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ACIS 2008 National Conference: 16-19 April, 2008; Iowa

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

The American Conference for Irish Studies will host its 2008 conference in St Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa. The Conference theme is “The Global Irish: Conflict, Coexistence and Community.”

Organisers are inviting 20-minute papers on any Irish Studies topic, particularly those that address how the Irish both in Ireland and abroad have endured and interpreted their experiences of conflict, coexistence and community.

Presenters must be members of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Please send one-page abstracts in .pdf or .doc format to Dr Ryan Dye at DyeRyanD@sau.edu by December 1, 2007. Include your name, institutional affiliation and contact informationin that document, as well as the body of your email.

Visit the conference website.
Visit the American Conference for Irish Studies website.

“The New Irish”: Dundalk IT, 27-28 September 2007

Friday, May 25th, 2007

“The New Irish” is the theme of the third annual conferrence of The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in the Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology.

The conference will focus on questions about the Irish diaspora, immigration, young people, and globalisation following Ireland’s change from a nation plagued by poverty and emigration to a booming, self-confident nation of immigration. Organisers say, “This conference hopes to open a dialogue on the identity and the representation of the ‘New Irish’.”

They expect contributions from fields as diverse as “literature, literary theory, cultural studies, linguistics, film, media, visual arts, theatre, music, archaeology, history, geography, politics, economics, social policy, sociology and community studies”.

History of European Family conference: June 2007

Thursday, May 17th, 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.

BAIS conference: September 2007

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Returning Irish migrants will be the focus of a panel at the 2007 conference of the British Association for Irish Studies. The interdisciplinary BAIS conference takes place at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool in September; the theme is ‘New Irelands”.

One panel will focus on “Return Migrants and Clashing Identities”. The following scholars will speak:

• Sara Hannafin, NUI Galway: The Idea of Ireland as ‘home’: Place, Identity and Second Generation Return Migration
• Sarah O’Brien, University of Limerick: A Second Exile: The Contested Identity of Irish Migrants in New Ireland
• David Ralph, University of Edinburgh: Reconceptualising Home and Belonging: Irish Transnational Return Migrants from the USA, 1996-2006

Another paper that will be of interest to migration scholars will be On Not Being Irish by Sarah Morgan of ESR2 Project and Bronwen Walter of Anglia Ruskin University.

See more information at the BAIS website.

Franco-Irish conference aims to create continued interchange

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

“Migration, Culture and Politics: A Franco-Irish Dialogue” will be be hosted by the Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD, on May 14, 2007. Conference organisers promise “a unique platform for a comparative Franco-Irish dialogue on the economic and cultural implications of migration and related societal change. ” The event aims to create a network of academics and policy-makers linking Ireland and France in continued policy and intellectual interchange.

Speakers include Dr Bettinna Migge, Dr Alice Feldman, and Dr Steven Loyal, all of UCD; Dr Isabelle Léglise, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris; Dr William Berthomiére, MIGRINTER, Université de Poitiers; Dr Christophe Bertossi, Institute Francaise des Relations Internationales, Paris; and Piaras MacÉinri, University College Cork.

More information is available on the UCD website.

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