Research 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 moreTopic: Irish Studies’ Seminar Series – Drone Imagery in Irish Visual Culture 23 Feb 2023 Time: Feb 23, 2023 04:00 PM London Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 997 8478 1437 Passcode: 948866 Drone Imagery in Irish Visual Culture: Evoking a Nostalgic Past amidst the Contemporary Future Dr. Jeannine Kraft, Columbus College of Art & Design Drone imagery has played a
» Read moreTelling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writingby Teresa Caneda (Volume editor)Peter Lang Series: Reimagining Ireland, Volume 117 2023Available to order now at https://www.peterlang.com/document/1288822 Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing is the first book to provide a critical assessment of Evelyn Conlon’s work. Drawing on a variety of perspectives such as feminism, ethics, famine studies, mobility studies, translation studies, short
» 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 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 more22 February 2023 8-10 pm CET Louise Kennedy – Trespasses (2022) Introduction by Prof. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) The author will join at 8 pm. EFACIS book club takes place online, via zoom. Readings and discussions are in English. We usually meet on Wednesdays between 8 pm and 10 pm (CET). During our 2-hour sessions, the work is briefly introduced and contextualized by
» 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
» Read more9th EFACIS Roundtable Discussion Irish and Irish English linguistics: interfaces and synergies Organised by the Irish English Network 15 February 2023, 6 pm GMT/ 7 pm CET Please register here for this online Roundtable Discussion! Programme Opening Remarks: Katharina Rennhak (EFACIS President, University of Wuppertal) Chairs: Anne Barron (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) Carolina Amador-Moreno (University of Bergen) Participants: Aidan Doyle (University College Cork) Ray
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