Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ) Newsletter Summer Term 2025

Courses: 

ISWÜ members will be offering the following courses for students: 

• Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann: Irish American Literature, Culture & History #ISWÜ (04093243)   

• Jennifer Meier: Teaching Ireland #ISWÜ (04097300)  

• Emma Phelan: Englisch C1 - Cultural Studies – Ireland #ISWÜ (11023050) 

For registration, please see WueStudy: https://wuestudy.zv.uni-wuerzburg.de  

 

J. M. Synge Lecture: 

• Prof. Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA), "'Moving through the Scene Openly and Invisibly': The Photographs of J. M. Synge, Eudora Welty, and Luis Alberto Rodriguez"  

For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/jm-synge-lecture-2025/ 

 

Guest Lecture: 

• Prof. Kate Costello-Sullivan (Le Moyne College, NY, USA), “'Time to Consider it': Immigrant Regret and Redemption in Colm Tóibín’s Long Island" 

For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/guest-lecture-prof-kate-costello-sullivan  

 

Event Registration:  

You can now easily register for all upcoming ISWÜ events on our website: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/activities/event-registration/   

 

Certificates: 

All participation in ISWÜ courses and events can be documented for students on three ISWÜ certificates, one of them even allowing students to earn ECTS for FSQ and Freier Bereich: Irish Studies Würzburg #ISWÜ (04099990). For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/teaching/certificates/  

 

Internships: 

We are offering Digital Humanities & Irish Studies internships for JMU students in cooperation with CELT at University College Cork, Ireland. For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/teaching/internships      

 

Videocasts: 

Videos of most of the past ISWÜ events can be found on our website:  

https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/video-podcasts/videocasts/  

  

Social Media: 

You can find us (and follow us) on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky. 

 

Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft Würzburg: 

A range of extracurricular activities open to all students and colleagues will be organised by our cooperation partner, Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft Würzburg:  

https://www.dig-wuerzburg.de/veranstaltungen-termine/  

 

PREVIEW WINTER TERM 2025 

Dr. Raphael Zähringer (University of Tübingen), who has recently finished a project on "Writing Moments of Crisis: Ireland, 1596-2018“, which focusses on the interplay between representations of crises and crises of representation in Irish literature, has kindly agreed to give a guest lecture in the winter term. More details on this and further events will follow.  

 

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our events. 

 

Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann, Prof. Dr. Maria Eisenmann,  
and the whole team of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ) 
https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/home/  

 

 

 

ISWÜ Newsletter Summer Term 2025 (PDF Document)