Canada, Ireland, and Transatlantic Colonialism: Historical Perspectives – Call for Papers

Extended deadline: January 19, 2024, at 4 p.m.

From May 28 to May 30, 2024, St. Michael’s College, in the University of Toronto, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland, will be hosting a conference titled: “Canada, Ireland, and Transatlantic Colonialism: Historical Perspectives.

The themes of the conference include– Ireland and the Colonial Apparatus of British North America; Irish Religious Mission and Colonization; Transatlantic Technology and Migrant Communities; and Post-Colonial Nationalism in Canada and Ireland. There will also be a special session on Indigenous-Irish Settler Engagement.

Keynotes include Christopher Morash (Trinity College Dublin), Deirdre Raftery (UCD), Donald H Akenson (Queen’s University, Kingston), Heidi Bohaker (University of Toronto), and S. Karly Kehoe (St. Mary’s University, Halifax).

Proposals for papers can be sent to Professor Mark G McGowan, Program Chair, at mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca, by Friday, January 19, 2024, at 4pm