Thursday, 26 April 2018
(Filodrammatica, Korzo 28)
16:00-18:00 Panel 1 - Migration, language and religion
Anne O’Connor (NUI Galway) - Language and Migration: from Croatia to Ireland
Marcas Ó Cribín (independent scholar, Graz) - Ireland & Croatia: Secularisation v De-Secularisation: What role does Religion play in Civil Society & National Identity? A comparative case study
John Eade (University of Roehampton and Toronto University), Mario Katić (University of Zadar) and Mike McDonald (Florida Gulf Coast University) - Atlantic and Adriatic Maritime Pilgrimages
Moderator: Rory Archer (University College London)
18:30 Welcome address & Reception, hosted by the Irish Embassy, Zagreb
Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka)
Emina Višnić and Irena Kregar Šegota (European Capital of Culture 2020 - Rijeka)
Ambassador Olive Hempenstall
Keynote and roundtable discussion, Chris Agee, poet and editor of Irish Pages, Hubert Butler and the Balkans
Moderators: Vuk Perišić (writer and journalist, Rijeka) and Aidan O’Malley (University of Rijeka)
Friday, 27 April 2018
(F-801, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, Sveučilišna avenija)
09:00 - 10:30 Panel 2 - From Conflict to Cohesion
Mate Nikola Tokić (CEU Budapest) - To be for Us is not to be with Us: Marxism and Fascism in the Irish and Croat National Liberation Movements during the 1970s
Tamara Guirao-Espiñeira (University of Rennes 2) - From INTERREG to macro-regions, how symbolic geographies evolve into functional areas for EU cohesion policy
Bert Preiss (University of Graz) - Conflict at the Interface: Ethno-National Divisions, Class Inequalities and Hegemonic Forces in Northern Ireland and in Kosovo
Moderator: Vedran Obučina (Institute for European and Globalisation Studies, Croatia)
Coffee Break 10:30-11:00
11:00 - 13:00 Panel 3 - Irish-Balkan Historical and Cultural Entanglements (Part I)
Charles Sabatos (Yeditepe University, Istanbul) - Anglo-Irish Travelers and Memories of Empire in Interwar Southeast Europe
Andrew Hodges (IOS Regensburg) - Fan Cosmologies and Relationships between Celtic’s Green Brigade and Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys
Jelena Đureinović (University of Giessen) - Lions Tamed. Celtic and Vojvodina in the 1966-67 European Cup
Ciarán Murray (Independent scholar, Dublin) - Willful Ignorance or Sheer Naivety? Andrija Artuković and Axis Agents in Ireland Post-WWII
Moderator: Dario Brentin (University of Graz)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Panel 4 - Irish-Balkan Historical and Cultural Entanglements (Part II)
Danilo Šarenac (Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade) - Flora Sandes in the First World War: Nursing, Soldiering and Travelling
Lili Zách (NUI Galway) - The impact of the Marseilles assassination on the Irish perceptions of the Yugoslav-Hungarian border question
Dino Buljat (University of Rijeka) - “We Are Next”: Secessionist Aspirations in Northern Ireland and Herzegovina
Daniel Brett (University College London) - Party Politics and the struggle for rural representation in the European periphery. Agrarian Parties in Romania and Ireland 1918-1965
Moderator: Nevila Pahumi (University College London)
16:00 Roundtable discussion and concluding remarks
Moderator: Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka)