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Gender and Migration Scholarship: An Overview from a 21st Century
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MIGRACIONES INTERNACIONALES, VOL. 6, N=FAM. 1, ENERO-JUNIO DE 2011

nota cr=EDtica / essay

Gender and Migration Scholarship: An Overview from a 21st Century
Perspective

Estudios de g=E9nero y migraci=F3n: Una revisi=F3n desde la perspectiva =
del siglo
xxi

Pierrette Hondagneu=ADSotelo
University of Southern California

Gender and migration research has grown vastly in the last=20
thirty years, but where does it stand today, at the outset of the=20
twenty=ADfirst century? Much of immigration scholarship shows=20
continuing androcentric blindness to feminist issues and=20
gender (Morakvasic, 1984; Pedraza, 1991). That=92s old news,=20
but it=92s still true. That, however, is not the story that I narrate=20
here, as today there are vibrant studies on gender and migration. The
scholarship remains somewhat balkanized, and in this short essay, I =
outline
six distinctive streams of gender and migration research.

AVAILABLE AT
http://www2.colef.mx/migracionesinternacionales/revistas/MI20/MI_20-219-2=
34.
pdf

http://www2.colef.mx/migracionesinternacionales/

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Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End
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Sections of this book are available on Google Books and through the Amazon
Look Inside feature.

There is an attempt to place the criminal network within wider Irish
immigrant and Canadian history.

P.O'S.

Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End Gang by
D'Arcy O'Connor and Miranda O'Connor


Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (1 Mar 2011)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0470158905
ISBN-13: 978-0470158906

Their names resonate with organized crime in Montreal: the Matticks,
MacAllisters, Johnstons and Griffins, and Peter Dunie Ryan. They are the
Irish equivalent of the infamous Rizzuto and Cotroni families, and the "Mom"
Bouchers and Walter Stadnicks of the Hells Angels. Award-winning producer,
journalist and author D'Arcy O'Connor narrates the genesis and rise to power
of one of Montreal's most powerful, violent and colorful criminal
organizations. It is the West End Gang, whose members controlled the docks
and fought the Hells Angels and Mafia for their share of the city's
prostitution, gambling, loan sharking and drug dealing. At times, they did
not disdain forging alliances with rival gangs when huge profits were at
stake, or when a killing needed to be carried out.

The West End Gang-the Irish Mafia of Montreal-is a legendary beast. They
sprang out of the impoverished southwest of the city, some looking for ways
to earn enough just to survive, some wanting more than a job in an abattoir
or on a construction site. In that sense, they were no different from other
immigrants from Italy and other European countries. A shortcut to wealth was
their common goal. And Montreal, with its burgeoning post-WWII population,
was ripe for the picking.

The Irish Mob made headlines with a spectacular Brinks robbery in 1976,
using the money to broker a major heroin and cocaine trafficking ring. It
took over the Port of Montreal, controlling the flow of drugs into the city,
drugs which the Mafia funnelled to New York. The West End Gang had
connections to the cocaine cartel in Colombia; hashish brokers in Morocco
and France; and marijuana growers in Mexico. The gang imported drugs on an
enormous scale. One bust that took place off the coast of Angola in 2006
involved 22.5 tonnes of hashish, destined for Montreal.

The West End Gang is a ripping tale that unveils yet another chapter in
Montreal's colorful criminal underworld.

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I have been following this story, and I suppose it does have diasporic, =
globalising resonances... One of the charities we support here in =
Yorkshire is a little local organisation which cares for rescued =
greyhounds and lurchers
http://www.tiagreyhounds.org.uk/

P.O'S.

No Luck O' the Irish for Greyhounds Bound for China

In a sign of just how weird international trade can be in our globalized =
world, the UK Sunday Times reports (pdf) that "Bord na gCon, the Irish =
greyhound board, wants to export dogs to China as part of an =
international expansion that could result in it operating racing =
stadiums there."

Greyhound racing is big business in Ireland, generating =E2=82=AC500 =
million, or about $711 million, a year to the Irish economy. Greyhound =
exports alone are valued at =E2=82=AC40 million (about $56 million) a =
year. Ireland exports greyhounds to nations such as the U.S., =
Continental Europe, Australia, and Pakistan.

Now Bord na gCon wants to export to China, a nation not known for having =
high standards regarding animal cruelty...

SOURCE
http://news.change.org/stories/no-luck-o-the-irish-for-greyhounds-bound-f=
or-china

Opposition grows to Bord na gCon plans for China
Sunday, 08 May 2011
A number of bodies, including the American-European Greyhound Alliance =
and Limerick Animal Welfare, have come together to protest at plans by =
Bord na gCon to export greyhounds to China for breeding and racing. A =
protest was held outside the Department of Agriculture two weeks ago to =
highlight the poor animal welfare reputation of China, while Bord na =
gCon has said they will bring home to Ireland retired dogs which are not =
required for breeding purposes.

SOURCE
http://www.emigrant.ie/index.php?option=3Dcom_content&task=3Dview&id=3D83=
158&Itemid=3D368

Dublin SPCA welcomes the decision by Bord Na gCon to exclude the export =
of Irish greyhounds to China

The Dublin SPCA, Dogs Trust and the Irish Blue Cross welcomes the =
decision by Bord Na gCon to exclude the export of Irish greyhounds to =
China from their racing industry development proposal.=20

This coalition has lobbied extensively for Bord Na gCon to reconsider =
their proposal which they believed to be inappropriate and ill thought =
out .The semi-state organisation could not guarantee the welfare of the =
greyhounds once they travelled to China, where there is neither animal =
welfare legislation nor veterinary regulation.=20

Therefore we welcome the decision by Bord na gCon, following discussions =
with Minister of State, Shane Mc Entee, to exclude any export of Irish =
greyhounds from their proposal. We are also reassured by the Minister =
McEntee=E2=80=99s statement that any proposal involving Bord na gCon and =
the racing industry in China would have to give due consideration to =
animal welfare matters.

