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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
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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
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LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57
58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011
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)
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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)
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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)
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
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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
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
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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
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)
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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)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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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)
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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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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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)
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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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Journal of Economic Policy Reform 14 (2)
pp 151-170 (IT)
bull De Bruyne K and Van Hove J (2012) Explaining
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Geography Approach Applied Economics
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Structure in Belgium International Journal of
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A Belgian flat income tax effects on labour supply
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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
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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
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
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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
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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)
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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
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bull Luyten P and Fonagy P (2011) Depressie en de
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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
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syndromen [Psychodynamic factors in functional
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Houdenhove P Luyten amp J Vandenberghe (Eds)
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[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)
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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
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
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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
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The Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and
Outcome in Psychodynamic Hospitalization-Based
Treatment for Personality Disorders A 12-month
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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]
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neurowetenschap De geest in de machine
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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
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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)
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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
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bull Bieringer R (2011) The Comforted Comforter
The Meaning of παρακαλέω or παράκλησιςTerminology in 2 Corinthians in HTS Teologiese
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES | 57
58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011
58 | ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011