Past events

 

12th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.2

New Voices and New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

19 December 2024, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

 

 

Programme

 

Opening Remarks

Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, University of Galway)

 

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.2

New Voices and New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

 

Presentations:

by the contributors

 

Sylvie Mikowski (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Sina Schuhmaier (University of Mannheim)

Franca Leitner (University of Mannheim)

Carolin Steinke (University of Augsburg)

Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart)

David Nisters (Leipzig University)

 

Chairs:

Ralf Haekel (Leipzig University)

Caroline Lusin (University of Mannheim)

 

Open Discussion

 

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11th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1

Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the
Mid-Twentieth Century

16 May 2024, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

                                                                            

Programme

 

Opening Remarks

Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, University of Galway)

 

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1

Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century

 

Presentations:

Katherine M. Huber (Tilburg University)

Loic Wright (University College Dublin)

Moonyoung Hong (City University of Hong Kong)

Keelan Harkin (Concordia University)

 

 

Chairs:

Yen-Chi Wu (University of Leuven)

Phyllis Boumans (Uppsala University)

 

Open Discussion

 

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10th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 6.2

Perspectives on the Irish Border

6 December 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

Programme

 

Opening Remarks

Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, University of Galway)

 

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 6.2

Perspectives on the Irish Border

 

Presentations:

Mary E. Daly (University College Dublin)

Richard English (Queen's University Belfast)

Ciara Chambers (University College Cork)

Kirsten Sandrock (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

Lance Pettitt

Oran Doyle (Trinity College Dublin; Academia Sinica, Taipei)

 

Chairs:

Sandra Heinen (University of Wuppertal)

Sylvie Mikowski (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Lance Pettitt

Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal)

 

Open Discussion

 

 

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9th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

Irish and Irish English linguistics: interfaces and synergies

Organised by the Irish English Network

15 February 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

 

Programme

 

Opening Remarks

Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)

 

Discussion

 

Chairs: 

Anne Barron (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)

Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen)

 

Participants:

 

Aidan Doyle (University College Cork)

Ray Hickey (Universität Duisburg Essen/ University of Limerick)

Liam MacMathúna (University College Dublin)

Patricia Ronan (Technische Universität Dortmund)

 

Open Discussion

 

 

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8th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

for the launch of

IRISH STUDIES IN EUROPE XI
Ireland: Interfaces and Dialogues

11 January 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

 

Programme

 

Opening remarks:

Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)

James Little (University College Dublin)

 

Chair: Ondřej Pilný (Charles University, Prague)

 

Presentations by:

Jochen Achilles (University of Würzburg)
Rachel Andrews (University of Galway)
Anna Falkenau (University of Galway)
Michael Lydon (Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin)
Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha (University of Galway)
Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague)
Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart)
Alessandra Boller (University of Siegen)
Clare Wallace (Charles University, Prague)

 

Open discussion

 

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7th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion
 

Launch of The Multilingual Mermaid
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in Translation

Published by Gallery Press and edited by Peter Sirr

Supported by Literature Ireland

30 November 2022, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

 

Programme

 

Opening Remarks:

Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)

 

Launch of The Multilingual Mermaid

 

Guest Speaker: Professor Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)

 

Presentations and discussion by the following:

 

Arndt Wigger (German translator)
Asmaa Shammari (Arabic translator)
Awatif Alshammari (Arabic translator)
Jorge Rodríguez Durán (Galician & Spanish translator)
Magdalena Kleszczewska (Polish translator)
Natasha Remoundou (Greek translator)
Maria Filomena Louro (Portuguese translator)
Rióna Ní Fhrighil & John Caulfield (Aistriú directors)

 

Open Discussion

 

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6th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion
 

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 5.1

Irish Sexual Liberation and Its Literatures, Part 1
'Speaking out/ when it's dangerous'

7 July 2022, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

Programme

Opening Remarks:

Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)
and Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, NUI Galway)

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 5.1
Irish Sexual Liberation and Its Literatures, Part 1: 'Speaking out / when it's dangerous'

Presentations by the following:

Naoise Murphy (University of Cambridge, England)
Cara Delay (College of Charleston, South Carolina)
Phyllis Boumans (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Michael G. Cronin (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Michael Lydon (University of Galway, Ireland)

 

Chairs:

Robert Brazeau (issue co-editor, University of Alberta, Canada)

Laura Sydora (issue co-editor, Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada)

 

Open Discussion

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5th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

The Irish Language and Literature in Europe

WHEN: Thursday, 13 January 2022, 6pm (Irish Time) / 7pm (CET)

WHERE: online via zoom

 

Programme

Opening remarks by Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)
and Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague)

 

