17th International Conference in Irish-German Studies
Irish-German Relations 2017: Between Böll and Brexit
20th Anniversary Conference of the Centre for Irish-German Studies & Commemoration of Heinrich Böll’s 100th Birthday
ALUMNI CONFERENCE
Venue and Date
University of Limerick, 14-16 September 2017
Organisers
Dr Joachim Fischer / Dr Gisela Holfter
Centre for Irish-German Studies / Zentrum für deutsch-irische Forschungen
School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland
Gisela Holfter, Tel. 00353-61-202395, email
Joachim Fischer, Tel. 00353-61-202354, email
Programme Outline
14 September 2017 Venue: AD2-010 (Analog Devices Building, UL)
9.30 Opening addresses
10.00 - 11.30 Session 1 Irish-German Relations in the Context of Brexit
12.00 - 1.30 Session 2 Economic Relations and the Need for Languages
2.30 - 4.00 Session 3 Heinrich Böll and Ireland
4.30 - 6.00 Session 4 Heinrich Böll at 100
6.30 Music Kurt Roger’s Irish Sonata (Irish World Academy for Music & Dance)
7.30 Reception by German Embassy followed by Conference Dinner (Pavilion Restaurant)
15 September 2017
9.00 - 10.30 Session 5 Austria – Ireland – Switzerland in 2017
11.00 - 12.30 Session 6 Literary Studies
1.30 - 3.00 Session 7 Connections in Science
3.30 - 5.00 Session 8 Recent Work on Historical Links
5.15 - 6.45 Session 9 Artistic Interfaces: Art, Music, Poetry
7.00 – 8.00 Readings Joe Joyce & Eva Bourke & Book presentations
8.00 Céilí & Barbeque (The Scholars Club & Bar)
16 September 2017
9.00 - 10.30 Session 10 Irish Studies in German-speaking Countries / German Studies in
Ireland
10.45 - 12.15 Session 11 Media Discourses: Ireland in Germany and Germany in Ireland
12.30 - 1.30 Session 12 Irish-German Migration, Tourism and the Böll factor
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Opening Address by Dr Des Fitzgerald, President, University of Limerick
1. Irish-German Relations in the Context of Brexit and Beyond (Chair: Edward Moxon-Browne)
Josef Reichhardt (Deputy German Ambassador, Dublin) – Diplomatic perspectives
Rüdiger Görner (Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, London) – British-German relations from a ‘Germanistik’ point of view
Paul Gillespie (Irish Times) – The Brexit debate and Ireland
2. Economic Relations and the Need for Languages (Chair: Bernadette Andréosso-O’Callaghan)
Ralf Lissek (Irish-German Chamber of Commerce, Dublin) – The development of economic relations in recent years
Liam Ryan (SAP Ireland) – Irish-German business: An employer’s perspective
Mairead Crosby (IBEC) – The need for German language skills for the Irish economy
3. Böll and Ireland (Chair: Hermann Rasche, Galway)
René Böll (Cologne) – The Böll family and Ireland
Edward King (Achill) – Heinrich Böll on Achill Island and his connections there
Sheila McHugh (Acla Heinrich Böll Committee) – The work of the Heinrich Böll Committee on Achill Island
John McHugh (Heinrich Böll Cottage) – Artists’ and writers’ residencies in the Böll Cottage
4. Böll at 100 (Chair: Pól Ó Dochartaigh, NUI Galway)
Ralf Schnell (Berlin) – The complete works of Böll (Kölner Ausgabe) and developments in Böll scholarship
Frank Finlay (Leeds) – The Lost Honour of HB: Böll’s legacy in the 21st Century
Christiane Schönfeld (MIC/UL) – Böll's Prose on Screen
Music – Kurt Roger (1895-1966), Irish Sonata played by Joachim Roewer (Irish Chamber Orchestra) & Lance Coburn (Royal Irish Academy of Music)
(A rare Irish performance of the acclaimed sonata written by the Austrian refugee composer in Waterford before emigrating to the US in 1939 – the only musical trace of German-speaking refugees in Ireland. Introduced by Leslie Stevenson, St. Andrews, and Gisela Holfter).
