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Page 1: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

Annual Report2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 3

Table of Contents

Foreword by the General Director

1 Mission Statement and Strategic Goals 7

2 Governance 8

21 Board 8

22 General Director and Research Directors 8

23 International Advisory Board 9

24 The Academic Steering Committee 9

25 Members 10

251 Senior Researchers 10

252 Junior Researchers 11

253 Affiliated Researchers 11

3 Research 12

31 Research Lines 12

311 Research Group Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 12

312 Research Group Peace and Transformative Growth 12

313 Research Group Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorization 13

32 Interdisciplinary Research 13

33 Publications in the Various Disciplines 14

331 Research Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 14

332 Research Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth 15

333 Research Field 3 Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorization 16

34 Interdisciplinary Research 17

341 Trauma and Transformation 17

342 Reconciliation 23

343 Representation of Trauma 23

344 Representation Development of Symbols 24

345 Migration and Diaspora 24

346 Globalization and Innovation 25

4 Projects 26

41 PhD Projects 26

42 Research Funding 27

421 Research Line 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 27

422 Research Line 2 Peace and Transformative Growth 27

423 Research Line 3 Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorisation 28

424 Interdisciplinary Research 28

5 Events 29

51 Workshops and Conferences Organized by the LCIS 29

52 Conferences on Irish Studies in which LCIS Members Participated 31

53 International PhD Seminars 33

54 Research Seminars in Irish Studies 34

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studies 35

56 PhD network NUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University of Limerick 36

57 Lectures 36

58 Expertise 38

581 Expertise on Archives 38

582 Diverse Expertise

59 Cultural Activities 40

6 Networking 42

7 History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-2010 46

71 Exiles 46

72 Teaching and Research 47

73 Opening on 22 March 2010 48

731 Highlights 49

732 Perspectives 2012-2018 56

4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 5

It is my pleasure to present the first Annual Report

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) As a new

research centre of the Association KU Leuven launched

in March 2010 we enjoyed a very dynamic period

Researchers have been brought together to cooperate

in the classical field of Irish Studies Moreover new areas

of research related to the Irish context like peace studies

and transformative growth international economics

innovation and valorization have been developed

This resulted in numerous international workshops

conference and other events New contacts with Irish

researchers and institutions as well as with other centres

for Irish Studies worldwide have been established

This annual report provides an overview of our activities

and achievements during the period 2010-2011 I wish to

thank all colleagues and partners who contributed to the

launch and growth of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director LCIS

Foreword by the General Director

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 7

The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) officially

launched on the 22nd of March 2010 is an interfaculty

multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of

the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University

of Leuven (KU Leuven) and its Association partners

(Association KU Leuven) It is the result of close

cooperation between the KU Leuven and the Leuven

Institute for Ireland in Europe

The LCIS was founded based on an agreement between

the KU Leuven represented by Professor Mark Waer

Rector of the KU Leuven Professor Filip Abraham

Vice-Rector of the Humanities and Social Sciences

of the KU Leuven and Professor Hedwig Schwall

General Director of the LCIS and the Leuven Institute

for Ireland in Europe represented by Mr Eddy Sullivan

Chairman

The Centre has three objectives

1 To stimulate cooperation between researchers

from Irish universities on the one hand and from

the Association KU Leuven and other Belgian

institutions on the other hand

2 To conduct research in the classical fields of Irish

Studies as well as in research areas related to

the Irish context

3 To promote cultural events in cooperation with

the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

In these activities the Centre also supports and is closely

associated with the European Federation of Associations

and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)

Three research areas can be distinguished within

the LCIS

1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

2 Peace and Transformative Growth

3 Economics Business Law Innovation

and Valorization

The LCIS has its location at the Irish College

Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven Belgium

The Irish College also provides a unique venue

for various projects and events organized by

the LCIS and its partners

Mission Statement and Strategic Goals1

A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

(LCIS) and establishes its strategy The management is

in the hands of a General Director and two research

directors An Academic Steering Committee advises

the General Director and the research directors

on the academic work programme of the Centre

A distinguished International Advisory Board

supports the academic activities of the Centre

and ensures its international visibility

21 BoardThe Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on

the basis of a proposed work programme developed

by the General Director and the Research Directors

For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham Vice-rector of KU Leuven

for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President

of the Board)

bull HE Mr Eamonn MacAodha Irish Ambassador

to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously HE

Mr Tom Hanney)

bull Mr Malachy Vallely Honorary Director-General

and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe

bull Prof Dr Patrick Onghena Dean of the Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven

bull Mr Jan Smets Director of the National Bank of

Belgium and President of the Board of the HUBrussel

bull Mr Edwin De Boeck Chief Economist KBC Bank

8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Ms Katrien Verhelst Group Manager of the

Humanities and Social Sciences Group KU Leuven

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers Professor Emeritus

KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall General Director of

the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

bull Mr David OSullivan Chief Operating Officer at

the European External Action

22 General Director andResearch DirectorsThe General Director and the Research Directors are

responsible for the management of the LCIS They seize

academic opportunities stimulate the participating

research groups seek funding opportunities and

represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director and Research Director for Literature

History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts

Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

Research Director for Peace and Transformative Growth

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

Research Director for Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorization

Governance2

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 3

Table of Contents

Foreword by the General Director

1 Mission Statement and Strategic Goals 7

2 Governance 8

21 Board 8

22 General Director and Research Directors 8

23 International Advisory Board 9

24 The Academic Steering Committee 9

25 Members 10

251 Senior Researchers 10

252 Junior Researchers 11

253 Affiliated Researchers 11

3 Research 12

31 Research Lines 12

311 Research Group Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 12

312 Research Group Peace and Transformative Growth 12

313 Research Group Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorization 13

32 Interdisciplinary Research 13

33 Publications in the Various Disciplines 14

331 Research Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 14

332 Research Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth 15

333 Research Field 3 Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorization 16

34 Interdisciplinary Research 17

341 Trauma and Transformation 17

342 Reconciliation 23

343 Representation of Trauma 23

344 Representation Development of Symbols 24

345 Migration and Diaspora 24

346 Globalization and Innovation 25

4 Projects 26

41 PhD Projects 26

42 Research Funding 27

421 Research Line 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 27

422 Research Line 2 Peace and Transformative Growth 27

423 Research Line 3 Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorisation 28

424 Interdisciplinary Research 28

5 Events 29

51 Workshops and Conferences Organized by the LCIS 29

52 Conferences on Irish Studies in which LCIS Members Participated 31

53 International PhD Seminars 33

54 Research Seminars in Irish Studies 34

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studies 35

56 PhD network NUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University of Limerick 36

57 Lectures 36

58 Expertise 38

581 Expertise on Archives 38

582 Diverse Expertise

59 Cultural Activities 40

6 Networking 42

7 History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-2010 46

71 Exiles 46

72 Teaching and Research 47

73 Opening on 22 March 2010 48

731 Highlights 49

732 Perspectives 2012-2018 56

4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 5

It is my pleasure to present the first Annual Report

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) As a new

research centre of the Association KU Leuven launched

in March 2010 we enjoyed a very dynamic period

Researchers have been brought together to cooperate

in the classical field of Irish Studies Moreover new areas

of research related to the Irish context like peace studies

and transformative growth international economics

innovation and valorization have been developed

This resulted in numerous international workshops

conference and other events New contacts with Irish

researchers and institutions as well as with other centres

for Irish Studies worldwide have been established

This annual report provides an overview of our activities

and achievements during the period 2010-2011 I wish to

thank all colleagues and partners who contributed to the

launch and growth of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director LCIS

Foreword by the General Director

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 7

The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) officially

launched on the 22nd of March 2010 is an interfaculty

multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of

the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University

of Leuven (KU Leuven) and its Association partners

(Association KU Leuven) It is the result of close

cooperation between the KU Leuven and the Leuven

Institute for Ireland in Europe

The LCIS was founded based on an agreement between

the KU Leuven represented by Professor Mark Waer

Rector of the KU Leuven Professor Filip Abraham

Vice-Rector of the Humanities and Social Sciences

of the KU Leuven and Professor Hedwig Schwall

General Director of the LCIS and the Leuven Institute

for Ireland in Europe represented by Mr Eddy Sullivan

Chairman

The Centre has three objectives

1 To stimulate cooperation between researchers

from Irish universities on the one hand and from

the Association KU Leuven and other Belgian

institutions on the other hand

2 To conduct research in the classical fields of Irish

Studies as well as in research areas related to

the Irish context

3 To promote cultural events in cooperation with

the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

In these activities the Centre also supports and is closely

associated with the European Federation of Associations

and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)

Three research areas can be distinguished within

the LCIS

1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

2 Peace and Transformative Growth

3 Economics Business Law Innovation

and Valorization

The LCIS has its location at the Irish College

Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven Belgium

The Irish College also provides a unique venue

for various projects and events organized by

the LCIS and its partners

Mission Statement and Strategic Goals1

A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

(LCIS) and establishes its strategy The management is

in the hands of a General Director and two research

directors An Academic Steering Committee advises

the General Director and the research directors

on the academic work programme of the Centre

A distinguished International Advisory Board

supports the academic activities of the Centre

and ensures its international visibility

21 BoardThe Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on

the basis of a proposed work programme developed

by the General Director and the Research Directors

For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham Vice-rector of KU Leuven

for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President

of the Board)

bull HE Mr Eamonn MacAodha Irish Ambassador

to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously HE

Mr Tom Hanney)

bull Mr Malachy Vallely Honorary Director-General

and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe

bull Prof Dr Patrick Onghena Dean of the Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven

bull Mr Jan Smets Director of the National Bank of

Belgium and President of the Board of the HUBrussel

bull Mr Edwin De Boeck Chief Economist KBC Bank

8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Ms Katrien Verhelst Group Manager of the

Humanities and Social Sciences Group KU Leuven

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers Professor Emeritus

KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall General Director of

the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

bull Mr David OSullivan Chief Operating Officer at

the European External Action

22 General Director andResearch DirectorsThe General Director and the Research Directors are

responsible for the management of the LCIS They seize

academic opportunities stimulate the participating

research groups seek funding opportunities and

represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director and Research Director for Literature

History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts

Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

Research Director for Peace and Transformative Growth

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

Research Director for Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorization

Governance2

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

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bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

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bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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4 Projects 26

41 PhD Projects 26

42 Research Funding 27

421 Research Line 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts 27

422 Research Line 2 Peace and Transformative Growth 27

423 Research Line 3 Economics Business Law Innovation and Valorisation 28

424 Interdisciplinary Research 28

5 Events 29

51 Workshops and Conferences Organized by the LCIS 29

52 Conferences on Irish Studies in which LCIS Members Participated 31

53 International PhD Seminars 33

54 Research Seminars in Irish Studies 34

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studies 35

56 PhD network NUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University of Limerick 36

57 Lectures 36

58 Expertise 38

581 Expertise on Archives 38

582 Diverse Expertise

59 Cultural Activities 40

6 Networking 42

7 History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-2010 46

71 Exiles 46

72 Teaching and Research 47

73 Opening on 22 March 2010 48

731 Highlights 49

732 Perspectives 2012-2018 56

4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 5

It is my pleasure to present the first Annual Report

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) As a new

research centre of the Association KU Leuven launched

in March 2010 we enjoyed a very dynamic period

Researchers have been brought together to cooperate

in the classical field of Irish Studies Moreover new areas

of research related to the Irish context like peace studies

and transformative growth international economics

innovation and valorization have been developed

This resulted in numerous international workshops

conference and other events New contacts with Irish

researchers and institutions as well as with other centres

for Irish Studies worldwide have been established

This annual report provides an overview of our activities

and achievements during the period 2010-2011 I wish to

thank all colleagues and partners who contributed to the

launch and growth of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director LCIS

Foreword by the General Director

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 7

The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) officially

launched on the 22nd of March 2010 is an interfaculty

multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of

the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University

of Leuven (KU Leuven) and its Association partners

(Association KU Leuven) It is the result of close

cooperation between the KU Leuven and the Leuven

Institute for Ireland in Europe

The LCIS was founded based on an agreement between

the KU Leuven represented by Professor Mark Waer

Rector of the KU Leuven Professor Filip Abraham

Vice-Rector of the Humanities and Social Sciences

of the KU Leuven and Professor Hedwig Schwall

General Director of the LCIS and the Leuven Institute

for Ireland in Europe represented by Mr Eddy Sullivan

Chairman

The Centre has three objectives

1 To stimulate cooperation between researchers

from Irish universities on the one hand and from

the Association KU Leuven and other Belgian

institutions on the other hand

2 To conduct research in the classical fields of Irish

Studies as well as in research areas related to

the Irish context

3 To promote cultural events in cooperation with

the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

In these activities the Centre also supports and is closely

associated with the European Federation of Associations

and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)

Three research areas can be distinguished within

the LCIS

1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

2 Peace and Transformative Growth

3 Economics Business Law Innovation

and Valorization

The LCIS has its location at the Irish College

Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven Belgium

The Irish College also provides a unique venue

for various projects and events organized by

the LCIS and its partners

Mission Statement and Strategic Goals1

A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

(LCIS) and establishes its strategy The management is

in the hands of a General Director and two research

directors An Academic Steering Committee advises

the General Director and the research directors

on the academic work programme of the Centre

A distinguished International Advisory Board

supports the academic activities of the Centre

and ensures its international visibility

21 BoardThe Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on

the basis of a proposed work programme developed

by the General Director and the Research Directors

For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham Vice-rector of KU Leuven

for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President

of the Board)

bull HE Mr Eamonn MacAodha Irish Ambassador

to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously HE

Mr Tom Hanney)

bull Mr Malachy Vallely Honorary Director-General

and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe

bull Prof Dr Patrick Onghena Dean of the Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven

bull Mr Jan Smets Director of the National Bank of

Belgium and President of the Board of the HUBrussel

bull Mr Edwin De Boeck Chief Economist KBC Bank

8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Ms Katrien Verhelst Group Manager of the

Humanities and Social Sciences Group KU Leuven

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers Professor Emeritus

KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall General Director of

the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

bull Mr David OSullivan Chief Operating Officer at

the European External Action

22 General Director andResearch DirectorsThe General Director and the Research Directors are

responsible for the management of the LCIS They seize

academic opportunities stimulate the participating

research groups seek funding opportunities and

represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director and Research Director for Literature

History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts

Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

Research Director for Peace and Transformative Growth

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

Research Director for Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorization

Governance2

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 5

It is my pleasure to present the first Annual Report

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) As a new

research centre of the Association KU Leuven launched

in March 2010 we enjoyed a very dynamic period

Researchers have been brought together to cooperate

in the classical field of Irish Studies Moreover new areas

of research related to the Irish context like peace studies

and transformative growth international economics

innovation and valorization have been developed

This resulted in numerous international workshops

conference and other events New contacts with Irish

researchers and institutions as well as with other centres

for Irish Studies worldwide have been established

This annual report provides an overview of our activities

and achievements during the period 2010-2011 I wish to

thank all colleagues and partners who contributed to the

launch and growth of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director LCIS

Foreword by the General Director

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 7

The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) officially

launched on the 22nd of March 2010 is an interfaculty

multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of

the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University

of Leuven (KU Leuven) and its Association partners

(Association KU Leuven) It is the result of close

cooperation between the KU Leuven and the Leuven

Institute for Ireland in Europe

The LCIS was founded based on an agreement between

the KU Leuven represented by Professor Mark Waer

Rector of the KU Leuven Professor Filip Abraham

Vice-Rector of the Humanities and Social Sciences

of the KU Leuven and Professor Hedwig Schwall

General Director of the LCIS and the Leuven Institute

for Ireland in Europe represented by Mr Eddy Sullivan

Chairman

The Centre has three objectives

1 To stimulate cooperation between researchers

from Irish universities on the one hand and from

the Association KU Leuven and other Belgian

institutions on the other hand

2 To conduct research in the classical fields of Irish

Studies as well as in research areas related to

the Irish context

3 To promote cultural events in cooperation with

the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

In these activities the Centre also supports and is closely

associated with the European Federation of Associations

and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)

