9-10 April 2026 Boulogne-sur-Mer (ULCO, UR 4030 HLLI) Keynote Speaker: John Brannigan, University College Dublin This conference seeks to explore the pervasive influence of the flux and flow of seas, oceans, rivers and other waterways on Irish and Scottish literatures from the late 19th century to the present. The rise of the “blue humanities” as part of what is often referred to
» Read moreGraduate Conference PhD Course in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures Roma Tre University December 15-16, 2025 Thaumazein is the verb that, in ancient Greek, indicated the act of wonderment, the very spark of a thought that tended towards knowledge. Plato (Theaetetetus, 155d) and Aristotle (Metaphysics, I, 2, 982b) saw this deeply human capacity as a hypothetical origin of philosophy itself.
» Read moreRegistration is open for the Biennial Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), which will be hosted by the University of Galway, 9th,12th-14th August 2025. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in the
» Read more‘Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Advances in Poetry Performance Research,’ a two-day academic conference organised by the project ‘Poetry Off the Page’ at the University of Vienna and the Literaturhaus Wien. It will be a two-day event, taking place on 13-14 June 2025 – free to attend, and remote attendance is possible. Keynote speakers Shantanu Anand (poet, co-founder of Airplane Poetry Movement, India) and
» Read moreW.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 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
» Read moreIrish Society for Theatre Research Conference 2025 Institute of Art, Design + Technology (IADT), Dún Laoghaire 6-7 June This conference examines the intersections of place, politics and performance as they relate to the histories, legacies, and persistence of structures associated with colonial empires as well as neocolonial practices. For this interdisciplinary event, we invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on (or of)
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