CONFERENCE TIMETABLE (UPDATED 12 APRIL 2023)
Please note that the conference timetable for Saturday, April 15, has been tweaked since previous posts.
A PDF version of the conference timetable, including abstracts, can be downloaded here.
Friday, April 14
11:00 Conference Launch
Panel 1
11:30 Michael Linkletter (St. Francis Xavier University): “Eilean Eòin, Eilean a’ Phrionnsa agus an t-Eilean Fada – Gaelic Place Names and Prince Edward Island”
12:00 Lodaidh MacFhionguin (Government of Nova Scotia): “Space, Place, Nurture: Fostering a Welcoming Environment for Scottish Gaelic Learners in Nova Scotia and Beyond”
12:30 Màiri Britton (St. Francis Xavier University): “Language in Lyrics: The Cape Breton Gaelic Folklore Collection”
1:00 Lunch Break
Panel 2: UNESCO Partnerships
2:00 Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow): “UNESCO Sites Unseen: Place-based learning in a globalised world”
2:30 Julie Pellissier-Lush (Mi’kmaq Cultural Consultant): “Mi’kmaq Culture Today”
3:00 Brittnee Leysen (University of Glasgow): “Placemaking in Nova Scotia: A study of the UNESCO Geopark the Cliffs of Fundy”
Panel 3
3:45 Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh): “ ‘Ciod a tha bhar luchd rialaidh ag baile ag deanamh?’: Rev. James McLagan’s American War”
4:15 Sophie Stephenson (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: “ From Malaig Bheag to Manhattan: The Story of Transnational Gael, ‘Angus The Yank’ (1892–1978)”
4:45 Tony Ó Floinn (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick): “An tOileán Úr – Fresh Inspiration in the Poetry of Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún (1777-1857)?”
Book Launch
5:30 Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle (eds.), North American Gaels: Speech, Story and Song in the Diaspora
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Saturday, April 15
Panel 4
9:45 Máirtín Coilféir (Concordia University): “Eachtraí Hucailbeirí Finn: Americans on a Raft in Waterford”
10:15 Shamus MacDonald (St. Francis Xavier University): “Amplifying the voice of tradition: Putting fieldwork recordings to use in Gaelic Nova Scotia”
10:45 Pádraig Ó Siadhail (St. Mary’s University, Halifax): “ ‘Ceanada’: Two 1960s’ Irish-language perspectives on Canada”
Panel 5
11:30 Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh), Natasha Sumner (Harvard University): “Gaelic language acquisition motivation and identity orientation among Scottish diasporas in Nova Scotia and New England”
12:00 Aidan Doyle (University College Cork): “The experiences of Irish speakers in North America in their own words”
12:30 Raymond Jess (Concordia University): “Ireland, French Canada and the Gaelic League Debates”
1:00 Lunch Break
Panel 6
2:00 Matthew Knight (University of South Florida): “Awaking the West: The Chicago Citizen and the Irish Language Movement in America”
2:30 Brian Frykenberg (Cumann na Gaeilge), Natasha Sumner (Harvard University), Gregory Darwin (Uppsala University): “Anonn is anall: Oral history and the Irish language in Greater Boston and New England”
3:00 Brian Ó Conchubhair (Notre Dame): “Hidden Histories? The Irish, the Irish Language and Chicago: 1850-2000”
Film Screening
4:00 Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin (Concordia University): “The Lost Children of the Carricks”
5:00 Conference Close