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 are invited from any discipline, including the performing arts and history of science. Cross-disciplinary dialogue is encouraged.
Topics:
Topics include but are not limited to:
Time and Modernization
Dimensions of Time and Time Consciousness (temporality, social, and subjective time)
Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Time
Linear and Non-Linear Time
Time and Media
Time and Myth
Time and History
Time and Phenomenology
Time and Narration
Time and the Arts (Literature, Music, Visual Arts)
Time and Speed ( Cultural and Aesthetic Modes of Acceleration, Deceleration and/or Duration)
Memory and Forgetting
Time and Contingency
Time and Space Interaction
Chronology and Simultaneity
Identity and Difference
Concepts of Past, Present and Future
Abstracts:
Abstracts (300 words) for papers proposed (25 minutes maximum delivery time) should be accompanied by a short biographical note (100 words), plus full address and institutional affiliation. Please send abstracts to:
irishtimesymposium@gmail.com
by May 1, 2017.