Comparative Studies Seminars/Conferences 2007-08

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

July 2008

9th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society: "Bridges to Utopia."
University of Limerick, Ireland, 3-5 July 2008.   With the theme of “Bridges to Utopia," the conference will examine a range of topics related to utopia and utopianism, in its historical articulation and contemporary realisation. Keynote speakers are Joe Cleary (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Bernard Gendron (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Peadar Kirby (University of Limerick), and Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University).   The conference language is English. Proposals for a panel of 3 papers in another European language, with all presenters registered for the conference and with a designated chair, are welcome. These sessions will take place in the nominated language. Abstracts should be submitted in the original language and English. Abstracts of 100 - 250 words should be submitted by e-mail as a file attachment in Word (only) to ralahine@ul.ie by 28 February 2008. Our aim is to be inclusive.

May-June 2008

30th May-1st June (University of Limerick)   10th Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies.
Emigration, Exile, Immigration, Re-migration, Auswanderung, Exil, Einwanderung, Rückwanderung. Anmeldung / Registration (please before 10 February): Dr Marion Neiss, Gesellschaft für Exilforschung / c/o Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin maneegic@mailbox.tu-berlin.de
Buchung der Unterkunft auf dem Campus bitte hier // Booking of accommodation on campus here:
https://www.iccbookings.com/ASSER2008/registration.php
Conference fee / Konferenzgebühr: 20 euro (for members of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung and/or members of the Centre for Irish-German Studies)
30th May: Opening of Conference by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benz
Gisela Holfter (Limerick): Exile in Ireland – an overview.
Siobhan O'Connor (Limerick): Policy development re refugees from the 1930s until Today.
Piaras MacEinri (Cork): Ireland – Land of immigration.
Ewelina Debaene (Dublin): The Polish immigration to Ireland & France.
Breda Gray (Limerick): Irish emigration and return migration in the 1950s.'
Eoin Bourke (Galway/Berlin): Einführung in George Clares Publikation Last Waltz in Vienna (Das waren die Klaars)
Birte Schulz (Limerick): Questions of Identity.
Patrick Farges (Paris): 'Bindestrich-Kanadier'? Zur Akkulturation deutschsprachiger Emigranten in Kanada (1933-2006).
Nikola Herweg (Giessen): Überlegungen zu Heimat und Heimkehr.
Blind Eye (Die Aufnahme der Sabine Wizniak in Irland. Mit einer Einführung der Produzentin Mary Rose Doorly)
Florian Müller (Vienna): Keine Kohle fürs Exil”. Die Verfolgung des argentinischen Autors Enrique Medina.'
7Marianne Windsperger (Vienna): Appelfelds Roman “Elternland” Jakob Feins Weg durch eine Traumlandschaft.'
Wolfgang Benz (Berlin): Laima Muktup _ vale: Das Champignon-Vermächtnis.'
16.00 Mitgliederversammlung

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April 2008

18th April (University of Limerick)
One day conference: Fifth Ralahine Utopian Studies Workshop: 'Science Fiction and Utopia.'
Tom Moylan (UL): Making the Present Impossible: On the Vocation of Utopian Science Fiction.
Andrew Milner (Monash University): Locating Science Fiction: Its Time and Relative Dimensions in Space.
Mike McCormack (author): Technology as Utopia.
Helen Kelly Holmes (UL): Introducing the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society.
Vita Fortunati and Stefano Salvioli (Univ. of Bologna): Narration and Science: the Quest for Longevity.
Patrick Parrinder (Univ. of Reading): ‘Utopia, Science and Medicine in Three Late 19th-Century Texts: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race; W. H. Hudson, A Crystal Age, and H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Morea.'

