Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures
23–25 November 2023
Kiel University
Cover Photo: Shawn Harquail · CC BY-NC 2.0 · flic.kr/p/28NE3Nz
Call for Papers
Irish history and culture have long been influenced by the presence of British settlers, landowners and rulers. Considered by some as Britain’s oldest colony, the exploitation of Irish labour and Irish land, the introduction of English language and English law, but also the creation of a joined market for arts and literature have transformed life on the island of Ireland. However, Irish people and Irish culture also shaped Britain in major ways: Irish monks Christianized their neighbouring island, Irish workers were central to the building of canals, docks and railways, Irish nurses staffed the NHS, and without Irish immigration there would have been no Beatles and no Kate Bush – and Chloe Kelly wouldn’t have scored that goal against Germany in EURO 2022. In recent years, Brexit and the ongoing disputes about its implementation have highlighted once again how intricately connected…
Conference Programme
All schedules use Central European Time (CET, GMT+1).
Thursday, 23 Nov | Session |
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1–3 pm | Board meeting |
3:30–4:30 pm | Postgrad Forum Paper 1 & 2 |
4:30–5 pm | Coffee Break |
5–6 pm | Postgrad Forum Paper 3 & 4 |
6:15–7:15 pm | Keynote 1 Jennifer Redmond: Filling the Gap: the Irish in Britain in the Twentieth Century |
from 7:30 pm | Conference Warming |
Friday, 24 Nov | Session |
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10–11 am | Panel 1: Struggles in Education Jessica Bundschuh and Selina Scholz (Stuttgart): Displacing the Irish?: The A-Levels as a Window into the (Post-Brexit) British Psyche Frauke Hoffmeister (Leipzig): No Green in the Curriculum – The Absence of the Irish in Recent History Curricula and Textbooks in England, Scotland and Wales |
11–11:30 am | Coffee break |
11:30–12:30 pm | Panel 2: Literary Markets Dilâra Yilmaz (Kiel): No Britain, no Bestsellers? The Market Dominance of British Publishers and the BBC over Contemporary Irish Novels (and their TV Adaptations) Melissa Sarikaya (Erlangen): Of Angels and Maidens: May Probyn’s Success in the Irish Press |
12:30–2:30 pm | Lunch break and JSBC editorial meeting |
2:30–3:30 | Panel 3: Celts across the Sea Rita Singer (Aberystwyth): Take the Boat: Cultural Connections across the Irish Sea Adam Coward (Independent): Estates across the Irish Sea: Negotiating Hiberno-Welsh Identities, the Marquesses of Londonderry and the Earls of Dunraven |
3:30–4:30 pm | Panel 4: the Irish question Michelle Witen (Flensburg): The Irish Vampire: Dracula and Punch Franes Neilson (Belfast): [Northern Ireland] was just never seen as a top-tier issue: Contextualising the Conservative ‘Blind Spot’ to Northern Ireland prior to the 2016 Brexit Referendum |
4:30–5 pm | Coffee break |
5–6 pm | Key Note 2: Patrick Elevin: A Detail Where You’re Born |
6–7:30 pm | Mitgliederversammlung |
from 8 pm | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 25 Nov | Session |
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10–11 am | Panel 5: Screen Irish Sarah Heinz (Vienna): Bride and Prejudice: Representing Irish Traveller Communities in Britain in Channel 4’s My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Melissa Schuh (Kiel): Seriality, Adaptation, and Representation: Sally Rooney’s Normal People |
11–11:30 am | Coffee break and BritCult Arbeitskreis Meeting |
11:30–12:30 am | Panel 6: Irishness Göran Wolf (Göttingen): Football in-between Islands Dennis Henneböhl (Erlangen): Metaphorizing Irish and British Intra-Relations in Audrey Magee’s The Colony |
12:30 am | Concluding remarks and conference closing |
Keynotes
Jennifer Redmond
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Jessica Bundschuh and Selina Scholz
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Frauke Hoffmeister
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Dilâra Yilmaz
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Melissa Sarikaya
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Rita Singer
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Adam Coward
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Michelle Witen
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Franes Neilson
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Patrick Elevin
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Sarah Heinz
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Melissa Schuh
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Göran Wolf
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Dennis Henneböhl
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Travel and Accommodation
Venue
Wissenschaftszentrum
Fraunhoferstraße 13
24118 Kiel
How to get to the venue
Starting point: Kiel Main Station
Via: Bus 91
Time: 20 mins
Starting from main station:
Starting point: Kiel Main Station
Via: Bus 60S (only Mon-Fri)
Time: 20 mins
Starting from main station:
Starting point: Kiel Main Station
Via: by foot
Time: 47 mins
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How to get to the conference warming
Starting point: Wissenschaftszentrum
Via: bus
Time: 20 mins
Starting from Wissenschaftszentrum:
How to get to the conference dinner
Accommodation
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Contact
Prof. Dr. Christian Huck
Victoria Allen
Englisches Seminar der CAU
Olshausenstraße 40
24098 Kiel
britcult2023@anglistik.uni-kiel.de