Lectures, Seminars and Readings Spring 2010
February
Friday, February 5th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Language Policy and Language Ideology: From the Official Languages Act to Ireland's Twenty-Year Strategy for the Irish Language
John C. Walsh,
Department of Irish,
Co-Sponsored with the Department of Irish Language and Literature
NUI Galway
Fulbright Irish Language Scholar,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Friday, February 12th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Cure, Care, and Custody: Irish Lunatic Asylums in the 19th century
Melinda Grimsley-Smith,
Department of History,
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, February 16th
4:15 PM 126 DeBartolo Hall
A Reading by Novelist
Michael CollinsDepartment of English, Southwestern Michigan Community College
Co-sponsored with the Creative Writing Program
Thursday, February 25th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
A Bilingual Reading by Writer
Éilís NíDhuibhne
Writer Fellow, University College Dublin
Friday, February 26th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Finn Again: Huck Finn, Finn MacCool, and the Salmon; the Irish-American Odyssey of Finnegans Wake
Vicki Mahaffey,
Kirkpatrick Professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies,
University of Illinois
March
Tuesday, March 2nd
3:00 PM Rare Books Room, Hesburgh Library
Revising and Re-envisioning Nineteenth Century Irish Literature: An Introduction to the Loeber Collection and Sample Case Study
Heather Edwards,
Keough-Naughton Fellow,
The Irish Fiction Initiative,
University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, March 3rd
12:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
The Early Irish Fiction Project
Ian Campbell Ross,
Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies,
Aileen Douglas,
Trinity College Dublin
School of English,
Trinity College Dublin
Thursday, March 18th
5:15 PM 102 DeBartolo Hall
The Nature of Evil
Terry Eagleton,
Excellence in English Distinguished Visitor,
Co-Sponsored with Department of English
University of Notre Dame
Friday, March 26th- Sunday, March 28th
Contemporary Irish Cinema
Co-Sponsored with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
All showings in the Browning Cinema
Friday, March 26th
3:00 PM
Making Soap Operas in Ireland: A Panel Discussion on Irish Language Television from Both Sides of the Camera
6:30 PM
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
9:30 PM
A Film with Me in It (2009)
Saturday, March 27th
6:30 PM
Irish Short Cuts - On the Lighter Side
9:30 PM
Brothers (2009)
Sunday, March 28th
3:00 PM
The Boys of St. Columb’s (2009)
Monday, March 29th
4:00 PM Annenberg Auditorium
Aloys Fleischmann Centenary Lecture Recital
Séamus De Barra, Composer and Musicologist
Patrick Zuk, Department of Music, University of Durham
Aoife Sullivan, Leading Irish Soprano
Tuesday, March 30th
Founded on Fear?: Reflections on the Ryan Report on Institutional Child Abuse in Ireland
Daire Keogh,
Department of History,
St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
12:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
April
Thursday, April 9th - Sunday, April 11th
Saints, Sinners, and Scribes in the Celtic World
2010 National Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America
Saturday, April 10th
8:30 PM Oak Room, South Dining Hall
Irish Musicians from Clare and Kerry will lead a Céilí featuring the Irish Dance Team and Notre Dame Musicians
Monday, April 12th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Shell-shocked : Representations of War Trauma in Irish Literature
Anne Goarzin,
Professor of Irish Studies
Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises,
Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique,
Université de Rennes 2
Friday, April 16th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
The Irish Only Child
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford,
Blumberg Professor in English Literature & University Distinguished Teaching Professor,
University of Texas
Friday, April 23th
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar:
Masculinity and Violence in Northern Ireland
Jane McGaughey,
NEH Fellow, Department of History
Royal Military College of Canada
Sean Brady,
Department of History, Classics and Archaeology,
Birkbeck College, University of London
Timothy Bowman,
Lecturer in British Military History,
University of Kent