International Ph.D Seminar, Prague, 2013

TRADITION AND MODERNITY

The 3rd International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies

20 - 21 September 2013

Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Conference venue: Faculty of Arts, nám. Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 (metro station

Staroměstská), room 111

Contact e-mail: markus.radvan@gmail.com

Phone number: +420605903479 (Hana Pavelková, for emergency cases during the conference

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks

9:30 – 11:00 James Joyce (Chair: Einat Adar)

David Vichnar (Charles University, Prague) The Strange Case of Master

Joyce and Disciple Beckett (respondent Darren Lee Dunning)

Darren Lee Dunning (University of Liverpool) James Joyce and Dana: An Irishman of Independent Thought (respondent Michal Kleprlík)

Michal Kleprlík (Palacký University Olomouc) James Joyce: North from the Future (respondent David Vichnar)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 Samuel Beckett and Cinema (Chair: David Vichnar)

Einat Adar (Charles University, Prague) Or Percipere: Self-Perception in

Samuel Beckett’s Film (respondent David Vichnar)

Galina Kiryushina (Charles University, Prague) Not Only to Be Read: Aural and Visual Aspects of Samuel Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said (respondent Einat

Adar)

Verónica Membrive Pérez (University of Almería) Echoes of Walter

Starkie’s voice from The Road to Santiago in Luis Buñuel’s The Milky Way (respondent Hana Pavelková)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Responses to the Conflict in Northern Ireland (Chair: Matthew Sweney) Michaela Marková (Trinity College, Dublin) Haunting Legacies: Northern

Irish Troubles Novels (respondent Matthew Sweney)

Benjamin Mallon (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin) From Recollections of the

Past, to Responsibility for the Future?: Peace Education on the Island of Ireland

(respondent Henrik Forsberg)

Hana Pavelková (Charles University, Prague) Modernity and/or Tradition?

Owen McCafferty’s Quietly and Frank McGuinness’s The Match Box

(respondent Michaela Marková)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Thomas Moore (Ken Ó Donnchú)

Sheila Rooney (Queen’s University, Belfast) Problematizing Primitivism: a

Closer Look at Moore’s Irish Melodies (respondent Ken Ó Donnchú)

Joanne Burns (Queen’s University, Belfast) Performing ‘Irishness’: Thomas

Moore and Sydney Owenson in the Nineteenth-Century English DrawingRoom (respondent Jack Fennell)

19:00 Music Session

Kulový Blesk Restaurant (Sokolská 13, Prague 2; metro C, I.P. Pavlova)

SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER

10:00 – 11:30 Nationalism and Identity (Chair: Radvan Markus)

Henrik Forsberg (University of Helsinki) ‘And Righteous Men Must Make our Land A Nation Once Again.’ Constructing National Identities through History Textbooks by the End of 19th Century (respondent Maciej Ruczaj) Maciej Ruczaj (Charles University, Prague) Pearse the Messianist: Dialectics of Tradition and Revolutionary Change in Patrick Pearse’s Writings

(respondent Radvan Markus)

Ríonnagh Sheridan (Queen’s University, Belfast) Small Houses, Short

Fiction: Examining the Geography of Identity in Maeve Brennan’s 1920s Dublin (respondent David McKinney )

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 – 13:00 Parallel Panels

Bás na Seanríthe agus an Teagasc Nua (trí mheán na Gaeilge; cathaoirleach:

Justin Quinn)

Ken Ó Donnchú (Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) Plummer, Stokes agus

Comthóth Lóegairi co Cretim 7 a Aided (freagróir Justin Quinn)

Hynek Janoušek (Prifysgol Aberystwyth; Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh) ‘Ci ddú dún …?’ – Dlús, Forbairt agus Fóintiúlacht an Téasc in Aided Chonchobuir (freagróir Radvan Markus)

History of Madness (Chair: Hana Pavelková)

Julia McGrath (University of Limerick) The Medical Profession’s Challenge to the Authority of Limerick’s Aristocracy (respondent Michael Robinson)

Michael Robinson (University of Liverpool) The Mad Irish Soldier, 1914-

1918 (respondent Julia McGrath)

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00 Contemporary Fiction (Chair: Michaela Marková)

David McKinney (University College Dublin) ‘A Room in Beckett’s House:

The Re-Emergence of the Beckettian Aesthetic in Recent Irish Fiction.

(respondent Michaela Marková)

Jack Fennell (University of Limerick) Welcome to the World of Tomorrow:

The Conflict Between Tradition and Modernity in Irish Science Fiction

(respondent Hynek Janoušek)

Julia Schwaninger (University of Vienna) Emigration from Ireland (from the

1920s to the Early 21st Century) as a Theme in Contemporary Irish Fiction

(respondent Ríonnagh Sheridan)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Tutored Session and Q & A on Research Methods and Job Applications

Dominic Bryan (Queen’s University, Belfast), Ondřej Pilný (Charles University Prague)

18:00 – 18:15 Concluding Remarks

20:00 Final Gathering

Malostranská Beseda (Malostranské náměstí 35)