European Network for Short Fiction Research * Reading Short Fiction in Transnational Contexts * Friday 17th + Saturday 18th April 2015 Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, Ireland FINAL PROGRAMME
TABLE OF CONTENTS Michelle Ryan-Sautour and Gérald Préher Foreword Bertrand Cardin Introduction PART ONE: TRACES OF ORAL TRADITION: VOICES, DIALOGUES AND CONVERSATIONS Marie Mianowski Skipping and Gasping, Sighing and Hoping in Colum McCann’s “Aisling”: The Making of a Poet Catherine Conan Narration as Conversation: Patterns of Community-making in Colm Tóibín’s The Empty Family Eoghan Smith…
Call for Papers Haunting in Short Fiction and Its Adaptations 20-21 November 2015, University of Angers, France (in collaboration with Edge Hill University, University of Leuven, University of Le Mans, and University of Nantes) There is a long tradition of haunting in short fiction, often appearing in the form of ghost stories, folk tales, fairy…
Call For Papers: (Deadline 1 March 2015) Short fiction writers with a theory: re-reading short fiction theory through the lens of new writing and new media 11-12 June 2015, Université Catholique de Lille, France (In collaboration with the University of Angers, France and the European Network for Short Fiction Research) We are all familiar with…
International Conference: Digital Literary Studies Date: May 14-15, 2015 Location: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal ‘Digital Literary Studies’ is an international conference exploring methods, tools, objects and digital practices in the field of literary studies. The digitization of artifacts and literary practices, the adoption of computational methods for aggregating, editing and…