Mariano Galazzi holds degrees in History and Translation. His fields of interest include: History of English-speaking immigration in Argentina, especially of Irish origin; and History of Translation. He has presented papers at conferences and symposia on these topics; and has published research and translated works related to these subject areas.

 

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Associate Professor of English Language Literatures at the Department of Modern Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Coordinates the Chair of Irish Studies WB Yeats USP and charis the Brazilian Society of Irish Studies (ABEI). She holds post doctorate degrees from the Latin American Institute of Latin American Studies University of London, Trinity College Dublin and Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has written several books, including: Mirrors and Holographic Labyrinths: The Process of a 'New' Aesthetic Synthesis in the Novels of John Banville (1999); editor of A Literatura da Virada do Século: Fim das Utopias? (2001), Literaturas Estrangeiras e o Brasil: Diálogos (2004), the Collections Da Irlanda para o Brasil (2009, 2011, 2015) and Lectures (annually since 2010), Roger Casement in Brazil: Rubber, the Amazon and the Atlantic World. 1884-1916 by Angus Mitchell (2010; translated into Portuguese in 2011 and to Spanish in 2012), Narratives of the Irish diaspora under the Southern Cross (2011) and the Portuguese translation of The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement (2016). She is co-editor of Kaleidoscopic Views of Ireland (2003), Irish Studies in Brazil (2005), A New Ireland in Brazil (2008) and do ABEI Journal - The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, since 1999. She published several articles on the literature of English language diasporas and essays on contemporary writers such as John Banville, Paul Durcan, Anne Enright, Seamus Heaney, Caryl Philips, Salman Rushdie, Makarand Paranjape, Juan Jose Delaney, among others.

 

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Dr. Maria Eugenia Cruset (mcruset@hotmail.com)  is Doctor in History (Basque Country University- Spain) and Master degree´s in  International Relations (La Plata University- Argentina),  particular focus on diasporas and immigration. She is professor in La Plata University and Catholic of La Plata University, both in Argentina, and chair  the Irish Lecture in the first one. She wrote several books . The most important are:  “Nacionalismos y diasporas. Los casos vasco e irlandés en Argentina (1962-1922)”; and “Migration and New international Actors: An Old Phenomenon Seen With new eyes” (coord.)

She attempt many congress about the topic and is visiting professor in University of San Paulo (USP) Brazil;  University of  Basque Country (Spain); University of La Pampa (Argentina), Columbus State University (U.S.A.).

 

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https://unlp.academia.edu/MariaEugeniaCruset

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1954. He is Professor of Arts from the University of Salvador where he currently serves as head of the Argentina 20^th Century Literature Seminar and Irish Studies Program Coordinator.

Narrator and essayist, he has published Papeles del Desierto, a volume that gathers stories written between 1974 and 2004, Tréboles del Sur (1994), a collection of stories related to Irish immigrants in Argentina, which won the Third Municipal Prize for Literature of the City Buenos Aires, the novel Moira Sullivan (1999) and the nouvelle Theophilus Flynn’s memory (2012). In 2006, Ediciones Corregidor unveiled his essay “Marco Denevi and the sacred writing ceremony”. A literary biography project that had received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and work for which he won the First Municipal Prize "Eduardo Mallea" from the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. He is the author of La viuda de O’Malley (O'Malley's widow), dramatic comedy about Irish immigrants in Argentina.

 

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Narrador y ensayista, ha publicado Papeles del desierto, volumen que reúne cuentos escritos entre 1974 y 2004, Tréboles del sur (1994), colección de historias referidas a los inmigrantes irlandeses en la Argentina, que obtuvo el Tercer Premio Municipal de Literatura de la Ciudad  de Buenos Aires,  la novela Moira Sullivan (1999) y la nouvelle Memoria de Theophilus Flynn (2012). En 2006 Ediciones Corregidor dio a conocer su ensayo Marco Denevi y la sacra ceremonia de la escritura. Una biografía literaria, proyecto por el que había sido becado por el Fondo Nacional de las Artes y  por cuya realización obtuvo el Primer Premio Municipal “Eduardo Mallea”, del Gobierno de la Ciudad  Autónoma  de Buenos Aires. Es autor de La viuda de O'Malley, comedia dramática sobre inmigrantes irlandeses en la Argentina.

 

Sergio Kiernan is a professional journalist and the Sunday Editor at Página/12, a national daily published in Buenos Aires. He often writes on politics and culture, and is the author of a series of papers on terrorism published by the American Jewish Committee in New York.

 

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Sergio Kiernan es periodista professional y editor del domingo en Página/12, periódico nacional publicado en Buenos Aires. Escribe sobre política y cultura y es autor de una serie de documentos sobre el terrorismo publicada por el Comité judeo-americano en New York.

