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Plenary speakers

We are proud to introduce our plenary speakers (in alphabetical order):

 

Alderik Blom

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Dútslân

Alderik H. Blom studied history and music, as well as Celtic and Germanic philology in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and NUI Galway. From 2002 to 2010 he worked at the University of Cambridge (M.Phil., Ph.D., and postdoc), subsequently at the University of Oxford: first as postdoc and from 2013 as Associate Professor of Celtic. Since 2017 he has been Professor of Celtic in the Department of Comparative Indo-European Philology at the University of Marburg/Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 

His research focuses on the study of early medieval manuscripts in Latin, Celtic, and Germanic languages (producing, for example, "Glossing the Psalms. The Emergence of the Written Vernaculars in Western Europe from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries", 2017). Other interests of his include the study of the Continental Celtic inscriptions of ancient Gaul and the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century comparative philology and textual criticism as they developed within the context of romantic nationalism in the Netherlands/Frisia, Germany, Ireland, Britain, Russia, and the Scandinavian countries.

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Marguérite Corporaal

Radboud University, Nijmegen

Marguérite Corporaal grew up in Franeker (Frjentsjer), and is Full Professor of Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She was the principal investigator of Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847–1921, for which she obtained a Starting Grant for Consolidators from the European Research Council (2010–15). Corporaal was awarded an NWO- VICI grant for her project Redefining the Region (2019-24) which explores the transnational dimensions of local colour during the long nineteenth century. Furthermore, Corporaal is the PI of Heritages of Hunger, which is funded as part of the Dutch research council NWO’s NWA programme (2019-24). From 2016-2019 she led the Gate Theatre Research Network, funded by NWO, and in collaboration with Charles University Prague and the University of Galway, Ireland.  Among Corporaal’s recent international publications are her monograph Relocated Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1847–70 (Syracuse University Press, 2017); A Stage of Emancipation: Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre (co-edited, Liverpool UP, 2021); Famines and the Making of Heritage (co-edited, Routledge 2024); The Great Irish Famine: Visual and Material Culture (co-edited, Liverpool UP, 2018); Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (co- edited, Palgrave, 2017).

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Peter Gilles

Université du Luxembourg

Biography Prof. Peter Gilles, Université du Luxembourg (soon)

 

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Caterina Sugranyes

Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona (Spanje)

Biography Dr. Caterina Sugranyes, Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona (soon)

 

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