MAPPING AND COUNTER-MAPPING IRELAND
Conference of the Nordic Irish Studies Network
Uppsala University, Sweden
24-26 September 2025
WEDNESDAY 24 September
(Engelska Parken, 6-K1031)
13.00-13.30 Registration and opening remarks
13.30-15.00 Panel 1
MARIA ZIRRA (Stockholm University): Birds, Oysters, Lobsters and Badgers: Mapping Animacies and the Implicated Subject in Seamus Heaney’s Animal Poems
ANNE KARHIO (University of Inland Norway): Feral cartographies and itineraries of resistance in literature and art from Ireland
AUDREY ROBITAILLIÉ (Catholic University of Toulouse): Counter-Mapping the City: Reading Dublin from a Neurodivergent Perspective in Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells (2015)
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Keynote 1: PATRICIA PALMER (Maynooth) and EVAN BOURKE (Maynooth): Counter Mapping Colonial Cartography: the MACMORRIS Deep Map
18.00 Reception, location TBD
THURSDAY 25 September
(Blåsenhus, 12:004)
9.30-10.30 Panel 2
JOY MCCLEAN (Queen’s University Belfast): Mapping Oneself Through the Museum: An Autoethnographic Analysis of the Ulster Museum’s ‘Troubles and Beyond’ Exhibition
DAVID GRAY (Dalarna University): Mapping Ulster-Scots in Eighteenth Century Ireland
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Panel 3
HIRAM MORGAN (University College Cork): Power Drawing – Battle depictions and pictorial maps from the Nine Years War, 1594-1603
FELIKS LEVIN (Aarhus University): Placing Ireland in the archipelagic and European contexts: the representations of the Irish past in the seventeenth-century Irish Catholic writings
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Panel 4
ANTIONIO BIBBÒ (University of Trento): Impressions of Ireland: Irish Landscape in Italian Translation
CIAN DUNNE (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘But instead I say nothing’: Recalibrating The Distinction Between Translation and Mapping in Adrian Duncan’s The Geometer Lobachevsky
CIARAN MCDONOUGH (Aarhus University): Greek and Roman Sources and Irish Culture: Towards a Hierarchy of Nineteenth-Century Irish Knowledge Production in the Ordnance Survey Letters
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Keynote 2: GAIL MCCONNELL (Queen’s University Belfast): ”The Sun is Open / Solen står på glänt: Poems and Reflections in the Wake of the Troubles”
19.00 Conference dinner, Il Forno Italiano, S:t Olafsgatan 8
FRIDAY 26 September
(Engelska Parken, 6-K1031)
9.30-10.30 Panel 5
CÉLINE HEALEY (Maynooth University) and CHRISTINE JOHANNSON (Uppsala University): Innovation in Language Education: A Swedish-Irish Creative Collaboration
ASTRID ISAC (Stockholm University) Insular Encounters with Art: Imagination and Ekphrasis in John Banville’s Ghosts
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Panel 6
NICOLE VOLMERUNG (Trinity College Dublin): Félire Óengusso as a Literary Map of Irish Ecclesiastical History
DAVID MCCAY (University of Cambridge): Localising knowledge in Dindshenchas Érenn
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Panel 7
AIDAN O’MALLEY (University of Rijeka): Surveying Orson Welles’s ‘Honorary Citizenship of Ireland’
PHYLLIS BOUMANS (Stockholm University): Mapping the Radio Story on Radio Éireann (1940-1965)
EBBA NYBERG (University of Gothenburg): Dancing at Lughnasa: A Contrastive Analysis between a Play and its Movie Adaptation
15.00-15.15 Closing remarks15.30 Visit to Special Collections in Carolina Rediviva Library