Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ) Newsletter Winter Term 2025/26

Course:
ISWÜ members will be offering the following course for students:

• Jennifer Meier: Teaching Ireland – Virtual Exchange with the University of Limerick #ISWÜ (04097331)
  For registration, please see WueStudy: https://wuestudy.zv.uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Guest Lectures:

• 02.12.2025: Dr. Loic Wright (University of Wuppertal, Germany), "Class, Identity, and the New Stereotypes of Irishness in Netflix’s House of Guinness (2025)“. For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/guest-lecture-dr-loic-wright/
• 22.01.2026: Dr. Raphael Zähringer (University of Tübingen, Germany), "Post-Tiger Ireland“
  For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/aktuelles/single/news/guest-lecture-dr-raphael-zaehringer/

 

Event Registration:
You can now easily register for all upcoming ISWÜ events on our website: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/activities/event-registration/ 

 

Certificates:
All participation in ISWÜ courses and events can be documented for students on three ISWÜ certificates, one of them even allowing to earn ECTS for FSQ and Freier Bereich: Irish Studies Würzburg #ISWÜ (04099990). For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/teaching/certificates/

 

Internships:
We are offering Digital Humanities & Irish Studies internships for JMU students in cooperation with CELT at University College Cork, Ireland. For more information, please see: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/teaching/internships     

 

Videocasts:
Videos of most of the past ISWÜ events can be found on our website:
https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/video-podcasts/videocasts/

 

Social Media:
You can find us (and follow us) on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky.

 

Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft Würzburg:
A range of extracurricular activities open to all students and colleagues will be organised by our cooperation partner, Deutsch-Irische Gesellschaft Würzburg:
https://www.dig-wuerzburg.de/veranstaltungen-termine/

 

PREVIEW SUMMER TERM 2026
For the summer term, we are delighted to announce the annual J. M. Synge Lecture, which will be given by Prof. Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) on "Synge and Wicklow: Places to Plays". More information will be announced on our website.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our events.

Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann, Prof. Dr. Maria Eisenmann,
and the whole team of Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ)
https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/home/

 

Irish Studies Würzburg (ISWÜ) Newsletter Winter Term 2025/26 (PDF)