ACTIVITIES

ROOM

8:30 – 9:00    

Last-minute registration and Opening of the Academic Activities       

 Entrance Hall           

9:00 – 10:30

TERENCE BROWN. “The Irish Literary Revival: historical Perspectives”                   

Auditorium    

Sala da Congregação

10:30 – 11:00          

            Coffee-break 

11:00 – 12:00

Seminar 1 – Contemporary Irish Drama

Seminar 2 – Contemporary Irish Poetry

Seminar  3 – Contemporary Irish Fiction           

G 2

G 4

G 6

12:00 -13:30 

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00             

Panels

15:00 – 15:30            

Coffee- break

15:30 – 16:30            

Seminar 4 – Feminist Criticism

Seminar 5 – Beckett

Seminar 6 – Cultural Translation

G 2

G 4

G 6

16:30 – 17:30 

Panels

18:00  

Reception at the Institute of Brazilian Studies (IEB): exhibition and popular Brazilian  music.

19:30  

Bus to hotel

PANELS

   ROOM

Translation

Topics 1

Chair:

-          ANA HELENA BARBOSA B. DE SOUZA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Translating How It Is into Portuguese: Reflections upon the status of the “original” in Samuel Beckett’s work.

-          FLAVIA MARIA SAMUDA (Brazil), Translating Oscar Wilde and Liam O’Flaherty.

-          GIULIANA BENDELLI (University of Pavia, Italy), Translating Brendan Kennelly’s prose: The Crooked Cross or the claustrophobic representation of a Classic-Irish Odyssey.

G 5

Reading

Flann O’Brien

Chair:

-          HELENO GODÓI DE SOUZA (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil), The Poor Mouth – In search of the Father, the Scene of the Language.

-          NIGEL ALAN HUNTER (Federal University of Feira de Santana, Brazil), Infinite Regress and the Darkness of Reason – Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman in the Context of Greek Cosmology.

-          PAWEL HEYMANOWSKI (University of Brasília), The Trouble with being Borrowed: Flann O’Brien’s Characters in Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew.

G  6

The Irish Short Story

Chair:

-          CLÉLIA REIS GEHA (Catholic University of Pernambuco, Brazil), O’Connor’s My Oedipus Complex: A Literary and Psychological Approach.

-          GRACIA REGINA GONÇALVES (Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil), Indexes of Deconstruction of Gender in Irish Short Fiction: Edna O’Brien and John Montague.

-          MARIE ARNDT (Sweden), Internal Exiles in the Works of Sean O’Faolain and Mary Lavin.

 G 7

Women Writers 1

Chair:

-          ANA ADELAIDE PEIXOTO TAVARES (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil), “Deep down the Salt Water”: Landscape, Sounds and Colours in the Short Story by Angela Bourke.

-          MARIA ENRICA CERQUONI (University College Dublin), Beyond Words: Marina Carr’s “Theatre of Evocation”.

-          NOÉLIA BORGES (Federal University of Salvador, Brazil), Kate O’Brien’s Novels: The Spectrum of Passion Between Women.

 G 8

Irish Drama 1

Chair:

-          HYANGSOON YI (University of Georgia, USA), Can Itinerants Settle in the Cottage Play? Traveler Drama as a Subgenre in Irish Literature.

-          MARGARIDA RAUEN (UNICENTRO/FAP, Brazil), From Stayley’s The rival Theatres to Metatheatre in Dublin and London.

-          REIKO TANIUE  (Kansai Gaidai University), The Footfalls of Shadows in Macbeth  and Footfalls: No Past, No Present, No Future.

 G 9

Irish Drama 2

Chair:

-          BEATRIZ KOPSCHITZ BASTOS (USP, Brazil), Denis Johnston’s Revisionist Theatre.

-          DOMINGOS PEREIRA NUNES (USP, Brazil), Parodic Elements in Three Plays for Ireland by Steward Parker.

-          PATRICK BURKE (College of Dublin City University, Ireland), McAlpine’s Fusiliers,, Then and Now.

 G 10

PANELS

    ROOM

Irish Writings

Chair:

-          DEREK HAND (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland), Ontological Imperative in Irish Writing.

-          MATTHEW RYAN (Monash University, Australia), Questioning the Ontology of Placelessness through Contemporary Irish Novels.

 G 4

Reading John Banville

Chair:

-          CIELO G. FESTINO (UNIP, Brazil), The Construction of Identity in John Banville’s The Book of Evidence.

-          MARYNA ROMANETS (University of Lethbridge, Canada), Literature of Replineshment: Intertextuality and The Book of Evidence and Woyzeck

 G 5

Translation Topics 2

Chair:

-          TERENCE DOLAN (University College Dublin), Translating Hiberno-English.

-          DIRCE WALTRICK DO AMARANTE (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil),  Language and Translation of Finnegans Wake.

