Currents: One-Day Conference on Irish Literature, Culture and Civilisation
Conference Date: 17th April 2015
Location:
Institut du Monde Anglophone,
05, rue de l’Ecole de médecine,
75 006 Paris
Contact: currentsconference@gmail.com
Conference Organisers: Dr. Dúnlaith Bird (Université Paris-Sud) and Fanny Quément (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle), with Pôle Irlande.
8:45: Welcome and Coffee
9:00: Opening Speech
- Monsieur le Professeur Carle Bonafous-Murat, Président de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
9:15-10:45: Muted and Mutable Identities
- Dr. Ioana Zirra, University of Bucharest
The Tollund Man as an Irish Hyphenated Identity Moniker
- Maria Skinner, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
Charles Lever and the Silencing of Irishness in Post-Famine Literature
- Samantha Weyer-Brown, PhD Candidate, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
Tides of Water and Concrete in Tana French’s Broken Harbour
10:45-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:30: Líofacht agus Lofacht: Fluency and Decay
- Paula Nic Connaith, Teagascóir Gaeilge, Centre Culturel Irlandais
Sruthanna agus Srianta: New Currents in Irish Language Learning
- Mia Gallagher, Writer in Residence, Centre Culturel Irlandais
'Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland': Reading and discussion
12:30-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00-15:00: Keynote Session
- Prof. John Brannigan, University College Dublin
‘The languo of flows’: Literary and Environmental Ecologies of the Irish Sea
15:00-16:00: Electric Flows and Flaws
- Dr. Dúnlaith Bird, Université Paris-Sud
Faulty Connections in the Work of Samuel Beckett
- Fanny Quément, PhD Candidate, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
‘Elements of Continuity’ from Shelley to Heaney
16:00-16:15: Coffee Break
16:15-17:15: Oblique Angles and Undercurrents
- Dr. Bridget Vincent, Cambridge University
Currents of Ecological Thought in Derek Mahon’s New Collected Poems
- Dr. Christelle Serée-Chaussinand, Maître de Conférences, Université de Bourgogne
Undercurrents and Crosscurrents Revealed: Sinéad Morrissey’s Parallactic Poetry
17:15-18:30: Round Table: Crossing the Currents
Dr. Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Prof. John Brannigan, Paula NicConnaith