Exile

An international conference on the topic of Huguenot culture and exile in the early modern period. This event will mark the publication by the Irish Manuscripts Commission of the diary and financial accounts of Elias Bouhéreau, a Huguenot refugee who died in Dublin in 1719.

The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.