The 6th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague
22–23 September 2023
Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University
Programme
Call for Papers
Book of Abstracts
ECR and Career Building Session
Last updated 12 September 2023
ALL EVENTS WILL BE IN ROOM 111 (1st FLOOR)
Charles University, Faculty of Arts
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague 1, Czech Republic
ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME!
Friday, 22 September 2023
09:00 – 09:30
Registration
09:30 – 09:45
Conference Opening
09:45 – 11:00
Panel 1: Poetic Nuances
Chair: Claire Palzer
Sarah d’Episcopo, University of Zurich – “An Aperture of Silence”: Thresholds of Potential in Ciaran Carson’s Post-Troubles Poetry
Vasiliki Tatouli, Mary Immaculate College – Connecting Ireland and Greece with the Collective Human Experience: Heaney and Dorgan’s Transnational Memory Recollections Through Poetry
Brianna Riggio, Trinity College Dublin – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: The Undead and Untranslatable
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30
Panel 2: Trauma in Contemporary (Northern) Irish Fiction
Chair: Nathalie Lamprecht
Alexander Kroll, University College Dublin – “Did You Read about Erskine Fogarty?”: Trust and Trauma after the Celtic Tiger
Sara Romero Otero, University of Seville – The Suppression of Grief in the Context of the Northern Irish Troubles: Wendy Erskine’s “Lady and Dog”
Marie Gemrichová, Charles University – Breaking the Binary: Portraying a Generational Gap in Contemporary Northern Irish Novel
12:30 – 13:45
Lunch – See the info on our website (‘Your Stay in Prague’) for food recommendations.
13:45 – 15:00
Panel 3: Contextualising Sally Rooney
Chair: Marie Gemrichová
Paddy Brennan, University of Liverpool – Clogging up the System: Consumption and Self-Starvation in the Fiction of Sally Rooney and Niamh Campbell
Danielle O’Sullivan, Mary Immaculate College – “Being alone with her is like opening a door away from normal life and then closing it behind them”: Intimacy in Sally Rooney’s novels
Sofía Alférez Mendía, University of Almería – Female Sexual Conduct in Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Conversations with Friends: Resilience or Resistance.
15:00 – 15:15
Coffee break
15:15 – 17:00
Keynote Event
ERC Q&A with Dr Deirdre Flynn (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), Dr Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University) and Prof Ondřej Pilný (Charles University/ Anglo-American University, Prague)
19:00
Conference dinner
Restaurant Na Rozhraní (delegates will pay for their own food & drinks)
Saturday, 23 September 2023
09:00 – 10:40
Panel 4: Re-reading (Northern) Irish History
Chair: Vojtěch Halama
Luca Bertolani Azeredo, Scuola Superiore Meridionale – The
Children of the Empire: Youth organisations in British Ireland between
imperialism and anti-colonialism, 1909-1916.
Constantin Torve, Queen’s University Belfast – Mapping the
Molly Maguires. Tracing an agrarian secret society in the Ulster-Connacht
borderlands and beyond, 1844-1870.
Karen Hanrahan, University of Brighton – “Life depends on
the liver”: education as salvation in the lives of nuns and former nuns
Tiffany Thompson, Boston College – Raids, Riots, Refugees:
(Re)Writing Women into the (Re)Introduction of Internment in Northern Ireland
10:40 – 10:55
Coffee break
10:55 – 12:10
Panel 5: Space and Place in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Chair: Klára Witzany Hutková
Taylor Follett, University College Dublin – “Fragmenting
without her mother’s ordering gaze”: Family breakdown in the contemporary Irish
novel
Nathalie Lamprecht, Charles University – Vivian in not-so
Wonderland: Looking for Belonging in Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells
Franca Leitner, University of Würzburg – Atopias in
Post-Celtic Tiger Literature
12:10 – 13:00
Lunch – will be provided at the conference venue
13:00 – 14:15
Panel 6: Intertextuality in Irish Drama
Chair: Ondřej Pilný
Soltan Jaber, University of Szeged – Hecuba in the
Contemporary World: Marina Carr’s Usage of Reported Speech
Klára Witzany Hutková, Charles University – Medea in the
Midlands: Death, Swans, and the Mélusine Legend in Marina Carr’s By the Bog
of Cats…
Ciara Moloney, Mary Immaculate College – The Intertextual
Presence of Seán O’Casey in Martin McDonagh’s Irish Plays
14:15 – 14:30
Coffee break
14:30 – 15:45
Panel 7: Navigating Change and Loss
Chair: Franca Leitner
Jie Wang, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven – Reconstructing
the “Prison House”: An Analysis of Emily Lawless’ A Chelsea Householder
Declan Houten, University of Liverpool – ‘Life is Suspended
in Doubt’: Exiles, the Revolutionary Period and the Early Drafts of Finnegans
Wake
Margaret Bonass Madden, Dundalk Institute of Technology –
“The power of ambiguity in complicating loss”: Saying Goodbye Without a Body in
Donal Ryan’s From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018)
15:45 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15
Panel 8: Spoken Word and Changing Aesthetics
Chair: Sarah d’Episcopo
Claire Palzer, University of Vienna – “How About Us?” –
Hearing Unheard Voices in Spoken Word Poetry in Ireland
Clodagh Heffernan, University College Cork – “Soft Boy”
Vulnerabilities: An Aesthetical Analysis of Drugs and Love in Kojaque’s
“Midnight Flower”
Lauren Cassidy, University College Dublin – “Call me Éire
and Weed All the Aryans out of Your Area”: Irish Feminist Mythmaking in Anne
Enright’s The Green Road and Denise Chaila’s Music
17:15 – 17:30
Closing Remarks