In cooperation with the SIUC Division of Continuing Education, the Irish Studies Program is sponsoring an Irish Diaspora Symposium Friday and Saturday at the Student Center.

The symposium will take place from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday and from 8:45 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

The symposium will feature lecturers and scholars from across the nation who will discuss a number of interesting facets of Irish-American life. Lectures include Forging an Imagined Community:Irish-American Drama in the 19th Century by Joyce Flynn of Harvard University, Sacred Space in Irish Chicago:The Hull House Neighborhood by Ellen Skerrett of Chicago, and Changing Roles of Irish-American Women, 1880-1900:The Evidence of Donahoe’s Magazine’ and Didactic Literature by Erica Reynolds of SIUC.

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Cultural exhibits and luncheons also will be featured during the symposium, which will culminate Saturday with a reception, a poetry reading and dinner at the Old Main Room.

Anyone who has not already registered for the event can do so Friday morning. Symposium admission is $10, but the symposium is free for SIUC students.

For information, contact Pat Eckert at 453-5683.