IASIL, the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures in cooperation with LCIS, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

18-22 July 2011

Venue: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe (LIIE), unless indicated otherwise

Conference Programme:

Conflict and Resolution in Irish Literatures

Monday 18 July 2011:

14.00-17.00: Registration of participants

14.30- 17.00: IASIL Board meeting

17.00: Official opening of the conference by

H.E. Tom Hanney, Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland; H.E. Jonathan Brenton, Ambassador of the United Kingdom; Prof. Dr. Mark Waer, Rector of the KU Leuven; Caroline Nash, Director of the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe; Prof. Dr. Hedwig Schwall, Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies

17.30: Keynote lecture by Margaret Harper (University of Limerick): ‘The clock has run down and must be wound up again’: Yeats’s Violent Vision (Chair: Elke D'hoker)

19.00: Reception

Tuesday 19 July 2011:

9.00-10.30: parallel panel sessions

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Efficacy of Form (Chair: Michaela Schrage-Früh)

- Meg Tyler (Boston University): Returns: Recent Poems by Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley

- Michael Parker (University of Central Lancashire): ‘Twelve Gates, Twelve Foundations’: Form and Revelation in Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain

- Heather Clark (Marlboro College): Befitting Emblems: Irish Poetry in the Early 1970s

Land War Fiction I (Chair: Margaret Kelleher)

- James H. Murphy (DePaul University, Chicago): Frenzied form: the Land-War novel

- Derek Hand (St Patrick’s College, Dublin): Responses to the Land War in A Drama in Muslin

- Tina O’Toole (University of Limerick): The New Woman and the Land War

Metaperspectives on Irish Theatre (Chair: Mary Massoud)

- Adriana Capuchinho (University of São Paulo): Meta-ritual in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer

- Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (Brazilian Association of Irish Studies): Brian Friel in Brazil: a case study

- Amal Mazhar (University of Cairo): Exilic Identity Conflict in Tom Murphy, Martin McDonagh and Yussef El Guindi

Aesthetics of Redemption: McCann and Banville (Chair: Hedwig Schwall)

- Cécile Maudet (University of Rennes): ‘They just don't know what it is they're doing’: reconciliation and redemption in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

- Laura Izarra (University of São Paulo): Let the great narrative spin: a poetics of relations

- Mehdi Ghassemi (Charles de Gaulle University, Lille III): Psychotic Structures in John Banville’s Mefisto

Genres (Chair: Stefanie Lehner)

- Claire Lynch (University of Brunel): ‘Sure, they don’t even know how to play hurling there!’: Multiculturalism and Family Conflict in Irish Teen Fiction

- Katharina Rennhak (University of Wuppertal): Sebastian Barry: Conflict and Resolution across the Genres

- Fiona McCann (Charles de Gaulle University, Lille III): ‘The End of the World as We Know It’: New Forms for a New Era in Contemporary Fiction from the North of Ireland?

10.30-11.00: coffee

11.00-12.30: Keynote lecture by Pádraig O’Machain (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, DIAS): Gaelic exiles in Louvain in the early 17th century: their poetry and their books (Chair: Jan Roegiers)

12:30-14.00: lunch

14.00-15.30: parallel panel sessions

Resolving Lyric: Poetry by Seamus Heaney and Medbh McGuckian (Chair: Ailbhe Darcy)

- Ailbhe Darcy (University of Notre Dame): Reading Medbh McGuckian Transnationally

- Nathaniel Myers (University of Notre Dame): Troubling Ethics: Responsibility and Tradition in Heaney’s Poems for the Northern Irish Dead

- John Dillon (University of Notre Dame): ‘Whatever You Say Say Nothing’: The Honest Utterance in Seamus Heaney’s North

The Theatre of Politics

- Radvan Markus (Charles University Prague): Ironic Myths and Broken Images - Literary ‘Resolutions’ of 1798

- Frederik Van Dam (University of Leuven): Nationalism versus Liberalism: Anthony Trollope on Home Rule and Abandonment

