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4th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies
Influences, Intersections, Interactions 4th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies The 8 - 9 September 2017 Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Contact e-mail: praguepostgraduate@gmail.com CALL FOR PAPERS Paper proposals are invited for an international conference which aims to bring together postgraduate projects in the area of Irish Studies. Following the success of “The Politics of Irish Writing” (2009), “Boundary Crossings” (2011) and “Tradition and Modernity” (2013), we wish to continue offering discussion space for graduate students…
Find out more »CFP: Jornadas internacionales: Samuel Beckett: Literatura y traducción
UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA – CÁCERES FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS 12-13 ABRIL 2018 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) es un escritor de enorme trascendencia para la literatura tanto irlandesa como universal que ha alcanzado la talla de icono cultural en tiempos recientes. La fama mundial le llegó con Esperando a Godot (1953), una obra escrita en francés que de inmediato él mismo tradujo al inglés, siendo este un patrón que se repetiría a lo largo de su vida. Asimismo, tradujo al francés…
Find out more »Irish Time? Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture (October 12-13, 2017)
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 available now: https://irishtimesymposium.wordpress.com/callforpapers/ Please send inquiries and abstracts to: irishtimesymposium@gmail.com by May 1, 2017. For more information, please visit our website or read the project outline below. Project Outline At 2:00 a.m., Sunday, 1 October, 1916, Irish time changed. Up until that point, time in Ireland was regulated by the Statutes (Definition of…
Find out more »2nd International Conference Atlantic Communities: Translation | Conflict | Belief | Ideology (19th – 21st October 2017)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (Portugal) CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies Co-org. University of Porto | University of Vigo | Queen’s University Belfast Confirmed keynote speakers: Ástráður Eysteinsson (Univ. of Iceland) Hephzibah Israel (The Univ. of Edinburgh) Jorge Vaz de Carvalho (Univ. Católica, Lisboa) The conference: This conference is the second in a series designed to explore the connections between notions of translation (as practice and object of inquiry, but also as…
Find out more »2017 International Yeats Society Conference
2017 International Yeats Society Conference October 20-22, 2017 New York City Hosted and sponsored by: The New School University * Fordham University * New York University/Glucksman Ireland House * Williams College The conference includes keynote addresses by Maureen Murphy (Professor Emerita, Hofstra University), and Christopher Cahill (Director, American Irish Historical Society and Director, McCabe Fellowship Exchange Program, John Jay College of Criminal Justice), as well as a reading by the Irish poet Joan McBreen. Thmes and topics: 1917: The Wild…
Find out more »Journal Estudios Irlandeses: Call For Papers Issue Nº 13
Estudios Irlandeses invites authors to submit contributions —in either English or Spanish— that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media, for its Issue Nº 13, to be published in March 2018. Submissions should be sent via email to contributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than November 1st 2017.
Find out more »Ireland in Space – American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Ireland in Space American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (Georgetown University, Washington DC, November 3-4, 2017) Contact email: ACISMidAtlantic2017@georgetown.edu Organisers: Irene Jillson, Gerard Mannion, Cóilín Parsons While the ‘spatial turn’ has long since been appropriated as a central aspect of the social sciences and the humanities, the interdisciplinary field of Irish Studies has, arguably, yet to explore fully the prospects of engaging with questions and methodologies of space and spatiality. From the ‘distant reading’ of Franco Moretti to Lefebvre’s…
Find out more »The World of Swift; Swift and his World. A Celebratory Conference
The Irish Studies Research Centre, the Institute of English Studies, and Spechel (The Society for the Popularisation of English Culture and of Hungarian Culture in the English Language Medium) are organizing a conference dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift. The conference will be held on 24-25 November 2017, at the University of Pécs. In 2017, we also celebrate the 650th anniversary of Hungary’s first university, founded in Pécs in 1367, which we honour with this professional event, too. Thematic…
Find out more »CFP: “Crossing Borders: Contemporary Anglophone Theatre in Europe” Conference. Paris, October 11-12, 2018
Organised by Paris 13, Lyon 2, University Grenoble-Alpes, RADAC Call for Papers The privileged position enjoyed by contemporary Anglophone theatre goes unquestioned. Since the end of the Second World War its creativity, inventiveness and originality have brought it to prominence throughout Europe. Writers such as Samuel Beckett, Edward Bond, Harold Pinter or Sarah Kane, whose voices are so distinctive that critics find it hard to classify them, have left their mark; plays that critics and scholars have categorised as representative…
Find out more »Jornadas internacionales. Samuel Beckett: Literatura y traducción
UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA – CÁCERES FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS 12-13 ABRIL 2018 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) es un escritor de enorme trascendencia para la literatura tanto irlandesa como universal que ha alcanzado la talla de icono cultural en tiempos recientes. La fama mundial le llegó con Esperando a Godot (1953), una obra escrita en francés que de inmediato él mismo tradujo al inglés, siendo este un patrón que se repetiría a lo largo de su vida. Asimismo, tradujo al francés…
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