SOURCE
http://www.dspca.ie/cat_news_detail.jsp?itemID=3D1806

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T=C3=A1naiste announces holding of Second Global Irish Economic Forum in =
Dublin Castle on 7-8 October, 2011

The T=C3=A1naiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Eamon =
Gilmore, T.D., announced today that the Government will host a second =
Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin Castle on 7-8 October, 2011. The =
T=C3=A1naiste decided to proceed with holding the Forum this year given =
the important contribution it can make towards building =
Ireland=E2=80=99s reputation among the international Irish business =
community. =20

The primary purposes of the 2011 Forum will be to:

=C2=B7 Engage fully with the Irish Diaspora in developing =
Ireland=E2=80=99s global business and trade relations;=20

=C2=B7 Discuss face-to-face the Government=E2=80=99s =
priorities for economic renewal with key members of the international =
business community;

=C2=B7 Strengthen ties with the Irish Diaspora as a key =
part of the Government=E2=80=99s efforts to restore Ireland=E2=80=99s =
international reputation abroad. =20

Speaking after today=E2=80=99s Government meeting during which the =
initiative was approved, Mr Gilmore said:

=E2=80=9CThe Government recognises the valuable role the global Irish =
can play in Ireland=E2=80=99s economic recovery. This Forum will =
provide an opportunity for us to meet with key members of the Diaspora =
and to discuss our priorities for economic renewal, job creation and the =
restoration of Ireland=E2=80=99s reputation abroad.=E2=80=9D

Invitations will issue shortly to members of the Global Irish Network, =
which was established after the first Global Irish Economic Forum held =
at Farmleigh House in September, 2009. The Network now consists of over =
300 of the most influential Irish and Irish-connected individuals =
abroad, all of whom have demonstrated a strong affiliation with Ireland =
and have a record of high achievement in international business or in =
assisting in the promotion of Ireland.

In addition to the Network members, a small number of senior Irish based =
individuals from the business and cultural worlds will be invited. The =
Taoiseach, T=C3=A1naiste, Cabinet Ministers and senior representatives =
from Government Departments and State Agencies will also attend.

Referring to the important role played by the Global Irish Network, the =
T=C3=A1naiste noted:

=E2=80=9CBased across 37 countries, Network members provide Ireland with =
an invaluable resource of international expertise from which we can draw =
as we work towards economic recovery. In the year since its inception, =
members have worked closely with the Government and State Agencies in =
promoting Ireland=E2=80=99s economic, cultural and tourism messages in =
key markets. The Network is an important partner in our ongoing efforts =
to restore our international reputation=E2=80=9D. =20

=E2=80=9CThis Forum will be the first time the entire Network has come =
together and the Taoiseach and I are looking forward to welcoming them =
all to Dublin for a frank and intensive exchange of ideas=E2=80=9D.=20

Note for Editors
The Global Irish Economic Forum

The first Global Irish Economic Forum (GIEF) was held at Farmleigh in =
September 2009 and was attended by some 130 leading Irish connected =
individuals living abroad from the business and cultural sectors. They =
were joined by leading domestic business and cultural figures, members =
of Government and Opposition, and representatives of Government =
Departments and State Agencies.=20

The Forum was widely considered to be successful in developing a greater =
level of strategic engagement between Ireland and its Diaspora. It gave =
enhanced recognition to the value of the Diaspora and the advantages to =
be gained in harnessing the economic and strategic value of the global =
Irish relationship. Since the initial conference, the importance of =
utilising this valuable asset has gained widespread acceptance and =
support among the domestic business sector and across Government =
Departments and State Agencies and in generating a wide range of =
proposals in a number of economic and cultural areas.

The increased number of participants means Farmleigh is no longer =
feasible and the October Forum will be held in Dublin Castle. The first =
Forum cost =E2=82=AC320,000. As with previous meetings, those attending =
will be expected to travel to Ireland at their own expense.=20

The Department of Foreign Affairs published a report of the Forum in =
October, 2009. Two subsequent progress reports were published in March =
and October, 2010.=20


The Global Irish Network=20
The establishment of a permanent global network of those invited to the =
Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh and other influential members =
of the Diaspora was identified as an important objective by Forum =
participants. Over 300 people from 37 countries accepted an invitation =
to join the Network which provides an important framework through which =
they could contribute to delivering renewed economic growth in Ireland.

The Network includes some of the most influential Irish and =
Irish-connected individuals abroad and provides Ireland with an =
invaluable resource of international expertise from which we can draw as =
we work towards economic recovery. Those invited have demonstrated a =
strong connection to Ireland and have a record of high achievement in =
international business or in assisting in the promotion of Ireland. The =
Network provides an additional resource for the Government and State =
Agencies in promoting Ireland=E2=80=99s economic, cultural and tourism =
messages in key markets.=20

The Network was launched in February 2010 and regional meetings of the =
Network were hosted by Ministers in Britain, France, Germany, the US, =
China and Australia. In its first year of operations three broad areas =
or functions characterised the work of the Network: an advisory and =
facilitation function; a mechanism for disseminating information about =
the Irish economy and other significant developments; and its use as a =
means of delivering, or assisting with the delivery, of specific =
initiatives.

SOURCE
http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=3D86726

=20

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From Stage to Page. Critical Reception of Irish Plays in the
London Theatre, 1925-1996
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Peter James Harris

FROM STAGE TO PAGE
Critical Reception of Irish Plays in the London Theatre, 1925-1996

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, =
2011.
XII, 299 pp., num. tables
Reimagining Ireland. Vol. 41
Edited by Eamon Maher

ISBN 978-3-0343-0266-1 pb.
sFr. 69.00 / EUR* 47.50 / EUR** 48.80 / EUR 44.40 / =A3 40.00 / US-$ =
68.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany=A0 /=A0 ** includes VAT - only =
valid for
Austria=A0 /=A0 EUR does not include VAT

In December 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, which led to the
creation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland the =
following
year. The consequences of that attempt to reconcile the conflicting =
demands
of republicans and unionists alike have dictated the course of =
Anglo-Irish
relations ever since. This book explores how the reception of Irish =
plays
staged in theatres in London=92s West End serves as a barometer not only =
of
the state of relations between Great Britain and Ireland, but also of =
the
health of the British and Irish theatres respectively.

For each of the eight decades following Irish Independence a =
representative
production is set in the context of Anglo-Irish relations in the period =
and
developments in the theatre of the day. The first-night criticism of =
each
production is analysed in the light of its political and artistic =
context as
well as the editorial policy of the publication for which a given critic =
is
writing.
=A0
The author argues that the relationship between context and criticism is =
not
simply one of cause and effect but, rather, the result of the interplay =
of a
number of cultural, historical, political, artistic and personal =
factors.

Contents:

=93Juno and the Paycock=94 (Royalty Theatre, 16 November 1925) =96 =
=93The Big House=94
(Playhouse Theatre, 21 February, 1934) =96 =93Red Roses for Me=94 =
(Embassy
Theatre, 26 February, 1946) =96 =93The Hostage=94 (Theatre Royal, =
Stratford East,
14 October, 1958) =96 =93Philadelphia, Here I Come!=94 (Lyric Theatre, =
20
September, 1967) =96 =93The Freedom of the City=94 (Royal Court Theatre, =
27
February, 1973) =96 =93Translations=94 (Hampstead Theatre, 12 May 1981) =
=96 =93Portia
Coughlan=94 (Royal Court Theatre, 14 May 1996).

