Annual conference of the Société Française d'Etudes Irlandaises: Migration in the Irish Context
21-22 Mar 2024 Université Grenoble Alpes: St Martin D'Hères (France)

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

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08:15 - 08:45 Welcome - Salle de convivialité: Groundfloor (rez-de-chaussée) 014  
08:45 - 09:00 Symposium Opening: with the Consulate General of Ireland, Ciara de Mora, Hélène Lecossois, president of SOFEIR, andRaúl Caplan, Directeur of l’ILCEA4 - Ampitheatre  
09:00 - 10:00 KEYNOTE “Immigration and the Unsettlement of Irish Identity: Reflections on Irish Studies in a Diverse Republic" (Salle 211) - Bryan Fanning  
09:55 - 10:00 SESSION Emigration from Ireland - Moderator: Fabrice Mourlon  
10:00 - 10:20 “Artistic exchanges in historical perspective: Towards a postcolonial cartography?” (Salle 211) - Valérie Morrison  
10:20 - 10:40 "Irish emigration according to British archives: An analysis of the representation of the Irish population in England between 1921 and 1937 in the Archives Nationales." (Salle 211) - Kamel Salmi  
10:40 - 11:00 “The strange case of Frank Byrne, an Invisible in France” (Salle 211) - Frank Rynne  
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break ( Salle de convivialité: rdc 014)  
11:10 - 11:15 SESSION Female Emigration - Moderator: Nadine André  
11:15 - 11:35 “An Irish Jacobite migrant’s journey from poverty to Princess” (Salle 211) - Ciaran Farrell  
11:35 - 11:55 “Thorns in the sides of hundreds of Protestant husbands” : The emigration of Irish female Orphans to the Australian Colonies and the Earl Grey Scheme controversy (1848-1850)” (Salle 211) - Véronique Molinari  
11:50 - 11:55 SESSION: Poetry - Modérateur: Cyril Besson  
11:55 - 12:15 ‘This road is not new’: Early Modern Poethics of Migration in John Montague and Michael Hartnett (Salle 211) - Pádraic Lamb  
12:15 - 12:45 Records of migration in Vona Groarke’s Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara (2022) (Salle 211) - Virginia Trachsler  
12:45 - 14:00 Buffet ( Salle de convivialité: rdc 014)  
14:00 - 15:00 KEYNOTE: “Ireland and the Caribbean: Curating Histories of Colonialism at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum” (Amphithéâtre) - Catherine Healy  
14:55 - 15:00 SESSION: Legal - Panel: Migrants and Migration on the island of Ireland before and after Brexit - Moderator: Pauline Collombier  
15:00 - 15:20 PANEL: “Migration to Ireland: A Legal Perspective” (Salle 211) - Oana Andreea Macovei, European School of Law, Université Toulouse Capitole  
15:20 - 15:40 PANEL: “The Common Travel Area: A Common Migration Policy?” (Salle 211) - Charlotte Rault, European School of Law, Université Toulouse Capitole  
15:40 - 16:15 PANEL: “Migration on the Island of Ireland after Brexit: How Soft is the Irish Border?” (Salle 211) - Chiosáin Ní, Bairbre European School of Law, Université Toulouse Capitole  
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break ( Salle de convivialité: rdc 014)  
16:25 - 16:30 SESSION: Literature - Moderator: Sylvie Mikowski  
16:30 - 16:50 Relocating London as a transient space: Keith Ridgway’s Hawthorn & Child (2012) and A Shock (2021) (Salle 211) - Fiona McCann  
16:50 - 17:10 Questions of Identity and Belonging: Journeys of Northern Irish Characters Moving within the Anglophone World in Nick Laird’s Novels (Salle 211) - Marie Gemrichova  
17:10 - 17:30 Another Break in the Wall: Hugo Hamilton and the Berlin Wall in his transnational fiction (Salle 211) - Audrey Robitaille  
17:30 - 17:50 "Shovel or shite, shite or bust": Fictional Representations of Irish and Algerian emigrants to England and France (Salle 211) - Eamon Maher  
17:50 - 18:00 General Meeting for SOFEIR: Salle de réunion 002  
20:30 - 23:00 Gala Dinner: Restaurant l’Epicurien, Place aux Herbes, Grenoble  

Friday, March 22, 2024

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08:30 - 09:00 Welcome Coffee  
09:00 - 10:00 KEYNOTE: Objects in left-behind homes: Understanding material belonging in migration narratives (Amphithéâtre) - Mastoureh Fathi  
09:55 - 10:00 SESSION Emigration to Ireland - Moderator: Nathalie Sebbane  
10:00 - 10:20 Voices from the Margins: Unravelling the Reality of Direct Provision (Salle 211) - Saidhbhín Ní Gheallabhán  
10:20 - 10:40 Migrations and primary schooling in the Republic of Ireland: potential and limitations of school choice (Salle 211) - Patricia Fournier-Noel  
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break ( Salle de convivialité: rdc 014)  
11:00 - 11:00 SESSION Translating Refuge - Moderator: Jessica Small, doctorate, ILCEA4, Université Grenoble Alpes  
11:00 - 11:40 Writing and translating This Hostel Life: Unravelling (hi)stories of migration (Salle 211) - Melatu Uche Okorie (author of "This Hostel Life") and Marie Mianowski (translator of "This Hostel Life")  
11:40 - 12:00 “The kin’ English dey speak, me I don’t understand at all”: Investigating the linguistic, stylistic and literary stakes of non-standard language in Melatu Uche Okorie’s This Hostel Life (2018) (Salle 211) - Léa Biochard  
12:20 - 12:45 “When travelling…”: Migration as Translation in Yan Ge’s "Elsewhere" (Salle 211) - Léa Sinoimeri  
12:45 - 14:00 Buffet ( Salle de convivialité: rdc 014)  
13:55 - 14:00 SESSION Material and ideological migrations - Moderator: Alexandra Maclennan  
14:00 - 14:20 "The Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (1958-1965): Migration in the fight against nuclear weapons and the specificities of the Irish context (Salle 211) - Marie-Violaine Louvet  
14:20 - 14:40 “The roots/routes of the shamrock (Salle 211) - McCartan Brancaz  
14:40 - 15:00 “Margaret Buckley’s Jangle of the Keys: women’s political imprisonment as a call to action (Salle 211) - Claire Dubois  
15:00 - 15:20 Irish Textiles, Irish Texts: What poetry can tell us about Ireland's textile industry (Salle 211) - Shirin Jindani  
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break ( Salle de convivialité: rdc 014)  
15:50 - 16:10 Moving through Emotions: Movement and Migration in Recent Irish Fiction (Salle 211) - Nathalie Lamprecht  
15:50 - 15:50 SESSION: Literature - Moderator: Tom Heron  
16:10 - 16:20 Power and powerlessness: narratives of young female asylum seekers in recent Irish YA novels (Salle 211) - Helen Penet  
16:20 - 16:30 Symposium Closing  
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