Past Academic Events
Past Academic Events
The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies recently organized the following events:
Lecture: ‘The Public Secret’: Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005)
by Prof. Dr. Robert Eaglestone (University of London, Royal Holloway; Holocaust Research Center)
Date: November 30, 2011
Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, K.U.Leuven
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Abstract: Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that the term ‘trauma’ is overused. Caruth reminds us that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself, or the distortion of the event in memory but “consists, rather, solely, in the structure of its experience or reception: the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the time, but only belatedly, in its repeated possession of the one who experiences it”. This paper explores the way that these ‘structures of trauma’ extend beyond ‘trauma’ proper into an array of other discourses.
Please notify us of your presence at reception@leuveninstitute.eu
Workshop on Economic History of Globalization
Date: October 20-21, 2011
Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, K.U.Leuven
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, the Institute for Economic and Social History (University of Münster), the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) and University College Brussels (H.U.Brussel)
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard University and University of Wisconsin), Prof. Dr. Cormac O’Grada (University College Dublin), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Herman Van der Wee (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Programme: click here
Contact: jan.vanhove@econ.kuleuven.be
IASIL-Conference on Conflict and Resolution in Irish Literatures
Date: July 18-22, 2011
Location: Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe (the Irish College)
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Keynote Speakers: Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool), Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair & Head of Research, University of Limerick), Eamonn Hughes (Queen’s Belfast) and Pádraig O’Machain (School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
Other events: Reading by Seamus Deane, Poetry reading by Mary O'Malley, Concert "The Other Woman", by Daire Halpin and Sergey Rybin
Programme: click here
Workshop on Recent Issues in European Economic Integration and EU Enlargement
Date: June 23-24, 2011
Location: University College Brussels (H.U.Brussel)
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) and University College Brussels (H.U.Brussel)
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of the University of Geneva), Dr. Jarko Fidrmuc (National Bank of Austria)
Programme (final version): click here
Contact: jan.vanhove@econ.kuleuven.be
Ph.D. colloquium in cooperation with the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Lille 3
Date: June 22-23, 2011
Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Lecture by Clare O'Halloran (University College Cork) on Better without the ladies: Women and the Royal Irish Academy, 1785-1985
Date: March 9, 2011 (5 PM)
Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
More information: click here
Lecture by Prof.dr. Werner Huber (Universität Wien) on Trauma on the Irish Screen
Date: March 2, 2011 (8.30 PM)
Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
More information: click here
Workshop on Recent Issues in Economic Geography
Date: December 2-3, 2010
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and the International Network for Economic Research (INFER)
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Ron Davies (University College Dublin), Prof. Dr. Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne)
Final Programme: click here
Contact: jan.vanhove@econ.kuleuven.be, karolien.debruyne@econ.kuleuven.be or karen.crabbe@econ.kuleuven.be
Workshop on The Nobility in its Attitude to Boundaries in the Cases of England/Ireland and the Low Countries/France in the Early Modern Period
Date: October 29, 2010
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer
Research Forum on Innovation and Valorization: Bridges between Universities and Business
Date: October 21-22, 2010
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Koenraad Debackere (K.U.Leuven), Prof. Dr. Reinhilde Veugelers (K.U.Leuven, CEPR and Bruegel)
Ph.D. Seminar in Irish Studies
Date: September 6th-10th, 2010
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies in cooperation with EFACIS and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe
More Information and Call for papers: download here
Contact: hedwig.schwall@arts.kuleuven.be or elke.dhoker@arts.kuleuven.be
Workshop on Trauma and Transformation
Date: March 11, 2010
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation (David Bolton and Barney Devine)
Official Opening of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Date: March 22, 2010
Location: Irish College
The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies has been operational for about one year. The official opening of the Centre will take place on March 22, 2010. Detailed information can be found here.
Official Visit and Presentation of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies in Dublin
Date: August 31 - September 1, 2009
Lecture by Prof. Dr. John McCourt
Date: May 26, 2009
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Contents: Lecture about the Irish reactions to Joyce and his works. The speaker will trace the process in which Joyce went from being seens almsot as the "anti-Christ" to becoming a convenient symbol of a new, more European nation.
Erfgoeddag
Date: April 26, 2009
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
Contents: Jan Roegiers gave a lecture on "The Friendship between the Irish and the Flemish: The College of the Irish Franciscans from 1544 to 2009". Unfortunately, Dr. Jan Parmentier’s planned talk on “The Influence of Irish Merchants on City Life in Ghent and Ostend in the Seventeenth Century" had to be postponed to next year. These talks are in Dutch, but the speakers will also answer questions in English.
International Economics-Business Workshop on Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis: Causes, impact and Solutions
Date: January 22-24, 2009
Location: Irish College
Organisation: Centre for Irish Studies in cooperation with the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) and the Department of Economics, University College Cork
Keynote speakers: Prof. Dr. John McHale (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Dr. Paul van den Noord (European Commission - DG ECFIN)