- Anna Hanrahan (University of Wüppertal): Closeness and Conflict in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs and Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan

Early Twentieth Century Theatre (Chair: Patrick Burke)

- John Brannigan (University College Dublin): On a Wet Rock in the Atlantic: J.M. Synge, A.C. Haddon, and Island Ethnologies

- Julie McCormick (University of Illinois): To be National or not to be National?: Divided Loyalties and Appropriated Flags in John Connolly’s Under Which Flag? and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars

- Alexandra Poulain (Charles de Gaulle University, Lille III): The Passion of Harry Heegan: Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie

Women Writers (Chair: Tina O'Toole)

- Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin): The Lives of Others: Memory and Desire in Molly’s Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden and The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

- Claudia Luppino (University of Florence): “‘How come they do nothing?’ […] ‘They’re men’, she says, as if this explains everything.” Gender conflicts and resolutions in Claire Keegan’s fiction

- Theresa Wray (Cardiff University): Bitter and Sweet: Representations of the grandmother in Maeve Brennan’s The Visitor and Maura Laverty’s Never No More

15.30-16.00: coffee

16.00-18.00: parallel panel sessions (four speakers)

Conflicts and Resolutions in Literary Recollections of the Great Famine (Chair: Marguérite Corporaal)

- Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University): Mediating Maidens and Mothers: Conflict, Resolution and the Role of Gender in Early Literary Recollections of the Great Famine

- Lindsay Janssen (Radboud University): Neither here nor there: Pastoral landscape as a resolution to conflicted transnational Identity in Irish diaspora fiction, 1860-1890

- Christopher Cusack (Radboud University): ‘Their hearts are like a feather, though they haven’t a sixpence in the thatch’: Gaelic Revivalism and Famine in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Novels

- Ruud van den Beuken (Radboud University): ‘It is the business of the Theatre to be theatrical’: Modernist Poetics, Cultural Trauma, and the Performance of Famine Memory at the Gate Theatre

Beckett’s Stylization of Conflict (Chair: Sean Kennedy)

- Sean Kennedy (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax): Samuel Beckett, famine memory and the discontents of humanism in Endgame

- Mary M.F. Massoud (Ain Shams University, Cairo): Conflict and resolution in Beckett’s Endgame

- Leonard Madden (University College Cork): ‘scarred signaculum’: Productive Conflict in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Dortmunder’

- Kiminori Fukaya (University of Toyama): Use of Play: Conflicts and Resolutions in Samuel Beckett’s Stylistic and Generic Choice

Joycean Views on Conflict (Chair: Anthony Lake)

- Yi-peng Lai (Queen’s University, Belfast): The Tree Run, the Foresters Parade, ‘The Green Hungarian Band’: Politics of the Green Performance in James Joyce’s Ulysses

- Alison Lacivita (Trinity College Dublin): Rus in Urbe: Country vs. City in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

- Soichiro Onose (University of Tokyo): Politics in the Graveyard: Post-Parnellite Dublin in James Joyce’s ‘Hades’

- Hsiu-yuan, Chen (University of Turku): ‘No, That’s Noise’: The audio cannibalism in Joyce's Ulysses

Women's Identities (Chair: Fiona McCann)

- Pilar Villar Argaiz (University of Granada): The multicultural agenda of women poets in Ireland

- Michaela Markova (Trinity College Dublin/Brno): Motherhood and schizophrenia as alternative strategies to imposed identity – Kate O’Riordan’s Involved and Anna Burns’s No bones

- Yuri Yoshino (Hitotsubashi University): The Madwomen in the Laundry: Conflicting Femininities and Struggles for Narrative Authorities in Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed

- Laura O'Connor (University of California, Irvine): Transgressive Brides: Contemporary Beast-Marriage Poems

Language, Memory, Symbolism: Reconciling Conflicting Identities in Irish Literature (Chair: Irena Grubica)

- Eishiro Ito (Iwate Prefectural University): ‘A Suave Philosophy’: Reconciling Religious Identities in Joyce’s Works

