Ireland: East and West
University of Zagreb, 23-24 September 2011
The Croatian artist, Ivan Meštrović, was one of five artists invited by Yeats to submit designs for the Irish Free State’s new coinage. Unfortunately, the invitation was sent to the wrong address and Meštrović’s design arrived too late to be considered. In 2007 the Croatian National Bank produced a limited edition coin to celebrate Meštrović’s design.
Extended deadline: 20 June!
A conference organised by the Department of English, University of Zagreb in association with the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway)
Professor John McCourt (University of Roma Tre)
Professor W. J. McCormack
This conference will address the ways in which Central and Eastern Europe has been represented in Irish literature and culture and the impact of Ireland on the literatures and cultures of Eastern Europe. While chiefly literary in focus, this is an interdisciplinary conference which will draw in the work of cultural anthropologists, political and cultural geographers and art historians. Papers will survey the literary and cultural relations between Ireland and Eastern European countries and might address thematic concerns such as:
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the writer in war and revolution
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religion, diversity and literature
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nationalist and anti-nationalist discourses
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artists and borders
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‘Celticism’ and ‘Balkanism’
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modern Ireland in a transitional Europe
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contemporary Eastern European migration in Ireland
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the economy of translation between Ireland and Eastern Europe
As well as offering paradigmatic comparative analyses of modern Eastern European and Irish cultures, individual papers might discuss the literary and political treatment of Eastern Europe in the work of Irish writers such as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Hubert Butler, Seamus Heaney, Dervla Murphy and Colm Tóibín. Other topics that might be examined include: Eastern European re-inscriptions of Joyce, the impact of Beckett on Eastern European theatre and the place of Irish music in Eastern Europe. It is intended that the proceedings will lead to a book publication.
Extended deadline:
Proposals for papers (250-300 words) should be submitted by 20 June
to: irelandeastandwest@gmail.com
or
Graduate students are invited to contribute a proposal for a 10 minute presentation to be delivered in a round-table discussion
There will be no registration fee.
Organizers:
Dr. Eve Patten (TCD),
Professor Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan (U. of Zagreb)
Dr. Aidan O’Malley (U. of Zagreb)
Time and Place:
The Conference will take place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb
Friday, 23 September 2011 (Multimedia Room, Library 2nd Floor ; Conference Hall 1, Faculty Building)
Saturday, 24 September 2011 (Conference Hall 1, Faculty Building)
Conference