> UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK
> Centre for Irish-German Studies
>
> 3rd Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies
> 3. Limericker Konferenz
> für deutsch-irische Studien
>
> Ireland and the German-speaking countries
>
> Irish-Austrian and Irish-Swiss
> Relations and Questions of Identity in Austria and Switzerland
>
>
> 4. - 6. April 2002
>
>
> Programme
>
> Thursday 4.4.2002
> 3pm Conference Registration, Plassey House, University of Limerick
> 4pm Opening of Exhibitions & Wine Reception
> * Rene Böll
> * Abroad in Austria
> * Ruth Lockhart
>
> 5pm Official opening of the conference
> Dr. Roger Downer, President of the University of Limerick
>
> 5.15-6pm Prof. Dr. Joep Leerssen (Amsterdam)- Questions of cultural
> identity
>
> 6 - 7pm Session 1A Wood Room
> Dr. Ulrike Spring (Wien) - Dúchas / Kulturgut - nationale Interpretationen
> eines globalen Phänomens
> Nicola Drücker (Cork) - Irish and Alpine encounters - Tours and travels in
> 1877 and 1902
>
> 6 - 7pm Session 1B Board Room
> Catherine Spencer (Dublin) - The Discursive Construction of Austrian
> Identity from 1945 onwards
> Dr. Declan Downey (Dublin) - Assimilation and Identity: Irish emigres in
> the Austrian Habsburg Hausmacht
>
> 7.30 pm dinner White House
>
> 9pm Music programme
> Maya Homburger & Barry Guy
>
> Friday 5.4.2002
>
> 9.15-10am Prof. Dr. Werner Welzig (Wien) - Woran ist Österreich erkennbar?
>
> 10-11am Session 2A
> Dr. Hermann Rasche (Galway) - Joyce unterwegs: Austria / Helvetia
> Audrey Hartford (Oxford) - Notions of Austrian identity in Hermann Bahr's
> work
>
> 10-11am Session 2B
> Victoria Martin (Oxford) - Language and Identity in Austria and Ireland
> Prof. Ingrid Kurz & Dr. Birgit Strolz (Wien) - Österreichisches Deutsch -
> Linguistische Fragen
>
> 11-11.30 coffee/tea
>
> 11.30-12.15 noon Dr. Beatrice von Matt (Zürich) -Nationale Identität als
> poetisches Projekt - Mit einem Seitenblick auf die Schweizerische
> Landesausstellung Expo 02
>
> 12.15-1.15pm Session 3A
> Prof. Ernest W.B. Hess-Lüttich (Bern) - Vaterländer? Muttersprachen?
> Alpine Identitäten am Rande: Frank, Geiser, Schwab & Winkler
> Oliver Spitz (Exeter) - Rot, Weiß, Rot - der Dramatiker Werner Schwab als
> österreichischer Provokateur?
>
> 12.15-1.15pm Session 3B
> Dr. Veronica O'Regan (Limerick) - Northern Ireland in the Swiss media
> Annemarie Lysaght (Maynooth) - (Stereotypical) Representations of Austria
> and Switzerland in textbooks for second-level learners of German in
> Ireland
>
> 1.15-2.15 Lunch
>
> 2.15-3pm Dr. Rudolf Agstner (Wien)- History of Consular and Diplomatic
> Relations between Ireland and Austria
>
> 3-4pm Session 4 A
>
> Dr. Petra Bagley (Lancashire) - Exposing' our fathers: Alcoholism and
> Alzheimer's in an Austrian setting
> Helen Hauser (Limerick) - Irland in der Schweizer Gegenwartsliteratur
>
> 3-4pm Session 4 B
> Dr. Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Coleraine) - Julius Pokorny and Celtic Studies in
> Switzerland, 1943-1970
> Annika Stephan and Paul Gosling (Galway) - The archeological career of Dr.
> Adolf Mahr
>
> 4-4.30pm Coffee/Tea
>
> 4.30-5.15 Dr. Tobias Theiler (Dublin) - German-Swiss Identity & Debates on
> the Participation in European Integration.
>
> 5.15-5.45pm Session 5A
> Dr. Marcus Hanke (Salzburg) - Austria's neutrality
>
> 5.15-5.45pm Session 5B
> Mary Keating, Gillian Martin (Trinity), Erna Szabo (Linz) - Managers and
> Students Share the Same Perceptions of Societal Culture?
>
> 6.30pm Supper: Buffet with Swiss cheese and Austrian wine
>
> 7.30pm Readings: Josef Winkler, Erica Pedretti
> Ceili
>
> Saturday, 6.4.2002
>
> 9.30-10.30am Session 6A
> Dr. Michael Eggers (Saarbrücken) - "Sprachen, die sich nie ganz begegnen
> .." I. Bachmanns Simultan und Joyces Dubliners
> Rebecca Beard (Oxford) - Speaking the language of culture - Jelinek and
> Joyce writing the homeland
> 9.30-10.30am Session 6B
> Dr. Diether Schlinke (Wien) - Die Geschichte der Österreichisch-Irischen
> Gesellschaft
> Dr. Peter Moser (Bern) & Dr. Tony Varley (Galway) - Zwischen Integration
> und Ausgrenzung. Strategien zur Vergesellschaftung der bäuerlichen
> Landwirtschaft in Irland und der Schweiz im 19./20. Jahrhundert
>
> 10.30-11.00am Coffee/Tea
>
> 11.00-12.30pm The Austrian and the Swiss Presences in Ireland
> Yves Moradh, Deputy head of Presence Switzerland
> Dr. Paul Leifer, Austrian Ambassador & Dr. Herbert Herzmann, Dublin
> followed by discussion
>
> End of conference
>
> This Conference is supported by the Austrian Embassy Dublin, the Embassy
> of Switzerland Dublin, the German Embassy, the University of Limerick and
> the Arts Council of Switzerland
Organising Committee: Dr. Gisela Holfter, Dr. Marieke Krajenbrink, Prof.
Edward Moxon-Browne
>
> Conference Booking Form
>
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>
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>
> Fees payable (please tick as appropriate):
> Conference fee (inclusive of all tea/coffee, lunch and supper on Friday)
> For Speakers, Postgraduate students and members of the
> Centre for Irish-German Studies EUR
> 75
> For all other conference participants EUR
> 95
> Conference dinner, Thursday night
> (please indicate special dietary requirements) EUR
> 35
>
> Annual Membership of the Centre for Irish-German Studies EUR 25
> 3 year Membership of the Centre for Irish-German Studies EUR 60
>
> ____
> Total amount payable EUR
>
>
> Please forward booking form and cheque to Claire L. Ryan, Department of
> Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Limerick
> by 25 March 2002
>
> For inquiries: [log in to unmask], tel: +353/61/202424
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