11th Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies
The Irish Palatines in Context
A symposium to mark the tercentenary of the arrival of a group of Palatine settlers in Ireland
Friday, 4 September - Saturday, 5 September 2009
University of Limerick
Organized by the Centre for Irish-German Studies in cooperation with the Eighteenth Century Research Group, the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies and the Irish Palatine Association.
Friday, 4 September 2009
17.30 Welcome reception Palatine Museum, Rathkeale
18.30 Conference Dinner, Rathkeale House Hotel (optional)
20.00 Patrick O'Connor (University of Limerick)
Keynote lecture: The Palatines in Ireland
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Venue: University of Limerick, John Holland Lecture Theatre
9.30 Welcome & Registration
9.45 Tour of UL campus
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Opening Remarks by the German Ambassador H.E. Busso von Alvensleben and Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President & Registrar
11.15 Session I: 1709 - Historical contexts
Chair: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway)
Liam Irwin (Mary Immaculate College), Land, religion and society in early
18th century Ireland
Liam Chambers (Mary Immaculate College), Ireland and Europe in the early
18th century
Roland Paul (Institute for Palatine History and Folklore), The Palatinate
between the Thirty Years War and 1710: Politics and Society
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Session II: Emigration / Immigration
Chair: Geraldine Sheridan (University of Limerick)
William O'Reilly (University of Cambridge), German migration in the
later 17th and early 18th centuries
Barbara Schuttpelz (Institute for Palatine History and Folklore), Emigration
out of the Palatinate from the 17th to 19th century with particular reference to the role of women
Carolyn Heald (York University, Toronto), The Irish Palatines in Ontario,
Canada
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Session III: Irish-German-Swiss connections
Chair: Gisela Holfter (Centre for Irish-German Studies)
Joachim Fischer (University of Limerick), Irish-German connections in the
18th century: A Survey
Michael J. Griffin (University of Limerick), Another 18th century settlement
project: New Geneva
Hermann Rasche (NUI Galway), Paul Heyse's drama Die Pfälzer in Irland
(1855)
17.30 Short Film "Die Pfälzer in Irland", produced by the German Department NUI
Galway, introduced by Professor em. Eoin Bourke
18.00 Reception in Millstream Common Room
incl. scenic reading of selected scenes from Paul Heyse, Die Pfälzer in Irland
in English translation &
Launch of Intercultural Connections - within Irish and German Children's Literature (edited by S. Tebbutt and J. Fischer, WVT: Trier 2008) and Creative Influences - Selected Irish-German Biographies (edited by J. Fischer and G. Holfter, WVT: Trier 2009), vol. 4 & 5 of the Irish-German Studies series, by H.E. Busso von Alvensleben
Speakers:
Dr Patrick O'Connor is lecturer in Geography at the University of Limerick; Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh is Professor of History at NUI Galway; Liam Irwin is Senior Lecturer and Head of History at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick; Dr Liam Chambers is Lecturer in History at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick; Roland Paul is Deputy Director of the Institute for Palatine History and Folklore in Kaiserslautern, Germany; Prof. Geraldine Sheridan is Associate Professor of French at the University of Limerick; Dr William O'Reilly is Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the Dept of History, University of Cambridge; Barbara Schuttpelz is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Palatine History and Folklore in Kaiserslautern; Carolyn Heald is Director of Records and Information Management at York University, Toronto, Canada; Dr Gisela Holfter is Senior Lecturer in German and Joint Director of the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick; Dr Joachim Fischer is Senior Lecturer in German and Joint Director of the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick; Dr Michael J. Griffin is Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick; Dr Hermann Rasche was Senior Lecturer in German at NUI Galway until his retirement in 2008.
Supported by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society, University of Limerick, the Department for Languages and Cultural Studies and the German Embassy in Dublin.
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