IRISH Seminar 2019 9-21 June University of Oxford
Theme: Britain & Ireland
SCHEDULE
Sunday 9 June
Participants to arrive in Oxford & check into accommodation by 3pm. 4pm Walking tour. Meeting point: Entrance to Pitt Rivers Museum, S Parks Rd.
Monday 10 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
10.00am Registration 10.30am Welcome address by Professor Patrick Griffin, Director of the Keough- Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame. Participants to present outline of their research 12.00pm Lunch 1.00pm Professor Ian McBride (Hertford College, Oxford) ‘The Secret History of Catholic Ireland: Scandal, Reform and the Penal Laws.’ 2.30pm Walk to Bodleian Library, Clarendon Building, 48 Broad St. [10 mins]
3.00pm Bodleian Library Orientation. Meeting point: Delegates Room, Clarendon Building.
6pm Opening Ceremony: Remarks by Professor Louise Richardson, Vice- Chancellor of University of Oxford.
Tuesday 11 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
10.00am Professor Máire Ní Mhaoinaigh (University of Cambridge) ‘Entangled Histories: Britain and Ireland in the Early Medieval World.’ 11.30am Coffee break 12.00pm Professor Clíona Ní Ríordáin (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle – Paris 3) ‘The Great Gulf Between Us: Language Variety in Contemporary Irish Poetry.’
2 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Professor Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin) ‘Reading between the Lines: Law, Language and the State.’
Location: Rothermere American Institute, 1a S Parks Road. [5 min walk from Pitt Rivers] 4.30pm Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame) ‘The Irish Fighting: Boxing and the Transition from Irish to Irish-American.’
Wednesday 12 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre 10.00am Professor Tom Bartlett (University of Aberdeen) ‘Anglo-Irish relations 1800 to 1922 - a framework.’ 11.30am Coffee break 12.00pm Professor Alvin Jackson (University of Edinburgh) ‘The survival of the union: Ireland, Scotland and the United Kingdom, 1707-2017.’ 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Professor Eve Patten (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Ireland and English literary caricature in the long 1940s.’ 4.00pm Finish
Location: Old Library, Hertford College, Catte St. [10min walk from Pitt Rivers] 5.00pm The Oxford Seminar in Irish History presents Professor Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania), and discussants: A roundtable on A Treatise on Northern Ireland (OUP, 3 vols., forthcoming, 2019).
Thursday 13 June Location: Magdalen College [15min walk from Pitt Rivers] 10.00am Exhibition Visit: Making History: Christian Cole, Alain Locke and Oscar Wilde at Oxford.
Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
12.00pm Professor Heather O’Donoghue (Linacre College, University of Oxford) ‘Teesside Irish: runic names and economic migrants.’ 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Professor Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame) ‘Writing England, Reading Ireland.’ 4.00pm Coffee break 4.15pm Round up – participant reflections 5pm Finish
Friday 14 June Independent Research Day
Saturday 15 June Independent Research Day
Sunday 16 June
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Monday 17 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
10.00am Professor Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway) ‘Eighteenth-Century Aristocratic Interpretations of Ireland’s History.’ 11.30am Coffee break 12.00pm Dr. Ciaran O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Life in the Palliative State.’ 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Professor Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh) ‘Ireland and British Modernities.’ 4.00pm Finish
Location: Pitt Rivers Museum 6pm Madden-Rooney Public Event: ‘Fiction and the Dream’ by John Banville
Tuesday 18 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
10.00am Dr. David Dwan (Hertford College, Oxford) ‘The Limits of Enlightenment in Ireland.’ 11.30am Coffee break 12.00pm Dr. Michèle Mendelssohn (Mansfield College, Oxford) ‘Oscar Wilde in the US and Britain.’ 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Professor Clair Wills (University of Cambridge) ‘Representing Women and the Troubles.’ 4pm Finish
7pm Oxford Shakespeare Festival: Romeo & Juliet + Richard III (BMH Theatre), 44-46 Oxford Castle and Prison. Please note this is an outdoor event.
Wednesday 19 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
10.00am Professor John Kelly (St. John’s College, Oxford) 'Two Expats in England: W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and the Course of English Modernism.' 11.30am Coffee break 12.00pm Professor Lauren Arrington (Maynooth University) ‘Dangerous Bardolatry’: the ballad in some British and Irish modernist poetry. 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: Professor Roy Foster ‘Meditating in Time of War: Heaney, Yeats and the poetics of conflict.’
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6pm Poetry Reading: Bernard O’Donoghue Location: Old Lodgings Drawing Room, Hertford College.
Thursday 20 June Location: Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture theatre
10.00am Dr. Etain Tannam (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Brexit, British-Irish relations and the peace process.’ 11.30am Coffee break 12.00pm Professor David Phinnemore (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Britain, Ireland, Brexit and the Backstop.’ 1.30pm Lunch 2.30pm Participant roundtable 4.00pm Finish
6pm Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: Professor Declan Kiberd ‘Europe in Ruins: from Beckett to the Present.’ 8.00pm Closing dinner
Friday 21 June Participants check out of accommodation Participants depart.
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