On May 3 and 4, 2024, the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Endowed Professorship in Irish Studies will hold a symposium, Irish America Past, Present, and Future: A Seminar in honor of Charles Fanning.
Details are still being worked out and everything is subject to change. However, a tentative schedule is available below:
Irish America Past Present & Future: A seminar in honor of Charles Fanning
Friday, May 3, 2024: Webster Groves Public Library
7 - 7:45 PM - Charles Fanning Interviewed by James Silas Rogers (University of St. Thomas)
8 - 9 PM - Terence Winch: Reading & Music
Reception: Before & During Events
Saturday, May 4, 2024: Missouri History Museum
10 - 11:15 AM - Panel on Irish America
Timothy J. White - Xavier Univ
Linda Dowling Almeida - New York University
Ellen Skerritt - Chicago
11:15 - 11:45 AM - Coffee break - coffee, teas, snacks
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Panel - Charles Fanning as Teacher, Mentor, Professor
Chair, Ron Ebest - SLCC-Florissant Valley
Jill Brady Hampton - University of South Carolina-Sumpter
Eva Roa White - Indiana-Fort Wayne
Eamonn Wall - University of Missouri-St. Louis
12:45 - 1:45 PM - Lunch on your own
1:45 - 3 PM - Panel: Hearing the Voices of Women
Sally Barr Ebest - University of Missouri-St. Louis
Betsy Dougherty - SIU-Carbondale
TBA
3 - 4 PM - Reading: Charles Fanning and Alice McDermott
4 - 5 PM - Reception