11 April 2008 (University of Limerick)
Reading / Lecture Austrian writer Doron Rabinovici and Prof. Dr. Konstanze Fliedl (supported by the Austrian Embassy and in cooperation with LCS and the MA in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies) Doron Rabinovici, born in 1961, emigrated from his birthplace Tel Aviv to Vienna with his family and still lives in the Austrian capital, where he got his university formation as a historian. Doron Rabinovici has been writing essays, short stories and novels since his students days. He has been awarded numerous literature prizes, most recently the Clemens-Brentano-prize of Heidelberg and the Jean-Améry-prize, both in 2002.

2nd April (Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Peter France (University of Edinburgh)
Discovery, Foreignisation and Annexation: World Literature in English.

March 2008

28th March (UCD Humanities Institute)
Professor George Steiner (University of Oxford): A Line in Dante.
The lecture is the final event of an international seminar series on Comparative Literature organised by the UCD School of Languages & Literatures and the School of English, Drama and Film.

7th March (University of Limerick)
Professor Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania):
Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition.'
Prof Liliane Weissberg is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a member of the Centre in Folklore and Ethnography, the Jewish Studies Program, the Art History Graduate Group, and the Advisory Committee in Women's Studies.   Weissberg's interests focus on late eighteenth-century to early twentieth-century German literature and philosophy, and interdisciplinary studies. Much of her work has concentrated on German, European, and American Romanticism, but she has also written on the notion of representation in realism, on photography, and on literary and feminist theory. Her most recent books are a critical edition of Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (1997), which has received much attention, and the anthologies, Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity (with Dan Ben-Amos, 1999) and Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (with J. Gerald Kennedy, 2001).

3rd March (TCD)   Dr Kate Briggs (Trinity College, Dublin)
Translation and Love: the Gide-Bussy Correspondence.

February 2008

15th-16th February (Dublinl City University):
Forging Identities: Past into Present
http://www.dcu.ie/conferences/forgingidentities/programme.shtml

Dr Vera Sheridan (DCU): From Hungarian through English: Narrratives of Marginality and Exile.
Dr Jose Manuel Estevez-Saa, Universidad de Sevilla: A Retrospective Approach to the Irish Famine: Poetic Voices.
Dr Agnes Maillot, Dublin City University: Identity and Immigration: the Dangerous Liaison.
Prof. Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University: Identities, Ideologies and Intellectuals.
Dr Manuela Susana Dominguez Pena, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela: O'Faolain's Conflict between Tradition and Modernity.
Dr Bruce Swansey (Dublin City University): Textual Body and Bodily Metamorphosis
Prof. Antonio Raul de Toro Santos: In Search of Identity: Irish Literature and Some Spanish Writers in 20th Century.
Ms Esther Murphy (Dublin City University): The Construction of the Multi-Minority Identity: Case Study of the Blind Immigrant.
Mr John Lalor and Mr Justin Rami (Dublin City University): The Development of Identity in Educaation in a Culturally Diverse Setting.
Dr Heinz Lechleiter (Dublin City University): Irish University Identities as Expressed in Mission and Vision Statements
Mr Kieran O'Driscoll (Dublin City University): Translating Jules Verne and Forging the Verne Translator's Idenity: A Diachronic Study of Complex Emergence of the Text, and Interacting Causes of Translation.
Ms Paula Lojo Sandino (NUI Galway): Identity through Language and Culture: Irish and Galician.
Ms Raquel Paradela Macia & Ms Paula Rabde Lopex (Universidad de A Coruña): ‘‘At the wellhead'' by Seamus Heaney: Proposal of a Spanish Translation.
Dr Pat Brereton (Dublin City University): Irish Accented Comedy: From The Quiet Man to When Brendan Met Trudy.
Mr Barra O Seaghdha (Dublin City University): Stanford and Yeats: The Irish Musical Renaisance that Wasn't.
Dr David Clark Mitchell (Universidad de A Coruña): Forging the Future or Forging Ireland's Past? Damien Dempsey and Contemporary Ireland.
Dr Margarita Estevez-Saa (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): Current Debates on the State of Contemporary Irish Fiction by Women.
Dr Maria Luisa Venegas Laguens (Universidad de Sevilla): Rosa Mulholland: A New Woman Writing of Ghostly Times.
Dr Edwina Keown (Saint Patrick's College Drumcondra): Theodora Thirdman housewrecker in Elizabeth Bowen's Friends and Relations (1931)

