Co-Hosted by the Vienna and EUF Centres for Irish Studies
Registration is now open for an ECTS-accredited week of lectures, seminars, and screenings with internationally renowned Irish studies and cultural theory scholars at the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies!
From the ancient past until the world of today, cultural geography as ‘a sense of place’ plays a decisive role for the (mis-)representation of Irish collective identity. This and related aspects (such as cultural memory, the cultural partition of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, semantic spaces and borderlines analyzed by Juri Lotman, Mikhail Bakhtin’s Chronotope, epic landscape and the (post)modern cityscape; (what belongs in) the literary canon, rhetorical topoi or commonplaces, sustainability studies, postcolonialism and belonging, history, politics, etc.) will be addressed by the invited speakers.
Confirmed Speakers: Ciara Chambers (University College Cork); Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield); Dieter Fuchs (University of Vienna); Tara Giddens (University of Limerick); Barry Monahan (University College Cork); Stephen O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin); Dilek Öztürk (Trinity College Dublin); Ondrej Pilny (Charles University Prague); JT Welsch (University of York); Michelle Witen (Europa-Universität Flensburg); Raphael Zähringer (University of Tübingen).
Accreditation: The Summer School will be accredited according to the ECTS system: 3 ECTS points (attendance) or 5 ECTS points with term paper (to be handed in by 15 September).
Venue: Dept. of English & American Studies, University of Vienna, Hof 8.3, Spitalgasse 2-4, 1090 Vienna
Organisers: Dieter Fuchs & Michelle Witen
Fee: € 100 for access to all talks, seminars, screenings, social events (€ 30 for students who are fully registered at the University of Vienna)
Registration: Email your name and affiliation to dieter.fuchs@univie.ac.at by 1 July 2025.
