Cette conférence plénière a été donnée dans le cadre du colloque international La postmodalité et les cycles de vie des expressions modales, organisé par le laboratoire CRISCO, à l’Université de Caen Normandie, du 2 au 3 juin 2022. Le colloque portait sur les stades avancés de l’évolution des éléments modaux : le passage...

Cette conférence plénière a été donnée dans le cadre du colloque international La postmodalité et les cycles de vie des expressions modales, organisé par le laboratoire CRISCO, à l’Université de Caen Normandie, du 2 au 3 juin 2022. Le colloque portait sur les stades avancés de l’évolution des éléments modaux :...

Les transformations...

Il est officier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques. Il s’intéresse aux liens entre le roman et le spirituel (surtout François Mauriac, Georges Bernanos, Julien Green et Jean Sulivan). Il dirige deux collections chez Peter Lang Oxford:  "Reimagining Ireland"...

Début 2022, le Craham (UMR 6273 CNRS-Unicaen) a eu l'honneur de recevoir le Prof. Adekola Kolawole, archéologue, de l'université d'Ibadan (Nigeria) pour un séjour de travail d'un mois au sein du Craham. Cet accueil, lié à l'octroi d'une bourse de l'IFRA-Nigeria et à sa participation au projet archéologique mené par le Prof. G. Chouin avec le Craham depuis 2019 (Ile Ife Sungbo project),  a en outre permis d'envisager...

Ce documentaire de création associe  l'histoire canadienne, la question de la...

Présentation de l'ouvrage Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890...

Literary scholars have long valued open-endedness, unsettling, and disruption. And no field has been more committed to these values than Modernism. But today, as neoliberal economics undoes hopes of secure work, and as fossil fuels radically disrupt longstanding ecosystems, open-endedness is taking on a new political character. Unpredictability is not a source of pleasure and excitement for those who are anxious about finding their next meal or a safe place to sleep. Corporations praise freedom from state regulations...

Prof Bertrand Cardin is the author of Colum McCann's Intertexts. 'Books Talk to One Another' (Cork University Press, 2016) in which McCann’s work is studied as a mosaic of references to and quotations from other texts. He also guest-edited a special issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English on “The 21st Century Irish Short Story” (N°63, Autumn 2014). With Alexandra Slaby, he co-edited a special issue of Etudes irlandaises: “Contemporary Issues in Irish Studies. In Memoriam...

Dr Eamon Maher is Director of the national Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin and General Editor of two book series with Peter Lang, Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Studies. His main area of interest is the depiction of Catholicism in 20th-century fiction and he is currently preparing a monograph on the Catholic Novel. His most recent publication, co-edited with Eugene O'Brien, is Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century, which is the landmark 100th book in the Reimagining...

Dr Alexandra Slaby is an Associate Professor at the University of Caen Normandy where she teaches British, Irish and South African civilization. She is half-South African. She published L’Etat et la culture en Irlande (Caen UP, 2010) prefaced by Michael D. Higgins. She is a former editor of Etudes Irlandaises (2011-2017) and was commissioned to write an Histoire de l'Irlande de 1912 à nos jours (Paris: Tallandier, 2016, 2021). She is now researching Irish Catholic presence in South Africa and writing the...

Dr Ciaran Reilly is an historian of nineteenth & twentieth century Irish history based at Maynooth University. His research interests include the Great Irish Famine; country houses and landed estates, and the Irish diaspora, with a particular focus on South Africa. He is the author of a number of books including Capard: An Irish country house & estate (2019); The Irish Land Agent, 1830-60: the Case of King’s County (2014); Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine (2014) and John Plunket Joly and the Great...