Friday, October 2, 2009
Joseph O’Connor, Baruch College
will lecture on “Lady and the Tramp: The Love Affair of John Millington Synge
and Molly Allgood”

Friday, October 23, 2009
Brian Mercer Walker, Queen's University, Belfast
will lecture on “Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama and the Irish Connection”

Friday, November 13, 2009
Stuart J. McLean, University of Minnesota
will lecture on “All the Living and the Dead: An Anthropothanatological Reading
of Joyce and Synge”

Friday, November 20, 2009
Dorothy Cross, Mixed Media Artist
working in sculpture, installation, performance, photography and film will introduce her work.

Friday, December 4, 2009
Larry Kirwan, Novelist and Lead Singer of Black 47
will lecture on “Rock and Read?”

Past Events:

October 10, 2008
William J. Smyth, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork
will lecture on ‘Who are the Irish?: A Cultural Geography of Names, Narratives
and “Nations”’

October 17, 2008
Oona Frawley, Trinity College, Dublin
will lecture on “Ireland and Cultural Memory”

November 7, 2008
Len Graham, Singer
will lecture on “It’s of My Rambles . . . A Journey in the Song Tradition of Ulster”

November 21, 2008
Adrian Frazier, National University of Ireland, Galway
will lecture on “The Quiet Man and the Playboy of the Western World”

December 5-6, 2008
The History and Traditions of Bardic Poetry:  A Symposium with Musical Performances will feature Catherine McKenna, Harvard University; Damian McManus, Trinity College Dublin; M. Katharine Simms, Trinity College, Dublin; Padraig O’Machain, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; Padraig Breatnach, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and harpist Kathleen Loughnane. This event is co-sponsored by: The Davis Center, Department of English, Department of History and the Humanities Council.

February 6, 2009
Dan Gunn, American University of Paris
will lecture on “From Spasm to Indigence: The Writer’s Duty as Revealed through
Samuel Beckett’s Letters”

February 20, 2009
Allan Hepburn, McGill University
will lecture on “At Home Abroad: Elizabeth Bowen in America”

February 27, 2009
Kevin Sweeney, Director, Irish American Climate Project and Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
will lecture on “Shades of Green: Ireland and Climate Change”

March 6, 2009
Colum Hourihane, Director, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University
will lecture on “Pilate in Early Christian Ireland-Reinterpreting the Evidence”

March 27, 2009
Colm Tóibín, author of Mothers and Sons
will lecture on Flann O’Brien’s novel At Swim-Two-Birds