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SOFEIR–UCC Conference

Ireland and Transnational Solidarities

21–22 March 2025

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday 21 March

8h30–9h00: Registration, Coffees/Teas

Location: Atrium, Ground Floor, The Hub

9h00–9h15: Welcome Address

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

9h15–10h15: Plenary 1: Dónal Hassett (Chair: Laura Kennedy)

“Colonial Complicity and the Limits of Irish Anti-Imperialism: The Scheme to Settle Irish Peasants in

     French Algeria”

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

10h15–10h30: Coffees/Teas

Location: Atrium, Ground Floor, The Hub

10h30–11h30: “Ireland and France: Transnational Nations” Library Exhibition

11h30–13h00: SOFEIR AGM (Dr Dora Allman Room) and Lunch (Atrium from 12h00)

13h00–14h25: Workshops 1 and 2

Workshop 1 – Ireland and France I

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: Jay Roszman

Luke Watson, “International Liberty in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Denis Driscol and the 

     Cork Gazette”

Sylvie Kleinman, “Beyond Bullets?: Rediscovering the Civic Ideologies behind ‘The Year of the

     French’ and the Martial Glory of 1798”

Raphaël Willay, “The 16^th (Irish) and 36^th (Ulster) Divisions in Northern France and the Fabric of

     Transnational Memory”

Workshop 2 – Transnationalising Heaney 

Location: West Wing 9, The Quad

Chair: Adam Hanna

Emer Nolan, “Heaney after 9/11”

Ellen Howley, “Seamus Heaney and French: Solidarity in the Unfamiliar”

Przemyslav Michalski, “Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney: Poetry and Solidarity”

14h30–15h55: Workshops 3 and 4                                                          

Workshop 3 – Ireland and Palestine I

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: Donal Ó Drisceoil

Marie-Violaine Louvet, “Postcolonial Theory and the History of Pro-Palestinian Transnational

     Activism in Ireland”

Adrian Kane, “The Irish Trade Union Movement and Transnational Solidarity”

Ugo Rychman, “Transnational Honeycombs of Irish Surfing”

Workshop 4 – Literary Transnational Solidarity

Location: West Wing 9, The Quad

Chair: Maureen O’Connor

Andrea Zvoníčková, “Between Nations, Between Selves: Memory, Space, and Solidarity in Elizabeth

     Bowen’s The Heat of the Day”

Sarah Levy Volensi, “Solidarity Across Shores: Irish-American Identity and Transnational Connections

     in the McCourtian Narrativies”

Adam Hanna, “Ireland in Yan Ge’s Elsewhere (2023)”

16h00–16h15: Coffee break

16h15–17h40: Workshops 5 and 6

Workshop 5 – Linguistic, Sonic and Ecological Solidarities

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: Catríona Ó Dochartaigh

Kerron Ó Luain, “‘I dTreo an Díchoilínithe’: The History and Future of Transnational Irish-Language

     Activism”

Verena Commins, “Music-making, Irish Language Activism and Transnational Solidarity”

Marion Naugrette-Fournier, “‘The Church of the Love of the World’: Grace Wells’ Transnational Ark

     for Nature”

Workshop 6 – Transnational Nationalisms

Location: West Wing 9, The Quad

Chair: Alexandra Maclennan

Pauline Collombier, “Irish Home Rule as a Transnational Issue: New Zealand Women’s Mobilisation

     (1883-1911)”

Martin O’Donoghue, “From Transnational Solidarity to Postcolonial Prime Ministers: Nehru and de

     Valera as Independent Leaders”

Valérie Morisson, “Eva International: The Irish Biennal as a Lever for Transnational Solidarities”

20h00: Conference dinner (Jacobs on the Mall)

Saturday 22 March

9h00–10h25: Workshops 7, 8 and 9

Workshop 7 – Abolition and Ireland

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: Claire Connolly 

Adrian Mulligan, “The Politics of Identity, Memory and Heritage: Recovering Abolitionist

     Transnational Solidarities on the Island of Ireland”

Joanna Wharton, “‘Mary an African’, Maria Edgeworth, and the Mulloys: Enslaved Subjectivities and

     Landlord-Tenant Relations between Ireland and Jamaica”

Susan Manly, “Maria Edgeworth, Transnational Sympathies, and Abolition”

Workshop 8 – Solidarity of the Stomach

Location: The Shtepps Auditorium, First Floor, The Hub

Chair: Pauline Collombier

Danny Shanahan, “The Hunger Strike in Ireland and India”

Louise Gerbier, “The Irish Campaign ‘Hunger for Justice/Troscadh ar son na Córa’ for Palestine:

     Embodying and Historicising Transnational Solidarity through Hunger Striking”

Paddy Brennan, “The Truly Gaelic Famine: National Chauvinism and Transnational Solidarity in the

     Depiction of Food and Hunger in Contemporary Irish Fiction”

Workshop 9 – Anti-Capital, Anti-Colonial

Location: West Wing 9, The Quad

Chair: Thierry Robin

Michael G. Cronin, “Roger Casement: History, Humanitarianism and Solidarity”

