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Adventurers, Emissaries and Settlers: Ireland and Latin America
27-30 June 2007, National University of Ireland, Galway


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(Updated: 07/05/2009 17:06)


Venue: except where otherwise indicated, all events will take place at the Centre for Irish Studies, Seminar Room, Distillery Road, NUI Galway main campus. See NUI Galway campus map including conference venues.

Wednesday
27 June 2007
Thursday
28 June 2007
Friday
29 June 2007

Daytime Sessions

  Panel Three:
Settlement Schemes I

Chair: Claire Healy, Immigrant Council of Ireland, Dublin
9.00 am - 10.30 am
Panel Seven:
Diplomacy

Chair: Laura Izarra, Universidade de São Paulo
and SILAS President
9.00 am - 10.30 am
  Coffee Break
10.30 pm - 11.00 pm
Coffee Break
10.30 pm - 11.00 pm
  Panel Four:
Settlement Schemes II

Chair: Oliver Marshall, Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford
11.00 am - 12.30 pm
Panel Eight:
Identities

Chair: Derrick Marcus, São Paulo
11.00 am - 12.30 pm
Lunch
Provided on NUI, Galway campus
(College Restaurant An Bhialann)
12.30 pm - 2.00 pm
SILAS Executive Committee Meeting
Lunch
Provided on NUI, Galway campus
(IT Building Lobby)
12.30 pm - 1.30 pm
Lunch
Provided on NUI, Galway campus
(College Restaurant An Bhialann)
12.30 pm - 2.00 pm
Arrival and registration
2.00 pm
SILAS
Annual General Meeting

1.30 pm - 2.30 pm
Notice - Annual Report -
Treasurer's Report
Panel Nine:
Literature

Chair: Edmundo Murray,
University
of Zurich

2.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Opening of Conference
Panel One:
Historiography

Chair: Mary Harris, NUI Galway
2.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Panel Five:
Journalism
Chair: Arnold R. Highfield, University of the Virgin Islands
2.30 pm - 4.00 pm
 
Coffee Break
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Coffee Break
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Coffee Break
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Panel Two:
Origins

Chair: Mary Harris, NUI Galway
4.00 pm - 6.00 pm
Panel Six:
Business and Employment

Chair: Derrick Marcus, São Paulo
4.00 pm - 6.00 pm
Roundtable Discussion and Conference Close
4.00 pm - 5.30 pm
  SILAS Reception
sponsored by
the Brazilian Embassy to Ireland and
Smurfit Kappa Group plc
7.00 pm
Announcement of
2007-2008 ILARF Grant Awards
 
Colonialism Conference
Plenary Lecture
(IT Building Room 250)
8.00 pm
Patrick Wolfe, Victoria University, Melbourne. Beyond the Pale(stine) of Settlement: Settler Colonialism, Its Barriers and Its Contradictions.
Colonialism Conference
Plenary Lecture
(IT Building Room 250)
8.00 pm
Elleke Boehmer, Royal Holloway, University of London. Where We Belong: South Africa as Settler Colony and the Battle over Indigeneity.
Colonialism Conference
Plenary Lecture
(IT Building Room 250)
8.00 pm
Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles. Zionism Then and Now.
Other Activities
Optional drinks
at Ward's Hotel,
Lower Salthill Road.
Optional drinks
at Ward's Hotel,
Lower Salthill Road.
Optional drinks
at Ward's Hotel,
Lower Salthill Road.
 
Note: Louise O’Connor’s short film Simpatico: The Mexican/Irish Relationship in South Texas will be available by arrangement.


SILAS is extremely grateful to the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Brazilian Embassy to Ireland, and Smurfit Kappa plc for their support of the conference.


Online published: 15 March 2007
Edited: 07 May 2009
 

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