The Irish College was established in Leuven in 1607 when Florence Conry obtained permission from King Philip III of Spain to establish an Irish Franciscan college in Leuen. At that time, Leuven was part of the Spanish Lowlands. The city was chosen in order to give access to the renowned Catholic University of Leuven, which at the time was considered to be one of the most important seats of learning in Europe. It was one of about 34 colleges which were established right across Europe – always in close proximity to an important university.
Throughout the 17th century, the college was renowned as a centre for academic excellence. A school of history and hagiography was established, which resulted in many important literary works. One of the most renowned works for which the College was responsible was the "Annals of the Four Masters." This was a history of Ireland from its first recorded occupation by mankind and was based on original manuscripts, which had been handed down through generations. It was in the Irish College that the font for the printing of Irish was developed which set a standard for Irish printing for 350 years. In addition, the first dictionary in Irish was compiled and important work was undertaken to rationalise Irish grammar.
In 1968 the university split to form two institutions: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dutch-speaking, situated in Leuven; and Universite catholique de Louvain, French-speaking, situated in nearby Louvain-la-Neuve, in Wallonia. Throughout its long history dating back to the 15th century, 'Louvain', as it is still often called, has always been a major contributor to the development of Catholic theology. With 36,923 students in 2009–2010, the K.U. Leuven is the largest university in Belgium and the Low Countries. The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven also has a campus at Kortrijk, formerly known as Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Afdeling Kortrijk (KULAK). The university now also offers several programs in English.
Irish College or The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is located at Janseniusstraat 1B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS), officially launched on the 22nd of March 2010, is a multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. It is the result of close cooperation between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe. (Extracted from the official site of The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe and the site of "Wikipedia")
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17.00: Official opening of the conference by H.E. TOM HANNEY, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland; H.E. JONATHAN BRENTON, Ambassador of the United Kingdom; PROF. DR. MARK WAER, Rector of the KU Leuven; CAROLINE NASH, Director of the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe; PROF. DR. HEDWIG SCHWALL, Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
17.30: Keynote lecture by MARGARET HARPER (University of Limerick): "The clock has run down and must be wound up again’: Yeats's Violent Vision (Chair: Elke D'hoker)
19.00: Reception
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parallel panel sessions
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Land War Fiction I (Chair: Margaret Kelleher) (L1 standing) [Auditorium]
- JAMES H. MURPHY (DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO) (R1): Frenzied form: the Land-War novel
- DEREK HAND (ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE, DUBLIN) (R2): Responses to the Land War in A Drama in Muslin
- TINA O'TOOLE (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK) (L2): The New Woman and the Land War
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Land War Fiction I (Chair: Margaret Kelleher) [Auditorium]
- TINA O'TOOLE (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK) : The New Woman and the Land War
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Politics and Literature [CR 3]
- RADVAN MARKUS (CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE): Ironic Myths and Broken Images - Literary 'Resolutions' of 1798
- FREDERIK VAN DAM (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN): Nationalism versus Liberalism: Anthony Trollope on Home Rule and Abandonment
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Politics and Literature [CR 3]
- RADVAN MARKUS (CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE): Ironic Myths and Broken Images - Literary 'Resolutions' of 1798
- FREDERIK VAN DAM (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN): Nationalism versus Liberalism: Anthony Trollope on Home Rule and Abandonment
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Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica) (middle) [CR 3]
- EISHIRO ITO (IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY) (right)): "A Suave Philosophy": Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce's Works
- IRENA GRUBICA (UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA): Counter Memory in Brian Friel's Plays: Conflicting Identities and History-Making
- BRITTA OLINDER (UNIVERSITY OF GOTEBORG) (left): Friends and Enemies: Conflicts and Resolutions in John Hewitt's Work and Career
Photo by Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul)
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Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica) [CR 3]
- EISHIRO ITO (IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY): "A Suave Philosophy": Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce's Works
Photo by Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul)
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Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica) [CR 3]
- EISHIRO ITO (IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY): "A Suave Philosophy": Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce's Works
Photo by Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul)
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Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica) [CR 3]
- IRENA GRUBICA (UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA): Counter Memory in Brian Friel's Plays: Conflicting Identities and History-Making
Photo by Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul)
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Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica) [CR 3]
- BRITTA OLINDER (UNIVERSITY OF GOTEBORG): Friends and Enemies: Conflicts and Resolutions in John Hewitt's Work and Career
Photo by Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul)
18.30: Refreshments with carillon music - Venue: Central Library
Poetry reading by MARY O'MALLEY - Venue: Central Library (Reading Room)
20.00: Reception hosted by the Irish embassy - Venue: Central Library, Ladeuzeplein 21
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Beckett on Conflict [Green Room]
- KAZUHIRO DOKI (AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION) (left): Belacqua's Painful Case in More Pricks Than Kicks
- AHMED GAMAL (AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY) (rlght): Eastern Thought in Beckett’s Trilogy: A Postcolonial Reading
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Translation of Conflict: Comparison of Cultures (Chair: Britta Olinder) (right 1) [Green Room]
- YI-LING YANG (NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN) (left 2)): Languages in Collision? Translation Writing in Ulysses and Rose, Rose, I Love You
