Irish Cultures in Contact
23.04.2024The Annual Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School 15-19 July 2024, Flensburg. Registration is now open for an ECTS-accredited week of lectures, seminars, and screenings with internationally renowned Irish studies and cultural theory scholars at the EUF Centre for Irish Studies!
The Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School in Flensburg
From the Gaelic past until the world of today, there has been a constant debate of cultures in contact in the field of Irish studies. Also known as cultural transfer or ‘traffique’, this intercultural flow emerged with the rise of Ireland as a centre of the Christian world in the Dark Ages.
Stressing Ireland’s indigenous tradition, the conflict was greatly enhanced by the Gaelic Revival movement in the second half of the 19th century – the period witnessing the rise of the nation state. Although this conflict seems to have ended with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the cultural difference between the pro-English Protestant and the Catholic part of the Irish population endures until the present.
Further details of the programme can be found at https://www.uni-flensburg.de?55878
The Summer School offers students the opportunity to work with leading figures in the field and to develop and deepen their analytical skills and theoretical knowledges in these wide-ranging critical conversations. Through guided close readings and discussions of the interfaces between word and image in Irish literature, drama, art, music, film, television, history, politics, technology, and popular culture, students and lecturers will explore diverse modes of (mis)representing, performing, articulating, witnessing, and deconstructing Irish cultures in contact.
- digital meeting on July 5: For those who would like to discuss the schedule, ask any travel or course-related questions, and become acquainted with the other attendees in advance
- warm-up event on July 14 + cooldown event on July 20
- academic programme of the School will begin on July 15 at 9am. (Second optional digital post-school offering on September 6)
3 ECTS for attendance or 5 ECTS with term paper or similar (deadline to be agreed). Please contact your programme coordinator at your university regarding compatibility and credit transfers.
Registration: Please register online at https://www.uni-flensburg.de?55878
Venue: Europa-Universität Flensburg, Helsinki Building, Room 165, Auf dem Campus 1a, 24943 Flensburg, DE
Attendance of the academic programme is free.
Please contact us at irish.studies@uni-flensburg.de if you have any questions!
