EFACIS PhD seminar in Irish Studies Irish Time 3-7 September 2012 Programme Venue: Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven Monday 3 September 9 10.30: registration 10:30: opening of the PhD seminar (conference room 1) A: Shane Alcobia-Murphy (Aberdeen University) on trauma, memory and forgetting (conference room 1) B: Elke D Hoker and Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) on narratology (conference room 2) 2-3.30: student presentations - Mark Schmitt (Mannheim University): Functions of whiteness in transcultural encounters in Ireland since 1990. - Oliver O Hanlon (University College Cork): The French grand reporter in Ireland in the 20 th century. - Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University Nijmegen): Memory, modernity, and (inter)nationalist identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1957. 4 5.30: Plenary lecture 1: Christopher Morash (NUI Maynooth): Displaced Persons: Re- Thinking Irish Timespace Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien
Tuesday 4 September 9-10.30: student presentations: - Lindsay Jansen and Christopher Cusack (Radboud University Nijmegen): Recollecting the Great Famine in Irish (diaspora) fiction, 1871-1891 and 1892-1921. - Nazare Graça (University of Coimbra): The transatlantic crossing: the portrait of the Irish emigrant woman in The Pale Gold of Alaska by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne. C: Raphaël Ingelbien (KU Leuven) on periodization in historiography (conference room 1) D: Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) on psychoanalytical approaches to neurosis and psychosis 2-3.30: Plenary lecture 2: Peter Gray (Queen s University Belfast) A people s viceroyalty? Popularity, theatre and executive politics 1835 47. Chair: Elke D hoker 4 5.30: student presentations: - Thomas Fisher (NUI Galway): Mapping iron roads : cultural landscapes of the Irish railway system, 1834-c.1900. - Christopher Budde (Ruhr University Bochum): The reception and perception of German culture in Ireland, 1850-1890. - Frederik Van Dam (KULeuven): Pathos as Parnell: form and liberalism in Anthony Trollope s The Landleaguers.
Wednesday 5 September 9-10.30: research workshop: E: John Brannigan (University College Dublin / Irish University Review) on publishing in Irish Studies. 11-12.30: student presentations: - Paul Huddie (Queen s University Belfast): Not so imperfect: Ireland s responses to the Crimean War, an example of Irish harmony with European and world historiographies. - Kevin Boyle (St Patrick s College Dublin): John Banville and Romanticist Ethics. - Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven): Shakespeare and Irish Romanticism. 2 5 : visits to the Central Library / Faculty of Arts Library 5.30-6.30: optional tour the Leuven Beguinage (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Thursday 6 September 9-10.30: student presentations - Michaela Markova (Trinity College Dublin): Literary representations of contested Belfast landscapes. - Sonka Ihnen (University College Dublin): Novels to end all novels: a comparison of the works of James Joyce and Thomas Mann. - Flicka Small (University College Cork): The function of food in the work of James Joyce. 11-12.30: Plenary lecture 3: Catherine Maignant (Université de Lille III): "Mythifying and remythifying Irish time : The Albert Kahn Irish photo collection and its receptions." Chair: Hedwig Schwall 2-3.30: student presentations - Justine Wary (University of Reims): Readings of Elizabeth Bowen: the problems of interpreting a hybrid work. - Gulum Tekin (University of Granada): Gender and ethnicity in the representation of women in Roddy Doyles s work. - Manuel Cadeddu (University of Cagliari): Keeping different times in Irish literature of the Revival period. 4 5: student presentations - Catherine Wilsdon (University College Dublin) Plotting a third course: J.M. Synge and Europe - Sean O Dubhgaill (KU Leuven) Europeanizing Ireland. The Erasmus Mundus experience: Irish time, spent abroad
Friday 7 September 9.00-10.30: student presentations - Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven): A Formal, thematic and generic analysis of the short story cycle in Ireland. - Debora Biancheri (NUI Galway): Policies and strategies of translation of contemporary Irish literature into Italian. - Sien Deltour (KU Leuven): Learning at last to see : Spirituality in Eiléan Ní Chuillleanáin s The Sun-Fish (2009). F: Dirk Van Hulle (University of Antwerp) on textual genetics (Auditorium) G: Raphaël Ingelbien (KU Leuven) on periodization and publishing cultures (conference room 4) 2 2.30: closing remarks and farewell