CFP • Representing Revolutions in Irish Culture (septembre 2018)

Call for Papers – RISE 3.1 (September 2018) Representing Revolutions in Irish Culture John Ford, The Plough and the Stars (1936) The current decade of centenaries is an apt moment to reflect on the representation of revolution in Irish culture. Whether in literature, fine art, music, performance or film, the revolutionary period has provided dramatic … Continued

Congrès de la Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur 2018

58ème Congrès de la Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur Université de Paris Nanterre : 7, 8 et 9 juin 2018 ATELIER ETUDES IRLANDAISES: REVOLUTION(S)   Un demi-siècle exactement après les « événements » du printemps 1968, dans lesquels le campus de Nanterre a joué un rôle central, la thématique retenue pour le 58e Congrès … Continued

CFP | Etudes Irlandaises

Prochain numéro non-thématique / Forthcoming non-thematic issue Vol. 43.2, Automne/Hiver / Autumn/Winter 2018 Date limite pour soumettre : 30 janvier  2018 Deadline for submissions: 30 January 2018 Le Comité de Rédaction de la revue Etudes irlandaises lance un appel à contributions dans les domaines de la littérature, de la civilisation, des arts et de l’image pour … Continued

CFP | Dissonance, éclectisme et mélange des genres dans la culture anglophone moderne et contemporaine

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDES, 13 AVRIL 2018, UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS-CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE (URCA) Dans le cadre du séminaire « cultures populaires » Propositions à envoyer avant le 1/12/2017 à sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.fr et yann.philippe@univ-reims.fr «  Dissonance, éclectisme et mélange des genres dans la culture anglophone moderne et contemporaine  » Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les sociologues de la culture de part et d’autre de … Continued

One-Day Conference : Political stability in the UK : Assessing the place and role “Celtic fringes”

Les élections générales de juin 2017 ont conduit à un parlement sans majorité absolue, que la tradition britannique désigne comme « suspendu ». Il n’est en effet ni vraiment enraciné dans le peuple, la délégation de souveraineté ne pouvant pleinement opérer une fois pour toutes, ni capable d’assurer un soutien pérenne au premier ministre désigné … Continued

CFP | Irish Time? Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture

Irish Time? Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture Symposium at The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin October 12-13, 2017 Convenors: Martin Middeke (University of Augsburg) and Christopher Morash (Trinity College Dublin)   Call for Papers: Papers are invited from a range of fields that consider the question of time in an Irish context. Papers … Continued

CFP | Transatlantic ​Connections Conference V : Kindred Spirits / Dáimh

​CALL FOR PAPERS The Irish Studies Program at Drew University is pleased to announce the Call For Papers for the Transatlantic Connections Conference V, which takes place in Ireland January 10-14 2018.  The theme of this year’s Transatlantic Connections Conference is “Kindred Spirits / Dáimh”.  This theme will be explored across a range of interdisciplinary … Continued

CFP | Women in the public space 1800-1939: Great Britain, Ireland, Empire and Commonwealth

  29 September 2017, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon Keynote Speaker: Florence Binard, Université Paris 7 – Paris Diderot   “The Angel in the House” is the image most commonly retained of British women in the nineteenth century. This reductive and repressive ideal, emerging from values propagated by the literary, religious and medical political discourses of … Continued

CFP | The Global Irish Diaspora Congress, UCD, August 2017

The website for the Global Irish Diaspora Conference in August at University College Dublin is up: There is still time to submit a proposal. There is an early bird discount on registration through 30 April. This is the inaugural congress in a triennial series that examines the histories, cultures, heritages and identities of Irish communities … Continued

CFP | Studi irlandesi, A Journal of Irish Studies

Daredevils of History? Resilience in Armenia and Ireland Guest Editors: Dieter Reinisch (European University Institute) and Suzan Meryem Rosita (European University Institute) As scholars, we have often been reminded to be suspicious of origin stories, but in the cases of Armenia and Ireland, we find a shared source for resilience. Oral narratives and written accounts … Continued

Call for contributions | The Circulation of Popular Culture between Ireland and the USA (18th-21st centuries)

COLLECTION OF ESSAYS TO BE PUBLISHED AT EPURE (PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES DE REIMS) : “The Circulation of Popular Culture between Ireland and the USA (18th-21st centuries)” Proposals, no longer than 800 words, accompanied by a short biography, should be sent before June 15, 2017 to yann.philippe@univ-reims.fr and sylvie.mikowski@univ-reims.fr Full chapters are expected before September 30, 2017. … Continued

CFP |  JE “Corps en crise, crise(s) du corps”, Université de Reims, 4 avril 2017

« À l’expérience de l’homme, un corps est donné qui est son propre corps – fragment d’espace ambigu, dont la spatialité propre et irréductible s’articule cependant sur l’espace des choses » Michel Foucault, Les Mots et les Choses, rééd. Paris: Gallimard, coll. « Tel », 1990, p. 325. Dans un monde médiatisé et obsédé par son rapport à l’image, le corps devient … Continued

CFP | Connections and Reconnections in Irish Studies, Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 27-30 juin 2017

Le congrès de CAIS aura lieu à Derry en Irlande du Nord, du 27-30 juin 2017, parrainé par l’Université d’Ulster, campus Magee. Connections and Reconnections in Irish Studies CAIS conferences are wide-ranging interdisciplinary events which provide an exciting meeting place for scholars, artists, writers, and performers. In 2017 the conference is coming to the historic plantation city of Derry in Northern Ireland. A major Atlantic Port, Derry was the point of embarkation … Continued

CFP | AFIS conference (Association of Franco-Irish Studies), Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 19-20 May, 2017

12th conference of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 19-20 May, 2017 Theme: Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and/or Ireland. France has always been a country which cherishes its writers, artists, musicians and intellectuals. It positively discriminates in favour of its cultural heritage, because it realises the extent to which patrimoine is what … Continued

CFP | National Museum of Immigration, 6-10 April 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Heritages of Migration: Moving Stories, Objects and Home The Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (University of Birmingham) is delighted to invite submissions of 300 word abstracts on the theme of Migration Heritage for an exciting international conference due to take place in Buenos Aires in 2017. The deadline is 14 October 2016. Please see a … Continued

| INTERFACES international conference, Université de Bourgogne (France), 29 & 30 June 2017

Following up on its exploration of intermediality and text-image relations, the Centre de Recherche Texte/Image/Langage of Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is organizing a bilingual (French-English) international conference on the inscription of gestures in texts and the visual arts from the early modern period. As part and parcel of the work of artists, craftsmen, writers and labourers, … Continued