Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Connie Roberts will be a speaker at the conference Towards Transitional Justice: Recognition, Truth-telling, and Institutional Abuse in Ireland at Boston College, November 1-2, 2018.
This conference brings together scholars, survivors, and activists in the international field of Transitional Justice, with a specific focus on the Irish state’s response to the nation’s history of institutional abuse. Professor Roberts is the author of the award-winning poetry collection, Little Witness, inspired by her traumatic experiences growing up in an orphanage in Ireland.