Chair: Éadaoin Ní Mhuircheartaigh (DCU)

 

Historical Views

Mícheál Mac Craith (NUI Galway): The Irish Language in Rome

Pádraig Ó Liatháin (DCU): Continental Europe in Irish-Language Literature(1600-1800)

 

Irish-Language Literature in Translation

Daniela Theinová (Charles University, Prague): Czech Translations of Irish-Language Poetry

Radvan Markus (Charles University, Prague): Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille and World Literature

Micheál Ó Conghaile (Cló Iar-Chonnacht): Translations of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille

 

Europe in Modern Irish-Language Literature

Rióna Ní Fhrighil (NUI Galway): Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Europe

Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame): Russian Influence on Irish-Language Literature

Máirín Nic Eoin (RIE): The International Turn in Irish-Language Literature Studies; the Introduction of the Book of Essays Ar an Imeall i Lár an Domhain

Open Discussion

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EFACIS Roundtable Discussions 
presents

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4.2

'Wrapping Our Heads Around Copies of This Book':
To Medbh McGuckian at Seventy

16 December 2021, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET

 

 

 

                                                               

Programme

Opening Remarks:
Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)
and Seán Crosson (General Editor of RISE, NUI Galway)

Launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4.2
‘Wrapping Our Heads Around Copies of This Book’: To Medbh McGuckian at Seventy

Featuring a poetry reading by and a discussion with Medbh McGuckian

Presentations by:
 Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart)
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem (Kingsborough-CUNY)
Eric Falci (University of California, Berkeley)
Fanni Fekete-Nagy ( Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Jefferson Holdridge (Wake Forest University, North Carolina)
Mary O’Malley-Madec (Villanova University, Ireland)

Reading and Discussion:

Medbh McGuckian

Chair:
Daniela Theinová (issue editor, Charles University, Prague)

Open Discussion

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3rd EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

The Irish English Network (IrEN)

(14 October 2021, 7 pm CET)

 

Programme

Opening Remarks by Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal)

Gerardine Meaney (UCD),
The Irish English Network: An Introduction

Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen),
The Development of the Field

Anne Barron (Leuphana University Lüneburg),
Irish English, the Irish English Network & Irish Studies

Current Research in Irish English
with contributions by
Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen),
Anne Barron (Leuphana University Lüneburg),
Karen Corrigan (Newcastle University),
Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen),
Bettina Migge (UCD),
Elaine Vaughan (University of Limerick)

Open Discussion

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2nd EFACIS Roundtable Discussion

Launch of Irish Studies in Europe Volume 10

Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation

30 September 2021, online via Zoom

 

 

 

Programme

Opening Remarks: Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal, EFACIS)

Introduction to "Stage Irish: Performance, Identity, Cultural Circulation" by the Editors
Paul Fagan (Salzburg University)

 

Contents of Irish Studies in Europe Vol. 10

Part I: What ish my nation? Constructing Irishness from Romanticism to Modernism

Paul Fagan (Salzburg University): "Groves of Blarney: Fake Songs, Mock-Hoaxes, and Stage irish identity in William Maginn and Francis Sylvester Mahony"

Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University): Staging Irishness in the Transnational Marketing of Local Colour Fiction

Elke D'hoker (KU Leuven): "Staging Irishness in Ethel Colburn Mayne's 'The Happy Day'"

Richard Barlow (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): "Dion Boucicault, Arrah-na-Pogue, and Stage Irishry in Finnigans Wake"

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Part II: Expatriate Perspectives: Staging Irishness in Vienna, Trieste, and Ljubljana

Dieter Fuchs (University of Vienna): "Austria and the Irish Paddy: Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock Staged in 1930 and 1934 Vienna"

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Part III: Popular Paddies: Parading Irishness on the Screen and in the Streets

Michael Connerty (National Film School at IADT Dublin): "'Beguiling Shenanigans': Ireland and Hollywood Animation 1947-1959"

Michelle Witen (University of Flensburg): "Object Lessons and Staged Irishness in Darby O'Gill and the Little People"

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Part IV: Political Theatre: Renegotiating Irishness on the Twenty-First-Century-Stage

Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin): "Reconfigurations of Gender in Contemporary Irish Stage Adaptations, 2019-2020: Deirdre Kinahan's The Unmanageable Sisters, Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls, Marina Carr's Hecuba and Michael West's Solar Bones"

Clare Wallace (Charles University Prague): "Set Piece, Set Peace? Negative Emotions and the Possibity of Change in Recent Stage Images of the North"

Natasha Remoundou (Deree, The American College of Greece): Regarding the Rights of Others: Spectres of the middle east in Conall Morrison's The Bacchae of Baghdad

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Open Discussion