Brigittine French, anthropology, to open symposium titled "The Irish Family at Home and Abroad"

Dr. Brigittine French of Grinnell College will open the symposium with a keynote address titled "Anthropologists Look at the Irish Family: Solidarity and Strife, Conflict and Cooperation." French, who has just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship at Dublin City University, is the social science representative of the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has presented numerous lectures and conference papers on Irish identity formation and on conflict resolution in the early Irish Free State.