- This event has passed.
“Where Do We Go from Here?” Revisiting Black Irish Relations and Responding to a Transnational Moment
Friday, November 12, 2021 @ 9:00 am – 5:15 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, 12 November 2021
Register here for November 12 sessions
9-10.15am ET/2–3.15pm GMT Nikhil Singh, New York University, “Ireland in the Crucible of Race”. Moderated by Kathleen Coll, University of San Francisco/New York University.
10.30 -11.45am ET/3.30–4.45pm GMT Elisa Joy White, UC Davis, “Céad Míle Fáilte: When Blackness in Ireland Seemed New Again”.
12-1.15pm ET/5–6.15pm GMT Chanté Mouton Kinyon, Notre Dame University. Moderated by Anna McCarthy, New York University.
BREAK
2–3.30pm ET/7–8.30pm GMT Tenement Museum New York: African American and Irish American New York Revisited: Annie Polland (Director, Tenement Museum); Leslie Harris (Northwestern University) and David Favaloro (Tenement Museum). Introduced by Joy Bivins, NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
3.45pm–5.15pm ET/8.45–10.15pm GMT Black Irish Cultural Renderings and Responses: Lauren Onkey (George Washington University), Mick Moloney (New York University), Lenwood Sloan (African American Irish Diaspora Network). Moderated by Bill Ferris, University of North Carolina. Introduced by John Waters, New York University.