A Conference on the 30th Anniversary of the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in Ireland 8 June, Trinity Long Room Hub Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in the Republic of Ireland, this one-day conference will present a range of perspectives from various disciplines and contexts, including contributions by scholars and activists, as well as writers and artists.
» Read moreDate: 9-11 October 2023. Venue: Universidade de Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brasil) The year of 2023 marks the centenary of the Nobel prize in literature being awarded to W. B. Yeats, the first of four Irish writers that have been recognised by the Swedish Academy thus far, with George Bernard Shaw following Yeats closely in 1925 (received 1926), Samuel Beckett
» Read moreThe Maria Edgeworth Centre in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford is hosting an International Conference on the origins of our Primary School System in Ireland. Titled: The Education of a Nation – The Role of the Edgeworths. 2023 is the 225th anniversary of the publication of Maria Edgeworth’s major work on education ‘Practical Education’. Both Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s Education Bill of 1799 and
» 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 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 moreThe Irish Proust was a two-day conference which took place in October 2022 and brought together scholars and writers from Ireland, France, the UK, and North America to explore the French novelist’s influence on Irish literature as well as Irish themes within his writing. By delving into what is Irish within Proust and Proustian within Irish letters, ‘The Irish Proust’
» 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 moreThe deadline for paper submissions to Strange Atmospheres: The Seventh International Flann O’Brien Conference has been extended to 31 January, 2023. The Department of English at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj, 27–30 June 2023 Keynote Speakers Joseph Brooker (Birkbeck College, University of London) Flore Coulouma (Université Paris Nanterre) Paul Fagan (Maynooth University) Heather Laird (University College Cork) Call for Papers The conference title, Strange Atmospheres, foregrounds a concept that sits
» Read moreBrendan Behan at 100 : Legacy and New Directions 23-24 June 2023 EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 5 MARCH 2023 Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague Conference venue: Faculty of Arts main building, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1 Keynote speakers John Brannigan (UCD) Deirdre McMahon Irish author, playwright and rebel Brendan Behan was born on the 9th
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