- Irena Grubica (University of Rijeka): Counter Memory in Brian Friel’s Plays: Conflicting Identities and History-Making

- Britta Olinder (University of Goteborg): Friends and Enemies: Conflicts and Resolutions in John Hewitt’s Work and Career

18.30: Refreshments with carillon music - Venue: Central Library

Poetry reading by Mary O’Malley - Venue: Central Library (Reading Room)

20.00: Reception hosted by the Irish embassy - Venue: Central Library

Wednesday 20 July:

9.00-10.30: parallel panel sessions

Water Voices: The Imagination of Water in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Chair: Matthew Campbell)

- Jody Allen Randolph (Westmont College, Santa Barbara): ‘The kind of body that enters blueness’: Environmental Crisis and the Imagination of Water

- Patricia Coughlan (University College Cork): Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the Sea Beneath: Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Postmodern Ireland

- Moynagh Sullivan (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): ‘Just let me moisten your dreamwork’: Dreams and Water in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

Translation of Cultures: Germany - Ireland

- Dorothea Depner (Trinity College Dublin): ‘British to my Irish core’: Christabel Bielenberg’s construction of a self-image in her memoirs

- Joachim Fischer (University of Limerick): Boston or Berlin? Dimensions of a topical controversy in the Irish world of Letters

- Sandra Mayer (University of Vienna): ‘Practically Rewritten – and Sexually Reoriented’: The Critical Controversy Surrounding the Viennese Première of Elfriede Jelinek’s Adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest

Beckett on Conflict

- Kazuhiro Doki (Aichi University of Education): Belacqua’s Painful Case in More Pricks Than Kicks

- Ahmed Gamal (Ain Shams University/Columbia University, NY): Eastern Thought in Beckett’s Trilogy: A Postcolonial Reading

- Paul Fagan (University of Vienna): The Jest of all Possible Worlds: The Comedic Conflict between Reality, Fantasy, and Representation in Swift, Sterne, Joyce, O’Brien, and Beckett

Colm Tóibín (Chair: Laura Izarra)

- Scanlan, Margaret C. (Indiana University South Bend): Varieties of Silence: The Clerical Abuse Scandals in Colm Tóibín’s Empty Families

- Danielle O’Leary (University of Western Australia, Perth): Conflict and Memory in the Irish Family: The Work of Colm Tóibín

- José Carregal Romero (University of Vigo): The subversion of canonical definitions of family in Colm Tóibín´s The Empty Family

10.30-11.00: coffee

11.00-12.15: parallel panel sessions

Social Realism in Contemporary Irish Film (Chair: Werner Huber)

- Thomas Korthals (independent scholar): Tears, Smiles and Children: Views of early 1960s Ireland from abroad

- Mark Schreiber (University of Siegen): Religious and Ethnic Conflict and (no) Resolution in Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss (2004)

- Noélia Borges (University of Bahia): Film Adaptation: Compatibilities and disharmonies in Joseph O’Connor’s Red Roses and Petrol (1995)

Haunting Drama (Chair: Riana O'Dwyer)

- Eugene Mcnulty (Dublin City University): The Girl Who Didn’t Die: Boucicault’s Colleen Bawn and Ireland as (non) crime-scene

- Nicole Winsor (University of Auckland): The Disruptive Other: Phantomatic Hauntings in W.B. Yeats’s Purgatory

- Mª del Mar Gonzalez Chacon (University of Oviedo): Conflict and Resolution in Marble by Marina Carr

Bowen and Egerton (Chair: Theresa Wray)

- Niamh Helena Dowdall (Trinity College Dublin): Battling the ‘relentless enemy’: women, beauty and ageing in Elizabeth Bowen’s writing

- Sinead Mooney (National University Ireland, Galway): ‘Attractive Modern Homes’: Houses, Hotels and History in Elizabeth Bowen

- Stephanie Eggermont (University of Leuven): Narrative voice and perspective in the short stories of George Egerton and Sarah Grand

