Irish 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
» Read moreCall for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTRCologne, Germany, 9th–13th June 2024 Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious
» Read more31st October – 1st November2024 University College Dublin, Ireland Registration is now open to attend the hybrid ‘Trans* Research Association of Ireland First Annual Symposium’ taking place in University College Dublin, Ireland, on 31st October – 1st November 2024 This interdisciplinary symposium aims to forge connections between trans theory internationally and Irish iterations thereof. Ireland occupies a particular space in
» Read moreVIII FORUM OF NÚCLEO DE ESTUDOS IRLANDESES AT UFSCSpaces, Places and Psychogeographies of Ireland5th-6th November 2024Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis Campus Guest speakers: Dr Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin); Dr Deirdre Flynn (Mary Immaculate College); Northern-Irish writer Lucy Caldwell. Spaces change over time. They may change due to climatic disasters, war, gentrification, or economic crises or booms, to name
» Read moreJoyce and Us Conference dates: 30-31 January 2025 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 9, 2024 Keynote speakers: Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Conference in Rome to celebrate Joyce’s 144th birthday. Richard Ellmann famously wrote that “we are still learning to be James Joyce’s contemporaries” and many decades
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