Programme
Friday 24th May
The venue is at the University of Lille, Pont de Bois Campus, rue du Barreau, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Maison de la recherche (block F).
9h – Conference opening (Room F 0.15)
Living at the Limen: Human Rights versus Marginalisation and Exclusion in 21st Century France & Ireland – Chair: Christine O’Dowd-Smyth (Room F 0.15)
9h30 – Nathalie Sebbane and Matthew Staunton: “Research on the Margins: Methodology in
the History of Abuse in Ireland”
10h – Helen Penet: “Hand in the Fire: Exploring Ireland’s marginalities through the prism of
immigration”
10h20 – Questions
10h30 – Break
11h00 – Sarah Fleming: “Transformation and Creativity from the Margins to the centre:
Homelessness and Liminality in Ireland and France”
11h20- Christine O’Dowd-Smyth: “La France fracturée: From la marche des Beurs to les gilets
jaunes”
11h40 – Questions
12h– 12h45 – Plenary 1: Michael Cronin: “From Donkey Jackets to Gilets Jaunes: Franco-Irish Cybermarginalities” – Chair: Grace Neville (Room F 0.15)
13h – Lunch
14h – 14h45 – Plenary 2: Interview, Tony Flannery – Catherine Maignant (Room F 0.15)
| Panel 1 (Room F 1.07) Religion on the Margins Chair: Alexandra Slaby | Panel 2 (Room F 0.15) Literature, Poets and Bards, Ancient and Modern Chair: Sylvie Mikowski |
| 15h – Tony Kiely: “Attending To The Margins’: Reflections On The Potential For Regenerating A Wounded And Beleaguered Church in Ireland” 15h20 – Joseph Heininger: “An Ethos of Representing the Marginalized in Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets” 15h40 – Marie Mianowski: “Being Jewish in Ireland in Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by Ruth Gilligan” 16h – Questions | 15h – Sarah Balen: “Peter Sirr and the troubadours of Twelfth-Century France” 15h20 – Grace Neville: “‘Ça mange comme des Irlandais des pommes de terre‘: The Great Irish Famine comes in from the Margins in French Literature” 15h40 – Eva Urban: “Wisdom on the Margins: Bards, Saints and Cosmopolitan Vagabonds in Breton and Irish literature” 16h00 – Joan Dargan: “Seeing and Surveillance: Periscope and Watchtower in Susan Howe and Paul Muldoon” 16h20 – Questions |
16h40 – AFIS AGM (Room F 0.15)
17h15 – Book launch and cocktail
20h – Dinner and concert: Tír na nÓg, Lille
Saturday 25th May
9h – 9h45 Plenary 3 – Fabrice Mourlon and David Torrans: When Marginal Becomes Essential: The Case of No Alibis Bookshop in Belfast (Room F 0.44)
9h45 – Break
| Panel 1 (Room F 0.13) Diaspora and Marginality Chair: Bill Mulligan | Panel 2 (Room F 0.44) Female identities on the margins? Chair: Fiona McCann |
| 10h – Bill Mulligan: The Irish Diaspora in France from the monastic period thru Napoleon. 10h20 – Timothy White and Josette Smith: “The Role of the Diaspora in Redefining Irish identity: Brooklyn and the Recent Irish Migration” 10h40 – Julien Guillaumond: “Out of the Margins: is France Following an Irish Model when Connecting with its Diaspora? 11h – Questions | 10h – Brigitte Bastiat: “Female Friendship and Marginalities in the Suburbs of Paris and Dublin in the Films Divines (Houda Benyamin, 2016) and Pyjama Girls (Maya Derrington, 2010)” 10h20 – Emily Smith: “Like a Natural Woman: Constructions of Female Identity and the Natural World in McGahern and Mauriac” 10h40 – Sylvie Mikowski: “Marginal Spaces in Sara Baume’s Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015)” 11h – Questions |
11h15 – 12h Plenary 4: Pilar Villar-Argáiz: “Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics in 21st Century Ireland: New Democratic Landscapes in Recent Irish Literature” – Chair: Anne Goarzin (Room F 0.44)
12h – Lunch
13h – 13h45 Plenary 5: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire: “From the Dark Margins to the Spotlight: The Evolution of Gastronomy and Food Studies in Ireland” – Chair: Eamon Maher (Room F 0.44)
| Panel 1 (Room F 0.13) Food and drink on the margins Chair: Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire | Panel 2 (Room F 0.44) Margins as spaces Chair: Pilar Villar- Argáiz? |
| 14h – Patricia Medcalf: “Calling Time on Alcohol Advertising” 14h20 – Susan Boyle: “Brewing the Other Black Stuff: Irish Craft Stout Producers” 14h40 – Brian Murphy: “From hippies to hipsters: How some of the great beverages of the world emerged from obscurity to take centre stage in an increasingly place-driven drinks market” 15h – John Mulcahy: “Food, tourism and Education in Ireland – At the Margins or the Centre? An Ethnographic Perspective”. 15h20 – Questions | 14h – Mehdi Ghassemi: “The Margin as a Site of Transformation in Neil Jordan” 14h20 – Maguy Pernot-Deschamps: “‘We were nothing’, ‘Je ne suis plus rien’: Marginality in a Prison Cell in Two Plays, Sebastian Barry’s On Blueberry Hill (2017) and Denise Chalem’s Dis à ma fille que je pars en voyage (2004- 2006) 14h40 – Philippe Brillet: “The Irish Midlands as Central Void” 15h – Declan O’Keeffe: “Living in the Margins and on the Edge: How the Irish Conquered the Alps”. 15h20 – John O’Brien: “The Monto, McDaid’s and Temple Bar: Dublin, Drinking Scenes, Marginality and Creativity”. |
16h– Panel 3 (Room F 0.44)
Marginal Priests and Writers
Chair : Eamon Maher
16h – Eamon Maher “Jean Sulivan: Prophetic Voice on the Margins”
16h20- Terry Kendellen ” The presence and role of Irish priests in Vendée (Bas-Poitou) in the 16th and 17th Centuries”
16h50 – Ben Keatinge: “Gnostic, heretic, Teilhard, I”: Harry Clifton, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Peking Man’
17h10 – Questions
17h30 – End of the conference.