Forthcoming conferences
We will be hosting the 6th PhD seminar in Irish Studies the last week of August 2020. Click here for cfp.
Past conferences
From the 29th of November to the 1st of December, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies hosted a conference on Innovation and experiment in contemporary Irish fiction. We have three full days of lectures, debates, paper sessions as well as readings by writers John Banville and Sara Baume. See programme.
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On 16 and 17 May 2018, I hosted a conference on the work of British novelist and short story writer, Sarah Hall, together with Alexander Beaumont from York St John's University. We had two intense days of debate about Hall's work. The writer attended herself and gave us a generous reading and Q&A session. Alex and I are now preparing an essay collection about Sarah Hall with Gylphi.
3rd ENSFR conference: Short Fiction: Co-Texts and Contexts / Le Récit Bref: Co-Textes et Contextes. Leuven, 3-6 May 2017
In plenary lectures, paper presentations, readings and panel debates, we will discuss the forms, functions and implications of the different, multi-textual publication contexts have accompanied the modern short story since the 19th century and we will explore the many different ways in which short stories interact with these co-texts and contexts in various literary traditions.
Plenary speakers are Dean Baldwin and Yvon Houssais. Invited writers are Annelies Verbeke, Alison MacLeod, Thomas Morris and Luca Ricci.
For programme and practical information, see website: www.shortfiction.be
In plenary lectures, paper presentations, readings and panel debates, we will discuss the forms, functions and implications of the different, multi-textual publication contexts have accompanied the modern short story since the 19th century and we will explore the many different ways in which short stories interact with these co-texts and contexts in various literary traditions.
Plenary speakers are Dean Baldwin and Yvon Houssais. Invited writers are Annelies Verbeke, Alison MacLeod, Thomas Morris and Luca Ricci.
For programme and practical information, see website: www.shortfiction.be
The short story and short story collection in the modernist period: between theory and Practice
Academic Belgica, Rome - 12-14 September 2013
This conference hopes to address all these different guises, debates and contexts of the short story in the modernist period, across different countries and literary traditions. Its primary aim is to reflect on the modern short story and short story collection from a theoretical perspective, but it also seeks to contextualise this theoretical approach through a number of case studies from different literary traditions. By bringing together scholars from these different traditions, the conference also aims to trace cross-references, intertextual links or general influences in a broader comparative perspective.
Keynote speakers: Adrian Hunter (University of Stirling), Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Sergio Zatti (Università di Pisa)Hier klikken om te bewerken.
Keynote speakers: Adrian Hunter (University of Stirling), Christine Reynier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Sergio Zatti (Università di Pisa)Hier klikken om te bewerken.
The Irish Short Story
Leuven Centre for Irish studies - 15, 16, 17 November 2012
This conference hopes to both capture and further strengthen this new critical interest in the Irish short story by bringing together scholars working on the various forms, concerns and contexts of the short story in Ireland, as written both in English and in Irish. The conference specifically seeks to address the development of the short story as a literary genre in its own right - from its early forerunners in the tale tradition, through its paradigmatic modern(ist) embodiments to its contemporary transformations. It invites papers which address the output of individual writers as well as those that trace more general developments from a comparative, theoretical or contextual perspective. We also explicitly invite papers on the short story in Irish, although we would prefer these papers to be delivered in English. Since 2012 also marks the centenary of the birth of Mary Lavin, papers on her short fiction are also particularly welcome.
Keynote Speakers: Anne Fogarty, Heather Ingman, Eibhear Walshe and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Keynote Speakers: Anne Fogarty, Heather Ingman, Eibhear Walshe and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Cycles, Recueils, Macrotexts: Theorizing the Short Story Collection
Department of Literary Studies, KU Leuven - 22, 23, 24 May 2012
is to map and critically assess different theoretical approaches to the interlinking of short stories in a collection. Within the Anglo-American critical tradition, the dominant critical frame is that of the short story cycle (although several rival terms have been coined, such as short story sequence, composite novel, or short story composite), while in the Francophone tradition, the short story cycle has been linked to a broader variety of genres and forms of textual organization. In yet other contexts, such as Italian semiotics, short story collections have been analysed as “macrotexts” (macrotesto). These different traditions, however, find themselves faced with similar issues such as the tension between unity and diversity and the rhetorical and stylistic features associated with it; the link with magazine publication and serialisation; the relation between formal features and interpretation; the generic status of the short story cycle/collection and its relation to the novel on the one hand, and the short story on the other. This conference seeks to address these questions both through theoretical reflection and through the exploration of concrete case studies from different literary traditions. A secondary aim of this conference, hence, is to map the historical development of the collection of interlinked stories in different languages and traditions from around 1850 to the present day.Plenary Speakers: René Audet (Université Laval); Rolf Lundén (Uppsala University), Robert M. Luscher (University of Nebraska at Kearney).
The aim of this conference
The aim of this conference
35th IASIL Conference: Conflict And Resolution In Irish Literatures
Leuven Centre For Irish Studies - 18-22 July 2011
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