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Professor Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada (Kalamazoo College) and Dr Síle de Cléir (University of Limerick) were the invited speakers for the first virtual seminar held by the MCHRI (Material and Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland) research network. This seminar took place on 7 October 2021, with researchers from around the world attending. Dr Niamh NicGhabhann from the UL Department of History chaired the event.
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College where she holds the Marlene Crandell Francis Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2020), an ethnography about masculinity and men’s devotional lives in a gentrified neighborhood in New York City. She is editor of the journal Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects and Belief and co-chair of the Men and Masculinities Unit at the American Academy of Religion. She serves on the editorial board of the journal American Religion and was chosen for 2020-2022 cohort of Young Scholars in American Religion at IUPUI’s Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. She received her Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.
Síle de Cléir is the author of Popular Catholicism in 20th-century Ireland: locality, identity and culture (London: Bloomsbury, 2017). She has also researched and written about Irish cloth and dress traditions, along with transformations from folk to fashionable dress. Her current research is centred on Irish-language heroic narrative in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is a lecturer in Irish language and literature in the University of Limerick.
This seminar is supported by the UL Department of History.
More information on the MCHRI network and events can be found here: https://mchrireland.wordpress.com/
The MCHRI network connects with and contributes to Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.
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