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UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies

Seminars Autumn 2006

Monday 16th October - 'The Continued Marginality & Uniqueness of North American Soccer''

Speaker: Professor Andrei Markovits, University of Mitchigan
Venue: William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium
Time: 5.30pm

Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan. He holds faculty positions in Michigan's Department of Political Science and its Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies

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Thursday 19th October - 'How Ireland won the West'

Speaker: Myles Dungan
Venue: William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium
Time: 5pm

'Myles Dungan is a broadcaster and writer, he is the former presenter of 'Five Seven Live' and 'Rattlebag' and the author of a number of books, including 'Irish Voices from the Great War' and 'They Shall Grow Not Old' both of which examined Irish involvement in the Great War. He will be travelling to UC Berkeley in 2007 on a Fulbright Scholarship to work on the Irish American experience in the American west in the 19th century.

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Thursday 16th November - "Bringing Hope to Northern Ireland's Civil Society, Bill Clinton's Northern Irish Visits".

In association with the Institute for British and Irish Studies

Speaker: Professor Catherine Shannon
Venue: G317, Newman Building

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Monday 20th November - 'Defining America'

Speaker: Professor Richard Horwitz (Costal Institute at the University of Rhode Island)
Venue: William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium
Time: 5.30pm

A lecture on important distinctions to be made in generalizing about "America", emphasizing the value of distinguishing geographic, political, and symbolic senses of the name.

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