This event brings together a panel of leading international scholars in the field of Irish Studies. Irish and Northern Irish literature and culture will be explored from a variety of perspectives, encompassing a range of texts from the modern to the contemporary.
Programme
6.30 p.m.
Opening
Karin Lach, Dieter Fuchs
6.45 p.m.
“Tidal Drift”: Reading the Coastal in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Anne Fogarty
7.15 p.m.
Spectrality and Trauma in the Work of Willie Doherty
Shane Alcobia-Murphy
7.45 p.m.
The Viennese “Lieber Augustin”-Song as an Austrian Counterpart
of Finnegans Wake
Dieter Fuchs
Each paper will be followed by a discussion – audience participation is welcome! The event is open to students, staff, and the general public.
A joint event of
Irish Embassy, Vienna
Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Vienna
Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
University Library, English and American Studies Library
