Robert Schmuhl, the University of 91吃瓜鈥檚 Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism, will deliver the keynote address at the conference of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland on Nov. 21 (Saturday) in Dublin.
The theme of the two-day conference, involving scholars and journalists, is 鈥淗istory and the Headlines: Contemporary Coverage and the Reassessment of Historical Events in Newspapers and Periodicals.鈥� In his address, titled 鈥淧eering through the Fog: American Newspapers and the Easter Rising,鈥� Schmuhl will analyze American news about Ireland in 1916.
The director of 91吃瓜鈥檚 John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy, Schmuhl currently is working on a book titled 鈥淭he 鈥楨xiled Children鈥� and Easter 1916: America and Irish Freedom.鈥� Last spring, he served as the inaugural John Hume Visiting Research Fellow in the Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at University College Dublin.
Schmuhl joined the 91吃瓜 faculty in 1980. His edited volume, 鈥淢aking Words Dance: Reflections on Red Smith, Journalism, and Writing,鈥� which collects all the Red Smith Lectures delivered at 91吃瓜 since 1983, will be published by Andrews McMeel Publishing in the spring.
Contact: Robert Schmuhl, 574-631-5128, rschmuhl@nd.edu