The XVI James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome PRISMASTIC JOYCE Conference Dates: 1-2 February 2024 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 12, 2023 SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY NOVEMBER 26, 2023 Keynote speakers: § Sun-Chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University § Patrick Hersant, Université Paris 8 § Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti The James
» Read moreThe latest issue of the academic journal Litteraria Pragensia, subtitled “Cultural Intersections Across the Irish Sea”, brings together essays discussing the special and complex relationship between Ireland and Scotland. Edited by Radvan Markus and Petra Johana Poncarová, the issue is based on a symposium on the same topic which was held at Charles University in Prague on 11 November 2022.
» Read moreThe James Joyce Society will hold a virtual roundtable and open forum on the subject of “Making Joyce Studies Safe for All.” Please save the date: Friday, September 15th, 12 noon-2pm Eastern US time (1700hr in Dublin, 9am in Los Angeles, etc. etc.). Participants will include Katherine Ebury, Zoë Henry, Casey Lawrence, and Sam Slote, with Celia Marshik moderating. All
» Read moreThe James Joyce Centre is delighted to invite you to the launch of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms by Richard Barlow. Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:30 IST James Joyce Centre 35 North Great George’s Street D01 WK44 Dublin 1 The book examines the various ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to
» Read moreIrish Itinerary Podcast Episode 43 – Click HERE In his conversation with Nathalie Lamprecht, Alan Gilsenan discusses his documentary film The Laughing Boy (2022), which tries to uncover how the song The Laughing Boy, written by a young Brendan Behan and later used in his play The Hostage, travelled via Paris to Greece and there became an anthem of defiance for the Greek left.
» Read moreRISE 6.1 Irish Sexual Liberation and Its Literatures, Part 2. A Long Time Coming, edited by Robert Brazeau and Laura Sydora Now available on the RISE website: https://risejournal.eu/index.php/rise/index RISE 6.1 is the second of a two-volume themed issue dedicated to the study of sexual liberation and its literatures in Ireland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that extends the line of scholarly
» Read moreedited by M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera and José Carregal- Romero New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature series of Palgrave Macmillan This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the
» Read moreRichard Alan Barlow | Oxford University Press Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms examines the various ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s to the contemporary era. By studying work in a variety of genres from figures such as James Macpherson, Walter Scott, Sydney Owenson, Augusta Gregory, W.B. Yeats, Fiona Macleod/William Sharp, James Joyce,
» Read more12-14 December 2023, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne From the recent disruptions of the pandemic to those of emigration and diaspora, Irish history and literature include both large-scale and personal divergences from anticipated futures. These disruptions have initiated transitions to new cultural, political, social, and disciplinary terrains that are often connected to Australia and New Zealand. For ISAANZ 26, the convenors
» Read moreIn Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), Sally Rooney creates a character Alice, a young professional writer who feels conflicted about her literary stardom and financial success. Through Alice, Rooney reflects on the commodification of literary labor and responds to critics who dismiss her work as romance novels in fancy dress. Literary works that are perceived as commercial or popular—literatures
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