CfP: Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference 2024

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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference
16-17 August 2024 ♦ University of Galway
Website: http://www.tudorstuartireland.com ♦ Twitter: @tudorstuartire
Email: 2024@tudorstuartireland.com

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Sarah McKibben (University of Notre Dame) &
Dr Hiram Morgan (University College Cork)

Proposals for individual papers (20 minutes) and group panel submissions are now welcome on any aspect of Ireland or the Irish abroad during the Tudor and Stuart periods, including:
♦ Gaelic Ireland and the Irish language
♦ Gender and society
♦ Poetry, theatre, literature, and song
♦ Ireland in a comparative/European context
♦ Classical and medieval reception
♦ Political, military, and economic history
♦ The archaeology and architecture of the early modern period
♦ Religious/ecclesiastical history
♦ Writing (and rewriting) the past
♦ Environmental literature and history
♦ Archives and records – new directions
♦ Print and manuscript culture
♦ Parliaments, parliamentarians and law-making
♦ Mobility, migration, and the Irish abroad
♦ Digital humanities and methodologies

Postgraduates, postdoctoral scholars, early-career researchers, independent researchers, and scholars from the disciplines of English, Irish, history, archaeology, art history, theology, philosophy, music, digital humanities, and Irish studies are particularly welcome to submit proposals for consideration. Proposals for panels in Irish are strongly encouraged.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words can be submitted through the conference email:
2024@tudorstuartireland.com The call for papers will close on 3 May 2024

The 12th Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference is generously supported by the Department of English, University of Galway & Marsh’s Library, Dublin.

Hybrid Symposium: New Directions in the Materiality of Letter-Writing: From Antiquity to the Present Day

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A hybrid symposium at University College Dublin, Ireland

29 and 30 May 2024
Organisers: Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler and Professor Danielle Clarke

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr Alison Wiggins, University of Glasgow

DRAFT PROGRAMME (2/4/24) All times are Irish Standard Time (GMT +1)

WEDNESDAY 29th MAY 2024

12-12.45pm LUNCH AND REGISTRATION

12.45-1pm – Welcome

1-2pm Opening Keynote: ‘What is a digitised letter?’ Dr Alison Wiggins, University of Glasgow

2-3pm: Panel 1: Epistolary Materiality: Transmission and Enclosures

‘Hiding the Materiality of Letters: The Carriage and Concealment of Secret Correspondence in Sixteenth-Century France’, Penny Roberts, University of Warwick (Online)

‘Katharine Basset: Letter-Writing and Gift-Giving’, Valerie Schutte, Independent (Online)

3-3.30pm COFFEE BREAK

3.30-5pm Panel 2: Gender and the Materiality of Letter-Writing

‘“ready folded vp” Locking the Queen’s Letters in the Royal Secretariat, 1581-90’, Clodagh Murphy, Leiden University

‘Attending and Reading Deliberate and Accidental Materiality in the Boyle Women’s Letters’, Ann-Maria Walsh, University College Dublin

‘A Gendered Material Feature? The Spiral Lock in Early Modern Scottish Women’s Letters’, Jade Scott, Independent

5-6pm – DRINKS RECEPTION

End of Day 1

THURSDAY 30th MAY 2024

9.30-10am WELCOME COFFEE

10-11.30am Panel 3: Social Variation and Epistolary Materiality

‘Social Variation in Letterlocking Practices in 17th-century England’, Samuli Kaislaniemi, University of Eastern Finland (Online)

‘Salvage, Ingenuity and Right: The Materiality of English and Welsh Pauper Letter Writing 1830 to 1900s’, Steve King, Nottingham Trent University, Natalie Carter, Surrey Library Service, and Paul Carter, The National Archives

‘Navigating the Materiality of Embossed Letters in the British blind Community, 1840-1890′, Tilly Guthrie, University of Sheffield

11.30am-12pm – COFFEE BREAK

12-1pm Roundtable – The Unique Materiality of Letters in the Prize Papers
Marina Casagrande (Conservator), Maria Cardamone (Photographer), and Lucas Haasis (Historian), University of Oldenburg and The National Archives

1-2pm LUNCH

2-3.30pm Panel 6: Preserving and Editing Epistolary Materiality

‘Materiality and Accidental Preservation of the Correspondence in Thomas Plume’s Manuscript Collection’, Helen Kemp, Thomas Plume’s Library and The University of Essex

‘The Materiality of Early Modern Business Letters’, Siobhan Talbott, Keele University

‘A Bit One-Sided: Piecing Together a Story from Letters Received’, Elaine Treharne, Stanford University (Online)

3.30-4pm COFFEE BREAK

4-5pm Practical Workshop – Unlocking the Materiality of Early Tudor Queens’ Correspondence
Helen Newsome-Chandler, University College Dublin

5-5.15pm – Closing Remarks

Theatre: “The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)”

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Venue: dlr Mill Theatre, Dundrum Town Centre, Dublin

Dates: 19th – 20th Apr 2023 Show time: 8pm Admission: €15 Running time: 70min, no interval

Shakespeare may be turning in his grave, but the show that’s become a cult classic contains all 37 plays (plus sonnets) in just 97 minutes. As the comedies aren’t anywhere near as funny as the tragedies, all sixteen have been condensed with the history plays transformed into a game of American football, Othello is performed in rap and Titus Andronicus becomes a TV cookery programme. For the finale, Hamlet is staged first as a psychological exploration of Hamlet’s Ego and Ophelia’s Id, then performed in a matter of minutes and, for the finale, performed backwards. For lovers of Shakespeare everywhere.

