The Institute of English Studies (Department of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture) will host a research seminar on “Landscape and Identity in Contemporary British and Irish Literature”.

The plenary lecture „Invoking Ireland: Celticity, Landscape and Identity in Irish Literary Tradition” will be given by Dr Jenny Butler of University College Cork. The programme of the seminar is attached. The seminar will be accompanied by Dr Butler’s talk about “The Traditional Irish Ritual Year and Calendar Customs” at the Ethnographic Museum.

This project is financially supported by the Irish Studies Programme funded through the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, and the programme “Excellence Initiative − Research University” at the Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków.