MA in International Theatre Studies Spend one semester in France, one semester in Ireland St Patrick’s College (Dublin City University) is delighted to announce the launch of a new MA in International Theatre Studies – an innovative collaborative programme between St. Patrick’s College and the University of Angers, France. This exciting one-year programme draws on European and Irish theatre expertise, sensibility and experience. Students on this dual-location programme will spend the first semester in Angers which is situated in the Loire Valley – a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognised for its chateaux, natural beauty and theatre culture – and the second semester in Dublin, UNESCO City of Literature. In each location students will have the opportunity to work with experts in their field as they examine the rich history of drama and theatre practice. In addition to their Theatre modules, students in Angers will have the opportunity to improve their French (or start to learn French) and work with the National Theatre of Angers. In Dublin there will likewise be opportunities to engage with the Dublin Theatre scene. Much of the Dublin semester will be spent, for example, preparing a performance piece in collaboration with expert theatre practitioners; St Patrick’s College also has its own repertory company (SPARC) which provides further opportunities for practical theatre experience. For more on the course see: http://www.spd.dcu.ie/site/english/MAInternationalTheatreStudies.shtml Applying: This course is open to those with an undergraduate degree at honours level (2:2 or above) in a related subject, or those with substantial and demonstrable practical experience in theatre. Further information from Admissions Office, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 Phone: 01 884 2025 / 01 884 2096 Email: courseinfo@spd.dcu.ie Website: www.spd.dcu.ie/admissions -- Derek Hand Now Available A History of the Irish Novel, Derek Hand For more information see www.cambridge.org/9780521855402

New Publication: Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity Shane Alcobia-Murphy ISBN: 978-1-906-10818-2 This is the first monograph wholly devoted to the poetry of Medbh McGuckian and it presents pathways into her work that have thus far remained largely unexplored. The chapters examine the ways in which McGuckian uses literary exemplars to explore the psychodramas of female literary authorship and ways of approaching issues of memory, trauma and elegiac remembrance. This monograph provides an excellent introduction to McGuckian’s poetry and argues that her work self-reflexively presents a deeply felt belief in the primacy (and efficacy) of poetry in the modern world. Available via http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/publications/Medbh_McGuckian.shtml

Funded Studentship: Literature and Cultural History The Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History is pleased to offer a funded studentship for April/May 2013 entry to its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme. The studentship will pay full-time University UK/EU tuition fees for 3 years and include a tax-free annual bursary of £13,590 per year. Research in English at LJMU is focused through the Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History, established in 1998. The Research Centre organises regular series of research seminars, hosts conferences, invites distinguished overseas intellectuals to act as Visiting Professors and creates a forum in which the meaning, purposes and practicalities of interdisciplinary research can be debated. For details of staff research interests, seminars and events see our website: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/HSS/119808.htm The successful applicant will work in ONE of the three following areas, corresponding to research clusters within the Research Centre: Labouring Class Authorship, the Literary Intelligentsia and the Periodical Press OR Cultural, radical and national politics in print culture in the period 1880 to 1914 OR Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Literary Cultures For further details, entry requirements and information on the applications process see our Research Centre website under Studentships 2013: or access direct at: at: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/HSS/125470.htm The closing date for applications will be: 4th March 2013

New Voices, 2013 Multidisciplinary Postgraduate and Early Career Scholars’ Conference 2013 Diversities in Literary and Cultural Criticism 13-15 June 2013, NUI Maynooth Call for Papers The theme of the fifteenth annual New Voices conference is Diversities. New Voices seeks papers and panel sessions that explore diversities, as an object of literary and cultural study, or as a mode of methodological, technological and theoretical practice. The range of frameworks being deployed within the study of Irish literature and culture has never been so diverse. This conference seeks to provide a space for the consideration of the rich diversity of critical, theoretical and technological reading practices being advanced by postgraduate and early career scholars who are researching in academic institutions in Ireland, or working on topics pertaining to Ireland in institutions abroad. We seek proposals for papers and panel sessions that examine how the field of Irish studies has benefited from the application of new modes of theoretical enquiry, while also considering the extent to which the field has resisted, or remained sceptical of, such analytic approaches. Is the practice of analysing Irish literature and culture one that now necessitates an interdisciplinary approach or has literary studies always been multidisciplinary? While New Voices seeks to address Irish literature and culture, we are also particularly interested in the research of postgraduates and early career scholars that addresses Irish literature and culture in comparative or global contexts. Above all, New Voices aims to provide a space for the recognition of the diversity of current postgraduate and early career research being carried out in the field of the humanities in Ireland. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Professor Christopher Morash, National University of Ireland Maynooth Dr Anne Mulhall, University College Dublin Professor Ed Madden, University of South Carolina Dr Íde Corley, National University of Ireland Maynooth We welcome papers on topics including but by no means limited to: Literary and cultural narratives of the diaspora Post-feminist and Post-Queer? Readings and realities Representations of ethnic diversity in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland Irish literature as World literature? Comparative contexts Visual cultures and diverse perceptions Religion and Trauma: Emergent historical narratives Cultural memory – collective and individual memory Time and space – nostalgia and futurity in contemporary texts Family life – representations of the family in literature Theory, Text and Technology – Digital humanities & new media We are interested in receiving abstracts for twenty minute papers from postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars working in the areas of literature, drama, film, visual art, cultural studies, new media, performance studies, sociology, philosophy, comparative studies, history and politics amongst others. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 28th, 2013. Abstracts should be 250-300 words, and include affiliation and a short biography. Email: newvoices2013@nuim.ie