=ABOne admires in reading this volume the deft and succinct handling of
complex material [...] I know of no past or recent publication that =
comes
close to covering the field addressed here.=BB (Richard Allen Cave, =
Royal
Holloway, University of London)

Peter James Harris is Professor of English Literature at the State
University of S=E3o Paulo (UNESP), S=E3o Jos=E9 do Rio Preto, Brazil, =
where he is
also Head of the Modern Languages Department. He is currently working on =
a
monograph entitled =93The End of the World ... Again: Representations of =
the
Apocalypse on the London Stage.=94


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Dear Paddy,


Can you add this to the list?

*
*

*To mark NYU's presentation of the exhibit THE FIFTH PROVINCE: COUNTY
SOCIETIES IN IRISH AMERICA*

*
*

*HOME AWAY FROM HOME*

*Immigrants & Associational Culture*

*COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME*

* *

*New York University*

*Friday 10 June 2011*

* *

*RSVP (suggested but not required): ireland.house[at]nyu.edu*

*http://irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu/object/ne.associationscolloquium*

**
*

Immigrants frequently recreate a sense of home through the associations the=
y
join and form: a home away from home. This colloquium brings together a
number of scholars who are interested in immigrant associational culture in
different ethnic groups and through a variety of disciplinary lenses.

The meeting aims to provoke a dialogue on various issues: What are the role=
s
of associations in immigrant communities? What leads to the growth and
decline of immigrant associations over time? What is the correlation betwee=
n
the size of the immigrant community and the dynamism of the associational
topography? Does an associational culture play a significant role in
patterns of acculturation and assimilation? What benefits do an
interdisciplinary and/or comparative approach bring to the study of
immigrant associations? How and when to immigrant associations simply becom=
e
ethnic associations? Join us as we attempt to formulate answers to these an=
d
other questions, as we celebrate New York University=92s presentation of th=
e
exhibit The Fifth Province: County Associations in Irish America which will
run from 21 May through 14 August 2011.

*

* *

*VENUE: GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE NYU, 1 WASHINGTON MEWS*

*8.45-9.15am: Coffee & Continental Breakfast*

* *

*9.15-9.30am: Welcoming Remarks, Prof. Miriam Nyhan, NYU, co-curator of THE
FIFTH PROVINCE: COUNTY SOCIETIES IN IRISH AMERICA*

* *

*9.30-10.15am: Prof. Daniel Soyer, Fordham University, =93Jewish Immigrant
Associations & American Identity=94*

* *

*10.15-11am: Prof. Alyshia Galvez, CUNY Lehman **College, **"Becoming
Mexican: **Devotion & the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican
Immigrants in New York City=94 ** *

* *

*11-11.15am: Coffee*

* *

*11.15am-12pm: Prof. Pyong Gap Min, CUNY Queens College, =93Social Services=
&
Ethnic Organizations in the Korean Community in the New York-New Jersey
Area=94*

* *

*12-12.45pm: Prof. Thomas Owusu, William Paterson University, =93The **Role=
of
Ghanaian Immigrant Associations in U.S. & Canada=94***

* *

*12.45-1.45pm: Lunch*

* *

*VENUE: NYU OPEN HOUSE, 528 LA GUARDIA PLACE*

* *

*1.45-2.30pm: Prof. Miriam Nyhan, NYU, =93Irish County Associations in Lond=
on
& New York: The Comparative Perspective=94*

* *

*2.30-3.15pm: Prof. Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, CUNY Baruch College,
=93Community-based Organizations & Migration in New York City=94*

* *

*3.15-3.30pm: Coffee*

* *

*3.30-4.15pm: Prof. Jose Moya, Barnard College & Columbia University,
**"Immigrants
& Associations: A Search for Explanatory Patterns"***

* *

*4.15-5pm: Group Discussion, Reflections & Conclusions*

* *

*VENUE: GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE NYU, 1 WASHINGTON MEWS*

* *

*5pm-7pm Wine & Cheese Reception *







*Colloquium Locations: Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, 1 Washington Mews
(between East 8th St & Washington Square North), NY 10003*

*NYU Open House, 528 La Guardia Place (between West 3rd & Bleecker Street),
NY10012*

*
*

Miriam Nyhan Ph.D.

Assistant Professor & Faculty Fellow

Glucksman Ireland House, NYU

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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
By George Bornstein Harvard University Press. 272pp, =A320.95. ISBN
9780674057012. Published 24 February 2011

A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in =
the
years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors =
of
Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these =
three
groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater =
than
often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, =
poets,
musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a
sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If =
what
they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current =
constructions
of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and
division. As George Bornstein says in his Introduction, he chooses =93to =
let
the principals speak for themselves.=94

While acknowledging past conflicts and tensions, Bornstein insists on
recovering the =93lost connections=94 through which these groups =
frequently
defined their plights as well as their aspirations. In doing so, he =
examines
a wide range of materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostile
race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices, =
and
Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The Melting Pot =
and
Abie=92s Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses and Daniel Deronda, =
music
from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as The Jazz
Singer. The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a
century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only we
bear them in mind. He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and =
invidious
categories of race and ethnicity.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=3D9780674057012


Review by Donald M. MacRaild, professor in history, Northumbria =
University

The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
17 February 2011
The past few decades have seen the rise of "whiteness" studies, which
explore the cultural construction of white power. The studies =
demonstrate
how anti-African-American hostility was constituted as a compact that =
white
immigrants to the US had to sign up to if they were to be accorded the =
same
rights as Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

"Whiteness" evokes the idea of white immigrants of non-British origins
entering the melting pot to become, essentially, US nationalists. Such a
process inevitably excluded blacks, and indeed was defined against them,
which is why race relations of this type have long been of interest. In =
the
1920s, the African-American writer-activist W.E.B. Du Bois dubbed this
compact the "psychological wage", or the "wages of whiteness", a =
divisive
tool that prevented class cooperation across colour lines.
FULL TEXT OF REVIEW AT

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=3D415188§io=
ncode
=3D26

Review by Adam Kirsch

IN 2005, GEORGE BORNSTEIN, emeritus professor of literature at the
University of Michigan, published a scholarly article titled =93The =
Colors of
Zion: Black, Jewish, and Irish Nationalisms at the Turn of the =
Century.=94 Six
years later, the article has grown into a book, and the change points to =
the
ambiguity at the heart of Bornstein=92s project. What is it, in fact, =
that
these three ethnic groups had or have in common? The first version of
Bornstein=92s title suggests that it is nationalism, a desire for =
political
independence; and a century ago, this similarity would have been quite
plain.
FULL TEXT OF REVIEW AT

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/george-bornstein-color-zion

Comment and Look Insde on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Colors-Zion-Blacks-Jews-Irish/dp/0674057015

See also Google Books.

