7^th PhD seminar in Irish Studies

Leuven, 22 – 26 August 2022

PROGRAMME

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Monday 22 August

9.30: Registration

9.45: Welcome:

H.E. Mr Kevin Conmy, Irish Ambassador to Belgium

Prof. dr. Liesbet Heyvaert, Dean of the Arts Faculty (KU Leuven)

Em. Prof. Hedwig Schwall, seminar organiser (KU Leuven)

10.00 – 11.15: plenary lecture 1 (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien)

Tom Walker (Trinity College Dublin): Aesthetic Culture, Portraiture and Revolutionary Ireland

11.15 – 11.45: coffee

11.45 – 12.45: SESSION 1  (Chair: Hedwig Schwall)

- Sara D’Episcopo (Universität Zürich): Poetic In-Betweenness in Ciaran Carson

- Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (NUI Galway): Géarchéimeanna, Teicneolaíocht, agus an Iardhaonna: Ré an Antraipaicéine i bhFilíocht na Gaeilge Crises, Technology, and the Posthuman: The Era of the Anthropocene in Irish Poetry

- Virginie Trachsler (Sorbonne Nouvelle): Ambassadors to the Silent Worlds: the Writing of Objects in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry

1.00 – 2.30: lunch

2.30 – 4.00: SESSION 2 (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien)

- Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi (NUI Galway): Food as Cultural Heritage in Ireland: Theory, Practice, and Product 

- Marie Jonietz (Universität Jena): Celticism as a Romantic Project – the Gaelic Revival around 1900

- Zoë Van Cauwenberg (KU Leuven): History as “Fairy-ground”: Scottish and Irish Female Voices and the Gothic Imagination (1780-1830)  

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Tuesday 23 August

9.15 – 10.30: Plenary Lecture 2  (Chair: Elke D’hoker)

Linda Connolly (Maynooth University): Exploring the Relationship Between Feminism, Activism and Violence in Irish Studies

10.30 – 11.00: coffee

11.00 – 12.30: WORKSHOPS

Tom Verschaffel (KU Leuven): History of Cultural Practices: the Consumption of Culture in the 19th Century

Raphaël Ingelbien (KU Leuven): Identities on the British Isles

12.30 – 2.00: lunch

2.00 - 3.30:  SESSION 3 (Chair:  Hedwig Schwall)

- Margaret Bonass Madden (Dundalk Institute of Technology): Funerals in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Grief, Ritual and Tradition in the Liminal Space

- Marie-Claire Franca Leitner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Living among the Ruins – Ghost Estates, Precarity, and Homelessness in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Literature

- Diana Rodriguez Bonet (Universidad de Lleida): Fairy Tales as Resistance – A Comparative Analysis of Deirdre Sullivan and Sally Gardner

3.30-4.00: coffee

4.00-5.00: SESSION 4  (Chair: Elke D’hoker)

- Lauren Cassidy (University College Dublin): Gender, Sovereignty and the Changing Nation: The Irish Feminist Novel, 1963-2023

- Nathalie Lamprecht (Charles University Prague): Identity, Migration and Fragmentation: The Young Woman in Recent Irish Fiction

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Wednesday 24 August

9.30 – 11.00: SESSION 5 (Chair: Hedwig Schwall)

- Marie Gemrichova (Charles University Prague): Memory in Post-Agreement Northern Irish Novel

- Felicity Smith (Universidad de Granada): Community, Secrecy and the Crypt in Anna Burns’ work

- Kate Zimmerbaum (Drew University, Madison, US): IN EXTREMIS – The Art of Excess in Novels about the Troubles

11.00 – 11.30: coffee

11.30 – 1.00: WORKSHOPS

Jack McMartin (KU Leuven): Methods to Study Social and Institutional Aspects of Cultural Exchange

Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven):  Possible Uses of Psychoanalysis in the Study of Literature or Cultural Phenomena

1.00 – 2.00: lunch

2.00 – 3.00: SESSION 6 (Chair: Hedwig Schwall )

- Cristina Gonçalves (Universidade do Minho): Brian Friel, Frank McGuinness and Marina Carr (1980s-2010)

- Klára Hutková (Charles University Prague / UCD): Speaking from the Margins: Marina Carr’s Rewriting of Greek Antiquity

3.30 – 5.00 : Visit Library & places relevant to (Irish) History of Leuven University

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Thursday 25 August

9.15 – 10.30: Plenary Lecture 3  (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien)

Marguérite Corporaal (Universiteit Nijmegen): The Making of Local Colour Fiction: the Transnational Dimensions of Irish Regionalist Writings, 1880-1910

10.30 – 11.00: coffee

11.00 – 12.00: SESSION 7  (Chair: Elke D’hoker)

- Carolin Schmitz (Universität Dortmund): Migrant Identities in Irish Literature

- Sara Osama Madany (Menoufia University): The American Connection: A Transnational Influence on Modern and Contemporary Irish Poetry

12.00 – 2.00: lunch

2.00 – 3.15: WORKSHOPS

Fred Truyen (KU Leuven): New Publishing Platforms

Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen):  Building Bridges between Disciplines: Corpora, Linguistic Analysis and Irish Studies

3.15 – 3.45: coffee

3.45 – 4.45: SESSION 8  (Chair: Elke D’hoker )

- Elisabeth Zlotos (Universität Würzburg): Language and Identity in 19th-Century Ballads and Private Letters. Tracing the Emotional Significance of Morphosyntactic Forms inherited from Irish and Middle / Early Modern English.

- Geraldine Brassil (University of Limerick): Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) in The Irish Quarterly Review, Duffy’s Hibernian Magazine, Duffy’s Hibernian Sixpenny Magazine, The Month and The Irish Monthly: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Writers and their Literary and Publishing Networks (1857-1893).

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Friday 26 August

9.15 – 10.30: PLENARY LECTURE 4 (Chair: Elke D’hoker)

Sara Dybris McQuaid (University of Aarhus): The Politics of Storytelling: Policy and Memory in Post-conflict Northern Ireland

10.30 – 11.00: coffee

11.00 – 12.30: WORKSHOPS

Radvan Markus (Charles University Prague): Irish-language Modernism

Pilar Villar-Argáiz (Universidad de Granada): The Ethical Implications of Irish Transcultural Fiction: Representations of the Immigrant in Roisín O'Donnell's Wild Quiet& Donal Ryan's From a Low and Quiet Sea.  

12.30 – 12.45: closing words

13.00: lunch