13th February   (University College Dublin)
Mark Quinn (UCD): Making it New: Thomas Pynchon and the Art of Authorial Kenosis

11th Feb (Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Lawrence Venuti (Temple University, USA)
Translation, Empiricism, Ethics

4th Feb (Trinity College Dublin)
Professor Seán Golden (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
God's real name is God. A Jesuit Controversy on the Cross-Cultural Analysis of Theological Terminology in 17th Century China as a Case Study in Intersemiotic Sophistication 

January 2008

31 st January (University of Ulster; Coleraine campus)
Dr Loïc Guyon (UU) Lecture: part of the literary research seminar series of the Humanities Research Institutes
Six (Million) Feet Under: Journeys to the Centre of the Earth in the Western Literary and Scientific Imaginative Tradition.

25 January 2008 (UCD Humanities Institute)
Professor Aleida Assmann, (Professor of English and Comparative Literature: University of Konstanz)
Cultures of Attention: Changes of Perception in the Public Arena and in Works of Art."

24 th January (Trinity College Dublin): Professor David Johnston (Queens, Belfast)
'Who translates? The translator as actor.'

December 2007

5th December (Trinity Colege Dublin, Translation and Comparative Literature Seminar)
Professor Moray McGowan (Trinity College, Dublin):
Bridges and Tongues: Metaphors and / of Migration.

November 2007

30th November (UCD Humanities Institute)
Professor Piero Boitani, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
The Study of Themes in Comparative Literature: Flight

28th November (UCD) Dr Luca Crispi
James Joyce Comparative Approaches Series
Research centre for James Joyce Studies, School of English Drama and Film
Joyce and Yeats.'

19th November (UCD) Dr Robert Spoo
James Joyce Comparative Approaches Series
Research centre for James Joyce Studies, School of English Drama and Film
Litigating the Word: James Joyce in the courts from 1920s to the Present

16th November (UCD Humanities Institute)
Elizabeth Boa (Emeritus Professor of German University of Nottingham)
Snowy Worlds: Franz Kafka's Castle and Orhan Pamuk's Snow

October 2007

25-26th October (University of Limerick)
Conference : Le Voyage au 18e Siecle

Professeur Daniel Roche (Collège de France): Mobilité et littérature de voyage
Professor Michael Cronin (Dublin City University): New Words for Old: Language, Mobility, Identity
Professor Jane Conroy (NUI Galway): Language, manners, mores: linguistic aids for early modern travellers.
Professor Harriet Guest (University of York): New Zealand Romance
Professeur François Moureau, (CRLV, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)): Captif des Barbaresques : une écriture singulière
Dr Michael O'Dea (Université Lumière Lyon 2): Les hommes que nous connoissons : Rousseau, la philosophie, le voyage
Dr Máire Ni Fhlathúin (University of Nottingham): Uncolonizable subjects in the colonial imagination: encounters with the ‘noble savage' in the literature of British India.
Professeur Norbert Dodille (Université de la Réunion): L'esclavage dans le Journal d'un colon réunionnais du début du XIXe siècle : discours et pratiques.
Dr Loïc Guyon (University of Ulster): Le voyage aux colonies pénales.

24 October (University College Dublin)
Professor Declan Kiberd (Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature UCD)
James Joyce Comparative Approaches Series
Research centre for James Joyce Studies, School of English Drama and Film
Joyce and Homer

10 October (University College Dublin)
Professor Anne Fogarty (Professor of James Joyce Studies UCD)
James Joyce Comparative Approaches Series
Research centre for James Joyce Studies, School of English Drama and Film
Joyce and Shakespeare