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HOME AWAY FROM HOME
Immigrants & Associational Culture

COLLOQUIUM PROGRAMME

GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE
New York University
Friday 10 June 2011

RSVP (suggested but not required):ireland.house[at]nyu.edu
http://irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu/object/ne.associationscolloquium

Immigrants frequently recreate a sense of home through the associations
they join and form: a home away from home. This colloquium brings together a
number of scholars who are interested in immigrant associational culture in
different ethnic groups and through a variety of disciplinary lenses. The
meeting aims to provoke a dialogue on various issues: What are the roles of
associations in immigrant communities? What leads to the growth and decline
of immigrant associations over time? What is the correlation between the
size of the immigrant community and the dynamism of the associational
topography? Does an associational culture play a significant role in
patterns of acculturation and assimilation? What benefits does an
interdisciplinary and/or comparative approach bring to the study of
immigrant associations? How and when to immigrant associations simply become
ethnic associations? Join us as we attempt to formulate answers to these and
other questions, as we celebrate New York University's presentation of the
exhibit The Fifth Province: County Associations in Irish America.

VENUE: GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE NYU, 1 WASHINGTON MEWS

8.45-9.15am: Coffee & Continental Breakfast

9.15-9.30am: Welcoming Remarks, Prof. Miriam Nyhan, NYU, co-curator of THE
FIFTH PROVINCE: COUNTY SOCIETIES IN IRISH AMERICA

9.30-10.15am: Prof. Daniel Soyer, Fordham University, "Jewish Immigrant
Associations & American Identity"

10.15-11am: Prof. Alyshia Galvez, CUNY Lehman College, "Becoming Mexican:
Devotion & the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants in
New York City"

11-11.15am: Coffee

11.15am-12pm: Prof. Pyong Gap Min, CUNY Queens College, "Social Services &
Ethnic Organizations in the Korean Community in the New York-New Jersey
Area"

12-12.45pm: Prof. Thomas Owusu, William Paterson University, "The Role of
Ghanaian Immigrant Associations in U.S. & Canada"

12.45-1.45pm: Lunch

VENUE: NYU OPEN HOUSE, 528 LA GUARDIA PLACE

1.45-2.30pm: Prof. Miriam Nyhan, NYU, "Irish County Associations in London
& New York: The Comparative Perspective"

2.30-3.15pm: Prof. Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, CUNY Baruch College,
"Community-based Organizations & Migration in New York City"

3.15-3.30pm: Coffee

3.30-4.15pm: Prof. Jose Moya, Barnard College & Columbia University,
"Immigrants & Associations: A Search for Explanatory Patterns"

4.15-5pm: Group Discussion, Reflections & Conclusions

VENUE: GLUCKSMAN IRELAND HOUSE NYU, 1 WASHINGTON MEWS

5pm-7pm Wine & Cheese Reception

Colloquium Locations: Glucksman Ireland House, NYU, 1 Washington Mews
(between East 8th St & Washington Square North), NY 10012
NYU Open House, 528 La Guardia Place (between West 3rd & Bleecker Street),
NY10003

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Subject: 16th Irish Writers in London Summer School, 9 June - 15 July 2011
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16th Irish Writers in London Summer School=20
9 June - 15 July 2011=20
=A0
First established in 1996, the summer school runs for two nights a week =
for
five weeks and provides an informal but informative setting for students
wishing to study Irish literature over the summer. Each week a set text =
is
discussed in class on Tuesday evening and the following Thursday, the =
author
reads and/or speaks about it to students.=20
=A0
Guests Writers:=20
=95 author and journalist Mary Kenny who will be talking about her =
recent play
Allegiance which dramatizes the relationship between Michael Collins and
Winston Churchill=20
=95 award-winning writer Maurice Leitch who will be discussing his =
latest
novel Tell Me About It set amongst the Irish community in London=20
=95 Booker long-listed author Gerard Donovan who will be discussing his
critically-acclaimed short story collection Country of the Grand=20
=95 Irish Post journalist Joe Horgan who will talking about living in =
Ireland
after growing up of Irish parents in England=20
=95 bookseller Tony Whelan, who recalls his life-long friendship with =
John
McGahern in his memoir The Last Chapter.=20
=A0
PREFERENTIAL FEES APPLY UNTIL 8 MAY (see below)=20
=A0
N.B. This is not a creative writing course, but will complement such a
course of study at London Metropolitan University or elsewhere.=20
=A0
No prior qualifications are required to attend=20
=A0
Times: 6.00 - 8.30pm (refreshments provided)=20
Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays with the opening night on Thursday 9 June=20
and an additional class on Friday 15 July.=20
Fees: =A3125 (concessions =A395)
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =91Early Bird=92 enrolment before 9 May - =
=A3115 (concs =A385)=20
=A0
Enrol at:=20
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/courses/irish-writers-in-l=
ond
on-summer-school-2011.cfm=20
or email: iset[at]londonmet.ac.uk=20
or ring: 0207 133 2913=20

