Irish Day 2018

Guest Speakers

His Excellency Gerard Keown, Ambassador of Ireland

Prof. Joachim Frenk, Universität des Saarlandes
https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/frenk/staff.html

Maurice Fitzpatrick, Irish filmmaker, writer, and director of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America https://www.screenireland.ie/directory/view/8133/in-the-name-of-peace:-john-hume-in-america

Sven Kretzschmar, Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, Coordinator
​https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/english-literature/Staff/00119068

Programme

10.00-11.00

• Welcome by Professor Małgorzata Grzegorzewska, Head of the Institute of English Studies UW;
• Lecture „From Strangers to Neighbours: Encounters between Poland and Ireland” by His Excellency Gerard Keown, Ambassador of Ireland (Room 335)

11.30-13.00
TALKS (Room 131)

• The EFACIS (S. Kretzschmar);
• Yeats and the Celtic Twilight (J. Frenk);
• From Irish Landscape to Land Art (K. Kociołek)

14.00-15.00
Irish dance workshop by Irish dance group ‘Treblers’  (Room 131)

15.30-17.00
TALKS (Room 131)

• The City of the Vibes ‘Galway Girl’ (S. Bentz);
• Lá Bealtaine in Irish Literature (B. Keane)

17.30-20.00
A screening of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America  followed by a panel discussion (Room 335)