- MELANIE WHITE (PAUL VERLAINE UNIVERSITY, METZ) (right 2): Finding peaceful alternatives through the renewal of classical myth in the poetry of Michael Longley and Derek Mahon
- YOUNGMIN KIM (DONGGUK UNIVERSITY SEOUL) (left 1): Transnational Cultural Contamination: The Poetries of Yeats, Bennett, Cha, and Martinez
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Translation of Conflict: Comparison of Cultures (Chair: Britta Olinder) [Green Room]
- YI-LING YANG (NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN) (middle): Languages in Collision? Translation Writing in Ulysses and Rose, Rose, I Love You
- MELANIE WHITE (PAUL VERLAINE UNIVERSITY, METZ) (right): Finding peaceful alternatives through the renewal of classical myth in the poetry of Michael Longley and Derek Mahon
- YOUNGMIN KIM (DONGGUK UNIVERSITY SEOUL) (left): Transnational Cultural Contamination: The Poetries of Yeats, Bennett, Cha, and Martinez
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Translation of Conflict: Comparison of Cultures (Chair: Britta Olinder) [Green Room]
- YOUNGMIN KIM (DONGGUK UNIVERSITY SEOUL) (speaking): Transnational Cultural Contamination: The Poetries of Yeats, Bennett, Cha, and Martinez
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18-19th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphael Ingelbien) [Green Room]
- RIANA O'DWYER (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IRELAND, GALWAY): Conflict and Resolution in Lady Morgan's Woman; or, Ida of Athens (1809)
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18-19th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphael Ingelbien) [Green Room]
- TETSUKO NAKAMURA (NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL): Travel Accounts of Connemara and Joyce Country in the 1830s
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18-19th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphael Ingelbien) [Green Room]
- CHRISTINA MORIN (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) (left): "Attractive Chivalric Fantasies?": Conflict in and about Early Irish Gothic Fiction
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18-19th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphael Ingelbien) [Green Room]
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18-19th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphael Ingelbien) (left 1) [Green Room]
- CHRISTINA MORIN (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) (left 2): "Attractive Chivalric Fantasies?": Conflict in and about Early Irish Gothic Fiction
- TETSUKO NAKAMURA (NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL) (right 2): Travel Accounts of Connemara and Joyce Country in the 1830s
- RIANA O'DWYER (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IRELAND, GALWAY) (right 1): Conflict and Resolution in Lady Morgan's Woman; or, Ida of Athens (1809)
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty)
- PHILIP KEEL GEHEBER (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Mythologically Modern Joyce
- WERNER HUBER (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA): Intermedial Conflicts: Ulysses and High-Pop
- NADIA KHALAF (AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, CAIRO): A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict and Resolution in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Taha Hussein's The Days
- ANTHONY LAKE (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AMMAN): Comedy and Conflict resolution in Ulysses
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty)
- WERNER HUBER (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA): Intermedial Conflicts: Ulysses and High-Pop
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty)
- NADIA KHALAF (AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, CAIRO): A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict and Resolution in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Taha Hussein's The Days
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty)
- ANTHONY LAKE (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AMMAN): Comedy and Conflict resolution in Ulysses
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty) (standing)
- PHILIP KEEL GEHEBER (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) (right 2): Mythologically Modern Joyce
- WERNER HUBER (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA) (left 1): Intermedial Conflicts: Ulysses and High-Pop
- NADIA KHALAF (AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, CAIRO) (right 1): A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict and Resolution in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Taha Hussein's The Days
- ANTHONY LAKE (NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AMMAN) (left 2): Comedy and Conflict resolution in Ulysses
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty)
- PHILIP KEEL GEHEBER (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN): Mythologically Modern Joyce
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Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty) (standing right)
- NADIA KHALAF (AL-AZHAR UNIVERSITY, CAIRO) (left): A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict and Resolution in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Taha Hussein's The Days
Concert by DAIRE HALPIN (SOPRANO) AND SERGEY RYBIN (PIANO): The Other Woman
Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula, De Beriotstraat 24
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Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula
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Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula
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Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula
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Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula
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Textual Conflict in the Work of Women Writers (Chair: Danielle O'Leary) (left 1)
- GIOVANNA TALLONE (UNIVERSITY OF MILAN) (right 1): Conflicts of Alternative Texts. Mary O'Donnell Rewrites Mary Lavin's "The Widow's Son"
- YU-CHEN LIN (NATIONAL SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN) (right 2): Gift Economy in Mary Gordon's Spending
- SIEN DELTOUR (UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN) (left 2): Themes and Tropes in Vona Groarke's Spindrift
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Contemporary Women Poets (Chair: Pilar Villar Argaiz) (right 1)
- NOAKO TORAIWA (UNIVERSITY OF MEIJI, TOKYO) (right 2): "Yet something strange will stay": Sinead Morrissey's search for cures in foreignness
- MICHAELA SCHRAGE-FRUH (UNVERSITY OF MAINZ, GERMANY) (left 2): Dreams of Conflict and Healing in Paula Meehan's Poetry
- GISELE GIANDONI WOLKOFF (UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA) (left 1): Deterritorializing selves: Sinead Morrissey and Rita Ann Higgins, in comparison
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Contemporary Women Poets (Chair: Pilar Villar Argaiz)
- NOAKO TORAIWA (UNIVERSITY OF MEIJI, TOKYO) (right): "Yet something strange will stay": Sinead Morrissey's search for cures in foreignness
- MICHAELA SCHRAGE-FRÜH (UNVERSITY OF MAINZ, GERMANY) (middle): Dreams of Conflict and Healing in Paula Meehan's Poetry
- GISELE GIANDONI WOLKOFF (UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA) (left): Deterritorializing selves: Sinead Morrissey and Rita Ann Higgins, in comparison
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Conference Banquet at Salons Georges, Hogeschoolplein 15 - 3000 - Leuven
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