More about this year=92s guest writers:=20
=A0
Mary Kenny has been a journalist for over four decades, working in =
London
and Dublin. She has contributed to more than 25 newspapers and journals,
including the Daily Mail, Guardian, Times, Catholic Herald, Irish Times, =
and
Times Literary Supplement. She has a special interest in the =
relationship
between England and Ireland which she explored in a biography of =91Lord
Haw-Haw=92 and in her book, Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate between =
Ireland
and the British Monarchy. She will be talking about her recent play
Allegiance which dramatizes the relationship between Michael Collins and
Winston Churchill.=20
=A0
Maurice Leitch has been publishing novels and other works for over fifty
years. Rated by Robert McLiam Wilson, as =91perhaps the finest Irish =
novelist
of his generation=92 he was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1969 =
for
Liberty Lad and won the Whitbread Prize in 1981 for his novel Silver's =
City.
He moved to London from his native County Antrim to work as a BBC radio
producer and became editor of A Book at Bedtime on Radio Four until =
leaving
in 1989 to write full-time. He was awarded an MBE for services to =
literature
in 1999 and will be discussing his latest novel=20
Tell Me About It set amongst the Irish community in London.=20
=A0
Gerard Donovan is the author of the novels Schopenhauer=92s Telescope, =
which
won the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was long-listed for the
2003 Booker Prize, Doctor Salt and, most recently, Julius Winsome, =
described
in the Irish Times as =91a timeless fable of loss, isolation and =
violence.=92
Born in Ireland, he currently lives in the south-west of England and =
will be
discussing his acclaimed book of short stories Country of the Grand,
described by Joseph O=92Connor as =91meltingly beautiful=92 and =91an =
important and
haunting collection=92.=20
=A0
Joe Horgan was born in Birmingham to Irish parents. He was shortlisted =
for
the Hennessy Prize in 2003 and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry =
in
2004. He currently writes a weekly column for the Irish Post and reviews =
for
Books Ireland. His work has also appeared on RTE radio and television. =
His
first collection, Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea, was published by
Doghouse in 2008. In 2010 Horgan published a new collection with Collins
Press, A Song at Your Backdoor, and was anthologised in Landing Places:
Immigrant Poets in Ireland (Dedalus). He is married with three children =
and
lives in County Cork.=20
=A0
Tony Whelan was born near the Mountains of Mourne in 1928 and studied at
Queens University Belfast before moving to England in 1952. He worked as =
a
teacher and later in publishing and public relations and became a close=20
friend of John McGahern. Since retiring, he has developed a specialism =
in
selling second-hand and antiquarian Irish books. He will be discussing =
his
memoir, The Last Chapter, which has been described as, =91a crystal =
clear
window onto his life=92s experiences=92 and =91an intriguing portrait of =
the
literary worlds of Ireland and England in the twentieth century.=92=20

For further information about the course contact Tony Murray at:=20
t.murray[at]londonmet.ac.uk or 020 7133 2593=20
=A0
The Irish Writers in London Summer School is supported by the Garnett
Foundation=20

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Subject: Conference,
Contemporary German-Irish cultural relations in a European
Perspective: Exploring issues in cultural policy and practice,
Goethe-Institut Dublin, 6-7 May 2011
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Forwarded on behalf of
Goethe-Institut Irland

Please find below the programme for the conference =93Contemporary
German-Irish cultural relations in a European Perspective: Exploring =
issues
in cultural policy and practice=94 due to take place in Dublin on 6-7 =
May
2011.
The conference will mark 50 years Goethe-Institut and is jointly =
organised
by the Goethe-Institut Irland and the Centre for Irish-German Studies,
University of Limerick. =A0=A0=A0
Admission is free.
=A0
Contemporary German-Irish cultural relations in a European perspective:
Exploring issues in cultural policy and practice
=A0
A conference to mark 50 years Goethe-Institut Irland
=A0
=A0
Date: 6-7 May 2011
Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
=A0
=A0
=A0
Friday, 6 May 2011
=A0
9.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Welcome
Rolf Stehle, Director Goethe-Institut Irland
=A0
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
Opening
Irish Government representative (tbc)
H.E. Busso von Alvensleben, German Ambassador to Ireland
=A0
9.45=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Keynote lecture=20
Chair: J=FCrgen Barkhoff=20
=A0
Paul Michael L=FCtzeler
U.S. Authors on Europe: Competitions between the European and the =
American
Dream
=A0
10.45=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Coffee
=A0
11.15 =96 12.30 =A0=A0 Session 1:
Perspectives on German external cultural policy and 'culture industries'
Chair: Marian Fitzgibbon
=A0
Max Fuchs
German external cultural policy in a European context
=A0
Andreas Wiesand
Cultural institutions and artistic work in a changing economic =
environment
=A0
12.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Lunch
=A0
13.30 =96 15.15 =A0=A0 Session 2: Culture and cultural policy within the =
EU
Chair: Katherine Meenan
=A0
Doris Pack
EU cultural policy in the context of European integration and =
globalisation=20
=A0
Katherine Watson
Cultural policy and practice in the EU and the European neighbourhood:
Experiences of the European Cultural Foundation
=A0
Horia-Roman Patapievici=20
The role of the National Institutes for Culture in the framework of =
EUNIC:
Cultures, society and policies
=A0
15.15 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Coffee
=A0
15.45 =96 17.15=A0=A0=A0 Panel discussion 1: Challenges and =
opportunities for
cultural policy in times of economic crisis: Irish perspectives
Chair: Michael Cronin=20
=A0
Participants: Mary Cloake, Eugene Downes, Catherine Morris, Willie White
=A0
=A0
Saturday, 7 May 2011
=A0
9.00 =96 10.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Session 3: The Goethe-Institut and =
Ireland=A0=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
Chair: Eda Sagarra
=A0
Joachim Fischer
The Goethe-Institut in Dublin and Irish perceptions of Germany 1961-2011 =

=A0
Rolf Stehle
Aims and strategies of the Goethe-Institut in Ireland and north-western =
=A0
Europe =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 today
=A0
10.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Coffee
=A0
11.00 =96 12.30=A0=A0=A0 Session 4: Cultural exchanges Ireland-Germany
Chair: Florian Krobb
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
Gisela Holfter
After the Irisches Tagebuch: Changes and continuities in the German =
image of
Ireland 1961-2011=20
=A0
Claire O=92Reilly
German-Irish economic ties and their interdependence with the cultural
sphere=20
=A0
12.30=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Lunch
=A0
13.30 =96 15.00=A0=A0=A0 Session 5: Language, language teaching and =
language policy
in Ireland
Chair: Georgia Herlt
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
Maeve Conrick
Language policy and multilingualism in Ireland: Perspectives and =
strategies

=A0
Arnd Witte
Gardening in a Gale: German language teaching in the Republic of Ireland
since 1961
=A0
15.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Coffee
=A0
15.15 =96 16.45=A0=A0=A0 Session 6: Die Zukunft der Germanistik in =
Irland=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =
[in German]
Chair: Andreas Hoeschen
=A0
Participants: Una Carty; Siobh=E1n Donovan; Moray McGowan; Manfred =
Schewe;
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa=20
=A0
16.45=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
=A0=A0=A0 Closing remarks
Joachim Fischer, University of Limerick
=A0
17.00=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Reception=20
=A0
Evening =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Cultural Programme=20
12 Points! =96 New Jazz from Europe=20
Exhibition Judith Raum =96 The Return
=A0=A0
Admission to the conference is free.

