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