Following the successful editions of 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will organise its fifth PhD seminar in Irish Studies in 2018, in collaboration with EFACIS. The aim is to give PhD students in Irish Studies from different European countries the opportunity to present their research in a congenial, interdisciplinary environment, to receive feedback
» Read moreEighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society Conference 2018 Panel: “Maria Edgeworth and Scottish Enlightenment Networks” Maria Edgeworth’s involvement with Scottish Enlightenment thinking has long been recognized, but much yet remains to be discovered about the extent, complexity and implications of her engagement with the ideas of Adam Smith, David Hume, William Hunter, Hugh Blair, Dugald Stewart and other philosophers, scientists and writers
» Read moreNINTH INTERNATIONAL GEORGE MOORE CONFERENCE June 14-16, 2018 George Moore: Transnational and Cosmopolitan Networks on the Page and Canvas At Moore Institute, NUI Galway with sessions at Moore Hall, and at Coole Park, Galway ‘I wrote The Untilled Field, a book written in the beginning out of no desire of self-expression, but in the hope of furnishing the young Irish
» Read moreNOVEL ENCOUNTERS a festival celebrating Greek and Irish fiction 18-20 October 2017, in Corfu, Greece “Novel Encounters”: Irish-Greek literary festival This festival is hosted by the Durrell Library of Corfu in association with the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University in Corfu. The festival will present four Irish novelists and four Greek novelists in readings from
» Read moreAfter the Crash: Globalism and Irish Literary and Visual Culture Dept. of Humanities, Carlow College, St. Patrick’s and VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow November 24, 2017 Keynote Speaker: Professor Luke Gibbons (Maynooth University) One of the defining themes of Irish cultural discourse in recent decades has been the ways in which globalism manifests itself across Ireland’s
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A draft programme for IASIL 2017 is now available on the conference website http://www.soh.ntu.edu.sg/programmes/english/IASIL2017/home.html
» Read moreIrish Time? Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture Symposium at The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin October 12-13, 2017 Convenors: Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg) and Christopher Morash (Trinity College Dublin) Call for Papers: Papers are invited from a range of fields that consider the question of time in an Irish context. Papers are invited
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This is a reminder that registration for IASIL2017 in Singapore closes on May 31st, 2017. You can register through the conference website: http://www.soh.ntu.edu.sg/programmes/english/IASIL2017/registration.html The conference programme will be circulated shortly after registration closes.
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Choose the Cover! The IUR is launching an open competition to choose the covers of its next two General Issues. For a chance to have an image or a piece of art you’ve created, or an image you have found, on the cover of the Irish University Review, all you have to do is enter this competition! Please send
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The editorial board of the Irish University Review is pleased to announce the publication of the 2017 Special Issue, ‘Moving Memory: The Dynamics of the Past in Irish Culture.’ The issue is available now online, with the Roundtable on ‘Moving Memory’ available free as a sample: http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/47/1 The whole issue is available online for IASIL members, and print copies for
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