Chicago: an Irish-American Metropolis? June 21-23, 2021 Day 1

Chicago: an Irish-American Metropolis? Politics, Ethnicity, and Culture from 1830s to the Present Time. An International and Multidisciplinary Conference. June 21-23, 2021

This three day conference will explore the past and present imprint of the Irish diaspora on the Windy City, including its reverberations in Hibernia.

This international and multidisciplinary conference is a partnership between the universities of Chicago, Caen Normandie and Paris. This scientific event is possible thanks to the generous support of the Embassy of Ireland in France, the SOFEIR, the GIS-EIRE, the EFACIS, the University of Chicago Center in Paris, the ERIBIA at the Université de Caen Normandie, the LARCA at the Université de Paris, the Institut des Amériques, and the Centre Culturel Irlandais.

Day 1 - June 21, 2021

00:07 Welcome remarks by James Chandler, University of Chicago
05:43 Introduction by Thierry Dubost, Université de Caen Normandie
09:21 Introduction by Paul Schor, Université de Paris
12:31 Introduction by Arnaud Coulombel, University of Chicago Center in Paris
14:10 Introduction by Philippe Cauvet, Université de Poitiers
16:12 Conference “Chicago: Second City of Irish American Nationalism?” by David Brundage, University of California at Santa Cruz
01:02:23 Introduction by Alexandra Maclennan Slaby, Université de Caen Normandie
01:03:37 Conference “Virtual Republic: The First National Convention of Fenian Brotherhood, Chicago, November 1863” by Frank Rynne, CY Cergy Paris University/ Trinity College Dublin
01:28:54 Conference “A Carnival of Plots’ Irish-American Republicanism in the late Nineteeth-Century” by Gillian O’Brien, Liverpool John Moores University
01:50:26 Conference “From the South Side to the Bogside: Chicago and the Northern Ireland Conflict” by Andrew Wilson, Loyola University Chicago
02:08:47 Questions & Answers
02:23:00 Introduction by Fiona McCann, Université de Lille
02:25:00 : Conference “Ireland and the Chicago Word’s Fair: Castellated Kitsh or Crucial Controversy?” by Eimar O’Connor, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
02:46:09 Conference “No Thatched Cottages: The Chicago World’s Fair 1933” by Billy Shortall, Trinity College Dublin
03:05:50 Conference “The Chicago World’s Fair 1893: The Windy City Braces for More Blarney”
by Jeffrey O’Leary, Mitchell College
03:27:58:15 Conference “Moving into Chicago’s “White City” – Race, Medieval Iconography and the Construction of Irishness at the 1893 World’s Fair”
by Amy Mulligan, University of Notre Dame
03:49:04 Questions & Answers
04:10:33 Conference ““Whiskey Vs. Lager Beer – Bejabers”: The Irish and the Politics of Chicago’s Hinterland 1854-1860” by Greg Koos, Executive Director Emeritus of the McLean County Museum of History
04:32:12 Conference “The Chicago Irish and the Democratic Machine” by Ana Artiaga, Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
04:52:39 Conference “Writing a New History of the Irish in Illinois” by Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University
05:13:55 Questions & Answers
05:29:54 Conference “Mother and Baby Homes: Adoption and the Chicago Connection” by Clair Wills, University of Cambridge
06:21:51 Questions & Answers