10:00 Welcome Addresses
Sandra Heinen, Lance Pettitt, and Katharina Rennhak
(Irish Studies at the University of Wuppertal)
Patrick Jacques, Head of Finance Policy Unit, Embassy of Ireland
Michael Scheffel, Vice-President for Research, Third-Party
Funding, and Graduate Studies (University of Wuppertal)
Ursula Kocher, Dean of the School of Humanities
(University of Wuppertal)
Roy Sommer, Center for Narrative Research (University of
Wuppertal)
10:30-11:30 The Irish Border: Historiographical Narratives
Chair: Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown University
MARY E. DALY (University College Dublin),
'A Third Country': Irish Border Communities 1921-2021
PETER LEARY (Oxford Brookes University)
A 'territory of wits' and Daring-Do: The Irish Border as a Ludicrous Line
COFFEE
12:00-13:00 The Irish Border: Juridical and Sociological Narratives
Chair: Christina Morin, University of Limerick
ORAN DOYLE (Trinity College, Dublin),
Mapping the Jural Border between Ireland and Northern Ireland
PETER SHIRLOW (Liverpool University, Institute of Irish Studies)
Northern Ireland: A Re-Imagined Place?
LUNCH
14:30-15:30 Irish Border Narratives on TV and in the Cinema (I)
Chair: Ralf Haekel, University of Leipzig
CIARA NICOLE CHAMBERS (University College Cork)
Ulster versus Éire: Partitionist Narratives in Cinema Newsreels
LENNART SOBERON (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Backroads and Buried Pasts: A Thematic Analysis of the Irish Border on Film
15:30-16:30 Irish Border Narratives on TV and in the Cinema (II)
Chair: Maria Eisenmann, University of Würzburg
LANCE PETTITT (University of Wuppertal/Birkbeck, University of London)
Dramatising 1970s Border Narratives: Eugene McCabe's Victims Trilogy
(RTÉ)
KIRSTEN SANDROCK (University of Göttingen)
Borders as Palimpsests: Symbolic Layering in Kenneth Branagh's
Belfast (2021)
COFFEE
17:00-18:00 Irish Border Narratives in the Media
TONY CONNELLY (Europe editor, RTÉ), KATHARINA PEETZ (freelance
journalist, mostly Deutschlandradio) and WILLI WINKLER (Süddeutsche
Zeitung) in Conversation with LANCE PETTITT and KATHARINA
RENNHAK
18:15 Staging Irish Border Narratives (Irish Itinerary Roundtable Discussion)
OISÍN KEARNEY in Conversation with SANDRA HEINEN (University of
Wuppertal)
10:00-11:00 Imagining Global Borders in Irish Fiction
Chair: Michelle Witen, Europa Universität Flensburg
CHRISTINA MORIN (University of Limerick)
At Home and Abroad: Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century
CÓILÍN PARSONS (Georgetown University; Global Irish Studies)
Dissolving Borders: Ulysses, Postcolonialism, and the Global South
COFFEE
11:30-12:30 The Politics and Aesthetics of Recent Irish Border Narratives (I)
Chair: Kirsten Sandrock, University of Göttingen
JOHN BRANNIGAN (University College Dublin)
The Irish Sea Border
CAROLINE LUSIN (University of Mannheim)
Achilles on the Shores of Eire: Borders, the Iliad and the Oresteia in Contemporary Irish Fiction
LUNCH
14:00-15:00 The Politics and Aesthetics of Recent Irish Border Narratives (II)
Chair: Lennart Soberon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
KATHARINA RENNHAK (University of Wuppertal)
(Para-)Military Masculinity and Male Agency in Recent Irish Border Narratives
JESSICA BUNDSCHUH (University of Stuttgart)
The Shifting Borders of the Irish Prose Poem Sequence in Eamon
Grennan's Plainchant
15:15-16:00 Irish Border Narratives and Irish Studies in Germany: Concluding
Roundtable Discussion
Chairs: Lance Pettitt, University of Wuppertal/Birkbeck, University of London and
Katharina Rennhak, University of Wuppertal
MARIA EISENMANN (University of Würzburg), RALF HAEKEL (University
of Leipzig), ROY SOMMER (University of Wuppertal), MICHELLE
WITEN (Europa Universität Flensburg)
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