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Franca Leitner
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PhD candidate in Irish Studies, Uni Mannheim, working on Precarious Spaces. Likes (crime) fiction, tea, and hand lotion. (she/her)
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📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣

Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.

#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature

Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...

Pls share
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
www.iasil.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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📢 JOB KLAXON 📢 Come work with me: I am advertising a PhD position in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (50%, for 3 years initially, starting date: September 2025) - please share widely! www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/or...
May 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I'm developing a creative anthology related to my research. Please share this Call for Submissions widely with anyone you think might be interested!

Something mythic this way comes ...

quareeire.wordpress.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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job for potential phd candidates just gone live. cultural studies at uni rostock. small team with me and madeline becker. initial contract 3 years, 50% tvl-13. please spread the word, thanks jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/8...
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) Cultural Studies
jobs.uni-rostock.de
October 30, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Some friends at the University of Freiburg are organising a wonderful conference for PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers on Popular Culture and Democracy - see their CfP below :)
June 16, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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“As we move towards the middle of this ever more troubling decade, it appears that we have been witness to one of the most significant 10 to 15 years in modern Irish literary history, a period of artistic flourishing that shows no sign of abating.”

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Irish fiction 2008-2023: Flourishing scene emerges from period of upheaval
Ireland has borne witness to one of the most significant periods in its modern literary history, a winning-streak that shows no sign of abating
www.irishtimes.com
December 27, 2023 at 9:50 AM