Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has experienced significant socioeconomic changes that have greatly affected its culture and literary production: from its years of prosperity as the Celtic Tiger (1995~2008) to its years of recession with the Eurozone Crisis (2008~2015), and then, from its years of recovery like the Celtic Phoenix (2015) to the current years of paralysis caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic (2020), the country has been offering us works that show us how social tensions , political and economic aspects do affect a people's culture and their perception of themselves through their artistic creations.
Irish Studies have been committed to clarifying such changes and their impacts on these creations, which can be seen in the increasing volume of research on themes and problems related to the period in question. Most of this research, however, is still conducted from European and North American perspectives - "northcentric" perspectives -, even though Irish culture has expanded to other continents and countries through the most diverse means.
Aware of these new trends but also of the centrality of these old perspectives in investigations into Irish culture, the W.B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies will organize in the context of the 7th EPOGELLI an Irish Studies Colloquium dedicated to disseminating new research on such trends from perspectives of the Global South and subalterns in a broad sense - perspectives, therefore, "sulcentric".
Topics of interest involve:
- The influence of recent socioeconomic changes on:
- Irish cultural production
- The creation of new narratives about Irish society
- The emergence of new social types and new characters in Irish narratives
- The configuration of new aesthetics in Irish arts
- Irish critical thinking
- Southern and subaltern perspectives on:
- The Irish colonial past and recent socioeconomic changes in the country
- Migratory and diasporic processes related to Irish society and culture
- The presence of minorities in the Irish arts and cultural scene
- Canonical authors and works of Irish culture
- Irish critical thinking
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