Reception by German Embassy followed by Conference Dinner
Friday, 15 September 2017
5. Austria – Ireland – Switzerland in 2017 (Chair: Marieke Krajenbrink)
Andreas Maurer (Innsbruck) – The Brexit Debate: An Austrian perspective
Patrick Studer (Zurich) – Recent Swiss discourses about the European Union and Swiss-Irish relations
Jürgen Barkhoff (Dublin) – Swiss-Irish literary relations
6. Literary Studies (Chair: Sabine Egger, MIC/UL)
Michaela Schrage-Früh (Galway/Mainz) – Lyrical links: Germany in Irish poetry
Marieke Krajenbrink (UL) – Irish-German detective fiction
Emer O’Sullivan (Lüneburg) – Irish-German intercultural connections in children’s literature
7. Connections in Science (Chair: Helen Kelly-Holmes, UL)
Georg Krawietz (DAAD London) – The role of the German Academic Exchange Service
Luke Drury (DIAS, Dublin) – The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and the crucial role of international scientific links
Ursel Bangert (UL, Bernal Institute) – The added benefits of international collaboration: Some examples of Irish-German research projects
8. Recent Work on Historical Links (Chair: Eda Sagarra, Dublin)
Peter Harbison (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin) – Archaeological links Ireland-Germany
Jérôme aan de Wiel (Cork) – Recent historical research on Irish-German relations, 1870-1922: An overview
Mervyn O’Driscoll (Cork) – Recent historical research on Irish-German relations in the post-war period: An overview
9. Artistic Interfaces: Art, Music, Poetry (Chair: Gareth Cox, MIC)
Imogen Stuart (Dublin) – Irish-German connections in art: A personal review
Raymond Deane (Dublin/Fürth) – Working at the Irish-German musical interface
Seamus Hogan/ Seán O’Mahony (Ballydehob) – Translating Rilke
Readings (Chair: Eoin Bourke, Galway) – Joe Joyce, journalist and author of the trilogy Echoland (Dublin One City One Book Choice 2017), Echobeat and Echowave; Eva Bourke (Galway/Berlin) & presentation of Siobhán O’Connor, Irish Government Policy and Public Opinion towards German-Speaking Refugees, 1933-1943 (2017) and Gisela Holfter/Horst Dickel, An Irish Sanctuary- German-speaking Refugees in Ireland 1933-1945 (2017)
followed by Céilí & Barbeque (The Scholars Club & Bar)
Saturday, 16 September 2017
10. Irish Studies in German-speaking Countries / German Studies in Ireland (Chair: Manfred Schewe, Cork)
David Stifter (Maynooth) – The state of Celtic Studies in the German-speaking countries
Jochen Achilles (Würzburg) – Irish Studies in the German-speaking countries: The last twenty years
Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa (Galway) – Recent developments in German Studies in Ireland
11. Media Discourses: Ireland in Germany and Germany in Ireland (Chair: Elmar Conrad-Hassels, German Ireland Fund/GILBA, Bonn)
Fergal Lenehan (Jena) – German media discourses on Ireland since 1990
Derek Scally (Irish Times, Berlin) – Reporting from Berlin: An Irish correspondent’s perspective
Brendan Keenan (Irish Independent) – Recent Irish media discourses on Germany
12. Irish-German Migration, Tourism and the Böll factor (Chair: Veronica O’Regan, UL)
Melanie Neumann (Berlin) – The Irish in Berlin: Immigration since the Millennium
Christian Ludwig (Gaeltacht Reisen, Moers) – A portrait of German tourism to Ireland
Close of Conference
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the DAAD; the Heinrich Böll Stiftung; the Austrian and German Embassies; the Goethe Institut Irland; the Centre for European Studies (CEUROS),the Schools of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics & Culture and Communication, the Faculty of AHSS and the IACF, University of Limerick.
For any changes, updates and information re registration see Centre for Irish-German Studies website: http://ulsites.ul.ie/irishgerman/upcoming-events
For general inquiries, please contact: (Emma T. Foley/Madeleine O’Sullivan)
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