1. The 1916 Rising and Central Europe
2016 Commemoration Symposium
Pázmány Péter Catholic University,
Budapest,
in Association with
the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies,
Keough School of Global Affairs,
University of Notre Dame

3. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
Department of English Literatures and Cultures Wednesday, October 19, 2016

4. Programme (Sophianum Building, Mikszáth tér)
Morning Official Welcome: Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Ft. Dr. Fodor Győrgy; Irish Ambassador to Hungary, HE Pat Kelly : The Irish Rebellion: Roundtable Discussion of Film Prof Christopher Fox, Prof Thomas Bartlett, University of Notre Dame: Dr. Michael McAteer, Assoc. Prof, Pázmány Péter Catholic Univeristy Moderator: Judith Fox, Clinical Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Coffee Break Ireland’s struggle for Independence in the First Half of the Twentieth Century in terms of Irish-Hungarian Parallels Dr. Lili Zach, National University of Ireland, Galway T.W. Rolleston and Arthur Griffith: Contrasting Responses to the 1916 Rising in terms of Polish and Hungarian Experience Dr. Michael McAteer, Pázmány Péter Catholic University Lunch break

5. Afternoon : Patrick Pearse and the Hungarian Language Movement of the 1820s-1830s Dr. Eglantina Remport, Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest : Coffee Break : Children of Oppressed Nations Poles Apart: Polish Responses to the 1916 Rising Dr. Wit Pietrzak, Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland : Break : Roundup Discussion