IASIL 2000
‘Irish Literature: Borders and Border Crossings’
Draft Programme
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Monday 24 July
2-6pm Registration Michael Tippett Centre Foyer
6 Dinner Dining Hall
7 Reception and Welcome MTC Foyer
8 Poetry Reading with Matthew Sweeney MTC
9 Bar Students’ Union
Tuesday 25 July
8am Breakfast Dining Hall
9 Plenary:
Claire Connolly, ‘Cartographic Fictions:
Maps and Meanings in Irish Culture’ MTC
10.30 Coffee
11 Panels:
1. John Banville TN G01
John Kenny,
‘Appallingly Funny: John Banville’s A Broken Jug’
Kersti Tarien ,
‘John Banville’s Tetralogy between History and Science’
Lene Yding,
‘Narrating in the first person: O’Brien, Beckett and Banville’
Elke D’Hoker,
‘The Perfect Artefact: An Analysis of John Banville’s Artistic Paradigms’
2. Ireland and Japan TN G07
David Burleigh,
‘ “Japs born and bred”: The Waddell Family and Japan’
Akiko Murakata,
‘Parnell and his sisters through Japanese Eyes’
Ciaran Murray,
‘Kyoto’s Temples to Tara’s Halls: The Exotic Sources of Anglo-Irish Literature’
Wolfgang Zach,
‘Japan in Irish Drama: Helen and Samuel Waddell’s Plays’
3. Wilde NE G02
Ana Moya,
‘Brian Gilbert’s Construction of Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997)’
Fumihako Kato,
‘Forbidden Colors in East and West: the transgressive sensibilities of Mishima and Wilde’
Linda Piu-Ling Wong,
‘The Romantic Self in Oscar Wilde’s “The Fisherman and His Soul”
and Tian Han’s “The Voice of the Ancient Lake” and “Return to the South”’
Cristina Pascual,
‘A New Approach to Oscar Wilde’s Literary Criticism:
Revaluations of Wilde’s Aesthetics in the Perspective of Reception Theory’
4. Yeats NE 111
Hiroyuki Yamasaki,
‘Yeats’s Sense of Darkness as the Hybrid Source of Values’
Jefferson Holdridge,
‘ “Flowering Lawns and Stunted Trees”: Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime’
Robert Tracy,
‘Yeats and Pearse in Dialogue’
Hiroko Ikeda
‘Between Literature and History; Representation of the Fenian Movement
by Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats’
5. A Memorial for Adele Dalsimer SN G01
Robin Lydenberg,
‘Citing/Citing Ireland’s Fading History: Recent Installation Art by Deborah Cross’
Katherine Nahum,
‘ “Untainted” Images of the West of Ireland?’
Alston Conley,
‘Reflecting Irish Culture for an American Audience’
Lisabeth Buchelt,
‘The Art of Dinnseanchas: Landscape as Aesthetic Object and Local Memory’
1pm Lunch with wine Dining Hall
2.30 Plenary:
Edna O’Brien discusses her biography of Joyce and reads from Wild December
4 Tea Dining Hall
4.30 Panels:
1. Hiberno-English TN G01
Patricia Lynch,
‘Transgressing Boundaries of Class, Country and Morality post-1800:
Hiberno-English in Maria Edgworth’s The Absentee’
Claire Cowart,
‘ “Facing Both Ways”: Anglo-Irish Attitudes in the Novels of Somerville & Ross’
Rhonda Knight,
‘ “The Kildare Poems”: Borders and Identity in Medieval Hiberno-English Literature’
2. Antipodean Perspectives TN G07
Jill Blee,
‘Reconstructing the Irish in Nineteenth Century Ballarat:
A Fictional Approach, The Liberator’s Birthday’
Anna Jackson,
‘From Coracle to Waka: Robert Sullivan’s double-hulled identity’
Frank Molloy,
‘ “On Shallow Ground”: the Celtic Twilight in Australia’
3. Translations NE G02
Lucy Collins,
‘Boundary Lines: Nuala Ni Dhomnaill in Translation’
Patrick O’Neill,
‘ “Negotiating Borders”: Joyce in Irish’
M. Angeles Conde,
‘Translating an Hibernian Portrait’
4. Recent Northern Fiction SN G01
Neil Murphy,
‘ “A Question of National Identity”:
Forays into New Worlds in Contemporary Irish Fiction
Aaron Kelly
‘ “New Languages would have to be invented”:
Representations of Belfast in Contemporary Fiction
Juan Francisco Elices Agudo,
‘’Trespassing Boundaries: Robert McLiam Wilson’s Eureka Street’
5. Drama NE 111
Deborah Cottreau,
‘The Charabanc Theatre Company: Women responding to Theatre in the North’
Claudia Harris,
‘An Image of Wholeness: the Role of the Theatre’
Patrick Burke,
‘ “Acts of Union”: Translations of Ironies, Ironies of Translation’
6pm Break and Buses into Bath
7 Torchlight Civic Reception at Roman Baths. Guest of Honour: the Irish Ambassador
8 Delegates disperse for dinner at restaurants in town
11 Coaches back to Campus
Wednesday 26 July
8am Breakfast Dining Hall
9 Panels:
1. Edna O’Brien N 111
Dolores McKenna,
‘Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation:
An Antiphon of Love and Politics’
Kathleen Jacquette,
‘Edna O’Brien: One Catholic, Female Author Confronts the Borders’
2. Questions of Faith G 01
Bruce Stewart,
‘Metaphyisical poets, revised Ontologies: Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney’
Julie Ann Stevens,
‘ “ The Light of the World”:
Burlesque, Protestantism and the Pre-Raphaelites in Somerville and Ross’s
The Real Charlotte (1894)’
Madeline Kingston,
‘John Broderick: An Athlone Author in search of a European Home’
3. Beckett G 07
Anna McMullen,
‘The Drama of Samuel Beckett: ‘On the Borders of Performance’
Alan Gillis,
‘Non-Entities: Beckett, Poetry, Ireland’
4. Other Lands (1) NE G02
Mary Massoud,
‘Boundaries of the Self in Irish Poems about Egypt’
Graham Davis,
‘ “Land Hunger changing State Frontiers and Irish identity”:
the life of Thomas O’Connor (1818-87), the Cattle King of Refugio, Texas’
Asier Altuna Garcia de Salazar,
‘Cursory Literary Approaches to the Union:
Spain in the Substantiations of Anglo-Irisih Discourse, 1800-15’
6. Mythologies SN G01
Jerry Nolan,
‘James Cousins, Hindu Celt’
Barbara Brown,
‘Maurice Harmon’s A Stillness at Kiawah: Elegies for the Dispossesed’