GIS E.I.R.E, Opening Symposium

Democracy, Human Rights and Diasporic Strategies in Ireland : Emerging Networks and Models

 

Fri 18 – Sat 19 January 2019

Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle,

Maison de la Recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

 

Avec le soutien de l’Ambassade d’Irlande en France et du Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, de l’Université Paris 3 et de l’Université Rennes 2.

 

Friday Jan 18, 2019

Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle,

Maison de la Recherche, Paris 4 rue des Irlandais

 

10.00   Accueil et café  Salle Athéna

Salle Athéna

10.00-12.30     Meeting of GIS participants :

  • election of heads of comité directeur, comité scientifique and head of GIS.
  • discussion of future research orientations and projects. Financial resources

 

12.30-14.00     Repas libre / Lunch break (meal not included)

 

14.00-14.30     Symposium opening remarks (Directrices d’axes, membres des axes invités). With Deirdre Farrell, Deputy Head of  Mission, Irish Embassy

 

14.30-17.00    Discussion panel 1: Diaspora, What Diaspora ?

Panel moderators : Anne Groutel (Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne), Grainne O’Keeffe-Vigneron (Université Rennes 2)

Speakers :

14.30-15 – Dr. Breda Gray (University of Limerick): « ‘Diaspora’ – an elusive if increasingly amplified notion: What is at stake and for whom? »

15-15.30 -Prof. Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin (UCD)): « Irish Diaspora Strategy in the Age of Globalisation »

Participating GIS Members:

15.30-16.00: Mary Maire and Christophe Poiré (Université de Lorraine-Metz): « L’Irlande dans les programmes et les manuels scolaires d’histoire du second degré en France. »

 

16.00: Pause Café/Coffee Break

 

16.15-17.00- Erick Falc’her Poyroux (Ecole Polytechnique de Nantes): (project presentation):  » Irish music, an Intangible Cultural Heritage. »

Laurent Daniel (Université de Lorient)(project presentation): « The GAA in Europe »

Julien Guillaumond (Université Clermont-Auvergne) (project presentation): « Connecting with the diaspora’: can France and Ireland be compared? »

 

19.00-20.30     RECEPTION, IRISH EMBASSY IN FRANCE, in presence of Her Excellency the Ambassador Patricia O’Brien

Light refreshments

Musical interlude

Fabrice MOURLON & Scott FLANIGAN

(Fabrice Mourlon – vocals Scott Flanigan – piano)

Irish Embassy in France

12, Avenue Foch, Paris (métro Etoile)

 

Saturday Jan 19, 2019

Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle

Maison de la Recherche

Salle du Conseil

 

9.00-10.30       Discussion panel 2 : Writing and Performing Human Rights in Ireland

Panel convenors : Anne Goarzin (Université Rennes 2), Eva Urban ( Sen. George Mitchell Institute, Belfast), Lisa FitzGerald (Université de Nice)

Speakers

Dr Rióna Ní Fhrighil, NUIG, lead researcher of IRC project “Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry” at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway., “Writer as Righter? Irish Poetry and Human Rights”.

Dr Sarah Jane Scaife, Assistant Professor in Drama, Trinity College Dublin/Artistic Director, Company SJ, “Beckett in the City: Reflecting the socio-cultural revelations of the past decade in Ireland, Company SJ inserts Beckett’s writing into the social and architectural spaces of the City of Dublin”.

Discussion with participating GIS members

Eva Urban, Sen. George  Mitchell Institute, Belfast: On the role of the institute

Lisa FitzGerald, Université de Nice, “Environmental Justice and the Body Politic”.

Marie Mianowski, Université Grenoble-UGA, “ Narrative 4  : Sharing experiences, making narratives”

 

10.30-11.00     Coffee break

 

11.00-12.30     Discussion Panel 3: Human Rights in Practice in Ireland

Panel moderators : Marie-Violaine Louvet (Université Toulouse-Capitole) and Bairbre Ní Chiosáin (Université Toulouse-Capitole)

Speakers :

Mary Lawlor, Trinity College Dublin, Founder of Front Line Defenders, “Protecting Human Rights in a Perilous World”;

Liam Thornton, School of Law, University College Dublin, “Human Rights and Asylum Seekers: On the Margins?”

12.30-14.30     Lunch break, Maison de la Recherche

 

Discussion panel 4 : The Irish Diaspora in France

Room: Salle du Conseil

14.30   Panel moderator: Sylvie Mikowski

Speakers:

14.30-15.00: Dr. Piaras McEinri (University College Cork (UCC): « The Irish in Paris: still an aberrant community? »

15.00-15.30: Grainne O’Keeffe-Vigneron (Université Rennes 2): « Who are the Irish in France today? »

Participating GIS Members:

15.30-16.00: Jérémy Filet (Université de Lorraine) : » From Nepotism to integration: the settlement of an Irish diaspora in the Duchy of Lorraine (1697-1766?) »

 

Discussion panel 5 : Human rights in Ireland

Room: Salle mezzanine

Panel moderator : Karin Fischer

Speakers :

14.30-14.55: Agnès Maillot (Dublin City University): “Do they really care? Political discourses on asylum”

14.55-15.20: Nathalie Sebbane (Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle): “’We’re just Magdalene women, we don’t deserve human rights’: how national and international recommendations are being implemented. »

15.20-15.45: Charlotte Barcat (Université de Nantes): « The European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Act and the protection of human rights in Northern Ireland: recent evolutions and future prospects in the context of Brexit’

 

15.45: Pause Café

 

16.00-16.45: round table discussion with guest speakers Mary Lawlor, Liam Thornton and participating GIS members

16.15- 16.45:

Marion Naugrette-Fournier (Université Paris 3), Cliona Ni Riordain (Université Paris 3) et Sylvie Mikowski (Université de Reims): F »rance translating Ireland: ‘L’Irlande littéraire’ in translation »

 

16.45-17.15     Closing remarks, Salle du Conseil

 

17h30            Cocktail,  Maison de la Recherche

 

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