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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Lectures, Seminars and Readings
Spring 2008

JANUARY

Friday, January 25th

The Death of Criticism?
Terry Eagleton
John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory
University of Manchester
4:00 PM Hesburgh Center Auditorium

FEBRUARY

Friday, February 1st

Mediating Post-Hibernian Archaeologies: Archaeology, Humedia and Undercutting the Discourses of 'Material Culture' in Ireland
Ian Russell
NEH/Keough-Naughton Fellow
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

Friday, February 15th

‘O, Despise Not My Youth!’: Senses, Sympathy and an Intimate Aesthetics in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Siân White
English Department
University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

Wednesday, February 20th

Time Passante: From Forensic to Interrogation Modernity
David Lloyd
University of Southern California
4:15 PM Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Wednesday, February 27th

The Chieftains perform an evening of Irish music.
Leighton Concert Hall
7:30 PM DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Thursday, February 28th

Joyce's Ulysses: The End
Declan Kiberd
University College Dublin
5:00 PM Hesburgh Center Auditorium

MARCH

Friday, March 14th

Towards Consensus: The Irish Language and Northern Ireland
Diarmaid Ó Doibhlin
Visiting Professor
Irish Language and Literature
University of Notre Dame
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

Friday, March 28th

Jack Lynch, the ‘Arms Crisis’ and Northern Ireland, 1969/1970
Dermot Keogh
University College Cork
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

APRIL

Wednesday, April 2nd

Modern Irish Poetry: Writing 'Home'
Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
University of Limerick
4:00 PM 102 DeBartolo

Friday, April 11th

Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections
Kate O’Malley
Royal Irish Academy
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

Tuesday, April 15th

A Reading by Novelist Alice McDermott
Johns Hopkins University
7:00 PM McKenna Hall Auditorium

Friday, April 18th

Solidarity: Past, Present and Future
The Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin
Archibishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland
7:00 PM Washington Hall

Friday, April 25th

Visualizing the Word: Screenwriting in Irish
Pádhraic Ó Ciardha
TG4
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

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