Call for Papers: IASIL Galway 2025

21-25 July 2025

Technology and Ireland

Principal themes and topics addressed by the conference might include:

New Literary Technologies and Irish Writing
Printing and publishing technologies
Irish literature and social media
Digital Archives
Online Databases and Irish Literature
Digital surveillance and its literary representations
Irish Modernism and Technology
Technologies of sound in Ireland
Irish fiction, poetry and drama on radio
Irish literature and drama on television
Dystopia and technology in Irish fiction
Translation and technology in Ireland
Technology in Irish theatre, drama and performance
Irish film-poetry
AI writing and Ireland
Big Data and imaginative Irish literature
Technology’s impact on the Irish language and minority languages
Unreliable narration in the digital age
Precarity, technology and Irish literature
Sustainability and technology in Irish literature
Critical frameworks (national, postcolonial, revisionist, neo-Marxist etc) and technology
Technological Irish futures
Big Tech in Irish Literature

In keeping with IASIL’s general practice, papers are also invited in other areas of Irish literary studies.

Please send 300 word proposals to iasilgalway@gmail.com by the deadlines below.

The conference runs in Galway from 21-25 July 2025, coinciding with the second week of the Galway International Arts Festival.

First deadline for proposals: Wednesday 27 November

Prospective delegates are reminded that you must be a member of IASIL in order to present a paper at the conference.

Full details here

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