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Where Do We Go from Here?” Revisiting Black Irish Relations and Responding to a Transnational Moment
Friday, November 5, 2021 @ 9:00 am – 4:45 pm
“Where Do We Go from Here?”
Revisiting Black Irish Relations and Responding to a Transnational Moment
Conveners: Kim McClain DaCosta (NYU) and Miriam Nyhan Grey (NYU)
Online Conference at New York University
November 5, 12 and 19
People of Irish and African descent have lived in the United States for more than four centuries. Their respective trajectories — marked by complexity, conflict, and collaboration — have been shaped by American conceptions of identity, hierarchies of belonging, and access to pathways of upward mobility. The aim of this conference and programing is to examine the constellations of Blackness and Irishness in the history of the United States and beyond and use their example to ponder present conundrums around race, ethnicity, inequality and identity politics. While drawing on historical, mainly American, examples, we are encouraging responses to the contemporary transnational moment, in which conversations about social justice and the Black Lives Matter Movement resonate in Ireland as much as they do in the United States and beyond.
Friday, 5 November 2021
Register here for November 5 sessions
9–10am ET/2–3pm GMT Welcome and opening remarks, Provost of NYU Katherine E. Fleming and conference organizers Kim DaCosta (Gallatin) and Miriam Nyhan Grey (Glucksman).
10.15–11.30am ET/3.15–4.30pm GMT Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, “Irishness, Blackness and the Early Modern World”. Introduced by Provost Fleming.
11.45am–1pm ET/4.45–6pm GMT Kevin Kenny, New York University, “The American Irish and Race in the Nineteenth Century”. Millery Polyné, New York University.
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2–3.15pm ET/ 7–8.15pm GMT Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University, “’Be strikingly genteel’: Two Black Women Abolitionists in Ireland, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Sarah Parker Remond”. Moderated by Stephen Small, UC Berkeley.
3.30–4.45pm ET/ 8.30–9.45pm GMT Kim DaCosta, New York University. Moderated by Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin Clinton Institute.