Previous Conferences, 1970-2016
IASIL 2016
IASIL 2016
University College Cork, 25-29 July 2016
CHANGE
Conference Committee:
Prof Claire Connolly, Prof Alex Davis, Dr Anne Etienne, Dr Adam Hanna, Prof Lee Jenkins, Dr Heather Laird, Dr Barry Monahan, Dr Maureen O’Connor, Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Dr Anna Pilz.
IASIL 2015
RECONCILIATIONS/ATHMHUINTERAIS
University of York, 20-24 July 2015
Plenary Speakers: James Chandler, Hugh Haughton, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Eve Patten
Conference organizers: Matthew Campbell (poetry, history); Emilie Morin (theatre, film, theory); Ríona Nic Congáil (Irish language, biography, children’s literature); Bryan Radley (fiction, cultural studies).
Final draft_IASIL 2015 DRAFT CONFERENCE PROGRAMME JUNE
IASIL 2014
Embodying/Disembodying Ireland
Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3
14-18 July 2014
Organizing Committee: Alexandra Poulain, Fiona McCann, Chantal Dessaint, Virginie Girel-Pietka
http://evenements.univ-lille3.fr/iasil2014/
IASIL 2013
URBAN CULTURES
School of English, Queen’s University Belfast
22-26 July 2013
Organizing Committee: Dr Eamonn Hughes, Professor Edward Larrissy, Dr Stefanie Lehner, Professor Edna Longley
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/iasil2013/
IASIL 2012
“Weighing Words: Interdisciplinary Engagements with and within Irish Literatures”
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
30 July – 3 August 2012
IASIL 2011
Irish Literatures: Conflict and Resolution
KU Leuven
18-22 July 2011
Details of IASIL conferences from 1970-2012 can be found at the following link:
https://www.iasil.org/archive/conferences/index.html
2010
Irish Literature and Culture: New and Old Knowledges
Maynooth. Director: Margaret Kelleher
2009
Irish Literatures: World Perspectives
Glasgow. Director: Paddy Lyons.
2008
Home and Elsewhere: the Spaces of Irish Writing,
Porto. Director: Rui Carvalho Homem
2007
“Varieties of Irishness” – University College Dublin
Director: Professor Anthony Roche
2006
Those Images That Yet/Fresh Images Beget – Intertextuality in Irish Literature (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Director: Peter Kuch
2005
Ireland – A Global Village? (Charles University Prague)
Directors: Louis Armand, Ondrej Pilny, Clare Wallace
Details of conference proceedings
2004
Writing Ireland 2004: Past, Present and Future (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Director: Riana O’Dwyer
2003
“Getting Into Contact” (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Directors: Csilla Bertha and Donald Morse
Proceedings Now Available
2002
‘Irish Literatures and Other Forms of Knowledge’ (Universidade De São Paulo, Brazil)
Directors: Munira H. Mutran & Laura Izarra
Conference Programme – read it in html format or download the word document (.5 MB – may take some time to download).
2001
‘Odysseys’ (Dublin City University/St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)
Directors: Barbara Freitag and Patrick Burke
2000
‘Irish Literature: Borders and Border Crossings’ (Bathspa University College, England
Director: Neil Sammells
1999
‘Irish Literatures at Century’s End’ (Univ. of Barcelona, Spain)
Director: Jacqueline Hurtley
1998
‘1798/1998: Back to the Present, Forward to the Past’ (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland);
Director: Patricia Lynch
Details of conference proceedings – coming soon…
1997
‘Irish Literature – Areas of Research Today’ (Goteborg, Sweden)
Director: Britta Olinder
1996
‘Irish Studies: Old Worlds and New’ (Hofstra University, New York)
Maureen Murphy
1995
‘Coming of Age’ (University College, Cork);
Professor Colbert Kearney
1994
‘Insulae/lslands: The Classical World and the Mediterranean’ (University of Sassari, Sardinia)
Professor Giuseppe Serpillo.
1993
‘Literary Inter-relations: Ireland, Egypt & the Far East’ (Ains Shams University, Cairo)
Mary Massoud
1992
‘Creativity and its Contexts’ (Trinity College, Dublin);
Terence Brown & Nicholas Grene
1991
‘’The Literature of Politics and the Politics of Literature’ (Leiden University, Netherlands)
T. Westerndorp
1990
‘Irish Literature as an International Literature’ (Otani University, Kyoto, Japan),
Tetsuro Sano
1989
‘Irish Letters – A Small Nation’s Contribution to the World’ (Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary): Professor István Pálffy
1988
‘The Influence of Irish literature on the World’ (University of Ulster at Coleraine).
Robert Welch
1987
‘The Irish Theatre’ (Université de Caen III, France);
Jacqueline Genet
1986
‘Aspects of language and Culture’ (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden).
Birgit Brämsback
1985
‘Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature’ (The Queen’s University of Belfast)
John Cronin.
1984
‘Literary Cross-currents: Ireland, England & the World’ (Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria)
Wolfgang Zach
1982
‘The Irish Writer and the City’ (University College, Dublin)
Maurice Harmon
1981
‘Anglo-lrish Literature’ (Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Germany)
Heinz Kosok
1979
‘Literature in a Changing Society’ (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth)
Peter Connolly
1978
‘Ireland at the Crossroads’ (Université de Lille III, France)
Patrick Rafroidi
1976
‘Place, Space, Personality and the Irish Writers’ (University College, Galway)
Lorna Reynolds
1973
‘The Gaelic World and Writers in English’ (University College, Cork)
Sean Lucy
1970
Inaugural Conference, Trinity College Dublin
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