VIRTUAL BLOOMSDAY 2021

16 июня 2021

June 16, 2021, Zoom Pro
(all time St. Petersburg, Russia)

(organization by the Irish Cultural Centre of St. Petersburg, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, with the support

by Embassy of Ireland in the Russian Federation,

Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, Art Square St. Petersburg Art Gallery)


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  • 11.00-11.30. Opening of the annual international conference

“Ireland and Russia: the Past and the Present” (2006-2021)

Greeting word by H.E. Ambassador of Ireland to the Russian Federation Brian McElduff;

Greeting word by Prof Julia Komarova, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia;

Greeting word by Olga Koroleva, Senior Officer of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg.

  • 11.30-14.00. Morning Session of the Conference

(paper – 20 min, discussion – 10 min).

ChairDr Andrey Mashinyan,

Director of the Irish Cultural Centre of St. Petersburg,

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.

  • 11.30-12.00. Dr Ksenia Kudenko (University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland)

“Life on the Margins: Manuscript Marginalia as a Source for Microhistory”;

  • 12.00-12.30.  Dr Hiram Morgan (University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland)

“Tudor’s View of Ireland and Russia”;

“John Synge’s “Playboy” on the Russian Stage: the Spirit of Revolution”;

  • 13.00-13.30. Prof Joseph O’Leary (Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan)

“George Moore and the Matter of Ireland”;

  • 13.30-14.00. Prof Natalia Bochegova (Department of English Philology, Chair, Kurgan State University, Kurgan, Russia)

“Search for Identity and the Dialogue of Cultures” (Ireland, USA, Russia) in F. McCourt’s Memoir “Tis”.

  • 14.00-15.00. Lunch Break.
  • 15.00-17.30. Daytime Session of the Conference

(paper – 20 min, discussion – 10 min).

ChairDr Andrey Mashinyan,

Director of the Irish Cultural Centre of St. Petersburg,

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.

“Zinaida Gippius’s “Why” and Nikolay Gumilev’s “Gondla”: Reflections of Easter Rising 1916 in Russia”;

  • 15.30-16.00. Dr Philip McDonagh (former Ambassador of Ireland to the Russian Federation; Centre for Religion, Human Values, and International Relations, Director, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland)

“Gumilev’s “Gondla”: What Kind of Revolution”;

  • 16.00-16.30. Dr Tatiana Ponomareva (Vladimir Nabokov Research Centre of the Russian Émigré Culture, Director, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia)

“Pavel Leopoldovich Leon: James Joyce’s Eurasian Knight”;

  • 16.30-17.00. Prof Hedwig Schwall (Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, Director, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

“From “Dubliners to “Multitudes”: Joyce’s Inspiration and Caldwell’s Transfiguration”;

  • 17.00-17.30. Dr Julia Sergaeva (Institute for Foreign Languages, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia)

“Joyce’s Creativity in Progress: from First to Final Draft”.

  • 17.30-18.00. Coffee/Tea Break.
  • 18.00-18.30. “Virtual Bloomsday 2021”

Musical video film with traditional Irish harp music performed

by Anastasia Sergeeva (Luxembourg), Anastasia Yegorova

(St. Petersburg) and Ksenia Kudenko (Cork);

Introduction and photo-art collages of St. Petersburg and Ireland

by Andrey Mashinyan.

  • 18.30-19.30. “Bloomsday Literary Readings 2021”

Online literary readings in partnership with St. Petersburg

art-gallery Art Square (live demonstration on screens).
Participants – Irish writers Eibhear Walshe, Danny Denton, Danielle McLaughlin, Laura McKenna, Catherine Kirwan.
Introduction by Dr Andrey Mashinyan and Dr Eibhear Walshe (Creative Writing, Director, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland).


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