Three research areas can be distinguished within

the LCIS

1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

2 Peace and Transformative Growth

3 Economics Business Law Innovation

and Valorization

The LCIS has its location at the Irish College

Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven Belgium

The Irish College also provides a unique venue

for various projects and events organized by

the LCIS and its partners

Mission Statement and Strategic Goals1

A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

(LCIS) and establishes its strategy The management is

in the hands of a General Director and two research

directors An Academic Steering Committee advises

the General Director and the research directors

on the academic work programme of the Centre

A distinguished International Advisory Board

supports the academic activities of the Centre

and ensures its international visibility

21 BoardThe Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on

the basis of a proposed work programme developed

by the General Director and the Research Directors

For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham Vice-rector of KU Leuven

for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President

of the Board)

bull HE Mr Eamonn MacAodha Irish Ambassador

to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously HE

Mr Tom Hanney)

bull Mr Malachy Vallely Honorary Director-General

and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe

bull Prof Dr Patrick Onghena Dean of the Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven

bull Mr Jan Smets Director of the National Bank of

Belgium and President of the Board of the HUBrussel

bull Mr Edwin De Boeck Chief Economist KBC Bank

8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Ms Katrien Verhelst Group Manager of the

Humanities and Social Sciences Group KU Leuven

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers Professor Emeritus

KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall General Director of

the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

bull Mr David OSullivan Chief Operating Officer at

the European External Action

22 General Director andResearch DirectorsThe General Director and the Research Directors are

responsible for the management of the LCIS They seize

academic opportunities stimulate the participating

research groups seek funding opportunities and

represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director and Research Director for Literature

History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts

Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

Research Director for Peace and Transformative Growth

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

Research Director for Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorization

Governance2

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 7

The Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) officially

launched on the 22nd of March 2010 is an interfaculty

multi- and interdisciplinary research centre of

the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University

of Leuven (KU Leuven) and its Association partners

(Association KU Leuven) It is the result of close

cooperation between the KU Leuven and the Leuven

Institute for Ireland in Europe

The LCIS was founded based on an agreement between

the KU Leuven represented by Professor Mark Waer

Rector of the KU Leuven Professor Filip Abraham

Vice-Rector of the Humanities and Social Sciences

of the KU Leuven and Professor Hedwig Schwall

General Director of the LCIS and the Leuven Institute

for Ireland in Europe represented by Mr Eddy Sullivan

Chairman

The Centre has three objectives

1 To stimulate cooperation between researchers

from Irish universities on the one hand and from

the Association KU Leuven and other Belgian

institutions on the other hand

2 To conduct research in the classical fields of Irish

Studies as well as in research areas related to

the Irish context

3 To promote cultural events in cooperation with

the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

In these activities the Centre also supports and is closely

associated with the European Federation of Associations

and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS)

Three research areas can be distinguished within

the LCIS

1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

2 Peace and Transformative Growth

3 Economics Business Law Innovation

and Valorization

The LCIS has its location at the Irish College

Janseniusstraat 1 3000 Leuven Belgium

The Irish College also provides a unique venue

for various projects and events organized by

the LCIS and its partners

Mission Statement and Strategic Goals1

A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

(LCIS) and establishes its strategy The management is

in the hands of a General Director and two research

directors An Academic Steering Committee advises

the General Director and the research directors

on the academic work programme of the Centre

A distinguished International Advisory Board

supports the academic activities of the Centre

and ensures its international visibility

21 BoardThe Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on

the basis of a proposed work programme developed

by the General Director and the Research Directors

For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham Vice-rector of KU Leuven

for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President

of the Board)

bull HE Mr Eamonn MacAodha Irish Ambassador

to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously HE

Mr Tom Hanney)

bull Mr Malachy Vallely Honorary Director-General

and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe

bull Prof Dr Patrick Onghena Dean of the Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven

bull Mr Jan Smets Director of the National Bank of

Belgium and President of the Board of the HUBrussel

bull Mr Edwin De Boeck Chief Economist KBC Bank

8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Ms Katrien Verhelst Group Manager of the

Humanities and Social Sciences Group KU Leuven

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers Professor Emeritus

KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall General Director of

the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

bull Mr David OSullivan Chief Operating Officer at

the European External Action

22 General Director andResearch DirectorsThe General Director and the Research Directors are

responsible for the management of the LCIS They seize

academic opportunities stimulate the participating

research groups seek funding opportunities and

represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director and Research Director for Literature

History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts

Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

Research Director for Peace and Transformative Growth

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

Research Director for Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorization

Governance2

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 6: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

A Board governs the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

(LCIS) and establishes its strategy The management is

in the hands of a General Director and two research

directors An Academic Steering Committee advises

the General Director and the research directors

on the academic work programme of the Centre

A distinguished International Advisory Board

supports the academic activities of the Centre

and ensures its international visibility

21 BoardThe Board sets out the strategy of the Centre on

the basis of a proposed work programme developed

by the General Director and the Research Directors

For the period 2010-2015 the Board consists of

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham Vice-rector of KU Leuven

for the Humanities and Social Sciences (President

of the Board)

bull HE Mr Eamonn MacAodha Irish Ambassador

to the Kingdom of Belgium (previously HE

Mr Tom Hanney)

bull Mr Malachy Vallely Honorary Director-General

and Board Member of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe

bull Prof Dr Patrick Onghena Dean of the Faculty of

Psychology and Educational Sciences KU Leuven

bull Mr Jan Smets Director of the National Bank of

Belgium and President of the Board of the HUBrussel

bull Mr Edwin De Boeck Chief Economist KBC Bank

8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Ms Katrien Verhelst Group Manager of the

Humanities and Social Sciences Group KU Leuven

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers Professor Emeritus

KU Leuven and member of the Royal Flemish

Academy of Belgium

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall General Director of

the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

bull Mr David OSullivan Chief Operating Officer at

the European External Action

22 General Director andResearch DirectorsThe General Director and the Research Directors are

responsible for the management of the LCIS They seize

academic opportunities stimulate the participating

research groups seek funding opportunities and

represent the Centre within and outside the KU Leuven

Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

General Director and Research Director for Literature

History Theology Philosophy and Fine Arts

Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

Research Director for Peace and Transformative Growth

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

Research Director for Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorization

Governance2

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 7: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

23 InternationalAdvisory BoardThe International Advisory Board consists of

distinguished international scholars from all the fields

included in the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies and

advises the Centrersquos Research Directors and Scholars

They meet once a year at the Irish College in Leuven

The International Advisory Board ensures the

international visibility of the LCIS and strengthens

its ties to Ireland and other centres of Irish Studies

The current International Advisory Board consists

of the following members

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

bull Prof Dr Mary Daly (University College Dublin)

bull Mr Barney Devine (NICTT)

bull Prof Dr Marianne Elliot (Institute of Irish Studies

University of Liverpool)

bull Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (Director of An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

bull Prof Dr Marc Vervenne (Honorary Rector KU Leuven

representative of the Association KU Leuven and

President of the Flemish UNESCO Commission)

The International Advisory Board had its first meeting

on 22 October 2011 in Leuven

24 The AcademicSteering CommitteeThe Academic Steering Committee consists of the

General Director the Research Directors and seven

faculty members from the KU Leuven and its Association

partners who are involved in research within the fields

mentioned above This Committee has an advisory

capacity and its main purpose is to provide advice

on the academic work programme of the Centre

For the period 2010-2014 the academic steering

committee consists of

bull Prof Dr Elke Drsquohoker (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Fred Truyen (KU Leuven IT)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (General Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven History)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literary Theory)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (Research Director LCIS)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven Political

Sciences

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 9

Irish at the University of Leuven 1548-1797 A prosopography byJeroen Nilis Leuven Acco 2010

25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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25 MembersBecause the LCIS is an interfaculty and multidisciplinary

research centre its members belong to various faculties

of the Humanities and Social Sciences of KU Leuven

Moreover a number of researchers from other Belgian

as well as from Irish universities are active researchers

within the LCIS

In particular the LCIS cooperates with the following

Belgian partners

bull The Belgian Society for Celtic Studies (Universiteacute

Libre de Bruxelles)

bull The Belgian Association for Anglicists in Higher

Education (BAAHE)

bull The Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the

Arts of Belgium (Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor

Wetenschappen en Kunsten van Belgieuml KVAWKB)

bull The Centre for Trauma Studies of the University of

Ghent and The Museum amp Archives of Flanders Fields

Resident and non-resident senior researchers are actively

involved in the Centrersquos research projects and academic

events They are classified according to their research field

Field 1 Literature History Theology Philosophy

and Fine Arts

bull Prof Dr Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Willy Clarysse (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven)

10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Prof Dr Mel Collier (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hans Cools (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr William Desmond (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Pierre Delsaerdt (Universiteit Antwerpen)

bull Prof Dr Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Elke Dhoker (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Leo Kenis (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Mathijs Lamberigts (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Raphaeumll Ingelbien (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Eddy Put (KU Leuven and National Archives)

bull Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

bull Prof Dr Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Johan Verberckmoes (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Peter Verbist (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Luc Vints (KU Leuven)

bull Dr Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Field 2 Peace and Transformative Growth

bull Prof Dr Lucia De Haene (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Patrick Luyten (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Peter Vermeersch (KU Leuven)

Field 3 Economics

bull Prof Dr Filip Abraham (KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karen Crabbeacute (Lessius University College

and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Karolien De Bruyne (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Dermot Leahy (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 9: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Prof Dr Gerda Dewit (National University of Ireland

Maynooth)

bull Prof Dr Eline Poelmans (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Annabel Sels (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Bas van Aarle (KU Leuven and Universiteit

Hasselt)

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Stijn Vanormelingen (HUBrussel and

KU Leuven)

bull Prof Dr Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven and CEPR)

Resident junior researchers are actively involved in the

Centrersquos research projects and academic events

bull Debbie Brouckmans (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Marijke Claes (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Reglindis de Ridder (Dublin City University Linguistics)

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Sean ODubhghaill (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Stefan Kempke (KU Leuven Peace Studies)

bull Glenn Magerman (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

Economics)

bull Daniel Neicu (HUBrussel and KU Leuven Economics)

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin History)

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Zuzanna Studnicka (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Catherine Thewissen (Universiteacute Catholoque

de Louvain Literature amp Linguistics)

bull Jeroen Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

Both resident and non-resident affiliated researchers

support the Centre or cooperate on a more occasional

basis

bull Dr Tudor Balinisteanu (University of Cluj Literature)

bull Dr Stef Craps (Universiteit Gent Literature)

bull Prof Dr Andreacute Decoster (KU Leuven Economics)

bull Prof Dr Theo Dhaen (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Ortwin de Graef (KU Leuven Literature)

bull Prof Dr Wim Franccedilois (KU Leuven Theology)

bull Prof Dr Geert Lernout (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Marc Nelissen (KU Leuven History and Archives)

bull Jeroen Nilis (independent scholar History)

bull Luc Schokkaert (KU Leuven History)

bull Dr Nienke Tjoelker (University College Cork

Literature)

bull Bruno Vandermeulen (KU Leuven Digitisation)

bull Prof Dr Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen

Literature)

bull Prof Dr Pieter Vermeulen (KU Leuven Literature)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 11

12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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12 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

31 Research Lines Research in the LCIS is structured along three large

research lines Each research group is headed by a

Research Director In addition the LCIS aims to launch

new interdisciplinary research lines

Research Director Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

(KU Leuven and HUBrussel)

In the Humanities cluster Literature is the most

prominent in Irish Studies Research there focuses on

Irish writing from the early nineteenth century to the

present which is studied from various intersecting

angles narratology psychoanalysis gender studies

comparative and transcultural approaches It also builds

on developing print and digital holdings in Leuvenrsquos

libraries and on research-based teaching on Irish

literature within the faculty of Arts

In History the focus is more on the (early) modern period

when the Low Countries were a hub for the Irish diaspora

on the continent Archives in Leuven Brabant and the

rest of Belgium are rich in life trajectories of Irish settlers

which encourages colleagues to develop conceptual

frameworks that link the study of letters diaries and

like documents to the history of cultural exchange

This can be extended to Irish life stories

Of special importance are the archives of KADOC

the Catholic Archive and Documentation Centre whose

vast repository of material and long tradition of studying

aspects of Catholic life in several centuries and countries

offers a rich array of opportunities for comparative

research between the continent and Ireland

Of special interest will be the digitization of the

seventeenth-century manuscripts which during the

French Revolution were moved from Leuven to Brussels

The LCIS will digitize the twelve manuscripts in

cooperation with ISOS Irish Script on Screen who will

provide the metadata and join them with the other

material of that period so that these texts will be

available to all scholars in the field

Research Director Prof Dr Patrick Luyten

(KU Leuven)

The second research group focuses on the impact of

trauma at both the personal and socio-cultural level

Special interests include the role of resilience and

transformation in individuals and groups faced with

trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

and resilience Ongoing studies focus on the role of

mentalization ie the capacity to interpret behavior in

terms of internal mental states such as feelings wishes

goals and values in both individuals and societies

(eg Ireland ex-Yugoslavia Israel) faced with trauma

and the role of mentalization in peace negotiations

Research3

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 11: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

In addition a comparative study addresses processes

involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma

resilience and transformative growth in Ireland Israel

and Belgium

Research Director Prof Dr Jan Van Hove

(HUBrussel and KU Leuven)

This research field covers the entire spectrum of

economics business and law However most attention

is paid to three research topics that are all of utmost

importance to small open economies such as Ireland and

Belgium that share many economic characteristics and

face common challenges Hence research regarding

these common economic interests may benefit both

countries In particular it will provide useful insights

to business leaders and policy makers

International Trade and International Business

Firms and countries have to cope with many

challenges due to recent international economic trends

(eg globalization the rise of China the declining

manufacturing sector the opening of services sectors)

Within this research area we look into how economic

policy and firmsrsquo strategies create new business

opportunities in this globalized world

Innovation and Valorization

This research area includes the study of the characteristics

and determinants of innovation more precisely the impact

of innovation on economic performance (eg export and

investment performance profitability market shares)

Hence the valorization of firmsrsquo research efforts will be

a central theme

European Economic Integration

Since both Belgium and Ireland are frontrunners in

European integration research will be done on current

and new integration issues in the EU

32 InterdisciplinaryResearchWhile the LCIS builds on the expertise in the different

faculties and research units of the Association KU Leuven

the LCIS wants to create synergies Several inter disciplinary

research initiatives have been launched in 2010-2011

Trauma and Transformation

This topic originated in psychology but links up with the

representation of trauma in contemporary literature and

the arts (recent research on melancholia the perception

of traumatized protagonist in fiction effects of trauma on

narrativity effect of ritual on trauma the search for fitting

symbols which appeal to contemporary sensitivities

regarding guilt and forgiveness adaptation of rituals etc)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 13

14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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14 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History Theology and Narrative Theory

