MSUM and NDSU join forces to host regional conference on Ireland
The English Departments of Minnesota State University Moorhead and North Dakota State University will host the Midwest American Conference for Irish Studies this week, with most events taking place on the MSUM campus. Two conference events are free and open to the public. On Friday, Francis Carroll, a retired professor of Irish history at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Man., presents “Ireland among the Nations of the Earth: Ireland’s Foreign Relations from 1923 to 1948.” On Saturday, Jose Lanters, a professor of Irish literature at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, presents “Terrible Queer Creatures: Revivalism, Modernism, and Irish Drama.” Both presentations take place at 10:45 a.m. in Ballroom C in MSUM’s Comstock Memorial Union.
For more information about the public events, contact Sandy Pearce at 218.477.2990 or email her at pearces@mnstate.edu. Conference full schedule of events.