A Symposium of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project

Over the Irish Sea

April 26th-27th 2012, University College Dublin

Keynote SpeakersProfessor 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)

‰Û÷Over the Irish Sea’ is a symposium organised to sharenew research about literary conceptions of, and crossings of,the Irish Sea in the modern period in Irish, English, Welsh, andScottish literatures.

The symposium will reflect on contemporaryarchipelagic and maritime methodologies in literary and cultural studies, and examine howsuch 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 ‰Û÷Over 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).