A second line of research combines history theology and

narrative theory connecting private and public history

Here the seventeenth-century Irish manuscripts will yield

interesting material but other family books and diaries

especially those which refer to war contexts

will be analysed

Economic Geography

Various economic phenomena are affected by

geographical factors like location distance borders

regional differences etc The study of economic

geography combines insights from economics and

geography but also from history culture political

sciences and possibly many other research areas

The LCIS brings together several researchers from

the Association KU Leuven who wish to expand this

promising research area

Economic History

Since many economists and historians are active

members of the LCIS the combined field of Economic

History is a priority for current and future research within

the LCIS Various periods and issues can be studied

relying in particular on interdisciplinary methodology

33 Publications inthe Various DisciplinesIT = International peer-reviewed OJ Other Journals

AB article in Book ABISP Article in Book International

Scientific Publisher EB Edited Book

bull Elke Dhoker (accepted) And the transformation

begins Present-Tense Narration in Claire Keegans

Daughter Stories Contemporary Womens Writing (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Distorting Mirrors and Unsettling

Snapshots Anne Enrights Short Fiction In Bracken C

Cahill S (Eds) Anne Enright Dublin Irish Academic

Press (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Edna OBrien In Shaffer B (Eds)

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction

Vol 1 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction

(pp 272-275) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Half-man or Half-doll George

Egertons response to Friedrich Nietzsche

Womens Writing 18 (4) pp 524-546 (IT)

bull Dhoker E (2011) Over het belang van literatuur

Karakter Tijdschrift van Wetenschap (35) pp13-15 (OJ)

bull Ingelbien R Seynhaeve B (2011) The Critique of

Hamletism in The Wild Irish Girl and Corinne

Modern Language Quarterly 72 (2) 201-223 (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien Rand Schwall H (2011)

Introduction in Irish Women Writers New Critical

Perspectives Oxford Peter Lang pp 1-15 (ABISP)

bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 15

bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

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bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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bull Dhoker E (2010) John Banvilles Dualistic Universe

In Wright J (Eds) A Companion to Irish Literature

(Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

vol two Chapt 51 (pp 345-359) Wiley-Blackwell

(ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Elizabeth Gaskells The Poor

Clare and the Irish Famine Irish University Review

40 (2) 1-19 (IT)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) De lsquoparadoxrsquo van fin-de-siegravecle

literair inter-nationalisme een comparatistische

oplossing voor een historiografisch probleem

In Bemong N Kemperink M Mathijsen M

Sintobin T (Eds) Naties in een spanningsveld

Tegenstrijdige bewegingen in de identiteitsvorming

in negentiende-eeuws Vlaanderen en Nederland

(pp 33-47) Hilversum Verloren (AB)

bull Schwall H (2010) Allegories of Writing Figurations

of Narcissus and Echo in WB Yeatsrsquos Work Fall 2010

43 (1) 221-238 Writing Modern Ireland - special issue

of the South Carolina Review Guest Editor Catherine

E Paul (IT)

bull Drsquohoker E Ingelbien R and Schwall H (eds) (2010)

Irish Women Writers New Critical Perspectives

Oxford Peter Lang

bull Ingenhoven T Van Reekum M van Luyn B and

Luyten P (Eds) (in press) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De Tijdstroom

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P Target M and

Blatt S J (Eds) (in press) Handbook of contemporary

psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology

New YorkLondon The Guilford Press

bull Luyten P Vanmechelen W and Hebbrecht M (Eds)

(2011) Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische

benaderingen [Depression Contemporary Psycho -

dynamic approaches] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Het vredesfront etnisch

conflict en internationale interventie Leuven en

Den Haag Acco 192 pages (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) Theories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trends in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (ABISP)

bull Van Houdenhove B Luyten P and Vandenberghe

J (Eds) (2010) Luisteren naar het lichaam

Het dualisme voorbij [Listening to the body

Beyond dualism] Tielt LannooCampus

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Minority associations

Issues of representation internal democracy and

legitimacy in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed)

Political Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (ABISP)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) Political mobilization in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (ABISP)

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bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

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bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

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bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

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psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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bull Abraham F and Van Hove J (2011) Chinese

Competition in OECD Markets Impact on the Export

Position and Export Strategy of OECD Countries

Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)

pp 151-170 (IT)

bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining

the Spatial Variation in Housing Prices An Economic

Geography Approach Applied Economics

forthcoming (IT)

bull De Bruyne K (2010) Explaining the Location of

Economic Activity Is there a Spatial Employment

Structure in Belgium International Journal of

Economic Issues 3 (2) pp 199-222 (IT)

bull Decoster A De Swerdt K and Orsini K (2010)

A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply

and income distribution Review of Business and

Economics 55 (1) pp 23-54 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) How regressive are indirect taxes

A microsimulation analysis for five European countries

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 29 (2)

pp 326 - 350 (IT)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2011) Microsimulation of indirect taxes

International Journal of Microsimulation

forthcoming (IT)

16 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Decoster A Valenduc C and Verdonck M (2010)

Lrsquoautonomie fiscale des reacutegions en Belgique

evaluation et perspectives Documentatieblad

Ministerie van Financieumln 69 (4) pp 167 - 191 (OJ)

bull Decoster A Loughrey J ODonoghue C and

Verwerft D (2010) Incidence and welfare effects of

indirect taxes European meeasures of income and

poverty lessons for the US - International Policy

Exchange Series

bull Goedhuys M Veugelers R (2011) Technology

ldquomakerdquo and ldquobuyrdquo strategies and firm growth firm

level evidence from Brazil Structural Change and

Economic Dynamics forthcoming (IT)

bull Kelchtermans S and Veugelers R (2011) The great

divide in scientific productivity why the average

scientist does not exist Industrial and Corporate

Change 20 (1) pp 295-336 (IT)

bull Marneffe W B van Aarle W van der Wielen and

L Vereeck (2011) The impact of fiscal rules on public

finances in the Euro Area CESifo DICE Journal for

Institutional Comparisons 32011 p18-25

bull Poelmans E (2012) Changes in the Structure of Coal

and Steel industries under the ECSC (1952-1967)

Was West Germany kept ldquosmallrdquo Essays in

Economic and Business History 30

bull Poelmans E Swinnen J (2011) From Monasteries

to Multinationals (and Back) A Historical Review of

the Beer Economy Journal of Wine Economics

6 (2) pp 196-216

bull Schneider C and Veugelers R (2010) On young

innovative companies Why they matter and how

(not) to policy support them Industrial and Corporate

Change 19 (4) pp 969 - 1007 (IT)

bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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bull van Aarle B and R Sosoian Macroeconomic

adjustment in Armenia The role of external factors

Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics Vol4

No1 (2010) pp1-24 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Current Issues in Transatlantic

Manufacturing Trade The Impact of Chinese Import

Competition in Wouters J and Sterckx S (eds)

European Union United States and Global Governance

Major Trends and Challenges Leuven Centre for

Global Governance Studies pp 89-102 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Deflationary Effects of

Devaluations in Garcia-Solanes J et al (eds)

Perspectives on International Economics

An European Focus Lambert Academic Publishing

pp 43-84 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Technological Innovation and

Bilateral Export Performance Evidence from Intra-

European Trade International Journal of Economic

Issues 3 (2) pp 261-299 (IT)

bull Van Hove J (2010) The Impact of RampD Spillovers

on Export Value Does the Transmission Channel

matter in Richter C et al (eds) Globalisation New

Challenges Macroeconomic International Trade and

Financial Issues Lambert Academic Publishing pp

110-138 (ABISP)

bull Van Hove J (2010) Variety and Quality in Intra-

European Manufacturing Trade The Impact of

Innovation and Technological Spillovers Journal of

Economic Policy Reform 13 (1) pp 43-59 (IT)

bull Van Puyenbroeck T De Bruyne K and Sels L

(2011) More than lsquoMutual Informationrsquo Educational

and sectoral gender segregation and their interaction

on the Flemish labor market forthcoming in Labour

Economics (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 17

bull Vanormelingen S Persyn D and Swinnen J (2011)

Belgian Beers Where History Meets Globalization

In Swinnen J (Eds) The Economics of Beer Oxford

University Press (ABISP)

bull Weyerstrass K B van Aarle M Kappler and

A Seymen Business cycle synchronisation with(in) the

euro area In search of a lsquoeuro effectrsquo Open Economies

Review Vol 22 No2 (2011) p427-446 (IT)

34 InterdisciplinaryResearch

bull Besser A Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011)

Do Humor Styles Mediate or Moderate the

Relationship Between Self-Criticism and Neediness

and Depressive Symptoms Journal of Nervous

and Mental Disease 199(10) pp 757-764 (IT)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (2010) Reactivating the

psychodynamic approach to classify psycho -

pathologyin T Millon R F Krueger amp E Simonsen

(Eds) Contemporary directions in psychopathology

Scientific foundations of the DSM-V and ICD-11

(pp 483-514) New York The Guilford Press (ABISP)

bull Blatt S J and Luyten P (in press) Relatedness and

self-definition in personality and psychopathology

In L M Horowitz amp S Strack (Eds) Handbook of

interpersonal psychology Theory research assessment

and therapeutic interventions New York John Wiley

amp Sons (ABISP)

18 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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bull Craps S (2010) Only Not beyond Love Testimony

Subalternity and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan

Boland Neophilologus An International Journal of

Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 941

pp 265-76 (IT)

bull de Graef O (2011) A Common Humanity Is Not

Yet Enough Shadows of the Coming Race in

George Eliots Final Fiction Partial Answers 9(1)

pp 17-39 (IT)

bull de Graef O Gilleir A (2010) The Stigma of Its

Present Name Matthew Arnoldrsquos Scripts of State

Occasion Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

v 2 (IT)

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Adult attachment in the context of refugee

traumatisation The impact of organized violence

and forced separation on parental states of mind

regarding attachment Attachment and Human

Development 12 pp 249-264

bull De Haene L Grietens H amp Verschueren K (2010)

Holding harm Narrative methods in mental health

research on refugee trauma Qualitative Health

Research 20 pp 1664-1676

bull De Haene L Rober P amp Verschueren K (2011)

Trauma narration between home and host societies

A questioning of disclosure in posttrauma refugee

rehabilitation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Rober P Adriaenssens P

amp Verschueren K (2011) Voices of dialogue and

directivity in family therapy with refugees Evolving

ideas on dialogical refugee care Manuscript in

preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K amp Rober P (2011)

Trauma transmission in refugee families Understanding

the intrafamily sequelae of war-related trauma and

forced dislocation Manuscript in preparation

bull De Haene L Verschueren K Grietens H

Adriaenssens P Dalgaard N amp Montgomery E

(2011) Attachment security in refugee children

Findings from a two-site pilot study in community

and clinical samples Manuscript under review

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2010) Mentalization

Understanding borderline personality disorder

In T Fuchs H C Sattel amp P Henningsen (Eds)

The embodied self Dimensions coherence and

disorders (pp 260-277) Stuttgart Schattauer (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (2011) Die Entwicklungs -

psychologischen Wurzeln der Borderline-

Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz

Ein Forschungsbericht unter dem Blickwinkel der

Mentalisieurngstheorie [The roots of borderline

personality disorder in childhood and adolescence

A review of evidence from the standpoint of a

mentalization based approach] Psyche Zeitschrift

fuumlr Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 65 (9-10)

pp 900-952 (IT)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Mentalization

and borderline personality disorder In A Fotopoulou

D Pfaff amp M A Conway (Eds) From the couch to

the lab Psychoanalysis neuroscience and cognitive

psychology in dialogue Oxford Oxford University

Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P and Luyten P (in press) Psychodynamic

models of personality disorders In T Widiger (Ed)

Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders Oxford

Oxford University Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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bull Fonagy P Bateman A and Luyten P (2012)

Introduction and overview In A W Bateman amp

P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental

health practice (pp 3-42) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Borderline personality disorder mentalization and

the neurobiology of attachment Infant Mental Health

Journal 32(1) pp 47-69 (IT)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P and Strathearn L (2011)

Mentalization and the Roots of Borderline Personality

Disorder in Infancy In H E Fitzgerald K Puura

M Tomlinson amp C Paul (Ed) International Perspectives

on Children and Mental Health Volume 1 Development

and Context (pp 129-153) Santa Barbara Praeger

(ABISP)

bull Fonagy P Luyten P Bateman A Gergely G

Strathearn L Target M and Allison E (2010)

Attachment and personality pathology In J F Clarkin

P Fonagy amp G O Gabbard (Eds) Psychodynamic

psychotherapy for personality disorders A clinical

handbook (pp 37-87) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Association

bull Kempke S Goossens L Luyten P Bekaert

P Van Houdenhove B amp Van Wambeke P (2010)

Predictors of outcome in a multi-component

treatment program for chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Affective Disorders 126(1-2)

pp 174-179 (IT)

bull Kempke S Luyten P Van Houdenhove B

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(in press) Self-esteem Mediates the Relationship

Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Depression

in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Clinical Rheumatology

bull Kempke S Van Houdenhove B Luyten P

Goossens L Bekaert P and Van Wambeke P

(2011) Unraveling the role of perfectionism in chronic

fatigue syndrome Is there a distinction between

adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism

Psychiatry Research 186 pp 373-377 (IT)

bull Louwagie F Vermeulen P and Rothberg M (2010)

Michael Rothberg (interview reacutealiseacute par Fransiska

Louwagie et Pieter Vermeulen) LHolocauste et

limagination comparative Teacutemoigner Entre Histoire

et Meacutemoire (106) pp 151-167

bull Lowyck B Vermote R Luyten P Franssen M

Verhaest Y Vertommen H and Peuskens J (2010)

Comparison of reflective functioning as measured

on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object

Relations Inventory in patients with a personality

disorder A preliminary study Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association 57(6) pp 1469-1472 (IT)

bull Luyten P (2011) De relatie tussen proces en uitkomst

in psychoanalytische therapie [The relationship between

process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy]

In J Dirkx M Hebbrecht A Mooij amp R Vermote (Eds)

Handboek Psychodynamiek [Handbook of

Psychodynamics] Utrecht De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Luyten P (in press) De behandeling van de borderline

persoonlijkheidsstoornis Stand van zaken en

toekomstperspectieven [The treatment of borderline

personality disorder State of the art and future

perspectives] In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum

M B van Luyn amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek

Borderline Persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Handbook

Borderline Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij

De Tijdstroom (ABISP)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 19

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 18: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Luyten P (in press) The coming of age of

psychoanalytic treatment research In R A Levy

S Ablon amp H Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of

Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice

New York Humana PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Psychodynamic

approaches of depression Whither shall we go

[Editorial] Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological

Processes 74(1) pp 1-3

bull Luyten P and Blatt S J (2011) Integrating theory-

driven and empirically-derived models of personality

development and psychopathology A proposal for

DSM V Clinical Psychology Review 31 pp 52-68 (IT)

bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de

onlosmakelijke band tussen fenomenologie theorie

en techniek [Depression and the inseparable bond

among phenomenology theory and technique]

In P Luyten W Vanmechelen amp M Hebbrecht (Eds)

Depressie Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen

AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P and Kempke S (2010) Psychodynamische

factoren bij functionele somatische symptomen en

syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional

somatic symptoms and disorders] In B Van

Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)

Luisteren naar het lichaam Het dualisme voorbij

[Listening to the body Beyond dualism] (pp 59-73)

Tielt LannooCampus (AB)

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (2010)

Response to Maes and Twisk Patient Education

and Counseling 80 147 (IT)

20 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Luyten P and Van Houdenhove B (in press)

Common versus specific factors in the treatment

of functional somatic disorders Journal of

Psychotherapy Integration

bull Luyten P Blatt S J and Mayes L C (in press)

Process and outcome in psychoanalytic

psychotherapy research The need for a (relatively)

new paradigm In R A Levy S Ablon amp H

bull Kaumlchele (Eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Bridging the Gap

Between Science and Practice New York Humana

PressSpringer (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lemma A and Target M

(2012) Depression In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 385-417) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Fonagy P Lowyck B and Vermote R

