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Message-ID: {decoded}Bill-------For your eyes only.

You do realize, I hope, that my message was made in jest and self-mockery!

Some people got the joke as intended ('poor little me!'), but, unfortunately, others thought I was very serious (and, probably, a jerk).

Anyway, I just wanted you to know, in case you wondered.

Kerby



On 8/14/16, 6:50 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Bill Mulligan" wrote:

Dear colleagues,

The response to news of an inaugural conference on the Global Irish
Diaspora in 2017 has been encouraging. Launching a first notification was
a means of ascertaining how much interest there would be in a global
gathering, and we have certainly got our answer. As noted earlier, the
formal Call For Papers will follow. May I take the opportunity just to
comment on the idea, and to update you on progress?

The idea originated within a small network of archaeologists and
anthropologists. We  I am one of the archaeologists, and have conducted
archaeological research on the Irish community of southern Texas 
recognised that a very significant volume of 'archaeological' and
'anthropological' work was being carried out around the world on Irish
communities, mainly of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origin, but that
there was no context in which ideas and information could be shared, not
only among other archaeologists and anthropologists but among the entire
community of scholars interested in the Irish diaspora, its histories and
its cultural legacies. From there, then, came the questions posed
indirectly in the notification of the conference: What were the causes of
Irish overseas migration? What type(s) of people migrated? What were the
shared or divergent experiences of the migrants in different places and at
different periods of time? What are the material remains of historic
migration from Ireland? What can be said of the relationships past and
present between Irish diasporic communities and the island of Ireland
itself? What impact did diaspora have on host communities? Once one asks
these questions, other questions bubble up  this list of questions is
very far from exhaustive.

The committee itself has been taking shape slowly and a few more names
remain to be added. Inevitably, as a new venture, it will prove in
retrospect to have been too big or too small, too limited or too broad in
its spread of disciplines, and too weighted to certain parts of the world
over others. But, it should be noted, it is convened for this conference
alone: if this become a triennial conference, which is the common hope, a
new committee should form for 2020, and a new one again for 2023. The one
guiding principle on which we all agree, it seems, is that the Triennial
Global Irish Diaspora conference should be as multi-disciplinary as
possible, and the committees behind all conferences should capture that by
their membership.

The actual conference itself will, we hope, soften disciplinary
boundaries, create opportunities for new networks and collaborations, and
maybe even inspire graduate students and younger colleagues to think in
new ways. We see it existing alongside  certainly not in competition with
 the workshops and conferences already on the annual schedules of many
disciplines. And above all, we hope that it will be an event in which
scholars globally can feel themselves stakeholders.

Enjoy the rest of the summer! Please feel free to email me
(tadhg.okeeffe[at]ucd.ie) until such time as we have the committee finalised,
the conference mechanisms in place, and the Call For Papers issued.

Sender:       The Irish Diaspora Studies List  From:         THOMAS J ARCHDEACON  Subject:      Re: Update on Dublin 2017 Conference In-Reply-To:     

Let's hope that anyone who thinks Kerby was serious exerts greater care when analyzing texts.

 

Tom

 

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From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Miller, Kerby A.

Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 19:15

To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Subject: Re: [IR-D] Update on Dublin 2017 Conference

 

Bill-------For your eyes only.

 

You do realize, I hope, that my message was made in jest and self-mockery!

 

Some people got the joke as intended ('poor little me!'), but, unfortunately, others thought I was very serious (and, probably, a jerk).

 

Anyway, I just wanted you to know, in case you wondered.

 

Kerby

 

 

 

On 8/14/16, 6:50 PM, "The Irish Diaspora Studies List on behalf of Bill Mulligan" <IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK on behalf of billmulligan[at]MURRAY-KY.NET> wrote:

 

    Dear colleagues,

    

    The response to news of an inaugural conference on the Global Irish

    Diaspora in 2017 has been encouraging. Launching a first notification was

    a means of ascertaining how much interest there would be in a global

    gathering, and we have certainly got our answer. As noted earlier, the

    formal Call For Papers will follow. May I take the opportunity just to

    comment on the idea, and to update you on progress?

    

    The idea originated within a small network of archaeologists and

    anthropologists. We – I am one of the archaeologists, and have conducted

    archaeological research on the Irish community of southern Texas –

    recognised that a very significant volume of 'archaeological' and

    'anthropological' work was being carried out around the world on Irish

    communities, mainly of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origin, but that

    there was no context in which ideas and information could be shared, not

    only among other archaeologists and anthropologists but among the entire

    community of scholars interested in the Irish diaspora, its histories and

    its cultural legacies. From there, then, came the questions posed

    indirectly in the notification of the conference: What were the causes of

    Irish overseas migration? What type(s) of people migrated? What were the

    shared or divergent experiences of the migrants in different places and at

    different periods of time? What are the material remains of historic

    migration from Ireland? What can be said of the relationships past and

    present between Irish diasporic communities and the island of Ireland

    itself? What impact did diaspora have on host communities? Once one asks

    these questions, other questions bubble up – this list of questions is

    very far from exhaustive.

    

    The committee itself has been taking shape slowly and a few more names

    remain to be added. Inevitably, as a new venture, it will prove in

    retrospect to have been too big or too small, too limited or too broad in

    its spread of disciplines, and too weighted to certain parts of the world

    over others. But, it should be noted, it is convened for this conference

    alone: if this become a triennial conference, which is the common hope, a

    new committee should form for 2020, and a new one again for 2023. The one

    guiding principle on which we all agree, it seems, is that the Triennial

    Global Irish Diaspora conference should be as multi-disciplinary as

    possible, and the committees behind all conferences should capture that by

    their membership.

    

    The actual conference itself will, we hope, soften disciplinary

    boundaries, create opportunities for new networks and collaborations, and

    maybe even inspire graduate students and younger colleagues to think in

    new ways. We see it existing alongside – certainly not in competition with

    – the workshops and conferences already on the annual schedules of many

    disciplines. And above all, we hope that it will be an event in which

    scholars globally can feel themselves stakeholders.

    

    Enjoy the rest of the summer! Please feel free to email me

    (tadhg.okeeffe[at]ucd.ie) until such time as we have the committee finalised,

    the conference mechanisms in place, and the Call For Papers issued.