Conference Programme
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12:30 - 13:15
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Welcome and Late Registration - Pôle Langues / Language Building, Rennes 2 |
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13:15 - 13:30
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Conference Opening (Lecture Theatre E3) |
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13:30 - 14:30
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Plenary Session - "A Voice from the Margins: Albert Camus at 100" (Lecture Theatre E3) - Eamon Maher, IT Tallaght Dublin/ NCFIS |
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14:30 - 16:00
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Confronting Approaches to French and Irish Literature (Lecture Theatre E4) - Chair : James Barloon, University of St Thomas |
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| 14:30 - 14:50 |
› "Give me the unusual" : images contrastées du "half-and-half" et du café-épicerie dans quelques pages choisies de William Trevor, d'Annie Ernaux et de Philippe Delerm. - Michel Brunet, Université de Valenciennes |
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| 14:50 - 15:10 |
› “Being the Not Wife”: Representations of Secondary Relationships Within an Irish Cultural Context as Evinced through the Literature of John McGahern and Anne Enright. - Michelle Kennedy, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick |
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| 15:10 - 15:30 |
› Jean Giono, "the peasant-anarchist" - Gerard Connolly, Institute of Technology, Tallaght |
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14:30 - 16:00
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Confronting Approaches to French and Irish Literature (Lecture Theatre E4) - Chair : Stéphane Jousni, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises -CRBC Rennes |
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| 14:30 - 14:50 |
› The Free Forest of Utopia and Le Navire du Fol Espoir: Tennyson's "Robin Hood" in Ireland and Verne's "Les Naufragés du Jonathan" Around the World - Eva Urban, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge |
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| 14:50 - 15:10 |
› The Novice in the City: Sydney Owenson and the Bildungs of Metropolitan Economics - Matthew Reznicek, QUB Belfast |
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| 15:10 - 15:30 |
› Trains of Thought: Frédéric Moreau and Stephen Dedalus in Transit - Philip Geheber, Trinity College Dublin |
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16:15 - 16:30
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Coffee break (Language Building/ Pôle Langues) |
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16:30 - 18:00
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Visual arts : Re-evaluating the visual arts in France and Ireland (Lecture Theatre E3) - Chair :Yann Bévant, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises, CRBC Rennes |
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| 16:30 - 16:50 |
› Redefining Irish identity in films : Hybridity, Subversion and Universalization - Sonia Mezouar, Université de Nice |
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| 16:50 - 17:10 |
› Irlande : cadrage et décadrage photographique d'un paysage habité - Pierre-Jérôme Jéhel, Gobelins-Ecole de l'Image, Paris |
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| 17:10 - 17:30 |
› Picture that! Visual Representations of Irish Politics in Le Petit Journal, late 19th/early 20th Century - Grace Neville, University College Cork |
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19:00 - 20:00
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Reception : Rennes Town Hall (Rennes Town Hall, Place de la Mairie) |
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Event |
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09:15 - 09:30
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Morning Coffee - E224 |
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09:30 - 10:15
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Plenary Session : "A is for asparagus, B is for blondes, C is for Catholics: The Changing Face of some Franco-Irish Stereotypes" (Lecture Theatre E3) - Phyllis Gaffney, University College Dublin |
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10:30 - 12:00
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Questioning Tropes in Irish Literature (Lecture Theatre E3) - Chair : Eamon Maher, NCFIS, Institute of Technology Tallaght |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 |
› “Opening A New Window”: From Speed to Trajectory in the Poetry of Alan Gillis - Anne Goarzin, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises, CRBC-Rennes |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 |
› 'Vive la France! Je me révolte, donc je suis' – Reimagining Paris in the poetry of Paul Durcan. - John McDonagh, MIC Limerick |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 |
› Poetic Diplomacy: French Cultural Influences on the Poetry of Denis Devlin' - Benjamin Keatinge, South East European University, Macedonia |
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10:30 - 12:00
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Politics and Cultural Practices in France and Ireland (Lecture Theatre E4) - Chair : Déborah Vandewoude, Université d'Artois |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 |
› Who Wants to Frame the Republic ? Irish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War - Yann Bévant, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises, CRBC Rennes |
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| 10:50 - 11:10 |
› Ireland, Northern Ireland : the Palestine of Europe ? The Legitimacy or Illegitimacy of a State - Belgacem Mehdaoui, Sohar University, Sulltanate of Oman |
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| 11:10 - 10:30 |
› From Widgery to de Silva : British government and victims' reactions to inquiries into Bloody Sunday and the killing of Pat Finucane - Lesley Lelourec, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises-CRBC Rennes |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 |
› The Gender of Political Violence: Thinking Women's Participation in “Extreme” Political Movements in France and Ireland - Marion Sarrouy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris |
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12:00 - 13:50
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Lunch at the Métronome University Restaurant, Rennes 2 (Le Métronome - Restaurant universitaire Rennes 2, Villejean Campus) |
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14:00 - 15:00
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Questioning Tropes in Irish Literature (Lecture Theatre E3) - Chair : John McDonagh, MIC Limerick |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 |
› A 1910 Challenge: the Max effect? - Mary Pierse, University College Cork |
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| 14:20 - 14:40 |
› Reframing a Portrait: Flann O'Brien's Interrogation of the Artist in Cruiskeen Lawn - Edward Schaefer, Texas State University |
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14:00 - 15:30
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Politics and Cultural Practices in France and Ireland (Lecture Theatre E4) - Chair : Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises-CRBC Rennes |
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| 14:20 - 14:50 |
› Viewing the Story of “Place” Through a New Lens - Brian Murphy, IT Tallaght, Dublin |
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| 14:50 - 15:10 |
› Outside the Frame: Challenging Representations of Teachers in France and Ireland - Imelda Elliott, Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale |
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| 15:10 - 15:30 |
› Whitefriar Street Church : un lieu institutionnel pour une pratique « hors-cadre » - Déborah Vandewoude, Université d'Artois |
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15:45 - 16:00
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Coffee Break (Espace Recherche, Room E224) |
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16:00 - 17:00
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Plenary session - 2013: The Year of the French – A Journalist’s View of Franco-Irish Relations (Lecture Theatre E3) - Ruadhán McCormaic (Legal Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times) |
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17:00 - 18:00
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AFIS - AGM (E3) |
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18:45 - 19:30
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Reception / Performance : "Music in the work of James Joyce: From "Chamber Music" to "Finnegans Wake" (Main Library University Rennes 2) - Gerry Smyth |
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20:15 - 23:30
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Conference Dinner - Taverne de la Marine, Place de Bretagne, Rennes (In town - Rennes ) |
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