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Thursday, September 8
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola auditorium, Tucumán 1845
9.00 Accreditation.
Morning sessions:
9.30 Opening Session
- Justin Harman (Ambassador of Ireland)
HISTORY and SOCIO-POLITICAL STUDIES
10.00 Reaction in Argentina to Easter Rising
- Dermot Keogh (University College Cork, Ireland). "Argentine, the 1916 Rising and the Irish Revolution"
- Mariano Galazzi (Universidad Austral). "Indifference or indignation: Contemporary attitudes towards the Easter Rising in Argentina"
Coordinator: Juan José Delaney
Coffe break
11.30 The Irish in Argentina
- Roberto Landaburu (Historian). "Irlandeses en la Pampa Gringa. Curas y Ovejeros. Colonia Ovejera del Venado Tuerto."
- Sebastián Felgueras (School of Agronomy, USAL) "Luján afuera, la pampa irlandesa"
- Roberto Elissalde (Historian). "Irlandeses en la Argentina. Aporte sobre algunos personajes"
Coordinator: María Eugenia Cruset
Afternoon sessions:
14.30 Centenary of the Easter Rising from an Argentine Perspective
- Sergio Kiernan (Journalist). "El patriotismo irlandés a un siglo de la rebelión"
- Guillermo David (National Library) "The process of curating the 1916-2016 Ireland Exhibition"
Coordinator: Irish Embassy representative.
15.30 Translating the Irish
- Gerardo Gambolini (Translator). “Transposing Ireland.”
- Matías Battistón (Translator). Book presentation: Spanish edition of James Stephens' "The Insurrection in Dublin" .
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Coordinator: Lucía Carretero (USAL)
Coffe break
16.15 Argentina-Irlanda Bilateral Relations
- Ambassador Silvia Merega (Former Argentine Ambassador to Ireland). "Relaciones Bilaterales Argentina-Irlanda"
- Ambassador Justin Harman
16.45 The Irish in Latin America
- Ambassador Justin Harman. "La presencia irlandesa en América Latina"
- Laura Izarra (Universidade de Sao Paulo). "The Irish in Latin America: Shared Narratives of Revolutions, Migration and Culture."
Coordinator: Mariano Galazzi
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Friday, September 9 | |
Saint Ignatius of Loyola auditorium
9.00 Accreditation.
Morning sessions:
IRISH STUDIES IN THE ACADEMIC CONTEXT
9.30 Panel with representatives of Universities with Irish Studies Programs
- Christopher Fox (University of Notre Dame). "Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies."
- Dermot Keogh (University College Cork). "International Summer School in Irish Studies"
- Laura Izarra (Universidade de Sao Paulo). Cátedra de Estudos Irlandeses W.B. Yeats".
- María Graciela Eliggi (Universidad de La Pampa). "Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras".
- María Eugenia Cruset (Universidad Nacional de La Plata). "Cátedra Libre de pensamiento y Cultura Irlandesa".
- Paula Ortiz (USAL)."Cátedra extracurricular de Estudios irlandeses".
Coordinator: Paula Ortiz
Coffe break
11.30 Language, Literature and Cultural Identity
- Juan José Delaney (USAL - ACI). "Identidad Irish-Porteña en la escritura de Rodolfo J. Walsh"
- María Graciela Eliggi (Universidad Nacional de La Pampa). "Ecos de Irlanda en Argentina: la obra de Juan José Delaney".
- Diarmuid O Giollain (University of Notre Dame). "In Search of the Volksgeist in Argentina and Ireland"
Coordinator: María Verónca Repetti (USAL)
Afternoon session:
15.00 Film Screening "Reframing 1916"
(Universidad de Notre Dame)
16.30 Debate
- Briona Nic Dhiarmada (Screenwriter. University of Notre Dame)
- Diarmuid O'Giollain (University of Notre Dame)
Coordinator: Christopher Fox
Both the Universidade de Sao Paulo and Universidad del Salvador are mentioned as the Latin American locations for University of Notre Dame's Reframing 1916 project. http://1916.nd.edu/reframing-1916/
17.30 Symposium Closing Session
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