UConn Reads: Irish Travellers

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Mary Burke (UConn), Malcolm Sen (UMass Amherst), and Jamie Johnson (photographer).

<h2>Irish Travellers: The Nation State, a Marginalized Minority, and Climate Crisis</h2>Join this panel discussion on Irish Travellers, part of the <a href="https://uconnreads.uconn.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UConn Reads</a> program which focuses on The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago, 2016) by Amitav Ghosh.The panel, organized by <a href="https://philosophy.uconn.edu/person/thomas-bontly/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burke/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mary Burke</a> (Professor of English, University of Connecticut), considers global issues of environmental racism, environmental justice, and climate crisis with specific reference to Travellers, a racialized and historically nomadic indigenous Irish ethnic minority. Travellers’ traditional lifestyle, centered around mobile recycle and repair services offered to dominant Irish society, was an inadvertently environmentalist practice that was repressed and degraded by postwar Ireland’s coercive settlement policies, the wider implications of which will be read against the coming climate crisis and its threat to make refugees of millions with no cultural memory of the nomadic mode upon which to draw. The panel consists of UConn’s Mary Burke, author of a <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.estudiosirlandeses.org%2Freviews%2Ftinkers-synge-and-the-cultural-history-of-the-irish-traveller-2010%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cyohei.igarashi%40uconn.edu%7Cf79b88539a084ccf33e908d8d9ccd13e%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637498820986268652%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=teeWBraxRJpJa36YFDAvCohVNju%2FjExgB65tqCV%2BZ%2Bg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">cultural history</a> of Travellers with Oxford UP, UMass Amherst’s <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.umass.edu%2Fenglish%2Fmember%2Fmalcolm-sen&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cyohei.igarashi%40uconn.edu%7C8748970f56a44ef1b45908d8d9cb6366%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637498814852083896%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=xlVuf4yAPl%2B8AC6xvZ60x6HTowAjx16rVHZnGacJINc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Malcolm Sen</a>, editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Irish Literature and the Environment, and photographer <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamiejohnsonphotography.com%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cyohei.igarashi%40uconn.edu%7C8748970f56a44ef1b45908d8d9cb6366%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637498814852093896%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=hrmehPAWXfCvsGKkiyeVSGUc0QgLDjN4zpIrkHdCdyk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jamie Johnson</a>, who has just published a <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/growing-up-travelling-the-inside-world-of-irish-traveller-children/9783868289688" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">collection of photographs</a> of contemporary Traveller children.

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