Olivier Coquelin, “Irish Communists and the Comintern (1919-1943): An Uneasy Relationship

Lionel Pilkington, “Speaking Otherwise: Allegory, Irish Theatre and Anti-Colonial Solidarity”

10h30–10h45: Coffee break

Location: Outside Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

10h45–12h15: Workshops 10, 11 and 12

Workshop 10 – Transnationalising Ulster

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: David Fitzgerald

Fabrice Mourlon, “Transnational and Trans-textual Solidarities: The Anarchist Movement in Belfast”

Charlotte Barcat, “The ‘Derry Model: Reframing Derry/Londonderry as an International Model for

     Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building”

Magali Dexpert, “The American Connection and Involvement in the Northern Irish Peace Process”

 Workshop 11 – Transnational Epistemologies

Location: The Shtepps Auditorium, First Floor, The Hub

Chair: Valérie Morisson

Hiram Morgan,“Hugh O’Neill Compared: Historiographies of Resistance”

Alfred Markey, “Tracing Solidarities between Ireland, Equatorial Guinea and Palestine: Sean

     O’Faolain, Donato Ndongo and Edward Said”

Tim Heron/Tadhg Ó hErodáin and Lugh Ó hErodáin, “Healing Ties: Ireland, France, and the

     Transnational Traditions of Herbal Medicine”                       

Workshop 12 – Solidarity of the Body

Location: West Wing 9, The Quad

Chair: Angela Flynn

Sinéad Kennedy: “Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Conceptualising Feminist Solidarities”

Omkolthoum ElSayed ElBadawy, “Transnational Solidarity in Global Healthcare: The Case of Gaza”

12h15–13h15: Lunch

Outside Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

13h15–14h10: Plenary 2: Bahriye Kemal (Chair: Anne Mulhall)

“Postcolonial and Partitioned Displacement: Interdisciplinarity, Co-creation and Solidarity from the

     Balcony of the Mediterranean Sea”

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

14h15–15h40: Workshops 13, 14, and 15

Workshop 13 – Ireland and Palestine II

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: Laurence Davis

Yasmine Zein Al-Abedine, “The Irish Transnational Solidarity with Palestine and Global Governance”

Mark Walsh and John Murray, “Palestine and the International Mathematical Olympiad: Mathematics

     as a Form of Resistance”

Flore Coulouma, “Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Irish Perspectives on the Palestinian Occupied

     Territories”

Workshop 14 – Solidarity with/from Ireland

Location: The Shtepps Auditorium, First Floor, The Hub

Chair: Fabrice Mourlon

Kamel Salmi, “The Great Hunger and the Ottoman Donation: The Story of a Trans-imperial Solidarity”

Evi Gkotzaridis, “Irish Solidarity with Greece during the Bailout Crisis”

Workshop 15 – The US and Ireland

Location: West Wing 9, The Quad

Chair: Lee Jenkins

Chandana Mathur, “The Solidarity of Labour and the Labour of Solidarity: The Mnemonic Significance

     of Irishwoman Mary Harris Jones in the US Heartland Today”

Hope Noonan Stoner, “‘Hymns to the Spirit of Revolution’: Diasporic Irishness and Transnational

     Solidarities in the Modernist Poems of Lola Ridge”

Hafsa Askar, “The Black Panther Party and the Provisional IRA: The Construction of Political and

     Cultural Images of Anti-imperialist Revolutionaries in a Transnational Perspective”

15h45–16h00: Coffee break

Outside Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

16h00–17h25: Workshops 16 and 17

Workshop 16 – Ireland and France II

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

Chair: John Borgonovo

Oliver O’Hanlon, “Étiennette Beuque: Writing for Ireland?”

Claire Dubois, “A French Journalist writes about the Irish Civil War: Andrée Viollis, Transnational

     Feminist Solidarity and Anti-Colonialism”

Kevin Doyle, “French Support for Irish Republicanism during the Northern Ireland Troubles”

Workshop 17 – Institutional and Grassroots International Activism

Location: The Shtepps Auditorium, First Floor, The Hub

Chair: Adrian Kane

Alexandra Maclennan, “Handling the fruits of apartheid”: The Workers, the Diplomats and the

     Transnational Catholic Connection”

Phillippe Brillet, “Is the Catholic Church Still a Key Asset for Ireland in the Field of Transnational

     Solidarities”

Molly-Claire Gillett, “The Irish Countrywomen’s Association and the Associated Countrywomen of

     the World Conference, 1965: Crafting International Cooperation”

17h30–18h30: Poetry Reading: Sarah Clancy (Chair: Liz Quirke)

Location: Dr Dora Allman Room, Fourth Floor, The Hub

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Heather Laird, Hélène Lecossois, Hope Noonan Stoner, Oliver O'Hanlon, Danny Shanahan and Luke Watson

CONFERENCE SPONSORS

Ambassade de France en Irlande; Department of French, UCC; Future Humanities Institute, UCC; School of English and Digital Humanities, UCC; School of History, UCC; G.I.S. Eire; SOFEIR