W.B. YEATS: DUBLINER 30 October to 1 November | Trinity College Dublin CALL FOR PAPERS Reviewing Lady Wilde’s Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland in 1890, W. B. Yeats bemoaned that ‘around and northward of Dublin no small amount of gloom has blown from overseas’. Just outside the city in Howth, however, he noted that ‘the old life goes on but little
» Read moreNTU Singapore ● 4 – 5 October 2025 Reconfigurations 2025 seeks to explore the innovative and dynamic achievements of contemporary arts and to extend the critical discourses on their significance in our time. The central theme of the Conference is the intermedial, that is, the interconnectedness and interaction of different art forms across aesthetic and cultural boundaries, and the invigorating
» Read moreCanadian Association for Irish Studies 2025 Annual Meeting St. Michael’s College and York University, Toronto, June 11-13 2025 Française Gaeilge Boundaries can be thought of in relation to the political, the historical, the artistic, the topographical, the cultural, the ecological, and so on. But even within these categories, boundaries exist at multiple scales: a national border is a political boundary,
» Read more20-22 November 2025University of Otago / Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Aotearoa / New Zealand As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medical landscape, we invite scholars and community members to use the vantage point of this new ecosystem – viral, social, political, economic, environmental – to consider what
» Read more2025 International Symposium X SILAS Conference XX ABEI Symposium of IS Studies in South America Ireland and Latin America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Connections 17, 18, and 19 September 2025 Casa Universitaria del Libro (CASUL), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico City The 2025 International Symposium The Turns of the Centuries: Irish and Latin American Literature and Culture will be
» Read moreDo you work on representations of unmarried, single, or widowed characters in Irish writing? Your proposals are welcome for an open-access Special Issue of Humanities on the topic of ‘Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing’. In the popular imagination, the practice of celibacy in 19th and 20th century Ireland evokes images of male priests, Catholic moral values, and conservative, even reactionary, politics concerning
» Read moreThe Irish Society for Theatre Research (ISTR) invites interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary scholars and artists to submit papers or presentations for a special Open Access peer-reviewed publication sponsored by Villanova University, “New Horizons: Race and Performance.” This publication seeks to advance the dialogue on race, inclusion, and identity in Irish culture and representation, with a perspective on contemporary evolutions in identity
» Read morePlease note that the French version of the CFP is available after the English one. Veuillez noter que la version française de l’appel à contributions est disponible après celle en anglais. The Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), in collaboration with the refereed bilingual journal, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui (SBT/A), invites abstract submissions for a
» Read moreCoedited by Nuria Torres, University of Almería, and Felicity Smith, University of Granada Deadline for abstract submissions: 5th March, 2025 contact: Nuria Torres López and Felicity Smith emails: nuria.torres@ual.es / felicity@correo.ugr.es This book is about “motherhood”, something that has traditionally been considered a given for women, whereby special attention is paid to women’s desires and maternal instinct. However, over the
» Read moreAll Hallows Campus, Dublin City University, November 7th 2025Convened by Eugene McNulty (School of English) and Brad Anderson (School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music) The organisers invite proposals for papers exploring the intersections of literature and religion, whether in the Irish context specifically or through a broader comparative international framing. It is envisaged that papers will be 20 minutes in
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