Lecture Series

Spring 2010

Date: Wednesday, March 24th
Time/Location: 5:30-8pm in theCultural Center Theater
Lecturer: Professor Connie Roberts, Hennessy X.O. Literary Award Finalist
Description: The writer will present some of her works. She will discuss her experiences growing up in an orphanage in Ireland and the movement among survivors of institutional abuse to secure justice, accountability, restitution, and repatriation.

Date: Wednesday, April 7th
Time/Location: 5:30 pm-8pm, Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor
Lecturer: Public talk by Dr. Lee Smithey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College, entitled Loyalist Parades and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Description: Loyalist parades have long been a source of ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland. In this talk, Dr. Smithey discusses recent changes made by parade organizers and the strategic “choreography” of parading disputes.

For more information, contact Dr. Greg Maney (516 463-6182; E-mail).

Fall 2009

Date: Wednesday, September 30th
Time/Location: 11:15am-12:40pm in 246 East Wing, Axinn Library
Lecturer: Dr. Seamus Blake, Host of WFUV’s Míle Fáilte (A Thousand Welcomes)
Description: Dr. Blake will discuss the use of Irish Gaelic in the United States. He will also talk about the benefits of speaking Irish as well local opportunities to learn the language.

Date: Wednesday, October 21st
Time/Location: 5:30-8pm in the Student Center Theater
Lecturer: Dr. James T. Fisher, Professor of Theology, Fordham University
Description: Dr. Fisher will discuss his new book The Irish Waterfront and the Soul of the Port: New York/ New Jersey, 1912-1954 (Cornell University Press). Book sales and signing to follow.

Date: Friday, October 23rd
Time/Location: 10:30am-11:45pm in Plaza Room West, Student Center
Lecturer: Panel Presentation by Dr. Mary Corcoran, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Description: Dr. Corcoran will present her research on connectedness and belonging in Irish suburbs.Part of the “Diverse Suburb: History, Politics and Prospects” Conference sponsored by the National Center for Suburban Studies.
Sponsors/Info.: For more information, contact Ina Katz (516 463-9939; E-mail).

Date: Saturday, October 24th
Time/Location: 9am-10:45am in Room 142 Student Center
Lecturer: Panel Presentation by Dr. Ronald Dale Karr, Reference Librarian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Description: Dr. Karr will present his research on the Irish Catholic immigrant experience in nineteenth century Brookline, Massachusetts. Part of the “Diverse Suburb: History, Politics and Prospects” Conference sponsored by the National Center for Suburban Studies.
Sponsors/Info.: For more information, contact Ina Katz (516 463-9939; E-mail).