Translation of Conflict: Comparison of Cultures (Chair: Britta Olinder)

- Yi-ling Yang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan): Languages in Collision? Translation Writing in Ulysses and Rose, Rose, I Love You

- Mélanie White (Paul Verlaine University, Metz): Finding peaceful alternatives through the renewal of classical myth in the poetry of Michael Longley and Derek Mahon

- Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University Seoul): Transnational Cultural Contamination: The Poetries of Yeats, Bennett, Cha, and Martinez

12.15-13.00: lunch

13.00-18.30: option between

-Leuven: Museum M

-Leuven: Food Walk

-Brussels: Guided Tour

19.30-20.30: Reading by Seamus Deane: The French Invention of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (Chair: Hedwig Schwall) - Venue: Main University Halls (Promotion Hall)

Thursday 21 July:

9.00-10.30: parallel panel sessions

Memory and Violence in Ireland (Chair: Michael Parker)

- Victoria Connor (University of Aberdeen): The Representation of the Magdalene Laundries in the Work of Patricia Burke Brogan

- Emma Grey (University of Aberdeen): Paul Seawright’s Conflicting Account

- Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen): ‘I Could Not Tell’: The Representation of Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Northern Irish Culture

18-19^th Century Versions of Irish Conflict (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien)

- Christina Morin (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Attractive Chivalric Fantasies?’ Conflict in and about Early Irish Gothic Fiction

- Tetsuko Nakamura (Nippon Medical School): Travel Accounts of Connemara and Joyce Country in the 1830s

- Riana O’Dwyer (National University Ireland, Galway): Conflict and Resolution in Lady Morgan’s Woman; or, Ida of Athens (1809)

Deirdre Madden’s Solution to the Northern Conflict (Chair: Elke D'hoker)

- Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon): ‘I wondered what it was to be Molly Fox’: Ethics and aesthetics in Deirdre Madden’s novel

- Marisol Morales-Ladrón (University of Alcala): The (de)construction of the Northern Irish conflict in Deirdre Madden’s fiction

- Zuzanna Sanches (University of Lisbon): Not such Innocent Pain: Deirdre Madden’s The Birds of the Innocent Wood

Contemporary Northern Irish Drama (Chair: Caroline Magennis)

- Stefanie Lehner (University College Dublin): Performing the Peace Process: The Politics of Conflict and Reconciliation in Recent Northern Irish Drama

- Fiona Coffey (Tufts University, Boston): Controversial and Unpopular Challenges to the Northern Irish Peace Process: the dramatic counternarratives of Abbie Spallen and her female contemporaries

- Megan W. Minogue (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘But One Life to Give’: Conflicting Loyalties in the Plays of Gary Mitchell

10.30-11.00: coffee

11.00-12.30: Keynote lecture by Marianne Elliott (Director of the Institute for Irish Studies, University of Liverpool): The Historic roots of communal conflict in Ireland and what might be done to address them (Chair: Johan Verberckmoes)

12.30-14.00: lunch

14.00-15.30: parallel panel sessions

Masculine Discourse on Contemporary Conflict (Chair: Eamonn Hughes)

- Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação (University of São Paulo): An Autumn Wind: The Ancient and the Contemporary in Derek Mahon’s recent poetry

- Anna Asian Carrera (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Home, a strange, shifting territory in Brendan Kennelly’s Cromwell

- Sharon Phelan (The Institute of Technology, Tralee): Themes of Conflict and Resolution in the Poetry of Brendan Kennelly

Pathology, Parable and Pilgrimage (Chair: Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos)

- Ondrej Pilny (Charles University, Prague): Parables? Pathological Interaction in the Recent Plays of Enda Walsh

- Mariese Ribas Stankiewicz (University of São Paulo): Unveiled and Concealed Secrets of the Gunpowder Plot: Ambiguity in Speaking like Magpies by Frank McGuinness

- Filomena Louro (University of Minho): Classical pilgrimage: healing or catharsis. The use of classical themes in Modern Irish Drama

