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The Mid-Atlantic Region of the ACIS comprises New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia. Including some of the states most densely populated with colleges and well-established Irish Studies programs, our Region hosts engaging and thematically-broad conferences each year, usually in the fall. ACIS members hailing from the Mid-Atlantic region should use this website for regular updates on Irish-related events, readings, and lectures in our region, as well as to communicate with others in the Mid-Atlantic area.

Upcoming Mid-Atlantic ACIS Conferences

The 2010 Regional Conference will once more be hosted at Drew University in beautiful Madison, New Jersey, 35 minutes from New York City. This conference will stress Irish culture, with the conference theme “Re-Viewing Ireland: Irish culture in words, music and images.” Check this website often for the CFP and conference website; this meeting of the Regional ACIS is scheduled for October 1-2, 2010.

• 2011 — Manhattan College, Brooklyn, NY

Recent Mid Atlantic ACIS Conferences

• 2009 — Monmouth University, New Jersey — “Ireland by Sea”
• 2008 — La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY — “Enabling/Disabling Ireland”
• 2007 — Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY — “Associating Ireland”
• 2006 — Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA — “Which Direction Ireland?”
• 2005 — Drew University, Madison, NJ — “Ireland and Memory”
• 2004 — Princeton University, Princeton, NJ — “De-Provincializing Irish Studies”
  

Mid-Atlantic Representative: The Mid-Atlantic Representative is Kate Costello-Sullivan, an Associate Professor of Modern Irish Literature at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. Kate can be contacted at sullivkp@lemoyne.edu.

Join the Mid-Atlantic ACIS listserv for announcements and notices of CFPs and events: click here or visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACIS_MA/