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