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I write to let you know about a 2-day conference entitled “Ireland in the nineteenth century English and Irish novel” which will be held on 12-13 March at the Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate, Università Roma Tre and at the Pontificio Università Irlandese, Roma.
Further information is available from John McCourt: jmccourt@uniroma3.it
Speakers include:
John Wilson Foster (Queen’s University Belfast)
Carla De Petris (Università Roma Tre)
Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)
Donatella Abate Badin (Università di Torino)
Margaret Kelleher (N.U.I. Maynooth)
Francesca Scarpata (Università di Trieste)
Richard Brown (University of Leeds)
John McCourt (Università Roma Tre)
Patrick Lonergan (N.U.I. Galway)
Melissa Fegan (University of Chester)
Maria Paola Guarducci (Università Roma Tre)
Elisabetta d’Erme (Independent Scholar, Trieste)
Bernard O’Donoghue (University of Oxford
Academic Programme
Friday 12 March Sala Ambrogio,
Università Roma Tre
9.30 Official Welcome
Guido Fabiani (Rector, Università Roma Tre)
Monsignor Liam Bergin, Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome
Francesca Cantù (Dean, Faculty of Arts)
Otello Lottini (Head, Department of Comparative Literature)
His Excellency, Mr. Pat Hennessy, Irish Ambassador to Italy
John McCourt (Department of Comparative Literature, Conference convenor)
10.00 John Wilson Foster (Queen’s University Belfast) Victorian Irelands: Fictions and Facts
11.00: Carla De Petris (Università Roma Tre) Women, Servants and West Indians in Edgeworth's Belinda
11.30 Claire Connolly (Cardiff University)'Laid out': Dead-alive states in the nineteenth-century Irish novel
14.00 Donatella Abate Badin (Università di Torino) From Sydney Owenson’s 'The Wild Irish Girl' to Lady Morgan’s 'Italy': Cultural Nationalism and Self-Determination
14.30 Margaret Kelleher (N.U.I. Maynooth)
"Have you Irish?" Sydney Owenson and Bilingual Practice
15.30 Francesca Scarpata (Università di Trieste)
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
16.00 Richard Brown (University of Leeds)
Excitement and Anticipation in Hungerford's Molly Bawn
Saturday 13 March
Pontifical Irish College, Rome
9.45 Official Welcome to the Irish College
10.00 John McCourt (Università Roma Tre)
“Your sowl will howl in hell”: Anthony Trollope and the Irish Catholic Church
11.00 Patrick Lonergan (N.U.I. Galway)
Trollope, Irish Nationalism, and the Map of the European Novel
12.15 Melissa Fegan (University of Chester)
The Irish Prophecy Man: Folklore and Famine in the Novels of William Carleton
14.30 Maria Paola Guarducci (Università Roma Tre) Identity, Otherness and the Empire in W.M. Thackeray's The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon
15.00 Elisabetta d’Erme (Independent Scholar, Trieste)The Dodd Family Abroad: Charles Lever's Europe
15.30 Bernard O’Donoghue (University of Oxford) The Prehistory of the Irish Short Story
16.15 Closing Remarks |