Please register with Heidrun Rottke,
Goethe-Institut Irland, Programme Department
Tel.: +353 1 6024403, Email: rottke[at]dublin.goethe.org=20
=A0
The conference Contemporary German-Irish cultural relations in a =
European
perspective: Exploring issues in cultural policy and practice is the =
12th
Conference in Irish-German Studies of the Centre for Irish-German =
Studies,
University of Limerick.
=A0
It is organised by the Centre for Irish-German Studies and the
Goethe-Institut Irland in partnership with the European Union National
Institutes of Culture (EUNIC), the German Embassy, the Embassy of
Switzerland, the Austrian Embassy and Improvised Music Company.
=A0=A0
Goethe-Institut Irland
37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland
T +353 1 6611155
F +353 1 6611358
info[at]dublin.goethe.org
=A0
=A0

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Subject: Conference, Travelling Towards Home: Mobilities and Home Making,
London, 23-24 June 2011
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Travelling Towards Home: mobilities and home making
Conference
23-24 June 2011=20

Khalili Lecture Theatre, Main Building, SOAS, University of London
This conference aims to stimulate the use of notions of home and home =
making
as ethnographic and theoretical lenses through which to view aspects of =
the
relation between global migrations (of all kinds, including tourism) and
trans-national identities.
=A0
Rapport and Overing (2007) identify home as a =91key concept=92 in =
social
anthropology central to questions of identity. =A0They further argue =
that,
given a world shaped by migration, both concepts need defining in a way
=93that transcends traditional definitions of identity in terms of =
locality,
ethnicity, religiosity, and/or nationality and is sensitive to =
allocations
of identity which may be multiple, situational, individual, and =
paradoxical=94
(176).

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s there has been a consistent stream of
writings =A0on the theme of the relation between mobility and the idea =
of home
which have moved beyond traditional anthropological boundaries: Mack =
(1991)
and Bammer (1992) on the theoretical possibilities of the term home in a
globally mobile world, Robertson=92s (1994) collection of travellers=92 =
tales
about displacement and loss of home, Kain (1997) and Kheter (2001) on
leaving home in South Asia and Lebanon respectively, Levitt and Waters
(2002) on how migration has challenged traditional meanings of home, =
Long
and Oxfield (2004) on refugees and ideas of home, Walters (2005) on home =
and
diasporas in black writing, and others. However, Aguilar=92s (2002:24)
contention that =A0=93ubiquitous in the migration literature, =91home=92 =
and
=91family=92 are words that appear self-evident but, on reflection, =
signal a
domain of problematic assumptions, methodological complexities, and
hegemonic discourses and ideologies .. magnified by processes of =
movement
and displacement=94 still has considerable traction today.

This conference thus sets out to respond both to the considerable and
growing general interest in the relation between mobilities and ideas of
home but also to the uneven and arguably thin engagement with the field
within the social sciences. We hope to generate a research framework =
capable
of grasping the theoretical and analytical possibilities that the =
relation
between home and mobility promises.

=A0=A0Registration =A0
Conference fee =A330. =A0Further details on how to register will be made
available in due course.
=A0Enquiries =A0
Centres & Programmes Office, events[at]soas.ac.uk or Tel: 020 7898 4892/3

=A0=A0Further Information =A0
Further information, including the programme, will be posted on the =
event
page after the Easter
break:=A0www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/

=A0Conference Organisers =A0
Tom Selwyn,=A0ts14[at]soas.ac.uk=A0and Parvathi Raman,=A0pr1[at]soas.ac.uk

SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London =
WC1H
OXG

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Subject: First-person writing,
four-way reading: ESF Research Conference 1-3 December 2011 -
Call for papers
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"Kristin Kuutma"


First-person writing, four-way reading

The Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science =20
Foundation announces a three-day international cross-disciplinary =20
Research Conference, to run in London 1-3 December 2011. It aims to =20
bring together scholars from four academic fields =96 literature, =20
history, medical humanities and ethnography =96 to discuss a common =20
object of research: first-person writing.

The term =91writing=92 is meant literally: the first-person material on =

which the project focuses is textual rather than oral, whether =20
published or unpublished. The time-period covered is from the early =20
modern period to the present day. Though the language of the =20
conference will be English, material in any language may be referred =20
to (using originals, translations and/or parallel texts).

The term =91reading=92 is meant primarily in a metaphorical sense: how =
do =20
scholars from these four fields investigate, interpret or, more =20
broadly, =91use=92 first-person texts, what differences can be found in =

their methods and applications, and how can they debate these =20
commonalities and differences in fruitful ways? It is hoped that, =20
after the conference, further international and interdisciplinary =20
research collaboration will be developed.


THE CONFERENCE IS COORGANISED BY:

Naomi Segal (UK): literature
Fran=E7ois-Joseph Ruggiu (FR): history
Petter Aaslestad (NO): medical humanities
Kristin Kuutma (EE): ethnography

Among the invited speakers are (alphabetically):

Arianne Baggerman (NL)
Rita Charon (USA)
Brian Hurwitz (UK)
Alexander Kiossev (BG)
Giorgio Pressburger (IT)
Nigel Rapport (UK)
Philip Rieder (CH)
Michael Sheringham (UK)
Amy Shuman (USA)
Claudia Ulbrich (DE)
Yuri Zaretsky (RU)

For full details, the Call for Papers (deadline 4 June) and the Call =20
for Subsidy Applications (deadline 31 July), see
http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/strategic-activities/first-p=
ers
on-writing-four-way-reading.html

Any other queries, email naomi.segal[at]sas.ac.uk or humanities[at]esf.org

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Subject: CFP, Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space, Oxford,
22-23 September 2011
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Call for Papers
Ethnography, diversity and urban space

COMPAS, University of Oxford
22-23 September 2011

The intensification of global flows in the current period has led =
scholars
to describe cities like London as =91super-diverse=92: a =
=91diversification of
diversity=92, with a population characterised by multiple ethnicities,
countries of origin, immigration statuses, and age profiles (Vertovec =
2007).
The diversification of diversity in cities opens up two key research
agendas: 1) It disturbs traditional ethnographic modes of research.
Super-diverse neighbourhoods are more local than ever, but also =
increasingly
transnational. The mythic lone researcher, immersed in a bounded
=91community=92, cannot represent this reality. New modes of =
collaboration and
new forms of the ethnographic imagination are required; 2) =
Super-diversity
is a spatial and an urban process. How are emerging and changing forms =
of
multiculture structured in and by space, and how is urban space =
structured
in and by diversity=92s multiplication? How is diversity experienced =
locally,
and what new forms of local belonging emerge?

