International Ph.D Seminar, Leuven, 2014

August 25 – August 29, 2014

Irish College, Leuven

EFACIS PhD Seminar

Irish Studies in Europe

Programme

 

Monday 25 August

9 .00 - 9.30: opening: Pol Ghesquière, Ortwin de Graef, Hedwig Schwall

9.30 - 11: keynote lecture 1: Séan Crosson: Imagining Irelands: Irish National Cinema 11-11.30: : coffee 11.30 - 13.00: research seminars

A: Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal): Narrative Constructions of Identity

B: Kevin Bean (University of Liverpool): Making Peace in Northern Ireland 1998-2014?

(Conference Room 2)

1.00 – 2 pm: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Niall Curran (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg)

Value Pluralism: Space and Migration in the Irish Diaspora in the Writing of Colm Tóibin

Michelle McNamara Fourquet (Université de Strasbourg)

The Emigration Debate in Dublin Newspapers in the 1820s

Verónica Membrive (University of Almeria)

The Conspirational Look: Irish Writers in Spain in the Twentieth Century

3.30 - 4 : coffee

4: guided tour of Leuven

5.30 - 7: film screening: The Quiet Man (1952)

Tuesday 26 August

9 - 10.30: keynote lecture: Dr. Anne Mulhall (University College Dublin): Gender, form and 'crisis' in contemporary Irish fiction

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

C: Charles Armstrong (University of Agder) on poetry

D: Seán Crosson (University of Galway) on Irish film (Conference Room 2)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Caroline Eufrasino (University of São Paulo)

Voicing Silences: Women’s Representation in Anne Enright’s The Gathering

John Greaney (University College Dublin)

Writing Ireland’s Lost Years: Memory and Silence in Mid 20th Century Anglo-Irish Literature

Emma Grey (University of Aberdeen)

‘Archival Amnesia’: Memory and Culture in Post-Ceasefire Northern Ireland

3.30 - 4 : coffee

4 – 5.30: student presentations

Anna Hanrahan (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Narrating Irish Identity in Celtic Tiger Drama

Einat Adar (Charles University Prague)

Berkeleyan Images in Samuel Beckett’s Work

Wednesday 27 August

9 - 10.30: keynote lecture : Prof. Dr. Matthew Campbell (University of York):

Irish Poetry and Geophany

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

E: Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp): Genetic Criticism and Beckett's Manuscripts

F: Raphaël Ingelbien (KU Leuven): Ireland and the ‘New British’ / ‘Four Nations’ paradigms

(Conference Room 2)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Cecilia Biaggi (University of Oxford)

The Relation Between Northern and Southern Nationalists in Ireland, 1920 - 1932

Laura Pomeroy (University College Cork)

Mary Devenport O’Neill: Writing the Free State

Jessika Köhler (University of Hamburg)

Visions of the Land. Projections of Place in Contemporary Irish Poetry

3.30 - 4 : coffee

Thursday 28 August

9 - 10.30: keynote lecture : Prof. Dr. Claire Connolly (University College Cork):

Irish Romanticism and the Everyday: War, Affect and Divided Identities in the National Tale

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: Research Seminars :

G: Elke D’hoker (KU Leuven): Gender and Narrative Theory

H: Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven): The Use of Psychoanalysis in Irish Literature

(Conference Room 2)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Orla Fitzpatrick (University of Ulster)

Modernity, modernism and the Irish photographic book, 1922 to 1949

Katie Mishler (University College Dublin)

Joycean Ingenuities: An Intertextual Reading of James Joyce’s Relationships to the

Nineteenth Century

Tamara Radak (University of Vienna)

No(n) Sense of an Ending? Time, chaos and the Disruption of Teleology in Modernist Fiction

3.30 - 4 : coffee

4 - 5: student presentations

Jim Grady (University of Limerick)

Alienation and Nihilism in the 21st Century Irish Short Story

Gráinne Hurley (University College Dublin)

“Trying to Get the Words Right.” The Production of Mary Lavin’s Short Stories for Publication in The New Yorker

Friday 29 August

9 - 10.30: keynote lecture : Prof. Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin ) : The 1641 Depositions:

Records of Massacre, Atrocity & Ethnic Cleansing in Seventeenth-Century Ireland

10.30 - 11: coffee

11 - 12.30: research seminars

I: Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin): The 1641 Rebellion: History and Memory

J: Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin): The “Public Child” – the Irish case in comparative perspective (Conference Room 2)

12.30 - 2: lunch

2 - 3.30: student presentations

Tim Heron (University of Reims ChampagneArdenne)

‘Alternative Ulster.’ Punk and Subversion in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s

Anna Zaluczkowska (St Mary’s University College Twickenham)

The Community

3.30 - 4: coffee

Closing remarks