James Smith Lecture (3/7): “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy and Restorative Justice”

Archive from March 7, 2018. Presented by James M. Smith, an Associate Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. His book Irish Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment, was praised by Colm Tóibín as essential reading “for anyone interested in the fear and cruelty surrounding women’s sexuality in the Ireland read more James Smith Lecture (3/7): “Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy and Restorative Justice”