From July 24-28, 2017, the IASIL2017 Conference was held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, which had the largest number of Chinese scholars to attend over the history of the Association’s Annual Conference. Eight scholars and postgraduates of the China’s Irish Studies Network attended the meeting and presented their papers.

The theme of this year’s Final Programme was “The Irish Writers of the 21st Century”. And near 200 specialists and scholars from more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, South and North Americas, and Oceania presented their papers.

Scholars from China’s Irish Studies Network who attended this meeting and presented their papers included Wang Zhanpeng (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Chen Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Li Chengjian (Southwest Jiaotong Univeristy), Séamus Feng Jianming (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics), Li Yuan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) , and Tian Ju (ShanXi University of Finance and Economics). The titles of their papers are: Historical Studies and the Interdisciplinarity of Irish Studies in China, Routes and Roots in Aolm Toibin’s Brooklyn, From Seamus Heaney to Brian Friel: Holding a mirror to contemporary Irish writing since the 1960s, James Joyce and Irish Humour, W.B. Years’ Encounter with the Noh Theatre: Anti-theatricality and Nationalism at the Hawk’s Well, and Acceptance and Impact of Augusta Gregory and her Works in China.