Scotland and Ireland, as well as increasing assertion of Irish and Scottish identities… Continue reading New Zealand: Nations, Diasporas, Identities. March 2008
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Aberdeen: Irish and Scottish Migration. Feb-June 2008
The University of Aberdeen is hosting a series of three one-day conferences called “Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement: Intellectual, Political and Environmental Frontiers”. The conferences will be held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. Organisers say: Overseas migration has conventionally been understood as a process that leads migrants to cross a… Continue reading Aberdeen: Irish and Scottish Migration. Feb-June 2008
“Human Agency and an Irish Diaspora”: Centre for Migration Studies, January 2008
The Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park will host its annual MSSc in Irish Migration Studies Reunion Lecture on Saturday, January 26. Professor Don MacRaild of the University of Ulster will speak on “Human Agency and an Irish Diaspora”. Prof. MacRaild is the author of Culture, Conflict and Migration: The Irish in… Continue reading “Human Agency and an Irish Diaspora”: Centre for Migration Studies, January 2008
Migration Studies in Ireland: Trinity, March 2008
‘Migration Studies in Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference’ will be held in Trinity College, Dublin on March 27-28, 2008. Organisers have issued a call for papers from postgrad students working on questions of migration, race, rights, public policy, inter/transculturalism and the use of audio and visual media in social research. They welcome input from… Continue reading Migration Studies in Ireland: Trinity, March 2008
US National Migration Week, Jan 6-12
National Migration Week will take place in the US from January 6 – 12. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a website with resources for the week at the usccb.org website.
Exhibition on Irish in Europe opens
“Strangers to Citizens: the Irish in Europe, 1600 – 1800” has opened at the National Library’s Genealogical Office on Kildare Street in Dublin. The exhibition tells the story of the Irish who went to continental Europe from the time of the Flight of the Earls. It shows that the Irish left for a variety of… Continue reading Exhibition on Irish in Europe opens