Thursday, 4 June
09:30
Registration and Coffee
10:00
Welcome Address
10:30-11:30
Panel I: History and Nostalgia
Chair: Jessica Bundschuh
- STEPHEN O’NEILL (Trinity College Dublin)
Nostalgia and Narrative in Polly Devlin’s All of Us There (1983) and Ciaran Carson’s The Star Factory (1997) - CHRISTOPH REINFANDT (University of Tübingen)
Historical Landmarks and Social Transformations: Reconfiguring the Easter Rising in Mary O'Donnell's Empire (2018)
COFFEE
12:00-13:00
Panel II: Twentieth Century Narratives
Chair: Ralf Haekel
- SEÁN CROSSON (University of Galway)
"Ar son an Náisiúin": Examining the Role of Depictions of Gaelic Games on Film in the Articulation and Deconstruction of Irish Identity in the Mid-20th Century - MICHELLE WITEN (Europa Universität Flensburg)
"Always looking for a master": Transformations in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head
LUNCH
14:30-16:00
Panel III: Narratives of the 2020s
Chair: Michael G. Cronin
- DEIRDRE FLYNN (MIC Limerick)
The Irish Campus Novel and Social Transformation in the Twenty-First Century - KATHARINA RENNHAK (University of Wuppertal)
Narrating Masculinities in the Contemporary Irish Family Novel - CAROLINE LUSIN (University of Mannheim)
The Connected Vulnerability of Being: Post-Celtic Tiger Identities in Sheila Armstrong’s Falling Animals (2023)
18:00-19:30
Readings by SHEILA ARMSTRONG and MICHELLE GALLEN
SWANE Café
20:00
DINNER IN TOWN (self-pay)
Friday, 5 June
09:30-11:00
Panel IV: Coming of Age across Different Genres
Chair: Christoph Reinfandt
- JESSICA BUNDSCHUH (University of Stuttgart)
Coming of Age Queer in Ireland in Rosamund Taylor's Verse Novel of Tactility - SARAH L. TOWNSEND (University of New Mexico)
Perpetual Children: Celtic Tiger Irish Drama and the Refusal to Grow Up - LOIC WRIGHT (Visiting Professor at the University of Wuppertal)
Technology, Narrative Voice, and the Stunted Bildungsroman of Modernity
COFFEE
11:30-12:30
Panel V: Subgenres of the Novel
Chair: Deirdre Flynn
- JOACHIM FRENK (Universität des Saarlandes)
Darker Green: Gothic Visions of Ireland Since the 1990s - MICHAEL G. CRONIN (Maynooth University)
Coming-out Romance: Resistance and Complicity in Neoliberal Ireland
LUNCH
13:30-14:30
Panel VI: Writing against Patriarchy
Chair: Sandra Heinen
- RALF HAEKEL (University of Leipzig)
"I want you to know that she was": Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat - STEFANIE LEHNER (Queen's University Belfast)
Rejecting Traditional Depictions of Female Victimhood in Two Recent Northern Fictions
14:30-15:30
Panel VII: Onscreen Irishness
Chair: Seán Crosson
- TONY TRACY (University of Galway)
Familiar Faces: Character Actors, Lalor Roddy and Irish Cinema - DIANE NEGRA (University College Dublin)
Expository Irishness, Garron Noone and the Politics of Irish Differentiation in the 2020s
COFFEE
15:45-16:30
Narrating Ireland and the Future of Irish Studies in Germany: Concluding Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Birgit Spengler
- Jessica Bundschuh (University of Stuttgart)
- Eamonn O Ciardha (Ulster University)
- Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal)
- Michelle Witen (University of Flensburg)
- Loic Wright (Visiting Professor at the University of Wuppertal)
