Some 70 people attended the Postgraduate Symposium at Dublin City University. The programme is given below. Photos show:
[1] Dr Brigitte Le Juez of DCU introducing the visiting keynote speaker Dr Lucia Boldrini of Goldsmiths College, University of London (seated).
[2] Part of the audience at the keynote lecture: among this group are the next generation of comparative literature researchers in Ireland.

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SPEAKERS:

9:30 - 11:00 Parallel Session A, “A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.” (E. Pound)
“Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Henry Miller: “A Gob of Spit in the Face of Art.””
Gerard Connolly, University of Limerick
“The Controversial Afterlife of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World.”
Marion Dalvai, Trinity College Dublin
“Exploring the Place of Translated Literary Works in Comparative Literature, and the Risks and Rewards of Reading Translated Literature.”
Kieran O'Driscoll, Dublin City University

9:30 - 11:00 Parallel Session B, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” (Picasso)
“Photography and the Spectral”
Amy Devlin, Trinity College Dublin
“Art and Ekphrasis in Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev”
Bevin Doyle, Dublin City University
“The Metamorphoses of Camille Claudel”
Kathleen Hamel, National University of Ireland, Cork

11:15 - 13:15 Parallel Session C, “Nothing endures but change.” (Heraclitus)
“Lurid Visions of Wild-Haired Women’: Popular Women’s Fiction across the Irish Border.”
Maeve Davey, University of Ulster
“In the Name of the Common Good: On the Banning of Kate O’Brien’s The Land of Spices and Josef Škvorecký’s The Cowards.”
Jana Fischerova, National University of Ireland, Dublin
“An Imagological Investigation of the “Big House” in the Novels of Sebastian Barry.”
Sonia Howell, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
“From Conflict to Convergence with the Modern World: The Influence of the Catholic Novel in Ireland.”
Peter Guy, Institute of Technology, Tallaght

11:15 - 13:15 Parallel Session D, “… thoughts that breathe, words that burn.” (T. Gray)
“‘Things’ of significance in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss.”
Ciara Gallagher, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
"Perforations: Narrating Identity in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children."
Colm Kenny, Dublin City University
“The German concept of Volksgeist and its Influence in the Configuration of Spanish National Literary History.”
Santiago Pérez, University of Limerick
“Explaining the Other to Myself; Identities in Post-war German and Italian Literature from the South Tyrol.”
Barbara Siller, Trinity College Dublin

11:15 - 13:15 Parallel Session E, “Remembrance is a form of meeting.” (K. Gibran)
“The Comparative Relationship Between Pádraic Ó Conaire and Franz Kafka.”
Zara Blake, Trinity College Dublin
“Proust’s Homeric Heritage.”
Catherine Burke, National University of Ireland, Cork
“Perforations: Narrating Identity in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Midnight's Children.”
Colm Kenny, Dublin City University
"'A New Compound'?: Dante's Guido in Prufrock's Hell."
Patrick Howard, Trinity College Dublin
“The Reception of the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges and Danilo Kiš.”
Genevieve Larkin, Dublin City University

14.00-15.00 F, Plenary Address
"Anna Banti and Virginia Woolf: The Grammar of Responsibility".
Dr Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths College, University of London

15:15 - 16:45 Parallel Session G, “Language is wine upon the lips.” (V. Woolf)
“Sufism and Seamus Heaney’s Poetry.”
Saima Khan, University of Ulster
“Issues Arising in a Comparative Study of the American and Québécois poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gaston Miron.”
Muireann Leonard, University of Limerick
“Soffici and Apollinaire: Chimismi, Alcools, Simultaneità , and Calligrammes between Futurism
and Orphism.”
Mila Milani, University of Bologna

15:15 - 16:45 Parallel Session H, “Something very strange is happening at this very moment.” (L. Carrington)
“The Aesthetics of Dislocation: Thresholds in Contemporary Fantastic Literature.”
Patricia Garcia, Dublin City University & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
“Strange Seas of Thought: Jose Ángel Valente and Georgio Agamben.”
Manus O'Duibhir, University of Santiago de Compostela
“Interculturalism on the Contemporary Stage: the Works of Marie N'Diave and Abla Farhoud.”
Roxane Paire, University College Cork
“A Comparative Approach to Postcolonial Studies.”
Vanessa Swaine, National University of Ireland, Dublin