The aims of this conference are: to address the missing dimension of
migration and mobility in the literature on urban space, and the missing
dimension of spatiality in the literature on diversity; and to develop =
new
modes of inquiry appropriate to the contemporary challenge of
super-diversity.=20

Confirmed keynote speakers are Ash Amin (Geography, Durham) and Nina
Glick-Schiller (Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, =
Manchester).

We invite proposals for papers which investigate aspects related to the
conference themes and we welcome in particular proposals that focus on =
the
following areas:
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Understanding belonging and =
diversity in complex urban spaces
=95=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Changing practices of fieldwork =
and new and old modes of
ethnographic investigation

Abstracts from early career researchers are especially welcome.

If you wish to present a paper please submit an abstract (max 250 words) =
and
a brief CV (1 page) to vanessa.hughes[at]compas.ox.ac.uk by Monday 6th June
2011. Participants will be notified if their paper has been included by
Friday 17th June. Full written papers should be submitted by 30th August
2011 for pre-circulation among participants. Please note that we can =
only
accommodate a limited number of papers in the programme.=20

It is anticipated to turn conference proceedings into one or two journal
special issues in high impact peer-reviewed journals. Papers should
therefore be based on original research and should not have been =
published
already or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please note
that inclusion in the conference programme does not guarantee inclusion =
in
any publications arising from the conference.=20

The conference is organised by Mette Berg, Ben Gidley, Vanessa Hughes, =
and
Nando Sigona (COMPAS, Oxford University) and is part of the work =
programme
of COMPAS=92s research cluster on urban change and settlement.

For further information about the conference and COMPAS=92 research on =
urban
change and settlement, please visit
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/research/urbanchange/

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Subject: Funded PhD places in Digital Arts and Humanities, An Foras Feasa,
NUI Maynooth
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An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth

An Foras Feasa is pleased to invite applications for funded 4-year =
doctoral
studentships in Digital Arts and Humanities, commencing late September =
2011.
These are part of the structured PhD programme funded by PRTLI 5 in a
consortium comprising National University of Ireland Maynooth, National
University of Ireland Galway, Trinity College Dublin and University =
College
Cork. The studentships consist of a stipend of 16,000 euro per year, for
four years, plus fees (at Irish and EU level).

What is DAH?
DAH is a four-year structured doctoral research-training programme =
designed
to enable students to carry out research in the arts and humanities at =
the
highest level using new media and computer technologies.

DAH at NUI Maynooth
DAH students at NUI Maynooth will be part of An Foras Feasa's research
institute which has state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities in =
the
university's newly-opened Iontas building and a dynamic postgraduate
community. Students will participate in a collaborative Structured Phd
Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating
academic department (e.g. English, Music, Media Studies, History, Celtic
Studies, Modern Languages).

Sample DAH/AFF Research Projects
Applications to NUI Maynooth are welcome for both Digital Arts and
Humanities research streams.=A0 Applications related to the following =
research
areas are particularly welcome:
o=A0Twentieth-century Irish Cultural Criticism and New Developments in =
Digital
Literary Humanities: see=A0http://bilc.nuim.ie/bilc/
o=A0=A0Social Networks in Nineteenth-Century Irish Fiction: Literary =
Text Mining
o=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Using Virtual Research Environments for Historical =
Research:
see=A0http://www.irishineurope.com/
o=A0Constructing Historical Social Networks in a Digital Age
o=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Nineteenth-Century Studies and Digital Visual =
Culture
o=A0=A0Computational Philology
o=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Aspects and Strategies of Live-Electronic Music
o=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Spectromorphology and Phenomenology
o=A0=A0=A0=A0Digital Signal Processing and Music Creation

Candidates already enrolled on Structured PhD Programmes are not =
eligible to
apply.

For more information about the application procedure, or to discuss your
application informally, please contact An Foras Feasa's Project Officer =
Dr
Jennifer Kelly at=A0jennifer.kelly[at]nuim.ie=A0=A0or (353) 1 474 7105. See
also=A0www.forasfeasa.ie=A0.

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Subject: Funded PhD place,
'The imagery of political unions in the Palace of Westminster,
1830s-1920s
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Applications are invited for an=A0Arts and Humanities Research =
Council-funded
doctoral project on 'The imagery of political unions in the Palace of
Westminster, 1830s-1920s' at the=A0Department of Art =
History,=A0University of
Nottingham.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/art-history/research/ahrc-westminster.aspx

=A0AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award =96 The imagery of political union =
in the
Palace of Westminster, 1830-1920s

PhD Studentship

The Department of Art History invites application for an AHRC =
Collaborative
Doctoral Award starting 1 October 2011. The award is made between the
University and the Palace of Westminster and will focus on The imagery =
of
political union in the Palace of Westminster, 1830-1920s.

The fees and maintenance grant studentship, which will support three =
years
of full-time study (subject to satisfactory progress, is funded through =
the
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Awards Scheme.

The imagery of political union in the Palace of Westminster, 1830-1920s

Supervision

Research will be supervised jointly by Professor Fintan Cullen in the
Department of Art History at The University of Nottingham and the Palace =
of
Westminster.

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Eligibility
The successful applicant will contribute to activities at both the
University of Nottingham and the Palace of Wetsminster. The successful
applicant will need to meet the AHRC=92s academic criteria for doctoral =
study
and demonstrate the potential to develop advanced research skills.

Candidates must also meet the AHRC=92s requirements for UK/EU residency.
Standard tuition fees and (for UK students only) a maintenance grant =
will be
paid by the AHRC for three years of full-time study.

Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Carmel McCaffrey
Subject: Re: Book Notice, The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews,
and Irish from 1845 to 1945
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I am delighted to see George Bornstein's book out at last. He wrote an=20
interesting paper on this subject some years ago so this is a welcome=20
addition.
Thanks.
Carmel

On 5/10/2011 9:41 AM, Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
> The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945
> By George Bornstein Harvard University Press. 272pp, =A320.95. ISBN
> 9780674057012. Published 24 February 2011
>
> A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in =
the
> years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors =
of
> Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these thr=
ee
> groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater=
than
> often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poe=
ts,
> musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a
> sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If wh=
at
> they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructi=
ons
> of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and
> division. As George Bornstein says in his Introduction, he chooses =93t=
o let
> the principals speak for themselves.=94
>
> While acknowledging past conflicts and tensions, Bornstein insists on
> recovering the =93lost connections=94 through which these groups freque=
ntly
> defined their plights as well as their aspirations. In doing so, he exa=
mines
> a wide range of materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostil=
e
> race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices=
, and
> Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The Melting Pot a=
nd
> Abie=92s Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses and Daniel Deronda, =
music
> from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as The Jazz
> Singer. The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a
> century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only w=
e
> bear them in mind. He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and invidi=
ous
> categories of race and ethnicity.
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=3D9780674057012
>
>
> R