 G 6

Immigration

Chair:

-          MIGUEL DE ALEXANDRE ARAÚJO NETO (Brazil), The Imagery and Arguments Pertaining to the Issue of Free Immigration in the Anglo-Irish Press in Rio de Janeiro.

-          MITSUKO OHNO (Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan), Picture Bride: Fact or Image? – Immigration from Ireland and Japan.

 G 7

Reading Violence

Chair:

-          JAMES E. DOAN (Nova Southern University, USA), ‘All Politics Is Local’: Catholic/Protestant Conflicts and the Boer War in Séamus Ó Grianna’s Nuair a Bhí Mé Óg (When I was Young).

-          THOMAS BURNS (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Literature and Violence: Breaking the Irish Connection.

 G 8

Representa-tions of Ireland

Chair:

-          EAMONN HUGHES (Queen’s University of Belfast), Between the mountain and the gantries: Representations of Belfast in poetry.

-          TEREZA MARQUES DE OLIVEIRA LIMA (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), Eudora Welty’s Ireland

 G 9

The Past

Chair:

-          LUCIANA DE CAMPOS (UNESP-S.José do Rio Preto, Brazil) Cultural Meetings: Irish Legend of Tristam and Ysolt  and its repercusion in the twelfth century.

-          RAMÓN SAINERO (UNED, Spain), The Greek Influence in Primitive Irish Literature. 

 G 10

ACTIVITIES

ROOM

9:00 – 10:30

EDNA LONGLEY. “Northern Irish Writing and Post-Ukanian Readings”.

Auditorium  

Sala da Congregação

10:30 – 11:00          

Coffee-break 

11:00 – 12:00

Seminar 1 – Contemporary Irish Drama

Seminar 2 – Contemporary Irish Poetry

Seminar  3 – Contemporary Irish Fiction           

 G 2

 G 4

 G 6

12:00 -13:30 

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00             

Panels

15:00 – 15:30            

Coffee- break

15:30 – 16:30            

Seminar 4 – Feminist Criticism

Seminar 5 – Beckett

Seminar 6 – Cultural Translation

 G 2

 G 4

 G 6

16:30 – 17:30 

Round Tables

18:00  

Cultural and social event at “Clube dos Professores”:

BILLY ROCHE talks about his work and reads from his plays.

The Brazilian poet HAROLDO DE CAMPOS reads excerpts from his translation of Finnegans Wake.

19:30  

Bus to hotel

PANELS

   ROOM

Displacements

Chair:

-          FRANK MOLLOY (Charles Sturt University, Australia), Romantic Ireland’s Dead and Gone: Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang.

-          JERRY NOLAN (British Association of Irish Studies),  Travelling with Desmond Hogan.

-          MAURA XAVIER GARCIA (UNIFMU, Brazil), Displacements and Cultural Values.

 G 4

Reading Oscar Wilde

Chair:

-          CHIAKI KOJIMA (University of Tokyo, Japan), Portrait in the Middle of Beauty and Sublime: Analysis on The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Oval Portrait.

-          JEOVÁ R. DE MENDONÇA (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil), Literary Modeling of Music and Dance in Wilde’s Salome.

-          JULIE-ANN ROBSON (University of Sydney, Australia), Origins, Stories, Myths: The ‘Tradition’ of Oscar Wilde.

 G 5

 Identity

Chair:

-          BILLY GRAY (Lulea University, Sweden), “The Ravages of Second-Hand Experience”: Huber Butler’s Perception of Universalism and Distance

-          MAURICE ELLIOTT (University Professor, Past President CAIS), A Brief Introduction to the Work of the Irish Sage, John Moriarty.

-          PATRICIA LYNCH (University of Limerick), Literary Stylistics: the combination of Literary Studies and Linguistics in analysis.

 G 6

Irish Drama 3

Chair:

-          GIOVANNA TALLONE (Università Cattolica, Italy), Paper Knowledge. Books, Maps, Letters: the Written Word in Brian Friel’s Plays.

-          HEDWIG SCHWALL (Catholic University Leuven), Fatal Fathers and Sons in 20^th Century Irish Drama.

-          JOHN MCDONAUGH (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “It’s surprised I am How Sane I’ve Turned Out!” – Martin McDonaugh and the Construction of Connemara.

 G 7

Women Writers 2

Chair:

-          ANITA LORENTZEN WELLS (University of NE at Kearney, USA), Margaret Atwood and Eaven Boland: Poetic Power Politics/Feminine Nationalist Cartographies.

-          NAOKO TORAIWA (Meiji University, Japan), Uncanny Strangeness of the Body, the Text: Medbh McGuckian’s Marconi’s Cottage.

-          NADILZA MARTINS DE BARROS MOREIRA (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil), Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Poetry as a Challenge to Patriarchy in the Irish Literary Tradition.

