Brendan Behan at 100: Legacy and New Directions
Preliminary programme 23-24 June 2023
Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University, Prague
ALL EVENTS WILL BE IN ROOM 111 (1st FLOOR)
Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague 1, Czech Republic
Conference Programme
All times are CET
Friday, 23 June 2023
09:00 – 09:30
Registration
09:30 – 10:00
Conference Opening
Ondřej Pilný, Charles University
H.E. Cliona Manahan, Ambassador of Ireland
Nathalie Lamprecht, Charles University
10:00 – 11:15
Keynote: Deirdre McMahon
Chair: Nathalie Lamprecht
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Panel 1: Bilingual Behan
Chair: Daniela Theinová
Radvan Markus, Charles University “A linguistic rebellion: multilingualism and heteroglossia in Brendan Behan’s work”
Brian (Breen) Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame “When Behan Met Irish?”
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Panel 2: Brendan Behan in Other Media
Chair: Clare Wallace
David Livingstone, Palacký University “Brendan Behan Sings Irish Folk Songs and Ballads”
Marie Gemrichová, Charles University “Memory of Brendan Behan in 20th and 21st Century Popular Music”
Matthew Sweney, Palacký University “No Author Worse Served: Brendan Behan’s Book Covers in the UK”
15:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15
Panel 3: Brendan Behan: Man and Myth
Chair: Brian (Breen) Ó Conchubhair
James Little, University College Dublin “’The Most Cooperative of Writers:’ Brendan Behan’s Collaborations”
Fergus Whelan “Battlefields of the Poor: Brendan Behan and the Whelans of 69 Benburb Street Dublin”
Sarah Ritt, University of Vienna “The Chronotope of the Public House in Behan’s Confessions of an Irish Rebel”
19:30
Brendan Behan in Concert
Featuring Conamara Chaos with special guests David Livingstone and Matthew Sweney
Kavárna Liberál
Heřmanova 6, 170 00 Praha 7-Holešovice
Saturday, 24 June 2023
09:30 – 10:45
Keynote: John Brannigan
Chair: Ondřej Pilný
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Panel 4: Behan’s Legacy at Home and Abroad
Chair: James Little
Virginie Roche-Tiengo, University d’Artois “Brendan Behan’s Legacy in France”
Ondřej Pilný, Charles University/Anglo-American University, Prague “On the Significance of Selected German and Czech Productions of The Hostage”
Nathalie Lamprecht, Charles University “Hidden Irelands in the Short Fiction of Brendan Behan”
12:30 – 12:45
Closing Remarks
12:45
Lunch