(2012) Assessment of mentalization In A W Bateman

amp P Fonagy (Eds) Handbook of Mentalizing in

mental health practice (pp 43-65) Washington

DC American Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Luyten P Kempke S Van Wambeke P Claes S

Blatt S J and Van Houdenhove B (2011)

Self-critical perfectionism stress generation and

stress sensitivity in patients with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome Relationships with severity of depression

Psychiatry Interpersonal and Biological Processes

74(1) pp 21-30 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 19: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B and Vermote R (2010)

The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and

Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month

Follow-Up Study Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

24(4) pp 417-436 (IT)

bull Luyten P Lowyck B Vermote R and Fonagy P

(2010) De neurale basis van mentalisatie

Implicaties voor de conceptualisatie en behandeling

van de borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis vanuit

een psychodynamisch kader [The neural basis of

mentalisation Implications for the conceptualisation

and treatment of borderline personality disorder]

In M Kinet amp A Bazan (Eds) Psychoanalyse en

neurowetenschap De geest in de machine

[Psychoanalysis and neuroscience The ghost in

the machine] AntwerpenApeldoorn Garant (AB)

bull Luyten P Mayes L C Fonagy P and Target M

(in press) Developmental research In G O Gabbard

B Litowitz amp P Williams (Eds) The American Psychiatric

Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed)

Washington DC American Psychiatric Publishing

bull Morlion B Kempke S Luyten P Coppens E

and Van Wambeke P (2011) Multidisciplinary pain

education program (MPEP) for chronic pain patients

preliminary evidence for effectiveness and

mechanisms of change Current Medical Research

and Opinion 27(8) pp 1595-1601 (IT)

bull Nijssens L Luyten P and Bales D (in press)

Mentalization-based treatment for parents (MBT-P)

with borderline personality disorder In N Midgley amp

I Vrouva (Eds) Minding the child Mentalization-based

interventions with children young people and their

families London Routledge (ABISP)

bull Nolte T Guiney J Fonagy P Mayes L C and

Luyten P (in press) Interpersonal stress regulation

and the development of anxiety disorders

An attachment-based developmental framework

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (IT)

bull Soenens B Vansteenkiste M and Luyten P (2010)

Towards a domain-specific approach to the study

of parental psychological control Distinguishing

between dependency-oriented and achievement-

oriented psychological control Journal of Personality

78(1) pp 217-256 (IT)

bull Tang E Vliegen N and Luyten P (in press)

Een verkennende studie naar kwetsbaarheid en

veerkracht bij Vlaamse adoptiegezinnen [An explorative

study of vulnerability and resilience in Flemish

adoptive parents] Tijdschrift voor Orthopedagogiek

Kinderpsychiatrie en Klinische Kinderpsychologie (OJ)

bull Taubner S Nolte T Luyten P and Fonagy P (2010)

Mentalisierung und das Selbst [Mentalization and the

self] Persoumlnlichkeitsstoumlrungen Theorie und Therapie

14 pp243-258 (OJ)

bull Touquet H (2011) You have to be something

Alternative identifications and postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina Transitions Revue Transitions (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2010) Chronic

fatigue syndrome reflects loss of adaptability

[Editorial] Journal of Internal Medicine 268

pp249-251 (IT)

bull Van Houdenhove B and Luyten P (2011) Listen

to the story CFS patients donrsquot live in a vacuum

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 80

pp 113-115 (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 21

bull Van Houdenhove B Kempke S and Luyten P (2010)

Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and Fibromyalgia Current Psychiatry Reports 12(3)

pp 208-214

bull Van Houdenhove B Pae C U and Luyten P (2010)

Chronic fatigue syndrome Is there a role for non-

antidepressant pharmacotherapy Expert Opinion

on Pharmacotherapy 11(2) pp 215-223 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Being True to Fact Coetzeersquos

Prose of the World In Leist A Singer P (Eds)

Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

Literature New York Columbia University Press

(ABISP)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism

after the Holocaust London Continuum

bull Vermote R Lowyck B and Luyten P (in press)

Klinische en dagklinische psychotherapie bij de

borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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Psychiatric aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Coetzee and Ethics Philosophical Perspectives on

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borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis [Inpatient and

day treatment for borderline personality disorder]

In T Ingenhoven M Van Reekum M B van Luyn

amp P Luyten (Eds) Handboek Borderline

Persoonlijkheids stoornis [Handbook Borderline

Personality Disorder] Utrecht Uitgeverij De

Tijdstroom (ABISP)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Verhaest Y

Vertommen H Vandeneede B Corveleyn J and

Peuskens J (2011) Patterns of Inner Change and

Their Relation with Patient Characteristics and

Outcome in a Psychoanalytic Hospitalization-Based

Treatment for Personality Disordered Patients

Clinical Psychology amp Psychotherapy 18(4)

pp 303-313 (IT)

22 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Luyten P Vertommen H

Corveleyn J Verhaest Y Stroobants R

Vandeneede B Vansteelandt K and Peuskens J

(2010) Process and outcome in psychodynamic

hospitalisation-based treatment for patients with a

personality disorder Journal of Nervous and Mental

Disease 198(2) pp110-115 (IT)

bull Vermote R Lowyck B Vandeneede B Bateman A

W and Luyten P (2012) Psychodynamically oriented

therapeutic settings In A W Bateman amp P Fonagy

(Eds) Handbook of mentalizing in mental health

practice (pp 247-269) Washington DC American

Psychiatric Press (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Casalin S and Luyten P (in press)

Een moeilijke start voor moeder en kind Depressie

in de postpartum periode en de invloed ervan op

de moeder-kind relatie In M J Rexwinkel M G J

Smeets C H Pannevis amp H H F Derkx (Eds)

Handboek voor ouder-baby behandeling (ABISP)

bull Vliegen N Luyten P Besser A Casalin S

Kempke S and Tang E (2010) Stability and change

in levels of depression and personality A follow-up

study of postpartum depressed mothers that were

hospitalized in a mother-infant unit Journal of

Nervous and Mental Disease 198(1) pp 45-51 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 23

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

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bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter

The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese

StudiesTheological Studies 671 (2011) 1-7 (IT)

bull Bieringer R (2011) Reconciliation to God in the Light

of 2 Corinthians 514-21 in Reimund Bieringer amp

David Bolton (eds) Reconciliation in Interfaith

Perspective Jewish Christian and Muslim Voices

Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters 2011 pp 39-58 (ABISP)

bull Bieringer R and Bolton D (eds) (2011) Reconciliation

in Interfaith Perspective Jewish Christian and

Muslim Voices Leuven - Walpole MA Peeters

bull Bieringer R (2010) Dying and Being Raised For

Shifts in the Meaning of hyper in 2 Corinthians

514-15 in Constantine Belezos Sotirios Despotis amp

Christos Karakolis (eds) Saint Paul and Corinth

1500 Years Since the Writing of the Epistles to

the Corinthians Exegesis - Theology - Historiy of

Interpretation - Philology - Philosophy - St Pauls

Time vol 1 Metamorfossi Psichogios Publications

2010 pp 311-327 (AB)

bull Bieringer R (2010) Gered in hoop (Rom 824)

De nieuwtestamentische visie op de heilsbetekenis

van Jezus Christus met bijzondere aandacht voor de

visie van Paulus in Terrence Merrigan amp Joke Lambelin

(eds) Sporen van heil Christus in een multireligieuze

wereld (LOGOS Leuvense Ontmoetingen rond

Geloof Openbaring en Spiritualiteit 5) Antwerpen

Halewijn 2010 pp 11-23 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Baert B (2010) ldquoJob of de schreeuw naar God in

de beeldende kunstenrdquo in Hans Ausloos amp Ignace

Bossuyt (eds) Job tussen leven en lijden in beeld

woord en klank Leuven pp 61-104 (AB)

bull Lamberigts M (2011) The Importance of Diaries

for the Study of Vatican II In The Council Notes of

Edward Schillebeeckx 1962-1963 Critically annotated

bilingual edition by Karim Schelckens (Instrumenta

Theologica 34) (pp IX-XIII) Leuven Peeters

bull Schwall H (2011) Relationships with lsquothe Realrsquo in

the work of Anne Enrightrdquo in Anne Enright Visions and

Revisions Irish Writers in their Time Irish Academic

Press Edited by Claire Bracken and Susan Cahill

205-222 (ABISP)

bull Vandermeulen B and Veys D (eds) (2011)

Imaging History Photography after the fact

Brussels Academic amp Scientific Publishers (Book)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) ldquoGreenblatts Melancholy

Fetish Literary Criticism and the Desire for Lossrdquo

Textual Practice 24 (3) 483 (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Remember or now know

Chang-rae Leersquos Native Speaker and the Politics

of Melancholia Zeitschrift fuumlr Anglistik und

Amerikanistik 58 (2) (IT)

bull Vermeulen P (2010) Upstaging The ldquoDeath of the

Subjectrdquo Gertrude Stein The Theater and The Self-

Differential Self Arcadia Zeitschrift fuumlr Allgemeine und

Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 45 (1) (IT)

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bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

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bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 22: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Baert B (2011) Interspaces between Word Gaze

and Touch The Bible and the Visual Medium in the

Middle Ages Collected essays on Noli me tangere

the Woman with the Haemorrhage the Head of

John the Baptist (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia LXII)

Leuven (Peeters) 156 p 63 images (AB)

bull Baert B (2011) lsquoWho touched my clothesrsquo

The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage

(Mark 524b-34parr) in Medieval Visual Culture in

Annual of the Antwerp Royal Museum pp 9-51 (OJ)

bull Baert B (2011) Touching the Hem The Thread

between Garment and Blood in the Story of the

Woman with the Hemorrhage (Mark 524b-34parr)

Textile Journal of Cloth and Culture 9 (3) Oxford

pp 308-359 (IT)

bull Baert B (2011) Imprintuitstulping Kleine iconologie

van de navel in Materie en Beeld ed L Pil Gent

pp 27-42 (AB)

bull De Maeyer J (2011) Constructing Christianity

1850-1950 Imagining Building amp Contesting

(Cleys B Ed De Maeyer J Ed De Meulder B Ed

Howard A Ed) Leuven Leuven University Press

bull Lamberigts M (2011) De liturgische beweging in

context Tijdschrift voor Liturgie 95 (4) 186-208 (OJ)

bull Schwall H (2011) Noli me tangere in the Bible and

in Literature Civilisations and Their Discontent

Reimund Bieringer Barbara Baert amp Karlijn Demasure

(eds) To Touch or Not to Touch Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on the Noli me tangere (Annua Nuntia

Lovaniensia) Leuven Peeters (ABISP)

24 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull De Maeyer J (2010) Towards a modern religious art

the case of Albert Servaes In The Maritain factor

taking religion into interwar Modernism (pp 71-83)

Leuven Leuven university press (AB)

bull Kenis Leo (2010) The Transformation of the Christian

Churches in Western Europe La transformation des

eacuteglises chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-

2000 (Kenis L Ed Billiet J Ed Pasture P Ed)

Leuven Leuven University Press (AB)

bull Pasture P and Kenis L (2010) The Transformation

of Christian Churches in Western Europe

An Introduction In Kenis L Billiet J Pasture P

(Eds) The Transformation of the Christian Churches

in Western Europe La transformation des eacuteglises

chreacutetiennes en Europe occidentale 1945-2000

(KADOC Studies on Religion Culture and Society 6)

(pp 7-19) Leuven Leuven University Press (ABISP)

bull Ingelbien R (2010) Defining the Irish Tourist Abroad

Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe (1888)

New Hibernia Review 14 (2) pp 102-117 (IT)

bull Nilis Jeroen Irish at the University of Leuven

1548-1797 A prosopography Leuven Acco 2010

(Book)

bull Toremans T de Graef O (2011) BabelGium

Onverbiddelijke veeltaligheid

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoImproving Access to Housing

for Roma Good local practices funding and

legislationrsquo (conference report) Nadace Open Society

Fund Prague 61 p (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2011) lsquoTheories of ethnic mobilization

Overview and recent trendsrsquo in Graham Brown and

Arnim Langer (ed) The Elgar Companion to Civil War

and Fragile States Cheltenham Edgar Elgar

Publishing (forthcoming in 2011) (IT)

bull Vermeersch P and Fox J (2010) Backdoor

nationalism European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoRoma inclusion

can international institutions play a rolersquo

Development and Transition (15) pp 7-10 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoBackdoor nationalismrsquo

(with Jon Fox) European Journal of Sociology 51(2)

pp 325-357 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoMinority associations Issues

of representation internal democracy and legitimacyrsquo

in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (ed) Political

Participation of Minorities A Commentary on

International Standards and Practice Oxford Oxford

University Press 2010 pp 682-701 (IT)

bull Vermeersch P (2010) lsquoPolitical mobilizationrsquo in

The International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Washington DC CQ Press pp 1047-1052 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) Towards a multipolar science

world Trends and impact Scientometrics 82 (2)

pp 439 - 456 (IT)

bull Veugelers R Sapir A van Pottelsberghe B (2010)

Boosting innovation in Europe Intereconomics

45 (5) pp 264 - 286 (IT)

bull Veugelers R (2010) A post-crisis policy agenda

to revive Europes Schumpeterian growth capacity

Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique

vol XLIX no 2 pp15-24 (OJ)

bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

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bull Belderbos R Sleuwaegen L and Veugelers R

(2010) Market integration and technological

leadership in Europe Economic Papers 403

no February 2010 pp 1-152 (OJ)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 25

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 24: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

41 PhD ProjectsA number of PhD projects are directly related to

the research areas the LCIS is active in

bull Brouckmans Debbie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

Delen vanzonder gehelen individu gemeenschap

en natie in de kortverhalencyclus in Ierland

bull Coppens Eline (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Early adversity and fibromyalgia

bull De Ridder Reglindis (promotor Michael Cronin

DCU) Problems in translating English to Dutch

subtitle - heeft op aanbeveling van LCIS een

scholarship gekregen bij DCU Dublin City University

bull Dude Roxana Emanuela (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

De representatie van postkoloniale vrouwelijke

identiteiten in de twintigste-eeuwse Britse roman

bull Eggermont Stephanie (promotor Elke Drsquohoker)

A formal and thematic analysis of the contribution of

women writers to the birth of the modern short story

in Britain 1880-1910

bull Ghassemi Mehdi (promotor Hedwig Schwall in

co-tutelle met Universiteacute de Lille) Aspects of the

(post)modern consciousness in John Banvillersquos work

bull Jerves E (co-promotor Lucia De Haene) Sociale

marginalisatie seksueel geweld en relatievorming bij

alleenstaande adolescenten waarvan ouders

migreerden naar EuropaVS

bull Kempke Stefan (promotor Patrick Luyten) Pathways

to depression and functional somatic syndromes The

role of personality attachment and social cognition

bull Koelen Jurrijn (promotor Patrick luyten) Attachment

and mentalization in somatoform disorders

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull Lorenzini Nicolas (promotor P Fonagy copromotor

Patrick Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for

depression

bull Magerman Glenn (promotor Jan Van Hove

co-promotor Karolien De Bruyne en Patrick Van

Cayseele) Networks and Optimal Variety Strategies

in International Trade

bull Morales Silva Susana (promotor Juan-Pablo

Jiminez Universidad de Chile ndash copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Meanings and change associated with

suicidality The role of personality and attachment

bull Neicu Daniel (promotor Stijn Kelchtermans

co-promotor Jan Van Hove Peter Teirlinck

Reinhilde Veugelers) Innovation Policy and Clusters

in Europe Economic Performance of Young

Innovative Companies

bull Neyts Ciska (promotor Jane Ohlmeyer Trinity)

