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SAES | Atelier Irlande : “Reconstruction(s), 1-3 juin 2017, Université de Reims

Responsables Sylvie Mikowski (Université Reims Champagne-Ardenne) et Philippe Brillet (Université Toulouse 2, Jean Jaurès) Programme Vendredi 2 juin, 9h-11h 9h-9h20 Chloé Lacoste (Université Paris 4-Sorbonne), « (Re)construire la nation : rituels funéraires et construction d’une identité républicaine pour l’Irlande dans la deuxième moitié du XIXème siècle » 9h20-9h40 Charlotte Barcat (Université Picardie-Jules Verne), “The Bloody Sunday Inquiry: reconstructing … 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

SOFEIR 2018 •  Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 15-16 March 2018

FROM IRISH LAND TO IRISH SOIL: MATERIALITY AND METAPHORS Much has been written on the Irish landscape seen from various vantage points whether it be that of nationalist ideology and identity construction or that of territory and conflicted terrains. But what about the materiality of the land, the soil, the various strata that make up … Continued

Publication |  Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870

Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870 Marguérite Corporaal Hardcover $65.00L    |    978-0-8156-3498-0 Paper $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3513-0 ebook 978-0-8156-5398-1 “Corporaal’s focus on the surprisingly extensive literature produced in the two decades after the Famine shatters many settled assumptions about Irish cultural amnesia, while her study of the transformations of memory across … Continued

Publication | Marie Mianowski, “Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction”

Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction discusses the representations of place and landscape in Irish fiction since 2008. It includes novels and short stories by William Trevor, Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Donal Ryan, Claire Kilroy, Kevin Barry, Gerard Donovan, Danielle McLaughlin, Trisha McKinney, Billy O’Callaghan and Colum McCann. In the light of writings by … Continued

Financement | Soutien à la participation française aux programmes européens et mobilité doctorale

L’Ambassade de France en Irlande nous informe du lancement d’un appel à candidatures pour des soutiens à la participation française aux programmes européens. Celui-ci s’adresse aux établissements français qui souhaitent préparer une candidature pour un projet européen avec un partenaire irlandais (Horizon 2020, Interreg, Erasmus+…). L’Ambassade de France en Irlande peut soutenir une mission exploratoire en … Continued

Literature and Translation | Maram Al-Masri – Theo Dorgan

L’atelier POEM (EA Prismes), en collaboration avec le Centre Culturel Irlandais et Southword Editions, a le plaisir de vous inviter au lancement du recueil de poèmes Liberty Walks Naked de la poétesse syrienne Maram Al-Masri ( en français Elle va nue la liberté, éd. bil. arabe/français, Paris, Editions Bruno Doucey, coll. “L’Autre langue”, 2013), recueil traduit en anglais par … Continued

Financement | Lancement du Prix de thèse 2017 de la Fondation Irlandaise

Institué en 2013, ce prix est destiné à récompenser une thèse de doctorat rédigée et soutenue en langue française, sur un sujet intéressant l’Irlande ou les relations franco-irlandaises envisagées dans leurs aspects les plus divers. Attribué tous les deux ans, ce prix de thèse d’un montant de 5000€ a pour vocation d’aider le lauréat à … Continued

Publication | A. Poulain, “Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play”

This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, … 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

Book | Post Celtic Tiger Ireland Exploring New Cultural Spaces

This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. The different cultural fields of interest studied in this book include theatre, photography, poetry, painting, and cinema, as well as commemorative spaces. These different cultural voices enable one to explore Ireland, … Continued

Foucault in Ireland, 24 March 2017, The Royal Irish Academy

This one-day symposium reviews the engagement of Irish Studies with the work of Michel Foucault. It begins with a roundtable on the recent work of Stuart Elden: Foucault’s last decade (Polity 2016), Foucault: the birth of power (Polity 2017). This is followed by papers on Foucault’s influence in various areas of Irish academic study including: … Continued

CFP | Annual Conference of the French Society for Irish Studies (SOFEIR), University of Caen Normandy, 17-18 March 2017: “Networks and connections”

The concept of networks derives from the image of a net, i.e. a set of intertwined lines, an image that has been applied to many different fields over time: the textile industry, anatomy, military fortifications, topography, economic geography, etc. In the 19th century the word acquired a sociological meaning, to indicate a group of people … 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

SOFEIR Grants 2017

Bourses de recherche ou de mobilité Deux bourses sont proposées par la SOFEIR aux étudiants de Master 2 et aux doctorants. Elles peuvent aussi être accordées aux docteurs membres de la SOFEIR (et à jour de leur cotisation) qui ont obtenu la qualification mais qui n’ont pas de poste de MCF (jusqu’à 4 années après … 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

Soutien aux projets européens (Ambassade de France en Irlande)

L’Ambassade de France en Irlande soutient la participation française aux programmes européens. Si vous travaillez dans un établissement français et souhaitez préparer une candidature pour un projet européen avec un partenaire irlandais (exemples : Horizon 2020, Interreg, Erasmus+…), l’ambassade de France en Irlande peut soutenir votre mission en Irlande pour travailler avec le partenaire irlandais sur … 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

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