My name is John Maher and as a Chair of the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies I want to offer from South East Technological University a Céad Mile Fáilte to Professor Renée Hulan for being a speaker at the inaugural Three Sisters Lecture Series. The 2024 series marks 75 years since Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada in 1949, following two referenda in the previous year.
We are deeply grateful to the Canadian Embassy in Ireland for their support for this lecture series and for the insightful remarks of chargé d’affaires Elizabeth Rice Maden regarding the depth and breadth of the relationship across communications, flight, literature, politics and trade between our peoples over the last 5 centuries. Thanks to David Kyffin for your cooperation in obtaining this commitment Thank you, Dr John McNamara for hosting this lecture for your Social Science students in the School of Humanities here in Waterford.
Professor Veronica Campbell has commended the organisers of this series and expressed her gratitude to the guest lecturers for giving of their time and expertise as our students explore Canadian themes of the selected topics. She warmly acknowledged the support of the Canadian Embassy, and the recognition this gives to the connections between Ireland and Canada, and between the South East and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Renée Hulan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was the 2020-2021 Craig Dobbin Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at University College Dublin. She is the author of Climate and Writing the Canadian Arctic (Palgrave 2018). She was co-co editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies. She has published in academic journals and in reference works such as The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature and The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. She has held leadership positions in the Canadian Studies Network within Canada.
Professor Hulan will deliver her presentation and stimulate our thinking and she would welcome further discussion on its conclusion. We appreciate the initiative of Kieran Cronin in the Luke Wadding Library for assembling a set of reading guides for this series. These you may avail of for further scholarly exploration and inquiry.
Buiochas Renée.
John Maher
Chair of the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
Mr John Maher
Department of accounting & economics
South East Technological University
Executive Director - International Council for Canadian Studies
Council Member Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland
Email: john.maher@setu.ie