 

Professor Nic Dhiarmada has authored over 35 screen plays and 10 documentaries. She is the author of Téacs Baineann, Téacs Mná: Filíocht Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill as well as numerous articles on Irish language literature and culture. Additionally, she is an editor of The Field Day Anthology and co-editor with Máire Ní Annracháin of Téacs agus Comhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge. Professor Nic Dhiarmada is originator, writer, and producer of the multipart documentary series on the Easter Rising of 1916, which is narrated by Liam Neeson and is being broadcast internationally in 2016.  She is also executive producer, along with Christopher Fox, Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, of the series and a 76-minute feature-length documentary. Prof. Nic Dhiarmada is the author of The 1916 Irish Rebellion, published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Professor Nic Dhiarmada works with undergraduate and graduate students on Irish poetry, film, politics and a range of other topics.

 

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La profesora Briona Nic Dhiarmada ha escrito más de 35 guiones y 10 documentales. Es autora de Téacs Baineann, Téacs Mná: Filíocht Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, así como numerosos artículos sobre literatura en lengua irlandesa y cultura. Asimismo, es editora de The Field Day Antology y co-editora con Máire Ní Annracháin de Téacs Agus Comhthéacs: Gnéithe de Chritic na Gaeilge. La profesora Nic Dhiarmada es creadora, escritora, y productora del documental en serie sobre el Levantamiento de Pascua de 1916, narrado por Liam Neeson que es transmitido internacionalmente en 2016. También es productora ejecutiva, junto con Christopher Fox, Director del Instituto Keough-Naughton de Estudios irlandeses, de la serie y de un documental de larga duración de 76 minutos. Es autora de La rebelión irlandesa de 1916, publicado por la Universidad de Notre Dame Press.

La profesora Nic Dhiarmada trabaja con estudiantes de grado y postgrado sobre poesía, cine, política y una serie de otros temas irlandeses.

Christopher Fox, Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and Professor of English. Prof. Fox’s research interests are in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Literature and Science and Irish Studies.  He has lectured widely in the United States and Europe.  Prof. Fox’s interests in Irish Studies grew out of his study of Jonathan Swift and eighteenth-century Ireland.  In 1991, he organized an international conference on Jonathan Swift and Irish Studies.

Since 2001, Prof. Fox has been director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, which he co-founded with Seamus Deane.  Earlier, he established The Irish Seminar, which convenes every summer (to date, in various years, in  Dublin, Paris, and Buenos Aires) to bring together Irish scholars, graduate students, and faculty in Irish Studies.  An intense intellectual exchange and experience, the seminar has been a formative experience for scores of Notre Dame graduate students and their peers from universities around the world.

Most recently, Prof. Fox has served as executive producer of the landmark documentary 1916 The Irish Rebellion.

 

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Christopher Fox es Director del Instituto Keough-Naughton de Estudios irlandeses y Profesor de Inglés en la Universidad de Notre Dame. Es investigador en Estudios del Siglo XVIII, Literatura y ciencia y estudios irlandeses. Ha dado conferencias en los Estados Unidos y Europa. los intereses del Prof. Fox en estudios irlandeses surgieron a partir de su estudio de Jonathan Swift y la Irlanda del siglo XVIII. En 1991, organizó una conferencia internacional sobre Jonathan Swift y estudios irlandeses.

Desde el año 2001, el ha sido director del Instituto Keough-Naughton de Estudios irlandeses, que él co-fundó con Seamus Deane. Anteriormente, había establecido el Seminario de Irlanda, que se reúne cada verano (hasta la fecha, en varios años, en Dublín, París y Buenos Aires) para reunir a estudiosos irlandeses, estudiantes graduados y profesores de estudios irlandeses. Como un intercambio intelectual y de experiencia intensos, el seminario ha sido una experiencia formativa para estudiantes de posgrado de Notre Dame y sus pares de universidades de todo el mundo.

Recientemente, el profesor Fox ha sido productor ejecutivo del documental hito “1916 The Irish Rebellion”.

Diarmuid Ó Giolláin's interests include popular religion in Ireland as well as folklore and popular culture in the history of ideas and of institutions.

Professor of Irish Language and Literature and Concurrent Professor of Anthropology at University of Notre Dame. He teaches Irish Folklore with an emphasis on narrative folklore.

Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies of University of Notre Dame (USA).

He is the author of Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (2000), winner of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Prize 2000, and An Dúchas agus an Domhan (2005), as well as some 40 articles and papers.

 

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Los intereses de Diarmuid Ó Giolláin incluyen la religión popular en Irlanda, así como el folclore y la cultura popular en la historia de las ideas y de las instituciones.

Profesor de Lengua y Literatura de Irlanda y el profesor concurrente de Antropología de la Universidad de Notre Dame. Es profesor de folclore irlandés con énfasis en el folklore narrativo.

Miembro del Instituto Keough - Naughton de Estudios irlandeses de la Universidad de Notre Dame (EE.UU.)

Es autor de Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (2000 ), ganador del Premio de Folclore Katherine Briggs del año 2000, y An Dúchas agus an Domhan (2005) , como así también de aproximadamente 40 artículos y documentos .

He has a degree in Philosophy from the University College Dublin. He entered the diplomatic service in 1974 and since then he has held positions in both the Ministry and the embassies of Buenos Aires and the UK and has been assigned as Ambassador to the OSCE in Vienna, to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain. Since September 2014, he is Ambassador of Ireland in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia.

 

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