Annual conference of the Société Française d'Etudes Irlandaises: Ireland and Transnational Solidarities (University College Cork, Ireland)
21-22 Mar 2025 Cork (Ireland)

WELCOME!

Welcome to the website for the 2025 CFP SOFEIR Conference with the theme of "Solidarities".

This website will be used to host all the information related to the conference. Please continue to refer back to it for more information to come!

 

Concerning the theme

Following Ireland’s formal recognition of Palestine as a sovereign and independent state in May 2024, the 2025 SOFEIR-University College Cork Conference is bringing together over fifty researchers from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to consider transnational solidarities in the Irish context.

 

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Keynote Speakers

Plenary Speaker: Professor Dónal Hassett, Maynooth University. Dónal's scholarly interests include analysing Ireland's place in colonial history and thinking comparatively across colonial contexts.

Plenary Speaker: Dr Bahriye Kemal, University of Kent. Bahriye's scholarly interests include partition studies, spatial studies, migration and displacement, and solidarity and activism.

Poetry Reading: Sarah Clancy (Irish poet, community worker and activist). As an activist, Sarah has taken part in an ongoing campaign to end Direct Provision. Her activism informs her creative practice, with social justice a key theme of her poetry.

 

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