Counter-Narratives and Hidden Histories

The 50th Anniversary Conference of the Irish Association for American Studies

To mark this special occasion, Maynooth University is proud to be hosting a full two-day interdisciplinary programme, including plenary lectures from two international keynote speakers:

Friday 3rd April 2020

Professor Stephanie Elizondo Griest (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

‘Documenting Resistance in the US Borderlands’

Saturday 4th April 2020

Professor Amy M. Mooney (Columbia College Chicago; Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford)

‘Say It with Pictures: Visualizing Black Modern Subjectivities’

Conference organising team: Catherine Gander, David Conlon, Catherine Leen, JoAnne Mancini.

All presenters are required to be IAAS members.

Annual membership of the IAAS is only €40 for fully salaried members and €15 for concessions, and offers a number of benefits, especially to our early career colleagues. Please register your membership at: https://iaas.ie/memberships/

Conference Dinner: €45 (Three courses including wine)

Dinner will be at Donatello’s Restaurant, Maynooth Village, Friday 3rd April, 8pm.