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: IRISH IN BRITAIN SEMINAR SERIES, Mary J Hickman, Diaspora space,
17 MAY 2011 - 6.30 pm
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Irish in Britain Seminar Series continues on Tuesday 17 May at 6.30 pm
with a talk on:

Diaspora space, national (re)formations and Irish immigration
to Britain and the USA
Professor Mary J Hickman, London Metropolitan University

In this paper I examine the relationship between diaspora space and
national (re)formations. By national formation I am referring to the
creation and articulation of shifting and contingent borders, the
constitution of specific social relations, and the generation of
processes of inclusion, exclusion and subordinated inclusion that
characterize nation states. I suggest the potential of the lens of
diaspora space for illuminating national (re)formations by refocusing
the study of Irish migration, away from ethnic historiography, and
towards the comparative study of Irish encounters in the diasporic
spaces of nineteenth century USA and mid-twentieth century Britain. One
reason to examine the relationship between national (re)formations and
diaspora space is that reflecting on past instances of national
formation or reconfiguration contributes to understanding contemporary
societies because the discourses, practices, hierarchies and identities
of present day societies are layered on those of previous immigrations,
prior encounters and the new social relations they inaugurated. A
further reason to revisit national formations and reconfigurations
through the lens of diaspora space is that national formation is not
solely about the making of difference compared with other nations. The
processes of national becoming that can be traced in specific contexts
also involve the making of difference within the national. I will argue
here that the lens of diaspora space produces a fuller reading of the
generation and intersection of social divisions across time and space
and therefore of national formations and reconfigurations.

Mary Hickman is Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology and Director of
the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London
Metropolitan University. She established the Irish Studies Centre at the
former University of North London and was a member of the Irish
Governments Task Force on Policy regarding Emigrants (2001-2002). She
has been visiting Professor at: New York University, Columbia
University, the New School for Social Research in New York, and Victoria
University, Melbourne. Her research interests centre on migrations and
diasporas, the Irish in Britain, second and third generations,
Britishness and representations of minority ethnic communities and she
has published widely on these subjects. She was director of the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation's Flagship Project for their Immigration and
Inclusion Programme, 'Rhythms and Realities of Everyday Life: improving
our understanding of the relationship between recent immigration and
social cohesion, 2005-2008.

FUTURE SEMINARS

24 May, Dr Marc Scully, Open University
'It's not as if I'm a "fake" Irish person': 'Authenticity' and the Irish
in England

31 May, Whitney Standlee, University of Liverpool
'Making Rebels': Home Rule Politics and the Novels of Diasporic Irish
Women in Britain

***Please bring a copy of this email or the attached flyer with you to
gain entry***

Seminars will take place on Tuesday evenings between 6.30-8.00pm
Room T1-20, Tower Building,
London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, N7 8DB

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Sender: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Book Notice,
INDIAN ANGLES English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore
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This study of the English language literature of India will interest a
number of Ir-D members. A section of the book can be read on Google Books.

The important point here is most probably the study of the ways in which the
fissures of Britain's 'internal colonialism' are explored by writers in
India in dialogues with Scottish and Irish writers. One of the poems
studied, for example, is Derozio, 'The Harp of India', which references
Thomas Moore, and all other harp poems.

P.O'S.

INDIAN ANGLES
English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore

By Mary Ellis Gibson
"This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively
presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting."
Tricia Lootens - author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian
Literary Canonization

In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to
Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the
dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that
poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about
figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than
novels can. Gibson recreates the historical webs of affiliation and
resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial India-writers of
British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities.

Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial
literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore
neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by
non-elite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century,
have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history
of English language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and
Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing on contemporary postcolonial theory, her work
also provides new ways of thinking about British internal colonialism as its
results were exported to South Asia.

In lucid and accessible prose, Gibson presents a new theoretical approach to
colonial and postcolonial literatures.


Mary Ellis Gibson is the Elizabeth Rosenthal Professor of English and
Women's and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her
books include History and the Prism of Art: Browning's Poetic Experiments
and Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. She has also edited
several other anthologies, including New Stories by Southern Women,
Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers, and Critical Essays on
Robert Browning.

http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Indian+Angles

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Obama: The Moneygall Connection
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You might miss this - on the County Offaly web site...

Obama: The Moneygall Connection

http://www.offaly.ie/eng/Services/Heritage/Documents/Obama_The_Moneygall_Con
nection.pdf

http://www.offaly.ie/eng/Services/Heritage/

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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Thesis,
The ghost in the Irish psyche: Ghost stories in contemporary
Irish literature
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The ghost in the Irish psyche: Ghost stories in contemporary Irish
literature
by Ferguson, Molly Elizabeth, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, 2010, 253
pages; 3428888

Abstract:

This critical project identifies supernatural figures and ghost story
narratives in contemporary Irish literature, revealing the creative power of
the ghost as a metaphor through which to express widespread anxiety. Though
ghost stories and supernatural tales have existed from the earliest oral
literature in Ireland, these stories are reinvented each generation as
manifestations of past traumas and current vexations that the Irish are
facing at the time of writing. I argue that while exercising the collective
memory of the culture to promote a self-identity distinct from its colonial
past, ghost stories tap into structures of communal storytelling that are
adapted to express encoded fears about the present.

I examine ghost story narratives embedded in select Irish drama, short
stories and poetry published from 1987-2007, reading these stories as
shuttling between repressive and emergent expression. I contend that when a
ghost appears in one of these texts, it is a symbol containing loss that has
yet to be fully grieved because of its traumatic nature. Artists who implore
a kind of keening to commence through literary animations of ghosts are
asserting a postcolonial resistance to replicating exploitative colonial
thinking. Specifically, in this recent period, I argue that horror tales
take shape through artists' concerns over racism, imperialism, and
globalization. When social critique is exposed through the transgressive
spirit of the ghost, whose speech is often silence, narratives of community
give voice to those who lack power. My implicit suggestion is that if ghost
stories are a resistant discourse to colonialism, their hybrid nature
comprised of past and present offers a discourse that destabilizes literary
forms inherited from the colonizer. My analysis configures the ghost story
as a paradigm of the familiar becoming strange, dramatizing the trope of a
stranger who crosses the threshold of the home and disturbs the order
within. Ireland is in a unique position to usher in such unsettling
narratives, as a postcolonial nation that is exhuming its past horrors while
confronting the uncertainty of its present prominence in the European Union
and the international community at large.