NTU 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)
» Read moreInternational Conference 7, 8 and 9 May 2025 University of Almeria “The Multiple Representations of the Irish and Spanish Mother in Contemporary Literature” aims to explore the intellectual, artistic, and literary production of Spain and Ireland on the figure of the mother, taking as starting premises on the one hand the multiple theoretical-conceptual axes, and on the other hand the
» Read moreJoin 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
» Read moreCall 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
» Read moreEuropean 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
» Read morePutting performance to work for children and young people University of Galway on Friday 11th November This symposium is organised by the Talking Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Research Network in collaboration with Baboró International Children’s Festival, and hosted by the Discipline of Children’s Studies, University of Galway. The Talking TYA Research Network is a research community for TYA makers and
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