The proposed publication (to be published by a major academic publisher upon approval of book proposal) will provide wide-ranging critical insight into the works of Sally Rooney (novels, short fiction, poetry, essays) and the TV adaptations of her works with attention to contemporary Irish culture. The aim of this edited collection is to offer readings of the works of Sally
» Read moreThe Editorial Team of Estudios Irlandeses wish to announce the publication of issue 18 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, which features fifteen articles, two interviews, a “Think piece” celebrating 100 years from the publication of Joyce’s Ulysses, a scholarly translation, and reviews of Irish books, films, television and media. The contents can be accessed in the following link: https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org. They also wish to announce
» Read moreDublin City University | September 05-06, 2023 This conference intends to explore twentieth and twenty-first century literature through the lens of literary geography and theories on space, place and embodiment. Indeed, by using the different approaches of literature and geography to “think beyond taken-for-granted categories, levels, and terms” (Hones, 688), literary geography allows a discussion that redefines not only the genres but also
» Read moreThe Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies invites scholars and postgraduate students to contribute to a Special issue on Irish Theatre to be published in December 2023. The ABEI Journal is peer-reviewed and committed to establishing a dialogue between Brazil and Ireland. It is aimed at scholars, independent researchers, and postgraduate students in Irish studies. The ABEI Journal is indexed by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Maryland, USA
» Read moreUniversity of Lille (CECILLE) 12-13 October 2023 Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2023 This multidisciplinary international conference will mainly focus on the autobiographical genre which, for a long time, celebrated the idea of a sovereign self, traditionally the prerogative of white, heterosexual, middle- or upper-class males (making it a traditionally androcentric, even ethnocentric genre that promotes a universality based on
» Read moreResearch Centre for Irish Studies (RCIS) & the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, The British University in Egypt IASIL 2023: Sustainability CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TO MARCH 30TH! Updates – Accommodation Publication Call for Papers In the atmosphere of the current global, intersectional crisis, the sustainability of life on the planet has become a
» Read more5-6 May, University of Galway Sponsored by the University of Galway and Irish Theatre Institute in association with Dundalk Institute of Technology KEYNOTES Dr Danielle Bainbridge, Northwestern University Prof. David O’Shaughnessy, University of Galway Safe to Create/Irish Theatre Institute Panel Keynote Artist Interview Keynote: Ursula Rani Sarma SPECIAL EVENTS Cultural Programme in association with Galway Theatre Festival ECR Workshops:
» Read moreRecirculations: Transmissions and Transits in Irish history, literature, and culture Háskóli Íslands/University of Iceland, Reykjavík, 25-26 May 2023 Ireland’s geographical position as an island at the western edge of Europe has made it, in turns, a marginal or central location for various forms of material, social, and cultural transmission. Rather than novelty, such encounters in literature, culture, and art have
» Read moreCall for Chapters, New Project An Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope: The Irish Mummy in Contemporary Literature at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century “Growing up in Ireland, we didn’t need aliens — we already had a race of higher beings to gaze deep into our eyes and force us to have babies against our will: we called them priests. It is great
» Read more(Dis)locations: Shifting Notions of Home At the Lavra monastery above Kiev The Dnieper river is a distant blue ribbon . . . (Maria Winnett, “Five Gold Domes,” Envoi journal, 2013, 7) Maria Winnett’s evocative words inspired by a then serene Kiev landscape nearly ten years ago seem uncannily prescient of this time of conflict and alteration. The end of 2022
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