Irish Writers and French Connections
July 21 and 22, 2023
University of Chicago Center in Paris, 6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris
An international colloquium co-organized by James Chandler (University of Chicago),
Carle Bonafous-Murat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
and Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame)
Friday July 21, 2023
9:15: Coffee
9:45: Welcome and Introduction
10:00: Tom Bartlett (University of Aberdeen),
« Theobald Wolfe Tone: a revolutionary on tour »
11:00: Claire Connolly (University College Cork),
« Remarkables and Agreeables: Maria Edgeworth in Paris »
12:00: James Chandler (University of Chicago),
« Edgeworth, Staël, and the Novel of Sensibility »
13:00: Lunch Break
14:30: Noreen Doody (Dublin City University),
« “Français de sympathie": cultural kinship, artistic influence and Oscar Wilde »
15:30: Declan Kiberd (University of Notre Dame),
« Synge, pas singe: Synge and Paris »
16:30: Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley),
« Synge, Baudelaire, and Republicanism: Comedy and Violence
Saturday July 22, 2023
8:30: Coffee
9:00: Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth),
« “In gay Paree he hides”: James Joyce, Paris and the Irish Revolution »
10:00: Alexandra Poulain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle),
« Sean O’Casey and the French stage »
11:00: Clair Wills (Cambridge University),
« “Paris? I thought of girls and sin at once.” The idea of France in mid-century Irish fiction »
12:00: Lunch Break
13:30: Carle Bonafous-Murat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle),
« “La parfaite (in)conséquence du personnage”: Balzac, Gide, and Beckett »
14:30: Marjorie Colin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle),
« Pour une réception populaire du théâtre beckettien »
15:30: Cliona Ni Riordain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle),
« Maylis Besserie’s Irish Trilogy: Voicing Ireland in France »