Conflicts in Crime Fiction

- Michael McAteer (Queen’s University Belfast): Beyond Revisionism? Conflict (Ir)resolution and the limits of ambivalence in Kevin McCarthy’s Peeler

- John Scanlan (Indiana University): Dublin Noir, Brooklyn Noir: A Question of Appreciation

- David Clarke (University of La Coruna): Freeman Wills Crofts and the birth of the police procedural

Translating Traditions (Chair: Marianne Elliott)

- Chantal Dessaint (University of Lille III): Orality and Literacy in three of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Short Stories

- Patrick Burke (St Patrick’s College Drumcondra): The Kilmore Carols and Productive Misconceptions

- Dominic Bryan (Queen's University Belfast): Symbols and Text: Flags and Territory in Northern Ireland

Conflict in Contemporary Poets (Chair: Gisèle Wolkoff)

- Maurice Harmon (National University Dublin): Eavan Boland. Dislocation and Definition

- Teresa Perez Tilve (University of Santiago de Compostela): ‘Let me be. There is much / I am starving for.’ Conflicting identities in Eithne Strong’s poetry

- Fuyuji Tanigawa (Konan Women’s University, Kobe): Re-writing memories: the significance of the poet’s returning home in The Spirit Level

15.30-16.00: coffee

16.00-18.00: parallel panel sessions (four speakers)

Gender and Conflicted Identities: Local, National and International Contexts (Chair: Michael Kenneally) (GREP)

- Pat McMahon (University of Limerick): Brendan Bracken, An Irish Rebel

- Maria Mulvany (University College Dublin): The Haunted Skin: Spectral Presences in Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin (2000)

- Sinéad Molony (University College Dublin): Dressing Night as Day: Encountering the Urban Femininity of Dublin’s Pyjama Girl

- Cormac O'Brien (University College Dublin): By The Mire of Manhood…: Performances of Masculinity in Marina Carr’s Midlands Cycle

Land War Fiction II (Chair: Heidi Hansson)

- Heidi Hansson (Umea University): More than an Irish problem: Authority and universality in some Land War novels

- Julie Anne Stevens (St Patrick’s College, Dublin): Land Matters: The primacy of place in Irish land war fiction for adults and children

- Anna Pilz (Liverpool University): ‘All Possessors of Property Tremble’: Lady Gregory, Coole Park and the Land War

- Whitney Standlee (Liverpool University): ‘You Should Have Been Here in the League Days’: Agrarian Agitation and the Land League in the Fiction of Katharine Tynan

Joycean Solutions to Conflict (Chair: Anne Fogarty)

- Philip Keel Geheber (Trinity College Dublin): Mythologically Modern Joyce

- Werner Huber (University of Vienna): Intermedial Conflicts: Ulysses and High-Pop

- Nadia Khalaf (Al-Azhar University, Cairo): A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict and Resolution in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Taha Hussein The Days

- Anthony Lake (New York Institute of Technology, Amman): Comedy and Conflict resolution in Ulysses

Martin Mc Donagh (Chair: Mark Schreiber)

- Kuan-Hui Liao (National Taiwan University): Trans-generational Conflicts Resolved? Parricide in John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World and Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane

- José Lanters (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): Like Tottenham: Moral Limbo in the Works of Martin McDonagh

- Mary Helen Thuente (North Carolina State University): Saintly and Secular Icons in Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West

- Ulf Dantanus (Gothenburg University/University of Sussex): No Anxiety of Influence: Parody and Pastiche in the Drama of Martin McDonagh and Enda Walsh

20.00: Concert by Daire Halpin (soprano) and Sergey Rybin (piano): The Other Woman - Venue: Pieter de Somer Aula

Friday 22 July:

9.00-10.30: parallel panel sessions

Contemporary Women Poets (Chair: Pilar Villar Argaiz)

- Noako Toraiwa (University of Meiji, Tokyo): ‘Yet something strange will stay’: Sinéad Morrissey’s search for cures in foreignness

