April 14-17 2005

The Keough Institute for Irish Studies will host the 43rd Annual Meeting of The American Conference for Irish Studies. In conjunction with the conference, the Keough Institute will also host a series of musical, theatrical, and literary performances, including a performance by premier Irish musical groupAltán, hosted by the new Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts; readings by Irish poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh and writer Nuala O'Faolain; a special exhibit at the Snite Museum by Irish painter Margaret Corcoran; recitals by the traditional Irish singers Maighread and Tríona Ni Dhómhnaill; a special display of the Hesburgh Library's unique holdings in manuscripts, books, and maps, including the newly acquired Loeber Collection; and a lecture-demonstration by Jean Butler, the original Riverdance star and Irish dance innovator. This event will also coincide with a reception and celebration hosted by the Keough Institute to mark the 25th Anniversary of the foundation of Field Day and the official launch of the Field Day Review, a new annual journal of Irish criticism and culture, edited by Keough faculty Breandán Mac Suibhne and Seamus Deane.

The plenary speakers include James R. Barrett, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Angela Bourke, Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish, University College Dublin; Seamus Deane, Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame; Thomas Kilroy, International award-winning novelist and playwright; Joep Leerssen, Professor of Modern European Literature and co-chair of the Programme in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam; Nuala O'Faolain, Irish Times columnist and award-winning writer; David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Katie Trumpener, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University.

1-3 May 2005

T.B.A., CCE, McKenna Hall TBA
"Forms of Empire," An International Conference, seeks to redress the realities of historical and contemporary imperialism and expand the ways in which we comprehend the political and ethical implications of colonial practices and what role our forms of investigation play in the knowledge we produce. Speakers include: Patrick Brantlinger(Indiana), Amanda Anderson (Johns Hopkins), Luke Gibbons (Notre Dame), Kate Baldwin (Notre Dame), Aamir Mufti (UCLA), and Anthony Barrymore Bogues (Brown).

Co-sponsored by English Department, The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Ph.D. Program in Literature, ISLA (the Henkels Grant), the Department of Anthropology, the African and African-American Studies Program, and the Graduate School.

The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies is an interdisciplinary project devoted to teaching and research in Irish culture in all its internal aspects and external relations.