Ireland's county of Cork, renowned for the beauty of its scenery, has been blessed since ancient times with an abundance of artistic talent, and the fame of its poets, novelists, painters and musicians is known throughout the world. The Cork Writers' School, running for the first time in 2013, offers the chance to join in a celebration of that great flowering of talent, with the emphasis on its extraordinary literary achievement, in the convivial and beautiful surroundings of Mitchelstown and the Galtee mountains. Cork Writers' School 2013 For full details see www.corkwritersschool.com

Fellowship 2013, Old library and Historical archives, Centre Culturel Irlandais / Irish College Paris The Centre Culturel Irlandais / Irish College Paris (www.centreculturelirlandais.com) offers two Fellowship bursaries to encourage research on its Old Library and Historical archives collections. The purpose of the Fellowships is to establish the intellectual and academic value of the holdings. The Old library contains 8000 volumes (from the 15th to the 19th century). Once the library of the Irish College when it was a seminary, the collection contains works of theology, history, philosophy etc. More than 19 000 items are held in the Historical archives, covering a period extending from the 14th to the 20th century. The main themes are daily life at the Irish College and the buildings which were owned by the Irish Community, the grant foundations, the religious community etc. For more details about the collections’ content: Catalogue of the Old Library: www.centreculturelirlandais.com/catalogues_eng Catalogue of the Historical Archives: http://archives.centreculturelirlandais.com/index_gb.php The areas of research are open, depending on the candidate's interests, and could focus on a historical subject, a period of time, an author, the manuscripts or printed items, the provenance of part of the collections, the bindings etc. We are looking for an output which would add to our knowledge of the library or archives and to the information which we can put into the public domain. Priority will be given to research subjects examining a corpus of references instead of one reference in particular. In 2010, 2011 and 2012, Fellows pursued the following research: -Frédéric Manzini: Robert Boyle chez les philosophes en France et en Europe au XVIIème siècle : diffusion et influence -Cormac Begadon: Belief and Devotion in a 19th century Irish Seminary: the evidence from the Irish College Paris Collections -Justin Dolan Stover: Student life, curriculum, and college administration: the Irish College, Paris, under le bureau gratuit, 1870-1918 -Nienke Tjoelker: Irish Neo-Latin style and identity -Linda Kiernan: Gentlemen Scholars: Minding manners and polite society at the Irish College, Paris -Brid McGrath: Representative assemblies in Ireland and France in the early modern period -Rebecca Schwarz: John Toland’s Irish Philo-Semitism: A New Window on Christian-Jewish Relations -Emmanuelle Chapron: Bibliothèques décomposées : les livres des collèges d’Ancien Régime dans le fonds ancien du Centre Culturel Irlandais -Evie Monaghan: Early Modern Religious Controversy in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, the English College Collection -Tom Byrne: Argument in the archives: a microcosm of early modern confessional conflict in the Three Kingdoms and Europe within the collections of the Old Library of the Irish College Paris Centre Culturel Irlandais – 5 rue des Irlandais – 75005 Paris www.centreculturelirlandais.com  Conditions: The result should be a substantial essay in English or in French (approx. 20 000 words) Duration: 4 to 6 weeks between June and August 2013 Grant: €1000 per month; accommodation and travel covered (subject to certain conditions) Deadline for receipt of applications (in English or French): 27th January 2013 Please send: -CV -Summary of your proposed research subject (approx. 500-1000 words) + your preferred dates and duration (4, 5 or 6 weeks) -Bibliography of the items you plan to consult -Any additional relevant documentation To : Carole Jacquet, Head of Libraries and Archives cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com or Centre Culturel Irlandais 5 rue des Irlandais 75005 Paris, France For any queries: 00 33 (0)1 58 52 10 33 or cjacquet@centreculturelirlandais.com

PR Release Irish Studies – 30 October 2012 New Research Fellows at St Mary’s, Twickenham, London The Centre for Irish Studies (CIS) at St Mary’s University College, London, announced today that it has appointed three new Irish Studies Professorial and Research Fellows in a three-year, funded commitment to develop its research and postgraduate provision. Joining the Centre are: Prof Mary Hickman, a leading sociologist of the Irish diaspora, co-author of Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK(Palgrave 2012) and co-Editor of Women and the Irish Diaspora (forthcoming, Manchester University Press, 2013); Prof Shaun Richards, editor ofThe Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (2004) and co-author of the seminal Writing Ireland (1988); and Keith Hopper, author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist a Young Post-modernist (Cork UP, 2011 pb), the series editor of ‘Ireland into Film’ (Cork University Press 2001- ) and who has also recently completed a study on Neil Jordan at the University of Oxford. Director of the CIS, Professor Lance Pettitt, said “We are delighted to have such eminent fellows join us for what will be an exciting period of development in Irish Studies in London”. The new fellows extend the existing expertise at the Centre for its new MA in Irish Studies, will support its doctoral students (CIS now has five PhDs) and develop the programme of research, conferences and community links established by the CIS.