[Info from dlr Mill Theatre website here]

Symposium: ‘Shakespeare the Irishman’ – 14 April 2023

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A one-day symposium as part of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays.

The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin will host a one day symposium under the title ‘Shakespeare the Irishman’ from 9am to 5pm on Friday 14th April.

The symposium is hosted by Prof Andy Murphy of Trinity’s School of English and it will feature papers from Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews, UK), and from Mark Burnett, Emer McHugh and Molly Quinn-Leitch (Queens University Belfast); Patrick Lonergan and David O’Shaughnessy (University of Galway); Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University); Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library) and Marc Caball (University College Dublin).

The event is open to the public and is free to attend, but registration is required. See eventbrite for tickets.

The symposium is part of a week-long series of events at Trinity celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio, including an exhibition in the Long Room of the Old Library, an online exhibition, and a public lecture by Prof Andy Murphy on the history and significance of the First Folio and of Trinity’s own copy of the volume on Wednesday 12th April. Attendance at the lecture is open to the public free of charge, but registration is required.

Symposium Program:
9:00-9:15 Introduction & welcome – Andy Murphy
9:15-10:00 Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth): ‘”This earth shall have feeling”: Looking for (Irish) Roots in Shakespeare’s Richard II’
10:00-10:45 David O’Shaughnessy (Galway): ‘Shakespeare and Irish Patriotism: Thomas Sheridan’s Coriolanus (1752)’
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Marc Caball (UCD) & Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library): ‘Tralee, 1756: Shakespeare on the Atlantic Edge’
11:45-12:30 Molly Quinn-Leitch (QUB): ‘The Presence of Shakespeare Material Traces in Victorian Belfast (1837-1901)’
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Neil Rhodes (St Andrews): ‘Shakespeare and Yeats’
2:15-3:00 Patrick Lonergan (Galway): ‘Hamlet the Irishman’
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:00 Emer McHugh (QUB): ‘Siobhán McKenna’s “Experimental Version” of Hamlet, or, Some Reflections on Writing About Irish Shakespeare Performance’
4:00-4:45 Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB): ‘Ireland’s Shakespeare: Cinematic Histories/Social Justice’
4:45-5:00 Close

Shakespeare’s First Folio in the Folger Shakespeare Library (This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication)

Talk: “The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare: Four Hundred Years of the First Folio” – 12 April 2023

As part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays – the ‘First Folio’ – Prof Andy Murphy of the School of English at Trinity College Dublin will give a public lecture at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute on the history of the volume and why it is so important. Trinity holds the only copy of the First Folio on the island of Ireland and Prof Murphy will also speak about the particular features of the Trinity copy, including examining some of the peculiar marks and inscriptions to be found in the book.

The event is open to the public and is free to attend, but registration is required – see eventbrite here.

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Theatre: “Romeo and Juliet” at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast

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Romeo & Juliet, a Lyric Theatre Production

Directed by Philip Crawford and adapted by Dr Anne Bailie

Dates: Sat 4 Feb – Sun 5 March 2023

From the website:

Romeo Montague is completely obsessed with Rosaline, but his love is unrequited. At a party, he falls head-over-heels in love with the hosts’ daughter, Juliet Capulet. This time, his love is reciprocated. But their love-story isn’t easy. Their families are arch-rivals in the city of Verona and if their relationship is to flourish, secrecy is vital. The odds are stacked against them, and the pair embark on a journey which ends in consequences far beyond their worst fears.

This contemporary setting of the story, with Shakespeare’s original text, takes audiences to Verona in the summer of 2022 in the world of Italian high fashion, with Lady Montague and Lady Capulet propelled to the forefront as the leading designers of two rival fashion houses.

The play has been adapted by dramaturg Dr Anne Bailie to create a fresh and modern version of this classic tale of two star-crossed lovers and their feuding families.

Please Note: This production contains depictions of suicide, moments of violence and references to drug use.

For details and tickets, see the Lyric theatre’s website here.

Irish Renaissance Seminar at Queen’s University Belfast

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IRS

Queen’s University Belfast

Saturday 28 January 2023

12.00-12:45 Arrival

12:45-1:45 Welcome Ramona Wray (QUB)/Jane Grogan (UCD) and Opening Plenary

Andrew Murphy (TCD): ‘Shakespeare comes to Dublin: Culture and colonialism in eighteenth-century Ireland’, Chair: Ramona Wray (QUB)

1:45-2:45pm Marie Curie Projects at IRS

Emer McHugh (QUB), Maria Shmygol (University of Galway), Helen Newsome (UCD), Chair: Ann-Maria Walsh (QUB)

2:45-3:45 New work in Shakespearean Adaptation

Edel Semple (University College Cork), Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University), Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB), Chair: Edel Lamb (QUB)

3:45-4:15pm Break

4:15-5:15pm PGR Projects at IRS

Hannah Gregg (QUB), Alan Waldron (Maynooth University), Annie Khabaza (UCD), Chair: Anna Graham (QUB)

5:15-6:15pm Closing Plenary

Lillie Arnott (QUB) ‘Witnessing Grief: Sight, Subjectivity and Gender in Early Modern Literature’, Chair: Mark Thornton Burnett (QUB)

6:15-7:30 Reception

For all enquiries on this meeting of the IRS, please contact Dr Ramona Wray.