The Irish commanders during the 1640s

Importing the military revolution into Ireland

Scholarship of the IRCHSS Irish Research Council

for Humanities and Social Sciences

bull Nijssens Liesbet (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Parental mentalization Assessment and relationship

to attachment and social cognition

bull Rost Felicitas (promotor PFonagy co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) The Tavistock Adult Depression

Study (TADS)

bull Ruijten Tamara (promotor NVliegen ndash co-promotor

Patrick Luyten) Attachment trauma and mentalisation

in parent and infant development

bull Siouta Naouma (promotor Patrick Luyten)

Intergenerational transmission of attachment and

theory of mind The role of mentalization

Projects4

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 25: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Project financing by the Irish Department of Foreign

Affairs (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoCoordination of EFACISrdquo

bull Project financing by the Irish Embassy of Ireland

to Belgium (Hedwig Schwall) ldquoDigitization of Irish

Seventeenth-century documents in Belgiumrdquo

bull Subsidy FWO for the IASIL Conference 2011

(Hedwig Schwall)

bull Grant from the Fund of Scientific Research Flanders

(FWO) (Belgium) on The role of early adversity and

personality in Major Depressive Disorder versus

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome An ecological momentary

assessment and experimental study (2008-2012)

(Co-PIs B Van Houdenhove S Claes)

bull Grant from the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders-

Belgium (FWO) Personality and vulnerability for

affective spectrum disorders The role of gene-

environment correlations (rGE) and interactions (GxE)

(Co-PI Bart Soenens Nicole Vliegen Stephan Claes)

(01012012-31122015)

bull Research grant from the University Hospitals

KU Leuven Belgium (Co-PI Lukas Van Oudenhove) on

the Role of early adversity in fibromyalgia syndrome

bull Research grant from ZonMW (2011) Day hospital

mentalization based treatment versus intensive

outpatient mentalization-based treatment for patients

with severe borderline personality disorder A multi-

centre head-to-head randomized clinical trial (Co-PIrsquos

Jan Van Busschbach Dawn Bales Roel Verheul)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 27

bull Studnicka Zuzanna (promotor Filip Abraham

co-promotor Jan Van Hove) Measurement and

Determinants of Variety and Quality in International Trade

bull Touquet Heleen (promotor Peter Vermeersch)

Escaping ethnopolis postethnic mobilization in

Bosnia-Herzegovina (Defense January 2012)

bull Van Assche Lies (promotor M Vandenbulcke

copromotor Patrick Luyten) Attachment and social

cognition in dementia

bull Verdonck J (promotor Ortwin de Graef) LITTLE WARS

Campaigning in the Imperial Imagination 1867-1900

bull Ya-Wen Lee (promotor P Fonagy copromotor Patrick

Luyten) Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for depression

42 Research FundingThe LCIS was able to attract external funding for several

research projects

bull Co-application for a WOG with FWO ldquoThe Perpetrator

in Focus New Directions in Cultural Memory Studiesrdquo

University Gent (Stef Craps Gert Buelens et al)

Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies (Vivian Liska et al)

KU Leuven (LCIS Ortwin de Graef amp Hedwig Schwall)

University of Salford (Anthony Rowland Scott Webster)

and University of Stockholm (Stefan Helgesson

Pieter Vermeulen) (application)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 26: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

28 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull NIH-project (Lucia De Haene) ldquoResearch Project in

cooperation with New York University School of

Medicinerdquo Rol van (en betekenisgeving aan)

pre- amp postmigratie-stressoren in gezinsrelaties

bij vluchtelingen

bull Research project in cooperation with the Rehabilitation

and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT

Copenhagen) (Lucia De Haene) transcultural

exploration of attachments in child refugees

bull Brusselse Regering - Research Project on ldquoFuture

Perspectives for Brusselsrsquo Exports An Analysis

based on Bilateral Trade Flowsrdquo (promoters Jan Van

Hove amp Karolien De Bruyne) (2010)

bull FWO-project (Filip Abraham Jan Van Hove)

ldquoMeasurement and Determinants of Variety and

Quality in International Traderdquo (2010-2013)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoCan Belgian Firms survive the Chinese Dragon

and the Asian Tigersrdquo (promoters Filip Abraham amp

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Nationale Bank van Belgieuml - Research Project on

ldquoThe Desirability of the Investment Protection

Schemes offered by the suis Intellectual Property

Rights concerning Chips Computer Programs and

Databasesrdquo (promoters Jos Dumortier co-promoter

Jan Van Hove) (2011-2012)

bull Onderzoeksraad KU Leuven - Research Project on

ldquoImport Competition Product Switching and Product

Upgrading Application to the Belgian Industryrdquo

(promoter Hylke Vandenbussche copromoter

Jan Van Hove) (2009-2010)

bull Subsidy FWO for the Workshop on Economic History

2011 (Jan Van Hove)

Apart from applications for research funding along the

three main research lines the LCIS aims to find funding

for large interdisciplinary projects An IDO-project has

been applied for jointly by Patrick Luyten (Psychology)

Hedwig Schwall (Narrative Techniques) Reimund Bieringer

(Theology) Peter Vermeersch (Political Sciences) on

ldquoTrauma Forgiveness and Reconciliation A mentalization-

based approachrdquo The issue of Peace and Transformation

seems to be an important topic that is in many ways

related to the basic mission of the LCIS can be studied

from an interdisciplinary perspective and is able to

attract research funding as well as interest from

researchers and the public

On 10 November 2011 the LCIS presented its projects

at the KU Leuven poster platform of Research in the

Humanities Posters on the impact of mentalization on

troubled societies and on related narrative therapies were

presented by Stefan Kempke and Hedwig Schwall

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 27: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

51 Workshops andConferences Organizedby the LCISgt 22-24 January 2010 International Workshop on

Small Open Economies and the Economic Crisis

Causes impact and Solutions

in cooperation with INFER and Department of Economics

University College Cork

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr John McHale (National University of Ireland

Galway)

bull Dr Paul van den Noord (European Commission)

gt 11 March 2010 Workshop on Trauma and

Transformation

Organisation Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (Hans

Grietens and Patrick Luyten) in cooperation with the

Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation

Keynotes

bull David Bolton and Barney Devine

gt 21-22 October 2010 Research Forum on

Innovation and Valorization Bridges between

Universities and Business

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof dr Koenraad Debackere (KU Leuven)

bull Prof dr Stijn Kelchtermans (HUBrussel en

KU Leuven)

gt 28 October 2010 Symposium ldquoWar and

aristocracy in Ireland and the Low Countries in

the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Organized by the LCIS (Violet Soen)

Keynote speakers

bull Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin) The Irish

aristocracy as a military caste in the 17th Century

bull Ciska Neyts (Trinity College Dublin KU Leuven)

Official and unofficial war in the 1641 Depositions

bull Violet Soen (KU Leuven) Dutch nobles and

the Habsburg War (16th-17th Centuries)

gt December 2-3 2010 International Workshop

on Current Issues in Economic Geography

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove Karolien De Bruyne

Andreacute De Coster and Karen Crabbeacute)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Ronald Davies (UCD)

bull Prof Dr Marius Bruumllhart (University of Lausanne)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 29

Events5

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 28: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

gt 18-22 July 2011 Conflict and Resolution in Irish

Literatures

Conference organized by the LCIS in cooperation with

IASIL the International Association for the Study of

Irish Literatures (E Drsquohoker S Eggermont R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

Keynote speakers

bull Marianne Elliott (Centre for Irish Studies Liverpool)

bull Margaret Mills Harper (Glucksman Chair amp Head of

Research University of Limerick)

bull Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute

of Irish Studies Queenrsquos University Belfast)

bull Paacutedraig OrsquoMachain (School of Celtic Studies

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

gt 1-3 September 2011 Arrivals and Departures

Biennial Conference of EFACIS the European Federation

of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies at the

University of Salford UK

organised by Scott Brewster (University of Salford)

in cooperation with BAIS (Catherine Nash)

and EFACIS (H Schwall)

gt 1-3 December 2011 Facing Present Past

and Future

4th International Conference of BAAHE Belgian Association

of Anglicists in Higher Education at University College

Brussels Belgium in cooperation with the Royal Academy

of Belgium and LCIS (Lieven Buysse R Ingelbien

H Schwall)

The Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education

(BAAHE) organized its fourth international conference from

1 to 3 December 2011 at the Hogeschool-Universiteit

Brussel (University College Brussels) Belgium

Celebrating the associationrsquos 30th anniversary the inter -

disciplinary conference Facing Present Past and Future

wanted to map the various ways researchers deal with

the challenges they are faced with in the research fields

of English Linguistics English Literature Translation and

Interpretation Studies and ELT Interdisciplinary links

between these disciplines were particularly encouraged

gt 23-24 June 2011 International Workshop on

Recent Issues in European Economic Integration

and EU Enlargement

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove) in co-operation

with HUBrussel (Research Group Globalization

Innovation and Competition) and INFER

Keynotes

bull Prof Dr Jan Fidrmuc

bull Prof Dr Miroslav Jovanovic (European Institute of

the University of Geneva)

Venue Campus of HUBrussel

gt 20-21 October 2011 International Workshop on

the Economic History of Globalization

Organized by the LCIS (Jan Van Hove)

Keynote speakers

bull Prof Dr Jeffrey Williamson (HarvardWisonsin)

bull Prof Dr Cormac O Grade (University College Dublin)

30 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 29: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 31

bull Prof Dr Nikolaus Wolf (Humbolt Universitaumlt Berlin)

bull Prof Dr Ulrich Pfister (Universitaumlt Muumlnster)

bull Prof Dr Herman Vander Wee (KU Leuven)

gt 19 November 2011 Workshop on Migration in

Europe the Roma a comparative study

Organized by the LCIS (Peter Vermeersch)

This workshop gathered more than fifteen participants

from more than twelve countries among which Ireland

and many countries from Central and Eastern Europe

Aim of the workshop was to develop a European

research project about the Roma amp Travellers

gt 30 November 2011 Doctoral Seminar by Prof

Dr Robert Eaglestone (University of London Royal

Holloway Holocaust Research Center) on the

literature of testimony and mentalization

lsquoThe Public Secretrsquo Reading trauma in Kazuo Ishigurorsquos

Never Let Me Go (2005)

Location Leuven Centre for Irish Studies KU Leuven

Organized by the LCIS (H Schwall)

Many recent accounts in trauma studies rightly warn that

the term lsquotraumarsquo is overused Cathy Caruth reminds us

that the pathology of trauma is not the event itself or the

distortion of the event in memory but ldquoconsists rather

solely in the structure of its experience or reception

the event is not assimilated or experienced fully at the

time but only belatedly in its repeated possession of the

one who experiences itrdquo This paper explores the way

that these lsquostructures of traumarsquo extend beyond lsquotraumarsquo

proper into an array of other discourses

52 Conferences on IrishStudies in which LCISMembers Participatedbull Dhoker E (2010) George Egertons Feminine

Umwerthung Aller Werthe Women Writers of

the Fin de Siegravecle London 28-29 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Formal Ambivalence of

the Short Fiction of Somerville and Ross Ireland

Modernism and Fin de Siegravecle Limerick

16-17 April 2010

bull Dhoker E (2010) The Short Story Cycle in Ireland

International Conference on the Short Story in English

Toronto 16-19 June 2010

bull Dhoker E (2011) The Mother-Daughter Plot in

the Short Fiction of Claire Keegan Contemporary

Women Novelists Conference London 14-16 April

bull Dhoker E (2011) 1 That curious borderland

between modernism and the middlebrow the short

fiction of Elizabeth Bowen The Popular Imagination

and the Dawn of Modernism Middlebrow Writing

1890-1930 London 14-16 September 2011

bull Dhoker E (2011) Divergent Figures of the Author in

Mary Lavins Short Fiction The Figure of the Author

in the Short Story in English Angers 8-9 April 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoldquoMen who did not existrdquo

Irish tourists and the definition of a national eacutelitersquo

Irish Elites 17th SSNCI conference University of

Liverpool 30June-1July 2011

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 30: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Ingelbien R (2011) lsquoEen literair bemiddelaar in

bewogen tijden Thomas Colley Grattan in de (ex-)

Nederlanden 1828-1840rsquo lsquoProfiter selon ses besoins

avec ce household common sensersquo De receptie van

buitenlandse literatuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen

sinds 1700 Carl von Ossietzky Universitaumlt

Oldenburg 23-24 September 2011

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquo ldquoSt Begheacute is a most liberal saintrdquo

Feminism Liberalism and Nationalism in Lady

Morganrsquos Representation of Women Religious in

The Princess or the Beacuteguine (1835)rsquo Female religious

on the British Isles Interactions with the Continent

2010 HWRBI conference Leuven 1-4 September 2010

bull IngelbienR (2010) lsquoIrish Travel Writing Changing the

Subjectrsquo Irish Literatures Old and New Knowledges

2010 IASIL conference NUI Maynooth 26-30 July

2010

bull IngelbienR (2011) lsquoNew Points of Departure

Studying Tourism and Travel Writing from Irelandrsquo

Ireland Arrivals and Departures 8th EFACIS conference

University of Salford 1-3 September 2011

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoFaith and Family in W Trevorrsquos

Short Storiesrdquo IASIL Conference University of

Maynooth 27072010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoDe magie van Heremieten en

Feministen 15 eeuwen Ierse Literatuurrdquo Centrum

voor Europese Cultuur van de Koninklijke Vlaamse

Academie van Belgieuml voor de Wetenschappen en

Kunsten 09112010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoPossible psychic structures of

unreliable narratorsrdquo seminar given at the EFACIS

PhD seminar KU Leuven 10092010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoThree forms of Responsibility in

Brian Frielrsquos lsquoThe Home Placersquordquo SOFEIR conference

Universiteacute de Nantes 12032010

bull Schwall H (2010) ldquoTowards a new definition of

the lsquoNew Womanrsquo Rereading Yeatsrsquos ideas of

the individual on the basis on contemporary

psychoanalysisrdquo Conference on New Aspects of the

Fin de siegravecle University of Limerick 14042010

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoThe stranger in the self

short stories by William Trevor and Roddy Doylerdquo

Universiteacute Lille III 1602 2011

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoNew Trends in Irish Literaturerdquo

Universitagrave de Torino 15-16 April

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoDealing with trauma in

Contemporary Irish fiction Seamus Deane Anne

Enright and Colum McCannrdquo Universitaumlt Wuppertal

lecture in the International Lecture Series Narrating

Ireland 7 June

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoImperfect bodies in Anne

Enrightrdquo AEDEI conference (Spanish Association of

Irish Studies) at the Universidad de Oviedo -27 May

bull Schwall H (2011) ldquoIn the slipstream of daily marvels

the grammar of Vona Groarkerdquo EFACIS conference

University of Salford 3 September

32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 31: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

53 International PhDSeminarsThe LICS supports the Biennial Doctoral Seminar for

PhD-students in Irish studies in close cooperation

with EFACIS

gt 6-10 September 2010 Fins de Siegravecles

Developments in Irish literature history and culture

from 1890s to 1990s organized by the LCIS in

cooperation with EFACIS (Elke Drsquohoker Raphaeumll

Ingelbien Hedwig Schwall)

This was the first of a series of two-yearly doctoral

seminars which the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies of the

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven organizes in collaboration

with EFACIS and with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe The aim of this seminar is to give PhD students

in Irish Studies from different European countries the

opportunity

bull to present their research

bull to receive feedback from established scholars and

other students from a wide variety of backgrounds

bull to improve their methodological skills

bull to deepen their knowledge of the different aspects

of Irish culture history and society

bull to encourage the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas

and insights within the broad field of Irish Studies

The programme consists of

bull lectures by invited keynote speakers

bull theoretical-methodological seminars which discuss

the state of a given field or methodologicaltheoretical

approach on the basis of selected texts

bull student papers presentation of participants research

projects followed by discussion

bull tutorials individual discussions of participants

research with participating scholars

The programme is built around a central theme so as to

ensure coherence and facilitate the exchange of ideas

across the different disciplines The 2010 theme will be

the developments in Irish culture literature and society

from one fin-de-siegravecle (the 1890s) to the next (1990s)

