Irish Studies

  • Founded
    1973
  • Seminar Number
    535

This seminar serves as an interdisciplinary forum on all aspects and periods of Irish culture. Seminar participants come from a wide variety of fields: history, literature, art history, film studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, music, and folklore. These scholars bring to any topic under discussion a diversity of background which is stimulating and informative for all present. The concern for Irish studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is reflected in the collegial sharing of information about resources and repositories for research in the field.

Co-Chairs
Professor Mary McGlynn
mary.mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu

Professor Terrence Byrne
byrneter@tcnj.edu

Rapporteur
Naomi Michalowicz
nm2925@columbia.edu

Meeting dates and locations are subject to change. Please confirm details with the seminar rapporteur.

Welcome

Meetings

09/07/2018 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
The Harp and the Telephone
Emily Bloom, Columbia University




11/02/2018 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
A Message to the Free Nations of the World: Commemorating a Global Ireland, 2019-2023
Darragh Gannon, Queen's University Belfast




12/07/2018 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM

Ely Janis, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts




02/01/2019 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Reconstructing Ulysses: Joyce’s Dublin, Literary Artifacts, and Historic Preservation
Therese Cox, Columbia University




03/01/2019 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Roundtable on Mike McCormack's prizewinning novel Solar Bones
Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook University, SUNY
Abstract

Mary McGlynn, Baruch College, CUNY
Abstract

Destry Maria Sibley, CUNY Graduate Center
Abstract

Carmel McMahon, Queens College, CUNY
Abstract

Notes: The fifth speaker on the roundtable will be Caleb Fridell (CUNY Graduate Center) presenting on “The Concrete and Abstract of Solar Bones”.
04/05/2019 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
The Political Imagination of Irish Lesbian and Gay Fiction
Michael Cronin, Maynooth University




05/03/2019 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture and the Ethics of Proclaiming Happiness
Tara Harney-Mahajan, Caldwell University