Trinity College, Dublin's School of History and Humanities, in association with the Keough-Naughton Institute and the Department of Irish Language and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, will hold a symposium on December 6 on the topic of European folklore. The symposium will interrogate the themes explored by Diarmuid Ó Goilláin, professor of Irish language and literature and faculty fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute, in his landmark new publication Exotic Dreams in the Science of the Volksgeist: Toward a Global History of European Folklore Studies (2022).
Bringing together colleagues from a range of disciplines (History, Irish Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures) the session will be an open ended conversation about the intersections between language, colonialism, folklore, and ethnography.
Speakers:
- Professor Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam)
- Dr. Patrick Crowley (University College Cork)
- Dr. Róisín Healy (University of Galway)
- Dr. Nessa Cronin (University of Galway)