
In-betweenness: interdisciplinary perspectiveson Irish culture
03 avril 2026 · 8h00 – 17h00
JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDES ERIBIA
Guest speakers:
CAROLE JACQUET, Head of Development and Heritage at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
CHRISTOPHE GILLISSEN, Professor in Irish Studies at Université de Caen Normandie
Organising Committee:
Bertrand CARDIN, Sarah LEVY VALENSI, Eva-Elisabeth GALLOT, Andrea ZVONÍČKOVÁ
Programme
8.45 Welcome
9.00 Opening speech by Anne Catherine DE BOUVIER,
Lecturer at Université de Caen Normandie and Assistant Director of the research group ERIBIA (Interdisciplinary group of research on British, American, and Irish studies)
9.15 Carole JACQUET,
Head of Development and Heritage at Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris)
Chair: Bertrand CARDIN.
PANEL 1 (CHAIR: Sarah LEVY-VALENSI)
9.45 Feliks LEVIN, Aarhus University, Denmark
‘Negotiating the Irishness of the Old English in Seventeenth-Century Historical Narratives’
10.05 Peter LINKENS, Mary Immaculate College of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
‘ “The Land of Longing”: C.S. Lewis, Proud Irishman and Loyal King’s Man’
10.25 Questions & Answers
10.35 Coffee break
PANEL 2 (CHAIR: Eva Elisabeth GALLOT)
11.00 Catherine VIGIER, Université de Rouen, France
‘Irish Neutrality, the European Union and the Democratic Process’
11.20 Timothy WHITE, Xavier University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
‘In Between Protestant Dominance and the Narrative of Irish Unification: Stormont’s Role in the Post-Good Friday Agreement Period’
11.40 Questions & Answers
12.30 Lunch at Le Pavillon restaurant
PANEL 3 (CHAIR: Andrea ZVONÍCKOVÁ)
14.00 Fiona McCANN, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
‘Transborder Poetics in James Conor Patterson’s Bandit Country (2022)’
14.20 Marie GEMRICHOVÁ, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
‘Everyday Reconciliation: Cross-Communal Labour in Michelle Gallen’s Factory Girls’
14.40 Questions & Answers
15.00 Coffee break
PANEL 4 (CHAIR: Fiona MCCANN)
15.20 Abdelkader HOMIDA and Miloud HOMIDA,
Ziane Achour University of Djelfa, Algeria
‘Between Exile and Return: Transitional Figures and the Crisis of National Narratives in Anne Enright’s The Green Road’
15.40 Questions & Answers
15.50 Christophe GILLISSEN, Professor at Université de Caen Normandie
Chair: Anne Catherine DE BOUVIER
17.00 End of the conference
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Lieu :
Room Li159, MLI building, Université de Caen Normandie
