Panel
Roundtable Discussion on the Legacy of Roger Casement
Fri
Feb
28
A roundtable discussion on Roger Casement and his legacy to contemporary Environmental Rights activism in the Amazon and beyond.
Participants include:
- Breen O'Conchubair (Department of Irish Language & Literature)
- Scott Barton (Department of Africana Studies)
- Marcio Bahia (Department of Romance Languages and Literatures)
- David Lantigua (Department of Theology)
With Invited guests:
- Filmmaker Aurélio Michiles
- Professor Angus Mitchel
- Brazilian community leader Vanda Witoto
For more information:
Contact Marcio Bahia at mbahia@nd.edu or Scott Barton at sbarton3@nd.edu
Speakers / Related People
Brian Ó Conchubhair
Brian Ó Conchubhair is a professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; language revitalization; language politics; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2017...
Scott Barton
Scott Alves Barton is assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies and became a Kellogg faculty fellow in 2024. He also is an inaugural fellow in Notre Dame’s Initiative for Race and Resilience, where he engages with African Diaspora food and foodways to interrogate issues and questions of race, equity, and the politics of identity...Marcio Bahia
Born in Belém, Pará, right in the Brazilian Amazon Region, Marcio Bahia specializes in Brazilian literary and cultural studies. His current research focuses on the tecnobrega music scene. Tecnobrega, a musical genre that splices largely original work with popular music, is primarily created by poor populations in the Amazon regions of Brazil...