International Ph.D Seminar, Prague, 2019

IRELAND IN EUROPE

The 5th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague

13 September 2019

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

Conference Committee: Markéta Pospíšilová, James Little and Ondřej Pilný

Conference venue: Faculty of Arts main building, Palachovo nám. 2, Prague 1, 1st floor, Room 111

Conference Programme

9:00–9:30 Registration and coffee

9:30–9:45 Opening remarks

9:45–10:45 Panel 1: (Chair: Ondřej Pilný)

Josh Newman, Who is a Citizen?: James Joyce and the Question of Irish Nationalism

(respondent: Markéta Pospíšilová)

Erin Cunningham, ‘What source is not a multilingual mud?’: European Legacies of the

Modern Irish Sonnet (respondent: Irina Yakovenko)

10:45–11:00 Coffee

11:00–12:00 Panel 2: (Chair: James Little)

Maelle Le Roux, Impact of the European Ideological Conflicts on the Nationalist

Representations in the Capuchin Annual (1930-1977) (respondent: Ondřej Pilný)

Hannah Rice, The Semiotics of an Irish Border Town: A View of the Linguistic Landscape

(respondent: James Little)

12:00–13:30 Lunch break

13:30–14:30 Panel 3: (Chair: Markéta Pospíšilová)

Marit Meinhold, Reconnecting with European Roots: Greek Tragedy in Contemporary

Ireland (respondent: Clare Wallace)

Irina Yakovenko, You Can’t Go Home Again: Irish and Ukrainian Immigrants in Contemporary American Literature (respondent: Erin Cunningham)

14:30–14:45 Coffee

14:45–15:45 Panel Session on Research, Publication and Career Building

Presented by Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick (Ulster University) and Prof. Ondřej Pilný (Charles University)

15:45–16:00 Concluding remarks

18:30 Conference Dinner at Restaurace u Dvou koček (Uhelný trh 10, Praha 1)