Talks / panels

2025 highlights

*‘Shared Histories: Ireland and India’, a public talk held in conjunction with Desi Community Against Racism. October 22, 2025.*

Opening panel at the International Congress of Cabo Verdean Professionals, with Minister of Culture and Creative Industries Augusto Veiga, Professor Manuel Brito-Semedo and Dr Filomeno Lopes. I presented on EPIC’s experience of diaspora engagement. October 15, 2025.

*National Famine Way Roadshow at Charleville Library, Dublin. I spoke alongside Caroilin Callery*, *giving an overview of conditions in Dublin during the Great Famine. June 5, 2025.*

Ireland and Atlantic Slavery symposium, convened by the Georgetown University Global Irish Studies Initiative, in collaboration with the GU Center for the Study of Slavery and GU Humanities Initiative. I spoke about my research on Ireland and the Caribbean as part of the ‘Black and Green Atlantic‘ *panel. April 11, 2025.*

Meeting with the Women’s Studies Centre at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi, where we recorded an interview about my research on domestic service. I later gave a talk to students there about the treatment of Irish and Indian servants in nineteenth-century British households. *January 30, 2025.*

*Brigid’s Day panel discussion at Lokaya Gallery, Delhi, with Professor Sucheta Mahajan, author Cauvery Madhavan and Sheetal Mukhija from Ireland’s Honorary Consulate in Kolkata. January 29, 2025.*

2024 highlights

‘Entangled Islands: Ireland, Barbados and the Caribbean’, curator’s talk at the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. October 26, 2024.

‘Ireland and the Caribbean: Curating Histories of Colonialism’, keynote address delivered at the annual conference of the French Association for Irish Studies (SOFEIR) at Université Grenoble Alpes. March 22, 2024.

‘”Riotous Peasantry” and Colonial Rulers: 250 Years of Irish Migration to India’, public lecture at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. August 22, 2024.

‘Mocking “Bridget”: Irish Immigrant Stereotypes After the Famine’, public lecture at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. February 1, 2024.

2023 highlights

‘Eyes of the World: International Reporting on JFK’s 1963 Visit to Ireland’, public lecture at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. August 2, 2023.

‘Diaspora Histories: Recovering the Voices of Irish Female Emigrants’, keynote address delivered at the Global Irish Civic Forum, Dublin Castle. April 20-21, 2023.