CfP: Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference 2024

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)

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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

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

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

Shakespeare 400 Ireland Symposium, MU, 22 October 2016

This very exciting symposium is taking place in Maynooth University on 22 October 2016 and the full schedule is now available.

Shakespeare 400 Ireland Symposium

Shakespeare Lives Across the Island: Conversations and Celebrations

22 October 2016, Iontas Seminar Room, North Campus, Maynooth University

Schedule

10.15 || Welcome

10.30 || Keynote:

‘“They are rising, they are rising”: Shakespeare and 1916’

Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow

Chair: Colin Graham, Professor and Head of English, Maynooth University

11.15 || Coffee

11.30 || Visit to Maynooth University Library Special Collections to see 1685 Folio

12.15 || Paper Session I:

‘“Drink! Feck! Girls!” – DruidShakespeare and the Retrieval of Shakespearean Memories in Ireland’, Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre, NUI Galway

Chair: Ema Vyroubalova, Assistant Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin

1.15 || Lunch (sandwiches and tea/coffee provided)

2.00 || Paper Session II:

‘The Hero and the Whipping Boy: Irish Shakespeares and Spensers’

Jane Grogan, Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature, University College Dublin

‘“Counted in the song”: The Taming of the Shrew and 1916 in the Irish Feminist Imagination’, Emer McHugh, IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, NUI Galway

Chair: Stephen O’Neill, Department of English, Maynooth University

3.45 || Refreshments

4.00 || Keynote:

‘Shakespeare, Film, Northern Ireland’

Mark Burnett, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen’s University Belfast

Chair: Maria Pramaggiore, Professor and Head of Media Studies, Maynooth University

5.00 || Open Discussion

 

This event is kindly supported by Maynooth University’s Commemorations Committee; The British Council; Maynooth University Conference and Workshop Fund; Maynooth University Department of English. For event information contact: Stephen.oneill@nuim.ie. Attendance is free.

 

 

CFP deadline Fri 15 April: Tudor and Stuart Ireland

A reminder that the deadline for proposals to the Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference is this Friday, 15 April 2016.

This year the conference will feature a special panel on Shakespeare and Ireland.

The 6th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, on 19-20 August 2016.  This year’s programme will feature plenary speakers Prof. Mary O’Dowd (Queen’s University Belfast), and Prof. Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), as well as a special panel session ‘Shakespeare and Ireland’.

Call for Papers

Proposals for papers (20 minutes) are now welcome on any aspect of Ireland or the Irish abroad during the Tudor and Stuart periods, including:

♦ Print, propaganda, and public opinion
♦ Gender and society
♦ Poetry, literature, and song
♦ Ireland in a comparative/European context
♦ Political and economic history
♦ Material culture and the arts
♦ Religious/ecclesiastical history
♦ Writing (and rewriting) the past
♦ Public engagement, heritage, and early modern Ireland
♦ Ethnicity and identity
♦ Innovation and change
♦ Mobility, migration, and the Irish abroad

Postgraduates, postdoctoral scholars, early-career researchers, independent researchers, and scholars from the disciplines of English, Irish, archaeology, art history, theology, philosophy, music, and Irish studies are particularly welcome to submit proposals for consideration. Proposals that include an interdisciplinary element are strongly encouraged.

Abstracts of 250 words can be submitted by clicking here.

The call for papers will close on 15 April 2016

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The 6th Annual Tudor & Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference is generously supported by the President’s Award for Excellence in Research (awarded to Prof. Steven Ellis), NUI Galway, the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, the Discipline of History, NUI Galway and the Society for Renaissance Studies.