International Ph.D Seminar, Leuven 2010

 

PhD-seminar in Irish Studies

'Fins de siècles': developments in Irish culture, literature and society from the 1890s to the 1990s

Leuven, 6-10 September 2010

PROGRAMME

 

 

Monday 6 September

9 - 10.30: Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin): 'Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change: Anne Enright and the Politics of Mourning'

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

A: 'cultural studies' (Jan Baetens, KULeuven)

B: 'histoire croisée and transnational history' (Kaat Wils, KULeuven)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Verena Commins (NUI Galway) 'Contentment is wealth: conceptualising traditional Irish music as a culture economy'

Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo), 'Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia'.

Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) 'Representations of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry'

3.30 - 4 : coffee

4 - 5: student presentations

Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) 'From John McGahern to Claire Keegan: resistance to postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction'

Tuesday 7 September

9 - 10.30: Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth): 'History, Memory and Commemoration: 1890s to 1990s Ireland'

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

C: 'cultural memory' (Pieter Vermeulen, KULeuven)

D: 'translation studies' (Reine Meylaerts, KULeuven)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) 'Translation of Italian works in Ireland'

Rebecca Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) 'Consumer culture, advertising and literature in Ireland, 1848-1921'

Amélie Dochy (Université de Toulouse) 'British visual representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922'.

3.30 - 4 : coffee

4 - 5: student presentations

Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) 'The landed estate in nineteenth-century Ireland'

Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) 'Symbol, metaphor and reality in Yeats's work'

Wednesday 8 September

9 - 10.30: John Kelly (Oxford University): 'Crisis and continuity in modernist Irish literature'

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

E: 'Interculturality / Comparing Ireland' (Raphaël Ingelbien, KULeuven)

F: 'gender and narrative theory' (Elke D'hoker, KULeuven)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) 'Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Ēirann: tradition and identity, 1951-1973)

Mehdi Ghassemi (Université de Lille III), 'John Banville: beyond a postmodern consciousness, a Lacanian perspective'

Cécile Maudet (Université Rennes II) 'Displacement and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann'

3.30 - 4 : coffee

 

Thursday 9 September

9 - 10.30: Tina O'Toole (University of Limerick): 'Irish Women's migrant writing: George Egerton's The Wheel of God (1898)'

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: John Wesley Hutchinson (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris3): 'Dominant themes in the Ulster-Scots revival'.

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) 'Social realism in the short fiction of Mary Lavin'

Stephanie Eggermont (KULeuven) 'The Fin de Siècle short story by women writers'

Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) 'Death and dying in the modern Irish novel'

3.30 - 4 : coffee

4 - 5: student presentations

Thérèse Cullen (Queens University Belfast) 'The role of symbol and ritual in the representations of St Patrick on his Feast Day '

Melanie White (Université Paris III) 'The renewal of the Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets from Northern Ireland'

 

Friday 10 September

9 - 10.30: Dominic Bryan (Queens University Belfast): 'Conflict over public space in Northern Ireland: anthropological approaches to research'

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

G: 'Irish Theatre: Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger' (Shaun Richards, Staffordshire University)

H: 'psychoanalysis and literature' (Hedwig Schwall, KULeuven)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Magali Trinquier (Université Rennes II) 'Drama, translation and staging in Ireland'

Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee) 'Class, ethnicity and participation: Irish politics in the West Riding, c. 1850-1925'

Marie Violaine Louvet (Université Paris III) 'Ireland and the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009'

3.30 - 4: closing remarks