In the course of this lsquolongrsquo century Ireland saw

considerable changes in terms of politics religion

economics and social organisation as well as in the

different domains of its culture We therefore invite those

students whose doctoral research investigates an aspect

of these developments to participate in this PhD-seminar

There were twenty-three participants from Italy Spain

the UK Ireland France and Belgium

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 33

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 32: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

Plenaries

bull Gerardine Meaney (Trinity College Dublin) Gender

Ireland and Cultural Change Anne Enright and the

Politics of Mourning

bull Margaret Kelleher (NUI Maynooth) History Memory

and Commemoration 1890s to 1990s Ireland

bull John Kelly (Oxford University) Crisis and continuity

in modernist Irish literature Interculturality

Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll Ingelbien KU Leuven)

Gender and narrative theory (Elke Dhoker

KU Leuven)

bull Tina OToole (University of Limerick) Irish Womens

migrant writing George Egertons The Wheel of God

(1898)

bull John Wesley Hutchinson (Universiteacute Sorbonne

Nouvelle - Paris3) Dominant themes in the Ulster-

Scots revival

bull Dominic Bryan (Queenrsquos University Belfast) Conflict

over public space in Northern Ireland anthropological

approaches to research

54 Research Seminarsin Irish StudiesOn a regular basis the LCIS (co-)organizes research

seminars in Irish Studies Topics covered in 2010-2011

include

bull Cultural studies (Jan Baetens KU Leuven)

bull Histoire croiseacutee and transnational history (Kaat Wils

KU Leuven)

bull Cultural memory (Pieter Vermeulen KU Leuven)

bull Translation studies (Reine Meylaerts KU Leuven)

bull Irish Theatre Globalisation and the Celtic Tiger

(Shaun Richards Staffordshire University)

bull lsquoGender and Narrative Theoryrsquo (Elke Drsquohoker

KU Leuven)

bull Interculturality Comparing Ireland (Raphaeumll

Ingelbien KU Leuven)

bull Psychoanalysis and literature (Hedwig Schwall

KU Leuven)

34 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Prof Margaret Kelleher

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 33: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

55 Student Presentations in Irish Studiesbull Verena Commins (NUI Galway) Contentment is

wealth conceptualising traditional Irish music as

a culture economy

bull Vanessa Silva Fernandez (University of Vigo)

Contemporary women poetry in Ireland and Galicia

bull Adam Hanna (University of Bristol) Representations

of domestic space in Modern Irish poetry

bull Claudia Luppino (University of Florence) From

John McGahern to Claire Keegan resistance to

postmodernism in contemporary Irish fiction

bull Tommasso Borri (University of Florence) Translation

of Italian works in Ireland

bull Lauren Clarke (University of Sunderland) Consumer

culture advertising and literature in Ireland

1848-1921

bull Ameacutelie Dochy (Universiteacute de Toulouse) British visual

representations of Ireland from the 1840s to 1922

bull Joanne McEntee (NUI Galway) The landed estate in

nineteenth-century Ireland

bull Luca Pascolini (University of Torino) Symbol

metaphor and reality in Yeatss work

bull Meabh Ni Fhuarthain (NUI Galway) Comhaltas

Ceoltoacuteiriacute Ēirann tradition and identity 1951-1973)

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (Universiteacute de Lille III) John Banville

beyond a postmodern consciousness a Lacanian

perspective

bull Ceacutecile Maudet (Universiteacute Rennes II) Displacement

and identity crisis in the works of Colum McCann

bull Theresa Mary Wray (Cardiff University) Social realism

in the short fiction of Mary Lavin

bull Stephanie Eggermont (KU Leuven) The Fin de Siegravecle

short story by women writers

bull Bridget English (NUI Maynooth) Death and dying

in the modern Irish novel

bull Theacuteregravese Cullen (Queenrsquos University Belfast) The role

of symbol and ritual in the representations of

St Patrick on his Feast Day

bull Melanie White (Universiteacute Paris III) The renewal of the

Greek and Latin traditions in the works of five poets

from Northern Ireland

bull Magali Trinquier (Universiteacute Rennes II) Drama

translation and staging in Ireland

bull Andrew Francis Maguire (University of Ulster - Magee)

Class ethnicity and participation Irish politics in

the West Riding c 1850-1925

bull Marie Violaine Louvet (Universiteacute Paris III) Ireland and

the crisis in the Middle East from 1968 to 2009

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 35

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 34: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

56 PhD networkNUI Galway ndash Lille III ndash KU Leuven ndash University ofLimerickgt 22 ndash 23 June 2011 LCIS Research Seminar in Irish

Literature and History in cooperation with NUI Galway

ndash Lille III ndash University of Limerick

bull Serena Moschietto (MA student NUI Galway)

Emily Lawlesss Grania between Romantic Tradition

and The New Woman Fiction

bull Stephanie Eggermont (PhD student KU Leuven)

ldquoThe contribution of women writers to the birth

of the modern short story in Britain (1880-1910)rdquo

bull Shelley Troupe (PhD student NUI Galway)

Language and Migration in Druid Theatres

Production of Tom Murphys Bailegangaire

bull Antonella Trombatore (PhD student University

Charles de Gaulle III) Humans Encounter Nature

in McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun

bull Mehdi Ghassemi (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle III-KU Leuven) Trauma and the Lacanian

subject of narration in Banvilles Birchwood

bull Benedicte Seynhaeve (MA student KU Leuven)

ldquoShakespeare and Irish Romanticismrdquo

bull Robert OrsquoKeeffe (PhD student Dept of English

NUI Limerick) ldquoMemoirs from below - Irish migrant

experiences in Britainrdquo

bull Therese McIntyre (PhD student in Irish Studies

NUI Galway) Performing Social Memory The Goacuteiliacuten

Singers The Liberties and the Mapping of Oral

History

bull Ciska Neyts (PhD student Dept of History TCD)

ldquoIrish siege warfare the case of Garrett Barryrdquo

bull Simon Hierle (PhD student University Charles de

Gaulle Lille III) ldquoDeveloping a Methodology to Study

the Crisis of the Irish Catholic Churchrdquo

57 Lecturesgt 2 March 2011 Prof Werner Huber (Universitaumlt Wien)

on Trauma on the Irish Screen Demythologizing Ireland

on the Screen

gt 9 March 2011 Clare OHalloran (University College

Cork) on Better without the ladies Women and the Royal

Irish Academy 1785-1985

gt 4 May 2011 HE Tom Hanney on ldquoCulture and

Identityrdquo in the Promotion room University Halls

ldquoIreland Dayrdquo at KU Leuven

gt 25 October 2011 Guest lecture by Ailbhe Ni

Ghearbhuigh (University of Galway) ldquoThe construction

of a Gaelic identityrdquo

gt Irish Language Classes 2011 In the months

October- November 2011 an Introduction to Gaeilge was

offered by Sean Orsquo Dubhghaill (IMMRC Interculturalism

Migration and Minorities Research Centre amp LCIS)

36 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 35: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

Ireland Day at KU Leuven

HE Tom Hanney Irish Ambassador to the Kingdom

of Belgium gave a lecture in the series Ambassadorrsquos

Lectures at KU Leuven ldquoCulture and Identityrdquo in the

Promotion room University Halls on May 4 2011

This was preceded by an introduction to the

relationships between Ireland and the Catholic

University of Leuven by Vice-Rector Bart de Moor

Since the sixteenth century many Irish students

found their way to Leuven nowadays such ldquostudent

mobilityrdquo is even further facilitated by the Erasmus

Programme He also explained that apart from

housing the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies the

academic heart of the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe this prestigious institute offers state of

the art conference facilities a great garden and

58 rooms for guests

Next Professor Hedwig Schwall gave an overview

of Irish history from the fifth till the twenty-first

century which was followed by the Ambassadorrsquos

fascinating attempt to define Irish culture

Highlights in the tragedies and comedies that befell

Ireland were the historic tensions between the four

provinces and thirty-two counties which are now

expressed in mild forms of rivalries such as in

hurling

It sounded like Ireland has the record number of

revolutions in Europe with the Easter Rebellion of

1916 as one of the most striking ones The great

famine (1845-1849) had a large impact on the rest

of Irish history Before the famine Ireland had a

population of around eight million people 50 years

later only four million remained The rest emigrated

or starved (around one million died) Mr Hanney

further explained some aspects of the differences

between Protestants and Catholics the clashes

between their identities and the following peace

talks and agreements Another part of Irish culture

is of course the Gaelic language estimated to be

spoken by around 40000 people on a daily basis

The Ambassador ended his lecture by focusing

on some big names in Irish literature apart from

its four Nobel Prize winners WB Yeats George

Bernard Shaw Samuel Beckett and Seamus

Heaney he mentioned James Joyce and

Oscar Wilde

For the full lecture please see

wwwkuleuvenbeenglishambassador_lectures

archive10-11LectureTH-Irelandpdf

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 37

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 36: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

58 Expertise

The Mellon Foundation granted the UCD Miacutecheaacutel

Oacute Cleacuteirigh Institute (dir John McCafferty and Edel

Bhreathnach) an important subsidy for an assessment

of the archives manuscripts and library of the Irish

Franciscans In this context Eddy Put stayed in Dublin

between November 15 and 19 2011 for a research audit

of the early modern Louvain archive material

The archives of Saint Anthonyrsquos college in Louvain have

an eventful history Transferred to Rome during the French

Revolution they were brought to Dublin about 1870

The friars kept this heritage for more than hundred years

Recently most of the archives have been transferred from

the friarsrsquo study house in Killiney to the UCD Archives

The lsquoLouvain archivesrsquo in Dublin are a mixture of lecture

notes loose letters by individual Franciscans and

ndash especially ndash the lsquoinstitutionalrsquo archives of Saint

Anthonyrsquos college The content is very diverse minutes of

meetings permissions to beg important correspondence

about the Jansenist controversy along with receipts of

the laundress and the local grocery store

There are financial documents about the rebuilding

of the college in 1736-1738 as well as the important

1700 regulations and correspondence about the endless

disciplinary problems with students

These archives do not only have an important research

value but also a high symbolic meaning They offer

fascinating opportunities for further research and the

Institute hopes that more funding will allow a thorough

arrangement and description Several other scholars

will participate in the assessment of other parts of

the collection in the months to come

The second LCIS member who was asked to assess the

Franciscan archives is Pierre Delsaerdt Invited by the

Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute (University College Dublin)

Professor Delsaerdt went in search of traces of the library

of the Irish College (and of the old University of Leuven)

both in the UCD library and in the Franciscan Library in

Killiney His stay from 16 to 20 January 2012 turned out

to be very rewarding He did his research for a project

financed by the Mellon Foundation

The reports by Put and Delsaerdt will be integrated

in a new project application which should allow the

researchers of the Miacutecheaacutel O Cleacuteirigh Institute to do more

in-depth research in the Franciscan materials if they will

get the necessary metadata they will provide a wealth

of books and archivalia for further exploration

38 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 37: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull On 20 Januari 2012 P Delsaerdt gave a guest

lecture in the series of the O Cleacuteirigh Seminars

Winter-Spring 2012 on Printing in the Southern

Netherlands in the early modern period

bull On 16 December 2011 H Schwall served as

external examiner in the jury for the PhD by Zeljka

Doljanin Anne Fogarty (sup) The Figure of the

Outsider and the Immigrant in the Work of John

McGahern and other contemporary Irish Writers

bull H Schwall functions as external examiner 2010-2011

for the MA in Irish Studies at University College Cork

She is also on the board of several Irish Studies

journals like Estudios irlandeses Studi irlandesi

Nordic Irish Studies and ABEI she is a reader for

Cork UP and the IRCHSS

bull After having been a member of the Editorial Board of

Program Electronic library and information systems

from 1984-2010 and Chairman from 2001-2010

Mel Collier will be Chairman of the editorial board

of LIBER Quarterly

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 39

Ireland Day at the Royal Academy Brussels with Prof Dr NicolasCanny Prof Dr Claire Connolly Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall

HE Mr Tom Hanney HE Mr Brian Nason Mr Barney Devine(Northern Irish Centre for Trauma Transformation)

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove Malachy Vallely Prof Dr Mark Eyskens

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 38: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

bull Ireland Day in the Royal Academy of Brussels

Centrum voor Europese Cultuur 9 November 2010

(organisation CEC with LCIS)

Programme Ireland Day

bull Welcome by Prof Dr Mark Eyskens Chair of CEC

and HE Mr Tom Hanney Ambassador

bull Introduction Hedwig Schwall General Director

Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

bull Prof Dr Malachy Vallely (Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe) ldquoChanging the political architecture in

Ireland post-agreement developments North

and Southrdquo

bull Prof Dr Jan Van Hove (HUBrussel and KU Leuven

LCIS) ldquoHet einde van de Keltische Tijger

Perspectieven voor de Ierse Economie na de crisisrdquo

bull Barney Devine (NICTT Northern Ireland Centre for

Trauma Transformation) History Trauma and Therapy

bull Prof Dr Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)

ldquoNeither here nor there Ireland under the Unionrdquo

bull Prof Dr Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway President of

the Royal Irish Academy) ldquoIreland and Europe

1600-1750rdquo

bull Prof Dr Hedwig Schwall (LCIS) ldquoDe magie van

hermieten en feministen vijftien eeuwen Ierse

Literatuurrdquo

bull Closing words Prof Dr Jan Roegiers (KVAB

KU LeuvenLCIS)

