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Ireland and Atlantic Slavery symposium
Friday 11 April 2025, 10:00-17:00 EDT, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
The Georgetown University Global Irish Studies Initiative, in collaboration with the GU Center for the Study of Slavery and GU Humanities Initiative, is proud to convene a major international academic symposium on ‘Ireland and Atlantic Slavery’. Bringing together scholars from Ireland, Canada, Cuba, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this symposium will explore the historic experiences, and commemorative legacies, which have denoted Irish engagement with slavery across the Atlantic.
Giselle González García, Concordia Ph.D. candidate in History and Irish Studies is one of the panelists in The Black and Green Atlantic - New Voices Workshop (via Zoom)
The W.B. Yeats Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish Literature (USA)
The Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame is inviting applications for the W.B. Yeats Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Literature. The fellowship runs for two years and is open to recent PhDs conducting research that includes a substantial focus on Irish literature. The starting date is 1 August 2025, and the fellowship will run until 31 July 2027.
Deadline: Applications are due by 15 April 2025
Call For Submissions: Irish History on Prince Edward Island
The Call For Submissions for The Island Magazine's special issue on Irish history on Prince Edward Island is now open.
In 2025, the Benevolent Irish Society of Prince Edward Island (BIS of PEI) celebrates its 200th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, The Island Magazine is looking for submissions on Irish history on PEI. This could be, but is not limited to, the history of the BIS, Irish emigration to PEI, Irish communities and culture on PEI, or Islanders who’ve impacted Irish and Irish Canadian history.
Deadline: 30 June 2025
Imagallamh: The Kylemore Summer School in Irish Studies
8-20 June 2025
The Keough-Naughton Institute at the University of Notre Dame is delighted to invite applications for the 2025 session of Imagallamh: the Kylemore Summer School in Irish Studies at Notre Dame Kylemore in Connemara, and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Students will stay in residence in Kylemore (week 1) and at the CCI (week 2). All successful applicants will have their travel, tuition, and accommodation fully funded by the School. The School is open to all graduate students currently completing a Master’s or PhD in any discipline who have an interest in Irish Studies.
Imagallamh means “mutual discourse”, and the emphasis of the summer school will be on bringing graduate students into conversation on topics of Irish interest with leading figures in scholarship, the arts, culture, and politics. The theme of the school this summer will be “Ireland and France”. While in residence at Kylemore Abbey, participants will follow a seminar on contemporary Irish fiction and poetry led by Prof. Clíona Ní Ríordáin, and in the afternoons participate in conversations and readings with a group of writers who will be in residence for the duration: Anne Enright, Mike McCormack, and Annemarie Ní Churreáin. After Kylemore, the School will move to Paris, where the focus will be on the historical and literary links between Ireland and France. Over the Bloomsday weekend, participants will be part of a symposium on Joyce in Paris; in the following days they will attend a seminar given by Profs. Peter McQuillan and Rory Rapple on Irish exiles on the continent in the 16th and 17th centuries, and attend lectures by invited speakers, including Roy Foster, Ciarán O’Neill, Pascale Sardin, Laurent Colantonio and Slimane Hargas. Topics covered will include Yeats in France, Irish revolutionaries in 19th-century Paris, Samuel Beckett, Ireland and French colonialism.
Deadline to submit a one page statement of interest and a CV: 11 April 2025 to sdeneher@nd.edu
