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DESCRIPTION:“There cannot be a history of private property law\,” Brenna Bh
 andar writes in Colonial Lives of Property: Law\, Land\, and Racial Regimes
  of Ownership\, “that is not at the same time a history of land appropriati
 on in Ireland\, the Caribbean\, North America\, and beyond.” In this lectur
 e\, Pat Palmer explores how English colonists in sixteenth and seventeenth 
 century Ireland field-tested strategies for translating land into property.
  Wheezes like “surrender and re-grant” turned community-held land into the 
 private property of the single individual through Common-Law title. This “i
 nvention” of property transformed our engagement with the more-than-human i
 n ways that continue to play out as crises of equality and biodiversity. Th
 is lecture asks whether recovering older (here\, specifically\, Gaelic) way
 s of engaging with the land as a place of enchantment rather than possessio
 n have anything to say to the present.\n\nPat Palmer is Professor of Englis
 h at Maynooth University and the Fall 2024 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish 
 Studies. She works on cultures in contact in\, principally\, early modern I
 reland\, on the conflictual exchange between English colonists and the Gael
 ic world\, on linguistic colonization\, the aesthetics of violence\, and th
 e politics of translation. She is the author of Language and Conquest in Ea
 rly Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabeth Imperial E
 xpansion (Cambridge\, 2001) and The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Tr
 anslating Violence in Early Modern Ireland (Cambridge\, 2014). Her current 
 book project is a monograph provisionally entitled The Poetics of Property:
  Castle Poems and the Invention of Ownership in Early Modern Ireland. She i
 s Principal Investigator on the MACMORRIS Project\, a digital humanities pr
 oject which maps the full range of cultural activity\, across languages and
  ethnic groups\, in early modern Ireland.\n\nFor further background on Prof
 essor Palmer and her Burns Visiting Scholar residency\, please visit the Bu
 rns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies web page. \n\nBurns Library will host
  a complimentary beer\, wine\, hors d'oeuvres reception beginning at 5:00pm
 \, with Prof. Palmer's lecture to follow at 6:00pm. All are welcome.
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SUMMARY:The Poetics of Property: The Ground Possessed and Dispossessed in E
 arly Modern Ireland  
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URL:https://events.bc.edu/event/the-poetics-of-property-the-ground-possesse
 d-and-dispossessed-in-early-modern-ireland-6921
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