59 Cultural ActivitiesThe Centre seeks to promote Irish culture in partnership

with the Leuven Institute of Ireland in Europe and with

the Embassy of Ireland To this end the centre aims

to regularly invite Irish writers drama and music

performances exhibitions et al

In these activities the Centre through its close association

with the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe hopes to

play a wider role in the promotion of Irish Studies in

Europe and beyond through EFACIS Celtic Studies

the Irish Film Institute and other networks

bull On Friday 22 October the Festival van Vlaanderen

organized a workshop together with TRANSIT on

contemporary Irish music for students of Musicology

and the wider public At 830 pm the Nadar

Ensemble performed a sensitive number for the

laydeez (with video) by Jennifer Walshe in STUK

Naamsestraat Leuven

bull On Saturday 23 October at 11am STUK hosted

a lecture-performance by Dr Eve OKelley director of

the Irish Music Information Centre on New Music in

Ireland on institutions ensembles festivals composers

with a Cross-section of contemporary Music in

Ireland presented by Mary Dullea on the piano

bull 19 May 2011 Lecture by Shane OrsquoToole at the

opening of an exhibition called New Irish Architecture

Building the Republic (20 May-5 July 2011) in

Museum M in Leuven

40 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 41

bull 26 November 2010 Lecture by Prof Dr Fran Orsquo

Rourke on Irish Songs of James Joyce with readings

by the Irish poet Aidric mac Aodha

bull 19 July 2011 Poetry reading by Mary OrsquoMalley in

the Central Library Reading Room with reception

afterwards

bull 21 July 2011 Concert by Daire Halpin and Sergey

Rybin ldquoThe Other Womanrdquo the Belgian premiere

of Nico Muhlys The Adulteress as well as songs

of Schumann Liszt Coward and arias of Lehar and

Debussy With poetry by Mary OrsquoMalley performed

in the Pieter de Somer Aula

bull 23 July 2011 Paintings and Printing presses

Irish guests of the IASIL Conference are given a tour

of Antwerp the highlight of which is the Plantyn

Moretus Museum

bull 24 July 2011 Tour of Flanders Fields (Tyne Cot

Mesen Peace Park and Tower)

bull 22 October 2011 a sensitive number for the

laydeez by Jennifer Walshe By the Nadar Ensemble

with video organized by the Festival van Vlaanderen

(TRANSIT) in cooperation with ISCM Ireland and

ISCM Vlaanderen (ISCM International Society

for Contemporary Music)

bull 8 September 2011 The Boys of St Columbrsquos

by Maurice Fitzpatrick screening with introduction

on the role education played in the formation of

a new generation of musicians writers politicians

and journalists

bull 26-27 September 2011 Celebration of Sineacutead

Morrisseyrsquos poetry in the Brussels Metro This is a

project of EUNIC on European poetry EUNIC is the

European Union of National Institutions for Culture

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut the Instituto

Cervantes the Alliance Franccedilaise the British Council

and the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe a poet

was chosen from each country who had written on

the topic of the effect of journeying on the mind

A short poem of each poet was translated from the

original into Dutch and French and the LCIS was

asked to select and translate a poem for Ireland

Northern Ireland Our choice was Sineacutead Morrisseyrsquos

ldquoIn Belfastrdquo So during the month of September

some advertisements in the Brussels metro stations

were replaced with this Northern Irish poetrsquos work

that was translated by Raphaeumll Ingelbien and Hedwig

Schwall

bull 23 October 2011 Dr Eve OKelley amp Mary Dullea

Lecture-performance in STUK by Dr Eve OKelley

director of the Irish Music Information Centre on new

music in Ireland (institutions ensembles festivals

composers) Mary Dullea presented a sample section

of contemporary music in Ireland on the piano

bull 24 October 2011 Anne Frankrsquos Diaries by the Opera

Theatre Company Ireland

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 40: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

gt Royal Irish Academy

Monday 22nd February 2010

On Monday 22nd February 2010 the directors of the

LCIS had a half-day meeting with Irish colleagues who

are interested in collaborating with the LCIS The Royal

Irish Academy who hosted the event welcomed

researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences from

all over Ireland This meeting was a follow-up on the

meetings between the Leuven Centre and University

Management at TCD UCD and at the general hearing at

the Department of the Taoiseach in 2009 This seminar

hosted by the Academy provided the Leuven Irish

Studies programme directors with the opportunity to

meet with scholars in Ireland

Gathering members from all Belgian universities at

the LCIS the Centre wants to bring about synergies

between Belgian and Irish universities This is one level

of cooperation but as the LCISrsquo international network

is essential to its work the cooperation intends to

internationalize further

gt Strategic Cooperation with INFER

International Network for Economic Research

INFER is a strategic partner of the LCIS in order to

organize its international economic events In September

2011 Jan Van Hove became the chairman of INFER

gt Strategic Cooperation with EUSARF

Hans Grietens is the founder of EUSARF the European

Scientific Association on Residential and Foster Care

for Children and Adolescents Patrick Luyten is Adjunct

Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

New Haven (USA) Visiting Professor at the Research

Department of Clinical Educational and Health

Psychology at University College London and member

of the Evaluation of Research Proposals and Results

Subcommittee of the International Research Board of

the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)

gt Strategic Cooperation with IASIL

Given common interests the LCIS cooperates intensively

with IASIL The LCIS hosted the IASIL Conference

gt Strategic Cooperation with EFACIS

As EFACIS is an integral part of the aims LCIS set

itself we briefly want to present the organisation

Hedwig Schwall is currently president of EFACIS

42 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Networking6

Prof Dr Mark Waer (Rector of KU Leuven) Mrs Geraldine Byrne-Nasonand Mr Seamus Heaney

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 43

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies(EFACIS)

The European Federation of Associations and

Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) resulted from

a meeting in Paris of specialists in Irish Studies

from nine universities (Braga Leuven Lille London

Madrid Paderborn Paris Reims Wolverhampton)

in 1996 with the aim of giving Irish Studies a

European dimension The approach initially adopted

was to create the opportunity for the establishment

of a meaningful network and exchange of experience

by organising conferences in Centres of Irish

Studies across Europe

Since then EFACIS has grown to include

475 members in 20 European countries Austria

Belgium Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic

Denmark Hungary Ireland Italy Finland France

Germany the Netherlands Norway Poland

Portugal Romania Spain Sweden and UK

The membership consists of international

associations such as NISN (Nordic Irish Studies

Network) and AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish

Studies) national associations (eg SOFEIR

Socieacuteteacute Franccedilaise drsquoEtudes Irlandaises) regional

associations (eg NEICN the North-East Irish

Culture Network) Centres (eg the Centre

for Celtic Studies in Turin the Centres for

Irish Studies in Aberdeen A Coruntildea Dalarna

Debrecen Peacutecs Prague Wuppertal Vienna etc)

as well as individuals

The EFACIS mission statement is To promote

interest in and support for the expansion of Irish

Studies throughout Europe

EFACISrsquo focus is the study and debate of all

aspects of society culture and literature of the

Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland and the Irish

diaspora within the humanities and social sciences

(psychology political sciences sociology law

economics)

To achieve its objective EFACIS

1 organizes biennial conferences (1998 Universiteacute

Charles-de-Gaulle Lille (1998) consecutively in

Paris Aarhus Minho Gotheborg Seville Vienna

and Salford (2011)

2 offers international PhD seminars in the

alternative years - essential for the supply of

lecturers to the Centres of Irish studies across

Europe (starting in Leuven in 2010)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 42: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

44 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

3 harnesses IT to promote open access to make

as much material available to scholars in all

countries

So far the main tool for dissemination of current

research in EFACIS is Irish Studies in Europe

a multidisciplinary series which consists of

selected papers from EFACIS conferences

but which is also open to other monographs

published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag

Trier (Germany) wwwwvttrierde

The intention is that it will become an open

access journal in which EFACIS members

can publish It also wants to congratulate

the Spanish and Italian colleagues with

their electronic journals

wwwestudiosirlandesesorg and

wwwfupressnetindexphpbsfm-sijis

4 supports other new centres and regional

networks and targets countries where Irish

studies is weak or almost non-existent

5 The Irish Itinerary

EFACIS is in the process of developing The Irish

Itinerary This on the one hand creates the

opportunity for Irish writers and artists to

tour their work and it gives Irish and other

academics in comparative Irish topics the

opportunity to summarize their own research

in the form of an exhibition which can tour

the whole or some of the subcircuits

With EFACIS members stretching from Agder

in Norway and Dalarna and Harnosand in mid-

Sweden over Aarhus to Aberdeen Sunderland

Utrecht Leuven Lille Paris Rennes Wuppertal

Siegen Prague Vienna Debrecen Peacutecs

Zagreb Torino Trieste Roma and A Coruntildea

Oviedo Braga and Porto the potential for the

Irish Itinerary is enormous

When fully developed the Irish Itinerary can

function as a power house both for Irish writing

and for Irish culture in the broader context

It will present the results of Irish academics in

an accessible and visual form to colleagues

and especially to the wider public in Europe

Equally this concept could help to bring the Irish

perspective of its commemorations in the period

2014-2018 to a much wider audience while at the

same time Italian Hungarian French Germanhellip

researchers and artists may interact with those

from Ireland It can also be a useful tool for

promoting interest and understanding about

Ireland during the Irish EU Presidency in 2013

6 EFACIS and other networks

EFACIS works closely with other networks

engaged in specific specialized areas of Irish

studies and other (INFER EUSARF IPA) to

achieve maximum impact Its most important

partner is IASIL (International Association for

the Study of Irish Literature) the largest and

oldest organisation of Irish Studies in the world

(wwwiasilorgaboutindexhtml deg1969)

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 45

The EFACIS focus differs from that of other

organisations in that its geographical spread is

more limited than IASIL (focus on Ireland in

Europe) but its field of research is broader than

most other organizations (ACIS CAIS AEDEI

ABEIhellip) as it encompasses all disciplines

within the Humanities and Social Sciences

economics sociology political sciences

psychology literature and culture philosophy

theology and the arts in so far as they relate to

Ireland EFACIS conferences aim at bringing

together academics on a multi- and inter -

disciplinary basis often creating the potential

for issues to be seen in a new perspective

Another unique effect of the interactions brought

about by EFACIS is that the comparative aspect

of much of the research undertaken by its

members opens up the Irish perspective to

European dimensions

Because of its multidisciplinary network we

believe that Irish Studies has the potential to be

a special testing ground in European research

While it is a well-defined microcosm in which

disciplines can converge it invites comparisons

with other countries so that both the inter -

disciplinary and the international dimension

can be mutually elucidating

First LCIS-EFACIS PhD seminar in September 2010

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 44: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

71 ExilesSince 1548 when the first Irish student enrolled in Leuven

thousands of Irish have studied at the Leuven University

A majority of first-generation Irish (arch)bishops of the

Counter- Reformation were alumni of Leuven Some of

them died as martyrs for the Catholic faith others made

careers in Rome or Leuven Indeed at some point the

Irish professors were so popular that three of them in

a row were elected to be president of the university

Thomas Stapleton the most famous of them was

re-elected seven times the KU Leuven commemorated

him by putting his magnificent funeral portrait on

the Universityrsquos Annual Calendar of 2011

Meantime the great Irish orders found their way to

Leuven too which resulted in no less than four Irish

Colleges In 1607 the exiled Irish Franciscans founded a

friary and college in Leuven as the English church had

made the education of the Catholic clergy in Ireland

impossible

The college in Leuven with Antonius of Padua as a

patron saint became the mother college of six other

colleges of the Irish Franciscans on the European

mainland and it was the first institution of its kind

founded by the Irish friars Following this example

a college for the Irish Dominicans and one for the

education of the secular clergy was founded in Leuven

The Carmelites finally started a missionary college

but that was also open to non-Irish students

Likewise Irish students could profit from scholarships

in non-Irish colleges like the Holy Spirit College where

the Irishman John Sinnich was president from 1641 until

1666 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the

Irish and the Dutch formed the largest group of foreign

students at the University

As the LCIS is housed in the Franciscan College of

St Anthonyrsquos we focus on its history In 1607 the English

authorities tried to extend their jurisdiction over

the northern territory of Ulster but Ulster said No to

Protestantism Rather than living according to English

law the Ulster aristocracy chose to go into exile

46 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

History of the Irish in LeuvenLobhaacutein 1607-20107

The Irish College built in 1617

The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe aka the Irish College

When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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When they left in September 1607 in what was famously

called the Flight of the Earls they landed in Leuven

where the local rulers welcomed them The Franciscan

Florence Conry was one of the confidants of the exiled

Irish leaders and he received financial and moral support

from the King as well as the approval of the Pope and

the cooperation of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella and

the university authorities The college was opened in

1607 in a temporary building and in 1617 the Archdukes

laid the first stone for the permanent house in Pig Market

at present called the Pater Damiaanplein

72 Teaching andResearch The foremost task of the college of St Anthony of Padua

was the education of the Irish Franciscans (friars who would

then return to Ireland and work there as missionaries)

The college was a part of the University although the

students were educated directly at the college itself

From the very beginning of its existence the college

had at its disposal a library which grew significantly over

two centuries due to the donations of the Irish and other

benefactors As the teachers of the college engaged

in intellectual activities their need for books grew

A systematic policy of purchasing books was introduced

in the eighteenth century Before the closure of the

college the French commissioners confiscated several

important pieces the most important of which are now

in the Royal Library in Brussels After the college was

closed most of the remaining books returned to Ireland

In the early years of St Anthonyrsquos key figures in the

Franciscan community at Leuven and elsewhere realised

that cultural conditions were changing in Ireland

They discerned that the old Gaelic culture was in danger

of extinction and they dispatched several scholars

to record disappear Over the next eleven years the

Franciscans directed this project from Leuven the fruits of

which would appear in the celebrated Annals of the Four

Masters (Annaacutela Riacuteoghacta Eacuteireann) This monumental work

covers a period of approximately 4500 years starting

in prehistory and terminating in 1616 Further to their

heroic efforts to preserve the national history of Ireland

the friars established a flourishing publishing enterprise

which included not only an Irish dictionary but also

the creation of the first typeface for printing in Irish

Hugh Ward John Colgan and mainly the lay brother

Miacutecheaacutel OacutersquoCleacuterigh collected and copied the old Irish

texts which among other things led to the editorship

of the Annals of the Four Masters a compilation which

preserved an important part of the medieval Irish heritage

The college was closed in 1796 by the French Republic

but the friars managed to remain in residence until 1822

The Brothers of Charity moved in but the Franciscans

were able to buy the building back and repair it a century

later In 1927 the college was solemnly re-inaugurated

in the presence of the archbishops of Armagh and

Westminster Meanwhile the university had been

suspended by the French revolutionaries but it was

re-established in 1835 picking up its old ties with Ireland

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 47

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 46: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

Again students from Ireland enrolled and the university

showed its sympathy for Ireland in granting honorary

degrees to two Presidents of the Irish Republic Eamon

De Valera (May 1966) and Mary Robinson (2006) At the

Irish Franciscan College the work of the friars has been

continued by the new Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe

which has existed since 1986 and to whom the friars

gave the house in 2002

In 2007 the university and the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe decided to work more closely together to

celebrate the fourth centenary of the Irish College with

a few international conferences The first one focused

on The Irish in Lobhaacutein It drew many historians

philosophers and theologians to Leuven where staff from

these three faculties worked together with the University

Archive directed by Jan Roegiers to organize an

exhibition on the topic A second major conference

on Irish Women Writers was organised by the Department

of Literary Studies The Research Unit English Literature

has a long-standing tradition in Irish Literatures and in

the building of Irish networks in Europe KU Leuven was

the first to host an Erasmus Intensive Programme in Irish

studies (2000) which brought students and professors

together from thirteen different countries and universities

(Aarhus Braga Cambridge Chemnitz Cork Dublin

Gdansk Goumlteborg Leuven Lille Prague Rennes Verona

and Wolverhampton) in Europefor a multidisciplinary

programme on the theme of Politics and Patronage

National and Regional Identities and their Representation

in Irish Literature Film and Music (September 2000)

History Philosophy and Theology at the KU Leuven have

an equally longstanding interest in Irish studies which go

back to the historically close links between the university

and the Irish colleges (as evidenced by the 2007

celebrations) Many manuscripts of St Anthonyrsquos

containing important material concerning the university in

the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are unedited

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies wants to facilitate

this research especially since this study will greatly

contribute to the intellectual

history of the Low Countries

and the History of the University

The collections of KADOC

the Catholic Documentation

Centre will also provide a lot

of interesting material for

comparative studies between

Ireland and Belgium

73 Opening on22 March 2010The new Leuven Centre for Irish Studies was inaugurated

on Monday 22 March 2010 Among the eminent guests

were Irelandrsquos Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheaacutel Martin

and the countryrsquos most famous poet Seamus Heaney

who was admired by students and sympathizers

academics and politicians He famously observed

48 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Anne Enright visitingLeuven October 2007

