Irish Renaissance Seminar at Queen’s University Belfast

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.

CFP: Borderlines XXI in UCC

University College Cork will host Borderlines XXI in April 2017. The theme of this year’s conference is “Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern World”.

Postgraduates and early career scholars are most welcome to submit an abstract and attend this annual Medieval-Renaissance conference. The Call For Papers has been launched (see below) and the deadline for submission of abstracts is 3rd February 2017.

For updates and further details, see the Borderlines XXI blog here.

Shakespeare Day at Trinity College Dublin – 8th October

To commemorate Shakespeare 400, Trinity College Dublin will hold a “Shakespeare Day” this Saturday 8th October 2016. The schedule is as follows:

WELCOME  1pm  Dr. Ema Vyroubalova and Dr. Emily O’Brien

KEYNOTE  1:10-2:10pm  Prof. Nicholas Grene (TCD): “An Accidental Shakespearean”

ROUNDTABLE 2:15-3:15pm  “What Does Shakespeare Mean to Me?”

Prof. Danielle Clarke (UCD), Dr. Ema Vyroubalova (TCD), Dr. Edel Semple (UCC), Dr. Kevin De Ornellas (Ulster), Dr. Stephen O’Neill (NUIM)

Break with Refreshments

POSTGRADUATE / POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH SHOWCASE 3:30-5pm

Dr. Kate Harvey (NUIG) Shakespeare for Children

Matthew Wiliamson (QUB) Hunger and Appetite in Shakespeare

Shauna O’Brien (TCD) Persian Shakespeare

Kaitlyn Culliton (TCD) Shakespeare and Fairies

 

The Shakespeare Day will be followed by an optional dinner in the city centre (location TBD), 6pm

For more information and to register your interest in the event, please contact Dr Ema Vyroubalova at vyroubae@tcd.ie

 

TCD: Parliament Square, the Campanile