- Michaela Schrage-Früh (Unversity of Mainz, Germany): Dreams of Conflict and Healing in Paula Meehan’s Poetry

- Gisele Giandoni Wolkoff (University of Coimbra): Deterritorializing selves: Sinéad Morrissey and Rita Ann Higgins, in comparison

Political Agendas in 19^th and 20^th Century Fiction (Chair: Christina Morin)

- K. Madolyn Nichols (University of Warwick): Out of Place: Returned Emigrants, Identity and Belonging

- Catherine Smith (University College Cork): ‘the pyre of the phoenix’: Revolution and Allegory in Irish Women’s Historical Fiction

- Claire Connolly (Cardiff University): National tales and transnational conflict: war in Irish romanticism

Communication and Conflict in Theatre (Chair: Filomena Louro)

- Joseph Greenwood (Queens University Belfast): Song Lines and Memory in John Murphy’s The Country Boy

- Joan F. Dean (University of Missouri, Kansas City): Denis Johnston’s The Táin: The Dramaturgy of Pageantry

- Munira Mutran (University of São Paulo): Communication and Conflict in Sebastian Barry’s Andersen’s English

Textual Conflict in the Work of Women Writers (Chair: Danielle O'Leary)

- Giovanna Tallone (University of Milan): Conflicts of Alternative Texts. Mary O’Donnell Rewrites Mary Lavin’s ‘The Widow’s Son’

- Yu-chen Lin (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan): Gift Economy in Mary Gordon’s Spending

- Sien Deltour (University of Leuven): Themes and Tropes in Vona Groarke's Spindrift

10.30-11.00: coffee

11.00-12.30: Keynote lecture by Eamonn Hughes (Assistant Director of the Institute for Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast): The Literatures of Belfast (Chair: Raphaël Ingelbien)

12.30-14.00: lunch

14.00-15.30: parallel panel sessions

Literature and Politics (Chair: Ondrej Pilny)

- Matthew Campbell (University of Sheffield): Liberating Form: Thomas MacDonagh and the modernism of the Irish Mode

- Cormac Lambe (St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra): ‘Echoes answering calls for order.’ Responses to the Northern Ireland conflict in the writing of Jim Craven

- Caroline Magennis (University of Limerick): ‘That Cultural Credit Card’: Re-reading the influence of Maurice Leitch

The 1930s (Chair: Julie Anne Stevens)

- Tom Walker (Somerville College, Oxford): ‘It’s a true story’: Brian O'Nolan, the Irish Bicycle and Republican Life-Writing

- Elisabeth Delattre (University of Artois, Arras): Troubles by J.G. Farrell or the Anglo-Irish War

Politics & Media (Chair: Rhona Kenneally)

- Anne Mulhall (University College Dublin): Intimate States: the biopolitics of contemporary Ireland

- J. Edward Mallot (Arizona State University): ‘There’s No Good Riot Footage Anymore’: Waging Northern Ireland’s Media War in the Fiction of Eoin McNamee

- Lauren Clark (University of Sunderland): Foundlings, Waifs and Strays – Conflicts between Irish Charity Children and Consumer Culture in fin de siècle Irish Literature

Contemporary Fiction (Chair: Katharina Rennhak)

- Caitlin McGuinness (University of Western Australia): Montage and Conflict in Neil Jordan’s Shade

- Mathias Lebargy (University of Caen Basse-Normandie): Interior Conflicts in McCabe’s The Butcher Boy and Emerald Germs of Ireland: a Dead End

- Juan F. Elices (University of Alcala): External looks, inner realities: Unresolved conflicts in Roddy Doyle’s The Dead Republic

15.30-16.00: coffee

16.00-17.30: AGM

19.30: Conference Banquet- Venue: Faculty Club

Saturday 23 – Sunday 24 July:

Post-conference tour illustrating the conference theme “Conflict and Resolution” in Antwerp, Ghent and Ypres (Flanders’ Fields)