{"id":136,"date":"2024-11-22T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T08:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/naes-efacis2025\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2024-11-22T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:13:07","slug":"efacis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/naes-efacis2025\/efacis\/","title":{"rendered":"EFACIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>EFACIS 2025: <\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Conference<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\n\u00c5bo \/ Turku, Finland, 8\u201311 May 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\nAttending to <span style=\"color: #339966\">Ireland<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of \u201cattention\u201d has become increasingly important. As Jonathan Crary observed in <em>Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture,<\/em> the \u201ccontemporary experience [&#8230;] requires that we effectively cancel out or exclude from consciousness much of our immediate environment\u201d. <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> At the same time, the contemporary society, in Ireland and elsewhere, has been shaped by seemingly conflicting forces and paradoxical processes of attention and distraction in various institutional, cultural, and technological contexts. The focus of this conference will be on any of the many ways in which the field of Irish Studies \u2013 and disciplinary perspectives from literature, culture, and history to linguistics and education \u2013 addresses and is shaped by various aspects of attention. These range from tensions between mediated experience and phenomenal perception to how political and cultural narratives direct our attention to some aspects of society while creating blind spots elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Themes for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Attending to Ireland as\/and island(s): culture, geography, and the state<\/li>\n<li>Surveillance, control, and the politics of attention<\/li>\n<li>Technology and the media: forms of attention and inattention<\/li>\n<li>Borders, surveys, and mappings and the 100th anniversary of The Irish Boundary Commission<\/li>\n<li>Irish Studies and attention in education<\/li>\n<li>Local, global, and transnational attention \u2013 place, mobility, and migration<\/li>\n<li>Hotspots and blind spots: geography and the environment<\/li>\n<li>Attention, crisis, and catastrophe: personal and social perspectives<\/li>\n<li>Attention and the phenomenology of perception<\/li>\n<li>The aesthetics and poetics of attention in literature and the arts; authorship, narrative, perspective<\/li>\n<li>Generational and societal changes in attention<\/li>\n<li>Religion, politics, and social groups<\/li>\n<li>Ageing and attention in Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Attending to language: linguistics, translation, and the multilingual society<\/li>\n<li>Diachronic and\/or synchronic approaches and methods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A downloadable version (EFACIS 2025 flyer) of this page can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/naes-efacis2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/274\/2024\/11\/EFACIS-Conference-Flyer.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Hosted by \u00c5bo Akademi University and the University of Turku, the conference is organized in collaboration with the Nordic Association for English Studies (NAES) whose concurrent annual conference in \u00c5bo \/ Turku is titled \u201cAttending to the Islands: Archipelagic Perspectives on Anglophonia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>\u00c5bo \/ Turku (the former capital of Finland) is usually very pleasant at the beginning of May. And as the city is situated on the edge of the Finnish archipelago, we envisage that the conference programme will include an optional boat trip through the islands, a visit to Turku Castle, poetry readings, a musical entertainment, and more \u2026 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Fiona Farr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Christopher Morash<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Lorna Hutson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Andrew Newby<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Invited Poet<\/em>: Desmond Egan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information on Werner Huber grants for EFACIS PhD students may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efacis.eu\/content\/werner-huber-grants\">here<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Jonathan Crary, <em>Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture<\/em> (The MIT Press, 1999), p. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFACIS 2025: European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Conference \u00c5bo \/ Turku, Finland, 8\u201311 May 2025 Attending to Ireland &nbsp; In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of \u201cattention\u201d has become increasingly important. 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