Over the Irish Sea – April 26-27, 2012, UCD

Over the Irish Sea A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project April 26th-27th 2012, University College Dublin Keynote Speakers Professor Margaret Cohen (Stanford University), author of The Novel and the Sea (2010) Sponsored by the Moore Institute, NUI Galway Professor Claire Connolly (Cardiff University), author of A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (2011) äóÖOver the Irish Sea’ is a symposium organised to share new research about literary conceptions of, and crossings of, the Irish Sea in the modern period in Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish literatures. The symposium will reflect on contemporary archipelagic and maritime methodologies in literary and cultural studies, and examine how such methodologies might re-orient and re-shape studies of the literatures of the British and Irish Isles. Further details of the symposium can be found at www.overtheirishsea.org Places at the symposium are limited, so please contact the organiser to register your interest in attending (email: john.brannigan@ucd.ie) as soon as possible. Registration is required for attendance. The äóÖOver the Irish Sea’ symposium is supported by UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies, UCD School of English, Drama and Film, UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, NUI Galway Moore Institute, and the University of Exeter. It is part of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project (AARP).