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 47: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

ldquoI decline a lot of invitations but this is a historic

moment The relationship between this college and

Ireland is ancient After the so-called lsquoFlight of the

Earlsrsquo a number of Gaelic lords scholars priests

and poets spent the winter of 1607-8 here while the

Franciscans looked after them For two centuries

after that Irish learning was served here by the exiled

intelligentsia You could draw an analogy with the

Jews having to flee from Europe to America in the

1930s The Irish college has become a cultural and

educational resource with which some of the most

important ancient documents of Ireland are

associated Leuven is part of our intellectual historyrdquo

As the subject of his speech Heaney chose his poem

ldquoAlphabetsrdquo (1984) which went to the heart of the LCIS

programme He focused on the L in Lobhaacutein the L of

learning leabhar (book)

gt Seamus Heaney ldquoLambdas on the Stubblerdquo

ldquoIn the Greek language the letter L is represented by

a lambda the initial letter of logos the transcendent

word which was in and from the beginning In the Irish

language on the other hand where letters of the alphabet

have ancient and arcane associations with trees L is

linked to luis the rowan tree and in the corpus of tree

lore the rowan is associated with divination

And since an early poem of my own happens to be a

portrait of the poet as an old water diviner I wanted to

use a few poems like divinerrsquos rods in order to locate and

explore the meaning and importance of the institution we

are here to celebrate But first I must dwell a little longer

with the L character

In Latin L stands for littera meaning a letter of the

alphabet the written character without which there could

be no litterae in the plural no letters in the sense of

learning and literature and literacy And no liber meaning

no book and so in Irish no leabhar and no leacuteinn meaning

learning Today however chiefly and triumphantly

L is for the link between Dutch Leuven and Irish Lobhain

a link which is symbolized by the L character in that

original font of Gaelic type which was cut here in the

early seventeenth century

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 49

Audience enjoying Heaneyrsquos talk

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 48: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

50 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

In particular we celebrate the fact that that L now stands

not just for links to the past but to the future also links

guaranteed by the opening of this Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies a centre which will maintain local and historical

significance of the Irish College and at the same time

strive to be international contemporary and ecumenically

inclusive

So the L now stands for an institute and a centre that

accommodates and is accommodated by three

languages ndash Irish English and Dutch In Irish therefore

we might call the place treacute ne ceacuteile a phrase meaning all

mixed up in itself And in the English spoken in the north

of Ireland we might call it through-other which also

means mixed up Usually of course to be mixed up or

through-other is regarded as a negative state a condition

requiring some kind of separation or straightening out

But what needs to be emphasized this afternoon is

something I have written about on another occasion

namely the positive virtue of such mixed-upness and

through-otherness Think for example of the positive

way in which the fortunes of religious cultural and

intellectual life in Ireland have been mixed up with the

College of St Anthony in Leuven over the course of four

centuries Think of the positive amplification of possibility

that occurs when borders are open not only between

countries but between cultures Think of the extension

of sympathy and release of potential that happens when

we stop regarding what is beyond our borders as lsquootherrsquo

and begin to open up to it and live so to speak

through-other

This is surely what the Leuven Institute for Ireland in

Europe stands for for study and exchange

For the interanimation of mind and imagination by the

scholarship and academic exchange already happening

at the new Centre for Irish Studies Not so much a matter

of reculer pour mieux sauter as a matter of taking a leap

away in order to learn better who an where we are when

wersquore at home Of learning as Joycersquos Stephen Dedalus

put it that the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead

When we think of Joyce we realize how deeply

significant the European adventure has been in the

history of Irish intellectual and artistic achievement

Our twentieth-century genius at his exilersquos desk can be

seen as both a repetition and fulfilment of the work of

fabled precursors St Columbanus for example in the

sixth century composing his Latin hymns on the Rhine

or the ninth-century author of lsquoPangur Baacutenrsquo at his

intricate verse-craft and penwork in his scriptorium in

Carinthia or Micheaacutel OrsquoCleacuterigh at his heroic labours as

scholar and annalist in his study in Leuven and with his

collaborators in that convent in Donegal

Students from Campus Kortrijk in conversation with S Heaney

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 49: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

Today at the start of this new era in the history of

relations between Ireland and Leuven and more

specifically between the Institute for Ireland in Europe

and the Catholic University of Leuven it is proper once

again to give thanks for the indispensable work of

generations of Franciscans and other orders who held

the door open for Irish students and scholars in time of

persecution at home and to rejoice in the continuation

of that work of learning and research in the newer

more promising conditions of Europe in the twenty-first

centuryrdquo

From Seamus Heaneyrsquos lecture at the inauguration

of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies ldquoLambdas on

the Stubblerdquo

gt Prof Margaret Kelleher

ldquoThe launch of the Centre for Irish Studies at the

University of Leuven is a groundbreaking and highly

welcome initiative fusing the long traditions of Irish

learning at Leuven with newly emerging multidisciplinary

research It takes place at an especially important time

when the significance of international centres of

education and research in promoting and sustaining Irish

studies has come to be recognised more fully It therefore

joins a dynamic international network ranging from Satildeo

Paulo to Montreal Leuven to Beijing lsquoIrish studiesrsquo is not

a single model each of these centres has developed its

own expertise and interests reflecting the specificity of

its location and membership and this specificity is key to

the continuing vitality of our discipline

We look forward to the development of Irish studies

in Leuven and to continuing our rich and dynamic

collaborationsrdquo

Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa

NUI Maynooth) Chairperson of IASIL the International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

gt Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

ldquohellip On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of this Irish

College President McAleese expressed the hope that

Irelands heartland in Leuven would continue to flourish

for many centuries to come I have no doubt that the

Centre for Irish Studies will go a long way to ensuring

that this heartland will grow and I want to pay a warm

tribute to the many people who have worked to make

the Centre a reality and to ensure that this part of Ireland

in the heart of Belgium will continue to play a vital role

in the life of the beautiful city of Leuven

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 51

Panel on Irish Studies in the world Prof Dr Anne Fogarty (UCD)Prof Dr David Clarke (A Coruntildea) Prof Dr Margaret Kelleher (NUIMaynooth) Prof dr Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven) Prof Dr WernerHuber (Universitaumlt Wien) Dr Karine Bigand (Paris VIII)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 50: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

We Irish have so much for which to be grateful to Leuven

and to the longstanding partnership with what has long

been one of Europersquos great universities Future students

of Irish studies will continue to be inspired by the great

work which took place in the Irish College over the four

hundred years since its Franciscan founders were

welcomed here by the University and the City

From here the historian Micheaacutel Oacute Cleacuteirigh directed

a huge programme of collecting materials relating to the

history of Ireland effectively assembling the collective

memory of Gaelic Ireland The resulting Annals of the

Four Masters gave Ireland a national island-wide history

for the first time allowing it to take its place among

the nations of Europe Leuven became an important

repository of medieval Irish manuscripts and had a

seminal influence on the preservation and evolution of

the Irish language The first text printed in Ireland had a

font developed here in Leuven The first Irish dictionary

and grammar were published in Leuven

And later in the 1980s the Irish

College was transformed into the

Irish Institute for European Affairs

later the Leuven Institute for Ireland

in Europe as a centre to promote

good relations between Ireland

and our European neighbours and

partners One of the critical early

successes of this new Irish College

was that it opened a space where

officials from both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland

could encounter one another and build the trust which

later enabled the full potential of the peace process

to be unlocked

These encounters often happened with the participation

of experts from the University a reminder that the links

between the College and the University are very much

part of our living heritage

In short our shared history here in Leuven brings us

to where we are today

In the first area of the Centrersquos activities the Humanities

that relationship is nowhere better illustrated than by the

presence here this evening of one of Irelandrsquos greatest

literary figures - Seamus Heaney - our latest Noble

Laureate - in English

Just as the Irish College at Leuven was part of a network

of 35 Irish colleges stretching from Lisbon to Prague

so the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will build links with

centres of Irish studies all across Europe thus amplifying

the study and debate of all aspects of Irish society north

and south and of Irish culture and literature (drama

fiction poetry) within the humanities and social sciences

As in centuries past this will contribute to keeping Irish

interests close to the centre of the European political and

cultural agenda driving us forward as Heaney puts it

lsquofrom the frontier of writingrsquo I also believe that as in the

past Irish culture will once again be enriched by this

dialogue and interaction with Leuven and Flanders

In the second area of activities peace and reconciliation

we join forces through the Centre in facilitating the study

of conflict management peace building and reconciliation

This builds on our historical connections Leuven a safe

place of learning and refuge in times of turmoil hellip

52 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The first IrishGrammar printed

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 51: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

But also a place at Europersquos crossroads the Flandersrsquo

fields where almost a century ago so many suffered and

died in that Great War The new Europe that we have built

has in a spirit of reconciliation put the fears of another

such terrible conflict between neighbours behind us hellip

Working together with Britain in partnership in Brussels

helped create the relationships and trust which enabled

the Good Friday Agreement hellip

It is appropriate that the Leuven Institute will be at

the heart of peace studies given its recent role as a

sanctuary where relationships key to fostering peace and

reconciliation in Ireland have been nurtured The fruit of

these labours is that the Irish Government now works

closely with the Northern Ireland Executive in all key

policy areas central to our islandrsquos development

In building all-island infrastructure just as in facing

common challenges like climate change and energy

security we are stronger when we share and weaker

when we work alone

And still looking to the future equally important is

the third area of focus - Economics Business Law

Innovation and Valorisation Here I believe we share three

goals first improving our understanding the market

which as the recent banking and economic crises have

demonstrated is critical to the health of small open

economies such as Ireland and Belgium second defining

the challenges of the changing world economy to our

businesses and developing the strategies to meet

these challenges lastly and perhaps most importantly

reinforcing and realigning existing policies and programmes

so as to maximise the benefits of innovation and derive

the best return from applied research and development

Last week my Government published a landmark

Innovation Task Force Report aimed squarely at facing

these challenges and making the transition for Ireland to

a smart green economy The report maps out a creative

mix of measures aimed at growing entrepreneurship

transforming enterprises and boosting research

and development

But as the report recognizes this strategy will only

succeed if it is built on a higher education system which

fosters independent thinking encourages creativity and

privileges innovation through international collaboration

These are the essential ingredients to developing a

successful innovation ecosystem as a means of returning

our respective economies to dynamic growth We have

high expectations for the work of the Centre in this area

This brings us neatly back to our physical surroundings

in this centre of excellence which is Leuven Once again

I believe that todayrsquos innovation heralds a new era of

partnership between us our third level institutions

and our administrations

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 53

Mr Martin Caroline Nash Director of the Leuven Institute for Irelandin Europe and Mr Eddy Sullivan Chairman of the LIIE

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57

58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

Page 52: Annual Report 2010-2011 - KU Leuven · • Prof. Dr. Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin) ... (Trinity College Dublin) • Prof. Dr. Hans Grietens (University of Groningen)

54 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

The success of any such initiative of course depends

very much on the human capital that can be mobilised

and on high levels of support goodwill and ingenuity

The ability to network these resources will also be key

We in Ireland who are fortunate to have a huge Diaspora

worldwide have already taken major steps in this

direction Last month I had the pleasure of launching the

Global Irish Network an ambitious initiative to harness

the talents of members of the Global Irish community

Irish people from different regions and different sectors

who have a record of high achievement in their fields and

who all share a strong connection to Ireland This Global

Network is being extended to Belgium but I also know

that Ambassador Nason is working to establish a local

network of Irish Professionals here which will complement

the work of the Global Irish Network and also engage

collaboratively with the Leuven Centre

I will follow the Centrersquos progress with great interest and

I want to assure you again of my Governmentrsquos strong

commitment and support

Mr Micheaacutel Martin Minister of Foreign Affairs

gt Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

hellip the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies will focus on

specific research areas such as Literature History

Peace Studies Economics and these areas are all very

relevant for the Flemish government as well

First of all Peace Promotion and Conflict management is

gaining more weight in the Flemish foreign policy So the

Flemish Government will take and support initiatives in

Flanders which respond to the commemoration of

the Centenary of the Great War hellip

Flanders as one of the major battlefields of the WWI

will in concert with equal-minded partners underwrite

a declaration testifying to the reality that war and human

misery have not yet been banished from human

interaction and that respect for international law and

human rights cooperation amongst peoples disarmament

and regional integration remain the key towards a better

future

In the field of Economics we realize that in times of

crisis we need more than ever international cooperation

to find common solutions With an export ratio exceeding

100 Flanders maintains a strongly internationalized

economy hellip Despite budgetary restraints the Flemish

Government wants to carry on its commitment to achieve

the European objective to spend 3 of the gross domestic

product on Research and Development by 2014 hellip

Minister Martin signing the LCIS agreement with HE Mr Brian NasonAmbassador and Prof Dr Mark Waer Rector of KU Leuven

Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

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Yet innovative transformation hellip cannot exist without

the knowledge institutes which focus on specific clusters

such as IT healthcare smart logistics and smart grids for

sustainable energy

Therefore we are very glad that the Leuven Centre for Irish

Studies is cooperating with Irish colleagues and institutes

working closely together in the field of digitization the

impact of which will only growhellip in various policy areas

such as culture innovation research education tourism

mediahellip all for the publicrsquos benefit

I wish the ldquoLeuven Centre for Irish Studiesrdquo a lot of

success I am convinced the Centre will mean an

important stimulus to the Flemish-Irish cooperation and

will reinforce the strong ties that already exist between

our two countries

Mr Kris Peeters Minister-President of Flanders

and Flemish Minister of Economics Foreign Affairs

Agriculture Fisheries and rural policy

gt The LCIS Logo

Central is this specific form of letter L cut in Leuven

and used for 350 years of printed works on Irish culture

ndash so what is traditionally understood as ldquoIrish Studiesrdquo is

at the heart of this enterprise Next there is the blue ball ndash

ldquoan aquaceous singular lucent Ordquo1 ndash our globalised

world in which small open economies like Belgium

and Ireland Flanders and Northern Ireland have to find

creative ways to develop and flourish and third there is

the warm yellow of Europe a flame of inspiration but also

two caring hands that hold that world because peace is

a prime condition to let all the other disciplines unfold

and care the ingredient that helps people to be resilient

in disturbing times

1 Seamus Heaneyrsquos poem ldquoAlphabetsrdquo III v 19

LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 55

Prof Dr Jan Van Hove with the musicians of the group Fergus

In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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In the future the LCIS will continue its research through

research projects the (co-)supervision of doctoral theses

and the organization of workshops conferences and

doctoral seminars which result in publications relevant to

many different disciplines in their focus on Ireland and

countries with comparable challenges

In its support for EFACIS the LCIS also wants to intensify

cooperation between Centres of Irish Studies throughout

Europe mainly by offering biennial PhD seminars and by

setting up the Irish Itinerary Consistent with our policy to

open up Irish Studies both to other disciplines apart from

the classical fields of Literature History and Culture

and to researchers in more recent member counties of

the EU we will employ young scholars from Central and

Eastern Europe to help develop links with researchers

there We will encourage Open Access to make our

publications available to as many scholars as possible

and hope to welcome many more researchers to the

Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe in the future

For 2012 two conferences on the Short Story are scheduled

(May amp November 2012) and one interdisciplinary

conference on Peace Studies Trauma and Resilience

(August 2012) which is the outcome of a series of

interdisciplinary LCIS seminars In addition there will be

workshops on travel literature (March) and on international

economics one of which in cooperation with University

College Cork (June 2012) and one in cooperation with the

National University of Ireland Maynooth (October 2012)

EFACIS statutes have recently been agreed whereby

EFACIS will become a non-profit organization established

under Belgian law with its seat at the Irish College in Leuven

In September the Second biennial EFACIS ndash LCIS PhD

seminar in Irish Studies will focus on lsquoIrish timersquo this will

be followed by a Round Table discussion on the place of

Irish Studies in Europe and the World (7-8 September)

For 2013 the Irish Itinerary is preparing a programme with

writers and artists in partnership with the National Library

of Ireland 2013 will be a special year as Ireland will have

the European presidency May the presidency offer Irish

Studies another boost to both research and culture in

2013 as we will have much to reflect on for the period

2014-2018

All new events and projects will be announced

on the LCIS website wwwirishstudieskuleuvenbe

56 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

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