Mapping Irish Studies in 21st Century, ISDRN Conference Programme
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3: ERIN, EA Prismes 4398
Maison de la recherché, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Salle Claude Simon
Friday 8th June – Morning session
Conference Registration and Opening 9.00-9.30
9.30-10.15: Ellen Howley (DCU): “The Sea in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott.”
10.15-11.00: Tapasya Narang (DCU): “The Poetics and Politics of Cosmopolitan Modernism: A Comparative Study of Poetry of Derek Mahon and Arun Kolatkar”.
Coffee: 11.00-11.15
11.15-12.00: John Greaney (UCD): “Irish Modernism, Memory, Representation”
12.00-12.45: Daniel Meharg (Paris 3): “Defending Spanish republicans before skeptical and conservative readers: the catholic Basques of Shevawn Lynam’s The Spirit and The Clay (1954).”
Visit of the Centre Culturel Irlandais with Carole Jacquet, Archivist and Head Librarian
Lunch in the Courtyard
Friday 8th June – Afternoon session
14.00-15.00: Derek Hand (DCU): “The Irish Novel and the Celtic Tiger: a form adequate to our predicament?”
Coffee: 15.00-15.30:
15.30-16.15: Lauren Arrington (Liverpool): “Shaping Public Discourse in Alternative Media”
16.15-17.00: Nolwenn Rousvoal (Paris 3): “Commemorating in discourse the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme: a ‘shared culture of remembrance’”?
17.00-17.45: Inès Bigot (Paris 3): “‘Treading the Dance of Life’: Dance and Dissidence in the plays of W. B Yeats and Wole Soyinka.”
General discussion
19h30 Conference Dinner: Au Port du Salut, 171 Rue St Jacques, 75005 Paris, France
Saturday 9th June – Morning session
Maison de la recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, Salle Athéna
9.00-9.45: Anindita Bhattacharya (DCU): “From Leprechauns to Lalpori: The Fantastic and the Preternatural in Irish and Bengali Children’s Literature”
9.45-10-30: Ciara Ní Bhroin (UCD):“Borders, Partition and Male Subjectivity in Siobhan Dowd’s Bog Child (2008)”
Coffee: 10-30-10.45:
10.45-11.30: Seamus May (Liverpool): “Charting the Shapes of Bruno in ‘The Dead’”
11.30-12.15: David McKinney (UCD): “White with dust from head to foot”: James Joyce’s “The Dead”, Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall, and Post-Independence Disillusionment
General discussion
Lunch Catered by Soubise at La maison de la recherche
Information: cliona.ni-riordain@univ-paris3.fr
wesley.hutchinson@univ-paris3.fr