EVENT: Migration, adaptation and ex/change: Victorian and contemporary culture

Join the VICTEUR Project at UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics at MoLI for a two-day colloquium exploring questions of migration, adaptation and ex/change. This colloquium will explore questions of migration, adaptation and cultural ex/change through the lens of cultural analytics, in particular the use cases and new functionalities of the Curatr platform developed as part of the VICTEUR project. Ranging

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NEW BOOK: The Irish Bildungsroman

Edited by Edited by Gregory Castle, Matthew L. Reznicek, Sarah L. Townsend Syracuse University Press To order: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/7134/irish-bildungsroman-the/ The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development—the harmonization of individual desires with societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded, liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society

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EVENT: Early Career Research Seminar in Irish Studies

2pm Wednesday 6th November 2024 Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies, 4 Distillery Road, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, University of Galway & on Zoom We are delighted to welcome Ms Constanza Rapa from the Université Grenoble Alpes who will speak on her PhD research project, ‘Belonging with the (Non)Human Other: (Non)Human worlds in Transcultural Literature’, and also

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BOOKCLUB: EFACIS November & December

The EFACIS book club aims to introduce readers to highlights of Irish literature, both past and present. In our book club sessions we predominantly focus on contemporary fiction (and, indeed, mostly books that were published in the past 2-3 years) or discuss works from the twentieth or earlier centuries that are relevant for contemporary Ireland, but have remained under the academic and/or public

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PODCAST: Victoria Kennefick in conversation with Lucy Collins

In her conversation with Lucy Collins, Victoria Kennefick discusses her most recent poetry collection Egg/Shell (2024). She talks about the changes in her creative practice occasioned by events in her life and how these have produced a collection that defies containment; how writing poetry has helped her to capture the immediacy of these difficult experiences and to process them over time. She

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CFP: Men on the Margins

Call for Papers Men on the Margins Postcolonial and Decolonial Masculinities in Anglophone Literatures 20-21 June 2025 Freie Universität Berlin Institute for English Language and Literature Current debates about intersectionality tend to focus on the intersections between race and marginalised gender identities, such as femininity, trans*ness and nonbinariness. Masculinities, however, often remain in the realms of normativity and invisibility, although

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GUEST LECTURE: J.M. Synge in Context

                                                         GUEST LECTURE SERIES IN IRISH STUDIES Department of English University of Klagenfurt October 31, 2024/ 11.45-13.15/ N.1.44                             Title of talk: “J.M. Synge in Context” Guest speaker: Prof. Dr. Ondřej Pilný, Charles University, Prague This lecture will offer a survey of the work of John Millington Synge, a principal playwright associated with the Irish Literary Revival, discussing the controversial

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POSTGRAD: MA in English Studies

Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus Deadline for the submission of applications:Thursday, 31/10/2024 (noon)Scholarship funding available on a competitive basis. Are you passionate about English literature, cultural studies, translation, adaptation, and the study of theEnglish language? Do you wish to pursue advanced study and research in English Studies? 2 year Programme | Taught in English | 120

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CFP: 2025 EFACIS Conference in Åbo / Turku, Finland: ‘Attending to Ireland’

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Conference Åbo / Turku, Finland, 8–11 May 2025:  In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of “attention” has become increasingly important. As Jonathan Crary observed in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, the “contemporary experience […] requires that we effectively cancel out or exclude from consciousness much

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