 G 8

Family Relations

Chair:

-          GIULIA LORENZONI (Irish Research Council), Constitutional Mothers? Mother and Family in the Writings of Kate O’Brien and Mary Lavin.

-          JENNIFER MOLIDOR (University of Notre Dame, USA ), “Knowing She was There” – Rethinking the Relation Between Mothers and Daughters in Dorothy Macardle’s The Uninvited.

-          NORIKO ITO (Tezukayama University, Japan), Silence in Colm Tóibín’s Writing..

G 9

Yeats Revisited

Chair:

-          EAMONN R. CANTWELL (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Another Perspective on Yeats and Easter 1916.

-          GENILDA AZERÊDO (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil) , An Old Song Resung and Revisited: A Reading of Yeats.

-          MATTHEW GIBSON (De Montfort University, U.K.), “All Lives that Has Lived”: Yeats and John Ellis McTaggart.

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G 10

Literature and Art 1

Chair:

-          RAJEEV S. PATKE (National University of Singapore), Painting into Poetry: The Case of Derek Mahon.

-          RUI CARVALHO HOMEM (University of Porto, Portugal), ‘The Thing and the Thing Made’: Derek Mahon, Identity, and the Elusive Pictorial Referent.

 G 4

Translation Topics 3

Chair:

-          AURORA BERNARDINI (University of São Paulo), Attempts on Creative Translations of Seamus Heaney’s “The Riddle”.

-          BERNARDINA DA SILVEIRA PINHEIRO (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Translating Joyce.

 G 5

Literature, Cinema and the Visual Arts

Chair:

-          SOLANGE RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Abgar Renault and Pedro Nava Recreate W.B. Yeats and A.V. Beardsley.

-          THAÎS FLORES NOGUEIRA DINIZ (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Neil Jordan Translates Angela Carter.

-          WERNER HUBER (Padderbon University), (De)Mythologising Ireland on the Screen

 G 6

19^th Century Irish Literature

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Chair:

-          DOUGLAS SIMES (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Tories and Raparees: William Carleton and the Outlaw Tradition in Irish History.

-          MARIA CONCEIÇÃO MONTEIRO (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas: Forms of Desire in the Gothic House.

 G 8

The West

Chair:

-          DAVID PIERCE (College York St. John, U.K. ), Man of Aran and the 1930s Wild West Show.

-          MAGDA VELLOSO TOLENTINO (Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil), The West in Irish Literature.

G 10

ACTIVITIES

ROOM

9:00 – 10:30

ANN SADDLEMEYER,  “Mothering Genius”

Auditorium    E-

10:30 – 11:00          

Coffee-break 

11:00 – 12:00

Seminar 1 – Contemporary Irish Drama

Seminar 2 – Contemporary Irish Poetry

Seminar  3 – Contemporary Irish Fiction           

 G 2

 G 4

 G 6

12:00 -13:30 

Panels

13:30 – 14:30             

Lunch

14:30  

City Tour

16:00 – 17:30            

Visit to the Latin American Memorial

18:00 – 19:00

JOHN BANVILLE is interviewed, talks and reads from his works.

Library of the Latin American Memorial.

19:00  

Reception

20:00  

Bus to hotel

PANELS

   ROOM

The Irish Playwright Abroad

Chair:

-     DAWN DUNCAN (Concordia College, USA), Brian Friel

-          JOAN DEAN (University of Missouri, USA), It’s Surprised I am How Sane I’ve Turned Out – Martin McDonaugh and the   Construction of Connemara.

-          JOHN P. HARRINGTON (The Cooper Union, USA),  Conor McPherson.

-          JOSÉ LANTERS (University of Wisconsin, USA), The International Reception of Tom Murphy.

 G 4

Cultural Encounters

Chair:

-          JEAN ANTOINE DUNNE (Trinity College Dublin), Inter-connecting Cultures.

-          LINDA PUI-LING WONG (Hong Kong Baptist University, China), Oscar Wilde’s Impact on Modern Chinese Society.

-          MARY MASSOUD (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt), Cultural Encounters: Egypt in Poems of Ireland.

 G 5

Literature and Art 2

Chair:

-          BARBARA FREITAG (Dublin City University, Ireland), Sheela-na-gigs – The Celtic Connection.

-          FIONNA BARBER (Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.), Becoming Mainie Jellet: Narrativity, Modernism and Painting in the Irish Free State.

-          NOREEN DOODY (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Yeats: Poet of Dance.

 G 6

Irish Poetry

Chair:

-          GRACE BAILEY HECK (Augusta State University, USA), Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Seamus Heaney, and W.B. Yeats: Knowledge and Beauty.

-          JOAN COLDWELL (McMaster University, Canada), Glanmore Cottage: Seamus Heaney’s “Place of Writing”.

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