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History of European Family conference: June 2007

By Noreen Bowden | May 17, 2007

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.

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