Lectures, Seminars and Readings Spring 2009
January
Friday, January 30th
Poor Children, Trauma and the Public Sphere in the Mainstream Nationalist Press, 1882 and 1913
Margot Backus, University of Houston
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
February
Friday, February 6th
Writing Ireland's Independent Women: George Moore's Representations of New Women in his Irish Fiction
Heather Edwards, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Friday, February 13th
Forgotten Relationships: Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery
Nini Rodgers, Queens University Belfast
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Monday, February 16th
'From Milesius to Naill of the Nine Hostages: Genetic Insights into Irish History'
Dan Bradley, Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College Dublin
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Friday, February 20th
The Tudor Imperium in Elizabethan Ireland
Rory Rapple, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Friday, February 27th
Maurya Get Your Gun
Susan Harris, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
March
Friday, March 20th
Inis Airc – Bás an Oileáin/Inishark – Death of an Island
Introduction by director Kieran Concannon and discussion with Keough-Naughton Fellows Diarmuid Ó Giolláin and Luke Gibbons.
3:00 PM Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
March 20th-22th
Contemporary Irish Cinema
Friday, March 27th
Please Note: This Lecture has been cancelled
Before Spenser: Court Lobbyists and English Policy in Elizabethan Ireland
David Edwards, University College Cork
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
April
Friday, April 3rd
Oral and Literary: Some Texts in Context
Gearóid Ó Crualaoich, University College Cork
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Irish Language, University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Friday, April 17th
Well-wrought Pedantic Poems’: the Art and Artifice of Liam S Gógan
Louis De Paor, National University of Ireland, Galway 3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall