Last updated: 01.07.2025
ALL EVENTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN ROOM 300 (3rd FLOOR)
Charles University, Faculty of Arts
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague 1, Czech Republic
ALL TIMES ARE CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME!
Friday, 19 September 2025
09:30 – 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:15
Conference Opening
10:15 – 11:55
Panel 1: Uncovering Hidden Histories
Chair: TBD
Dion, Aimée (Université Laval, Quebec) – Women of War or Peace? Constructing Feminine Identities in Irish Propaganda 1914-18
Bertolani Azeredo, Luca (Scuola Superiore Meridionale) – “Rebels under the Union Jack”: Reassessing Loyalist Radicalisation in the Home Rule Crisis
Gallot, Eva Elisabeth (Université de Caen) – Transatlantic perspectives: development and preservation of Ulster-Scots heritage at home and abroad.
Mayo, Morgan (University of Galway) – Voices in the Marginalia: Irish Travellers and the Historical Economic Networks of the Southern U.S. Mule Trade
11:55 – 13:30
Lunch – See Your Stay in Prague for food recommendations
13:30 – 14.45
Panel 2: Staging Marginalised Identities
Chair: TBD
Togores, Arthur (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) – Contesting the Hegemonic Discourse of the Nation: Female Martyrdom on the Stage
Hançer, Merve (Hacettepe University) – The Two Sides of the Coin of Irish Womanhood: Oppression and Liberation in Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow
Palzer, Claire (University of Vienna) – Fairies and Queens – Queering the All-Ireland Poetry Slam
14:45 – 15:05
Coffee Break
15:05 – 16:45
Keynote Event
Panel Session on Early Career Research and Career Building with Dr Georgina Nugent (University College Cork), Dr James Little (University of Cyprus), and Prof Ondřej Pilný (Charles University / Anglo-American University)
19:00
Conference dinner (delegates will pay for their own food & drinks)
Restaurant Na Rozhraní
Praha 6, Srbská 7
Saturday, 20 September 2025
09:30 – 10:45
Panel 3: Narrating the Silent
Chair: TBD
Edwardson, Hattie (University of Sheffield) – Giving Voice to the ‘Monstrous’ Mother: De-Marginalising Maternal Ambivalence in Megan Nolan’s Ordinary Human Failings (2023)
Begliorgio, Caterina (University of Trento) – “A ghost vein on the map”: discussing borders in contemporary fiction by female authors in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
Hallinan, Katie-Mary (Mary Immaculate College) – Reimagining Northern Irish writing from the autistic perspective: Pleasure and Intimate Encounters in Michelle Gallen’s Big Girl Small Town
10:45 – 11:05
Coffee break
11:05 – 12:20
Panel 4: Performing the Invisible
Chair: TBD
Nasim, Iqra (Charles University) – The Windows and Clov’s Quest for Meaning in Endgame
Mallek, Sophia (University of Lille) – Corporeal polyphonies: Reversing the “unseenable” female body on the Irish contemporary stage
Zvoníčková, Andrea (Charles University) – Mirrors, Objects, and the Violence of Perception in V. Woolf’s “The Lady in the Looking Glass” and E. Bowen’s “Joining Charles”
12:20 – 13:50
Lunch – See Your Stay in Prague for food recommendations
13:50 – 15:05
Panel 5: Highlighting Alternative Perspectives
Chair: TBD
Unsworth, Elsie (University of Salford) – “Crowning Glory”: embodiment, intersectionality and tradition in Rosaleen McDonagh’s Unsettled (Skein Press, 2021)
McPhelim, Dianne (Dundalk Institute of Technology) – Hidden Women, Hidden Words: The Diary Speaks
Thurlow, Kaitlin (University of Georgia) – Seen and Unseen: Photo Text Collaborations in Midcentury Ireland
15:05 – 15:25
Coffee break
15:25 – 16:15
Panel 6: Claiming (Narrative) Space
Chair: TBD
Rochford, Mikelyn (University of York) – Negotiating Narrative Space, Authorial Control, and Plurality in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay
MacGloin, Niamh (University of York) – Gaeilgeoirí in Migration in Dónall Mac Amhlaigh’s Exiles
16:15 – 16:30
Closing Remarks