The 8th Cross-currents Postgraduate Conference in Irish and Scottish Studies CALL FOR PAPERS The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies is holding a major international 3-day postgraduate conference at the University of Aberdeen, 12-14 April 2013. The conference provides a forum for postgraduate students and research fellows who are working on Irish and/or Scottish Studies. The key disciplines covered in this conference are Literature, History, Celtic Studies and Film Studies. We would welcome submissions for individual 25-minute papers in any of these disciplines. Suggested topics: Nation and Narration Place and Text Screening Identity The Limits of Representation Constructing Histories The Politics and Poetics of Translation The Politics of Memory Representing Colonial/Postcolonial Society The Decline of Empire The Question of Historical Authority Representations of Conflict Remapping the Nation The Future of Irish/Scottish Studies Selected Proceedings will be published 200-word abstracts are to be posted/emailed by 28 January 2013 to: Shane Alcobia-Murphy Cross-Currents School of Language & Literature King's College University of Aberdeen AB24 2UB Aberdeen (UK) sam@abdn.ac.uk The AHRC Centre offers a number of bursaries to cover the full cost of accommodation. If you wish to apply for one of these, please send a personal statement along with your abstract. There is no conference fee.

EFACIS is offering five scholarships to the value of 200 EUR each to postgraduate students who wish to participate in the EFACIS 2013 conference in Galway. Please find information below regarding the documents required and criteria for assessing those who wish to be considered for a scholarship. Documents required for consideration for EFACIS postgraduate scholarship • Conference proposal and CV • 350 word document outlining reasons for applying for the EFACIS scholarship • 2 references from academic staff – one of whom should be your supervisor – in your home institution. Please submit your abstract and bio via the EFACIS 2013 conference website. Additionally, please send this together with your CV, references and 350 word document outlining reasons for applying for the EFACIS Scholarship to schreiber@anglistik.uni-siegen.de Criteria for Assessing Postgraduate students for EFACIS Scholarship (only EFACIS members may be considered for the postgraduate scholarship (15 Euro per calendar year) 1. Relevance to conference theme 2. Originality 3. Circumstances of student concerned 4. Standard of academic writing apparent in proposal

Switch: National Culture in the Digital Age CFP - 12-14 October 2012 How will national cultures survive in the digital age? Will they be subsumed in the centripetal pull of global monoculture? Or will counter-currents and hybrid combinations thrive in a transmedia world? 2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of RTÉ TV – Ireland’s public television network charged with broadcasting the nation to itself: ‘a window and mirror to an evolving nation’. This year also sees the end of analogue television transmission in Ireland, marking another milestone in the nation’s switchover to digital. Beyond technological advances, this switch from existing communication models to convergent networks may well have a far-reaching impact on the idea of the nation as a finite and highly centralized construct. Against the backdrop of this transition the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway will hold a three-day conference to explore the impact of digital technologies on national culture in Ireland and elsewhere. A central consideration of this conference will be how changes in communication and creative practices reposition national culture – in its broadest sense - in a digital age. Since its establishment in 2003 the Huston School of Film & Digital Media has been at the forefront of digital media research. In 2006 the school introduced an MA in Digital Media and a symposium on digital narratives was held in 2007. In 2011 the school funded twelve Digital Arts and Humanities PhD students with the Moore Institute. Papers are invited that discuss any aspect of National Culture in the Digital Age, including, but not limited to, the following: A) Convergence Culture Papers are invited that consider how old and new media collide, compete and work together in this era of media and technological convergence. Topics might include digital archives, approaches to the digital humanities, online newspapers, video on demand and ebooks. B) Participation Some see the web as a utopian realisation of the public sphere. Others suggest that it simply mirrors and reinforces real world inequalities. Papers are sought which consider this tension in relation to Ireland in the digital age. Topics might include: Piracy, Globalisation, Cultural Distribution and Access, The Digital Divide, Social Networking, Education, Electronic Tribes and Citizen Journalism. C) Narrative Do the possibilities offered by digital technologies (e.g. remixes, hyperlinks and open world gaming) constitute a shift away from traditional narratives to new forms of storytelling? D) Medium Specificity In an era where technologies convergence and audiences are migratory have the boundaries between unique means of expression (e.g. film, theatre and literature) begun to dissolve? Papers are invited that consider this development in relation to national cultural production. The conference will be held on 12-14 October 2012. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words, an academic bio and contact details to the organisers Liam Burke and Tony Tracy: irishdigitalculture@gmail.com by 4 May 2012. Papers will be 20 minutes and panels will be thematically linked. It is the intention of the organisers to publish an edited collection, which will include articles from this conference.